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河边类大娘

// September 13th, 2006 // 5 Comments » // Randomness

右键另存 河边类大娘

这是一个手机铃声。。。里面的人说的是长治话。。。怀念长治话的或者对长治话小好奇的人一定要下来听听,我当时听到里面那句“这个diao孩的”时,虽然我不会说长治话(但会长普,hoho),也不怎么会说脏话,但还是倍感亲切啊!

一款相机 Panasonic DMC-LX2 和 Maturiteen or Dad?

// September 9th, 2006 // 12 Comments » // Life, Randomness

Panasonic DMC-LX2

咳咳,从几个月前我的数码相机 Minolta F200 小罢工后我就开始寻思败一个新相机了。想当年F200我是挑选了半天,结果最后时刻没忍住在F200一上市的时候就买了,结果就发现这机子设计上的一些bug,而且还很费电,不过照片质量确实不错。三年多过去了,我也差不多是时候忍不住败入新相机了-_-(咳咳,以骄奢淫逸为耻)。现在看上的是刚刚上市的 Panasonic DMC-LX2 黑色版,有些复古的外观,虽是便携机性能却是足够强大,千万像素4倍变焦,独特的16:9 CCD和相应大小的LCD,还有Leica的镜头,对于我这个纯业余摄影者足够不错了吧。大概这月底在美国上市后我就会忍不住出手吧,虽然最近其实很穷:(。

Dad说起这相机,前几天和xuke同学聊天,知道了maturiteen这么个词,用来形容某种男性,就像词面的意思,已经是成年人了,却还始终像个大男孩,更进一步的意思用xuke的话来解释:“maturiteen是指baby boomer一代,父母比较注重与子女的平等,喜欢技术方面的东西,买东西比metrosexual理智,经常现在internet上做Research,很多时候像是个in-house consultant…”。我觉得倒是挺符合我,我是一直对各种新技术(主要是互联网技术和消费电子)和流行的东西都有关注,似乎什么都知道那么一点点,不过也都没太大兴趣精通它们。然后我就查了一下,发现了Business Week上面的这个测试,没想到做完的结果让我小吃一惊,我不是Maturiteen,更不是Metrosexual,而是Dad,就是那种最容易被人忽略,傻傻的不知道怎么摆酷,大概也就是赚赚钱的老爹们。咳咳,看来不管我表象如何骄奢淫逸,我终究还是个居家好男人啊!

小狂烈的推荐一个网上广播Pandora

// July 3rd, 2006 // 10 Comments » // Music & Show, Randomness

Pandora is a music discovery service that hekps you find and enjoy music that you’ll love. Just tell us one of your favorite songs or artists and we’ll launch a streaming station to explore that part of the music universe.

Pandora是个非常不错的internet radio,你只需要提供你喜欢的一个歌手或者一首歌,它会由此建立一个station,播放风格相近的歌曲,每首歌出来后你还可以选择喜欢或者不喜欢让播放列表继续改进。听到喜欢的歌还能方便的把它们放进书签,或者以它们为标准建立一个新站,还可以直接在itunes或者amazon购买。注册是免费的,可以无限听歌,保存100个站,如果想除去广告需要付一点点费用。当然现在主要是英文歌,但是歌非常非常全,我喜欢的 Of Montreal 和 Kings of Convenience 都有很多歌,推荐的也确实非常符合,是个发现新歌手的好方法,哈。推荐推荐。

HoudahSpot

// June 16th, 2006 // No Comments » // Randomness

Search function in Apple’ latest OS Tiger aka Spotlight is extremely powerful and easy to use. You just type a word or a phrase, and Spotlight will look up not only the titles but also contents and tags of all kinds of files (document, pdf, email, picture, mp3, etc.) for you. A categorized result will be there in a flash. But since it’s very powerful, you may get much more results than you expect. And since it’s very easy to use, it’s not designed to have more advanced function which means you can’t add more condition to filter the results. Fortunately, we have HoudahSpot. …继续阅读全文 » » »

Anything that can go wrong will go wrong

// May 1st, 2006 // 8 Comments » // Life, Randomness

今天在English The Real Deal看到了Murphy’s Law。这条定律是在1949年从美国空军的Capt. Edward A. Murphy口中诞生的,到现在已经有了无数变型和引伸,但中心思想就是一句话:If anything can go wrong, it will。列几条比较基本的,用最近常见到的一个词来形容,这些定律非常死相-_-。

MURPHY’S LAWS
  • Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
  • If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
  • If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
  • If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
  • Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
  • If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
  • Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
  • Mother nature is a bitch.
  • It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
  • Everything takes longer than you think.
  • Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
  • Every solution breeds new problems.

还有一张poster,上面列的几条是相对更生活化的,当然也同样死相,比如The chance of a slice of bread falling butter side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet(面包掉落有黄油的一面着地的概率正比于地毯的价格)。上面还强调Murphy was an optimist。如果我们已经知道everything will go wrong,那么也就没什么好畏惧的了。所以让我们共同乐观对待这个美好的世界吧,禀承The Murphy Philosophy: Smile . . . tomorrow will be worse. lol

Murphy's Law
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