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Pixel pipe. 1 pipe to rule them all….

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Life Cycle

Alive and dead

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What have you missed?

這一生中，你錯過了什麼？
What have you missed?

太太在二十五歲時問丈夫，
丈夫沮喪的回答她：
我錯過一個新的工作機會。
A wife asks her husband when she was 25, and he said with a sigh, after a short pause, “I missed a job advancement opportunity”

三十五歲時，
丈夫生氣的告訴她：
我剛錯過了一班公車。
When she was 35, her husband told her “I just missed a bus”

四十五歲時，
丈夫傷心的說：
我錯過與親人見最後一面。
At 45, her husband heartbrokenly said “I missed the last chance of seeing my parents, and they just passed away”

五十五歲時，
丈夫失望的回答：
我錯過了退休的好時機。
When she was 55, her husband said “I missed my chance to retire”

六十五歲時，
丈夫匆匆的答說：
我錯過了看牙醫的時間。
At age 65, he said “I missed my appointment with my dentist”

一如往常的，
太太總是回以微笑，
而微笑中總帶著落寞。
and just as usual, the wife always responded her husband with a smile, even though it is with a hint of disappointment

七十五歲那年，
太太不再問先生了，
此時，先生正跪坐在病危的太太面前，
When the wife is 75, she doesn’t ask her husband anymore, since she is so sick in bed, with her husband by her side

想起太太每隔一段時間，
總要問他的問題，他反過來問太太，
而太太的微笑中帶著解脫回答：
這一生，我沒有錯過你！
This time, her husband  takes the turn to ask her “What have you missed?”  She said, as if it is a great relief “I haven’t missed my chance of being with you!”

此時，先生早已淚流滿面，
原以為兩人可以永遠在一起，
所以，終日忙著工作與繁瑣的事，
卻從不曾用心體貼朝夕相處的另一半，
Her husband is soaking in tears. He never thinks about having to part way with her, and so he always put his attention towards work and other matters in live, but never really pay attention to her.

先生緊抱著太太說：
這輩子，我錯過妳五十年來的深情……
“I finally know what I have missed: I have missed your love for the past fifty years…”

繁忙的都市裡，有著許多為工作打拚的人，
大家總習慣於把工作當成生活的重心，
There’s just too many of us who focus only at our work and daily business, the endless stream of tasks from our career or daily life is suffocating.

為了滿足社會的價值，
不惜出賣自己的時間與身體，
捨不得多花時間投資健康，
以至於錯過了陪同孩子成長的機會、
忽略了身旁關心自己的親友、輕忽了自己的身體。
To pursue the our society’s value towards materialistic enjoyment, we sacrifice our time, our body, our health.  We all become stingy on investment towards our health, or the quality time with kids, seeing them grow up.  We ignore those who really cares about us, and eventually we ignore our own self as well.

珍惜，果真要在錯過後才能感受？
Do we really only know to regret after we have lost something?

人世無常，趕緊把握當下，把心中的感激告訴愛你的人、
用行動關心你的家人，把每一天都當成人生的最後一段，
即使走了，也能讓自己及身旁的人了無遺憾。
Life is full of uncertainties.  We never know what happen next, and whether there will be a “next”.  Let’s all treasure what we have now.  Go tell how much you appreciate those who loves you.  Act out and voice out your care for your family and friends.

我想我或許也有錯過了些什麼
但是要珍惜已擁有的更重要
We all have surely missed something important already, which makes treasuring what we still have even more important.

Evil Money

PERSPECTIVES
PSYCHOLOGY: Money Is Material

Carole B. Burgoyne and Stephen E. G. Lea (17 November 2006)
Science 314 (5802), 1091. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1135429]

Money has been said to change people’s motivation (mainly for the better) and their behavior toward others (mainly for the worse). The results of nine experiments suggest that money brings about a self-sufficient orientation in which people prefer to be free of dependency and dependents. Reminders of money, relative to nonmoney reminders, led to reduced requests for help and reduced helpfulness toward others. Relative to participants primed with neutral concepts, participants primed with moneypreferred to play alone, work alone, and put more physical distance between themselves and a new acquaintance.

Full text…

We always said money is the root of all evil, and now it seems this age old saying has catch on some scientific support after all.~

Of note, one of the experiment shows that winning money from a game of monopoly will reduce the winner’s tendency to help others (in this case a person dropping a whole pile of document in front of the winner).  The other show that mere visual exposure to money (e.g. text relating to money, picture, symbol, etc.) can reduce our tolerance to annoyances.

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Wow….  now that money’s evilness is (somehow) scientifically supported, let see what we can get here:

money = root (evil)
girl = money x time
time = money
girl = square(money) = evil…

gosh

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I just notice that evil money and evil monkey (from family guy) sound kinda similar….

Why Do We Shout?

One day, a professor asked his students ‘Why do we SHOUT instead of speak when we are ANGRY?’

All the students thought for a while. One answered ‘Because we lost our cool. That’s why we SHOUT.’

The professor asked again, ‘But the person is just right next to you, why can’t we talk softly but have to SHOUT?’

Everyone gave their opinions but none was accepted by the professor.

Lastly explained by the professor ‘When we are ANGRY, our hearts drift apart. To mask the DISTANCE we felt, we instinctively SHOUT instead of speak so the other party can hear us..’

‘But as we SHOUT, we get ANGRIER. And we felt we drift apart further. So we SHOUT even louder…’

‘It is the opposite when we are in love. Not only we do not shout, we whisper into each other ears. Why?’

‘This is because our hearts are very close, almost never apart. As our love deepen, we reach a state of communication  where there is no need for words.’

‘We understand each other well enough just by exchanging look,’ concluded the professor.

‘Therefore, when we are arguing, DO NOT speak words that will make our hearts drift apart. WAIT a few days. When you feel your hearts are no longer far apart, pick up the conversation and continue from there.

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Recently I tried using a service called something like omegle, which let’s u talk to strangers.  I’ve got a lot to rant about this thing, but I’ll spare the good part for later.  Related to this post is the use of all caps in all internet chats.

Sometimes people type in all capital letters for no reason.  On the receiving side, all caps FEELS LIKE YOU ARE YELLING…

exactly.  So, be considerate.

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Have been lazy for some weeks. because of traveling and stuffs.  Will keep on going.  God bless.

Plastic Bottle is carcinogenic

From a letter I received:

警告全部女性 [妻子，女兒，女朋友等等。 ]

Bottled water in your car is very dangerous to women
放在汽車裡的瓶裝水對女性是非常危險的事情﹗ ! !!

This is how Sheryl Crow got breast cancer.
She was on the Ellen show and said this same exact thing.
This has been identified as the most common cause of the high levels in breast cancer、especially in Australia .
這就是謝莉?克羅得乳腺癌的原因。 她在上艾倫的節目裡提到這是千真萬確的事情。這已經被鑑定是罹患乳腺癌裡的高危險因素中最常見的原因了，尤其是在澳洲地區。

A friend whose mother was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.
The Doctor told her: women should not drink bottled water that has been left in a car.
有位朋友的母親最近才被診斷出乳腺癌。 醫生告訴她︰婦女實在不應該喝留放在汽車裡的瓶裝水。

The doctor said that the heat and the plastic of the bottle have certain chemicals that can lead to breast cancer.
So please be careful and do not drink bottled water that has been left in a car、and、pass this on to all the women in your life.
This information is the kind we need to know and be aware of and it just might save a life.
這醫生還說熱能和塑膠瓶子兩者遇在一起就會產生化學物質, 而那些將會導致人們罹患乳腺癌。因此請小心並且千萬不要喝留放在車子裡頭的瓶裝水. 請把這信息傳遞給你生命中的所有女性親友。這是一則或許可以拯救一個生命的訊息, 我們不只應該知道, 而且要多加小心.

The heat causes toxins from the plastic to leak into the water and they have found these toxins in breast tissue.
Use a stainless steel Canteen or a glass bottle when you can!!!
熱能釋放出塑膠裡的有毒物質後,這些物質就滲入到了水裡頭，而人們的胸部組織裡頭竟然就發現了這種毒素。所以如果可以的話，切記改用不鏽鋼杯或是玻璃瓶都好! !

As usual, I go online and find evidence.  I found this: Don’t Drink Bottled Water Left in Car–Urban Legend.

So it is an urban legend.  FDA and other agencies established that the chemical released from plastic bottles through heat is minuscule and will not cause harm to people.

Plus, Sheryl Crow, who had talked about her breast cancer, did not attribute it directly to plastic bottles.

Therefore, the website awarded this legend an outright “False” status.

However they also note that:

A new European study published this year raises doubts about the safety of disposable water bottles… Researchers in Germany found evidence of a man-made estrogen-like compound leaching into water packaged in polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles.

Such chemicals, known as “endocrine disruptors,” have the potential to inferfere with estrogen and other reproductive hormones in the human body. However, the authors of the study say more research is required to determine whether, or to what degree, this poses an actual health risk to humans.

For one thing, I don’t like drinking bottled water, because they are just the same as tap water. (In NorCal the tap water is so good, SoCal water always taste weird)  And regardless of whether the bottle leaks chemical or not, I tend to finish the whole bottled water in 1 go, because otherwise the water inside will start to smell (the bacteria in mouth go into water bottle).

Furthermore, no evidence now attributing to the relation doesn’t mean there is no relation between these water bottles and cancer.  By all means, we know nothing about cancer until recent years.  So before the discovery there is no cancer?  I understand this is a very loose analogy, but you get the point.

Anyways, regardless of whether plastic bottle really releases carcinogenic substances, let’s not forget plastic goods are one of the biggest headache of our planet.  Plastic degrade so slowly, that even the plastic bag you use today will outlast all of human race! (we all die, even our descendants all die, and the bag is still here…)

We have already created and dumped so much plastic, that there is a large patch of ocean with absolutely no fish in it on the Pacific (link)

the area is filled with something besides plankton: trash, millions of pounds of it, most of it plastic. It’s the largest landfill in the world, and it floats in the middle of the ocean.

This reason alone is enough for us to really reconsider our consumption habit and lifestyle…

But it’s always like that… If the action only affect something remotely related to us, we won’t really care…  Even if it is related to us, we won’t care as long as there are people saying it’s ok… (I’m thinking those who say global warming is a fake and Al Gore is a joke)

When will we wake up?  Do we really need to see the end before we know the end is coming?

week 9 (6/6/09)

Graduation

Luckily she is so happy about graduation…

I for one, am still worried about unemployment, which seem so certain for me now, even though I have 4.0 major gpa and all that research and stuff…

well… God probably have something else for me.  I just wish it’s not “nothing”.

Week 8 (5/30/09)

Grass and Sky

From the perspective down there, feels like looking up from a well, doesn’t it?

Back on feet, right before final

Since there’s no regular viewers here (I think) no one will notice I’m actually slacking off from posting this past week. This is because my trusty laptop was sick and sent to the depot for repair. And I have nothing to process my pictures on, which is a very large part of my daily life…

It took such a long time, because one problem kinda lead to another:
My macbook pro has one side of the frame popping up (BTW it’s popping up again… you would expect better craftsmanship for a freaking 2K machine!!!), so i send it in for repair.
After 1 week of “repair” (which i think is just sitting there in their lab, in UC San Diego’s Academic Computing Service, the in house computer technician for our school) the keyboard completely died, so I have to way 2 more days for a new one to be sent in and replaced.
After 2 more days I picked it up, and now the light sensor goes crazy (it can detect ambient lighting and reduce brightness and turn on keyboard light–so cool) and will blink like it’s possessed if the light goes dim. So I have to send it into a formal Apple Store…
And then it took me 2 more days, till now, to get it back..

and now I suspect sooner or later the place where it used to pop up will come up again.. soon…. maybe I’ll sell it and get a new one…