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7月28日

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams


Randy Pausch周六去世了。贴他的视频,算做纪念吧。

 
7月26日

2008年四川高考满分作文——《悲中行》zz


转自www.popyard.org

说明:这首诗是今年四川的高考满分作文,今年四川以“坚强”为话题,写一篇文体不限的文章。该考生以歌行体和楚辞体写汶川地震,并且这是一首藏头诗,第一排下来分别是地震灾区的地名,可见其才华横溢.

    戊子岁,四月初八。川静其波,鸟罢其鸣。一场无情的天灾袭来,举国恸哭。在灾难面前,我们选择坚强;在悲痛中,我们选择坚强。汶川坚强,四川坚强,中国坚强!因为坚强,我们不怕灾难;因为坚强,我们明天更美好!----序

汶水东流不复西,神仙难改地震袭。
川蜀儿女多苦难,一片荒城尽眼底。
映现当年唐山景,尽是残垣与断壁。
秀丽河山浩劫后,昨日今朝各两异。
都道零八年岁好,为何灾难紧相逼。
江山如画景色美,怎奈苍天生妒忌。
北国刚受冰冻灾,天府又遭夷平地。
川静其波鸟罢鸣,齐哀满目皆疮痍。
江天五月渐阴沉,满腔悲痛灰色弥。
油绿麦田无人收,万千苍生宿路隅。
平生有泪不轻弹,今朝闻此泪如泥。
武候诸葛若有知,不堪目视亦掩泣。
彭祖寿延八百载,可知人命仅须臾。
州州郡郡华夏土,一砖一瓦似金玉。
金玉散去不足惜,金玉怎比万事吉。
花儿凋谢来年开,来年风景更旖旎。
茂年男儿体健壮,安能袖手闻羌笛。
理会百姓疾与苦,血汗合流同舟济。
绵薄微力不足道,奇迹因爱八方聚。
竹丝管弦为君鸣,可敬可赞可歌泣。
卧薪含悲建家园,蜀山青青蜀水碧。
龙的传人谁可胜,只手亦有撑天力。
汉羌一家爱无疆,我齿你唇永相依。
旺兴岁月定轮回,红霞当空雄鸡啼。
红烛数盏列堂前,潜心默祈哀思寄。
白云苍狗命难料,生者奋进逝者息。
青史铭刻五一二,永记今朝万人罹。
川蜀儿女多坚强,还把灾难视蝼蚁。
立我于高山之上兮,眺望远方。惟见山河齐悲兮,黯然神伤。
立我于高山之上兮,眺望远方。还看万众一心兮,不屈脊梁。
立我于高山之上兮,展望悲中奋起兮。多难兴邦,中华坚强!
7月24日

Talking about 妈妈说(转载)


Quote

妈妈说

妈妈说

刚知道肚子里有了我的时候

希望 是个男孩

长的 要像阿兰德隆

(“像我不好么!”:爸爸跳出来大喝一声)

脑子要像 爱因斯坦

(“我也不笨啊”:被群众按在地上的爸爸挣扎大喊)

 

妈妈说

怀胎8个月的时候

她觉得我将来不像佐罗那么帅也无所谓

能像高仓健那么酷 就蛮好了

脑子嘛

够考大学就成

 

妈妈说

到预产期的时候

她已经不在乎我是男是女

只要像她 是单眼皮就行

(“为什么还没轮到我”双眼皮的老爸含泪道)

笨点 考不上大学 也算了

想想人家郭靖……

 

妈妈说

她生我的时候 啥也不求了

像谁都行 会数数 会写自己名字就认啦

 

妈妈说

当护士把我抱给她看之前

她躺在床上只有一个念头

完完整整的 别缺胳膊少腿多鼻子少眼

 

妈妈说

那时她很幸福

因为 我不仅完完整整的

还会张口大哭

二十多年过去了

我长的不像阿兰德隆

不像高仓健

倒有点像爸爸

(“还是我胜利啦”老爸远远的高喊)

终于上了大学

但还是没能看懂相对论

 

活着

并不事事如意

长大了

才体会到艰辛

于是

想要简单一点

给自己编了个简单的剧本

想安安静静的

演出独角戏

哪怕

无人喝彩

却发现

总不免要在别人剧情里

跑龙套

原来

就是认认真真的演自己都很不容易

熟记了很多生活的智慧

幽默 笑话 道理

出口成章

而镜子里的自己

听不懂 笑不出

拼命的想向世界证实自己

证实的 只是自己的平凡

有过梦想 努力坚持过 忍耐过

终于明白 现实中

付出 未必就有回报

一不小心 希望反而成了最大的烦恼

一不小心 学会了怀疑……

怀疑这世界上所有美好的东西

怀疑生活

怀疑自己……

 

只是每次看到镜子里的那对单眼皮

我会相信

在这个纷乱烦扰的世界上 竟然有人会觉得幸福

仅仅因为我是完整的……

 

或许

我们并没有那么多不快乐的理由

生活就像妈妈那些奢侈

虽然落空了很多

但总有

一 点 点

值得你去爱


7月21日

David Anthony Speaking in Wellesley

 

 

 

 

 
7月20日

Short Documentary: Mad About English


"Hey, what do you want? Forget about it. Do you understand? What's up, man? Put your gun down."

    

Neal's first time...

Neal is quite shy talking about this, although he apparently enjoys the feeling...

Yuan's Paper

The Great Debaters (Continued)


The following is what I really want to cite:

Saint Augustine said, "An unjust law is no law at all," which means I have a right, even a duty, to resist -- with violence or civil disobedience. You should pray I choose the latter.


Harvard Dean: On this historic occasion, we welcome the distinguished team from Wiley College, our illustrious judges, you, the audience, and through the wonder of radio, the nation. Harvard University celebrates its 300th anniversary this year, and in Franklin Delano Roosevelt, its thirty-second President of the United States. But no university, no matter how grand or Augustan its history, can afford to live in the past. So, in the spirit of tomorrow, I introduce to you, today, the debaters from Wiley College: Samantha Booke and Mr. James Farmer, Jr. Mr. Farmer will argue the first affirmative.

James Farmer, Jr: Resolved: Civil disobedience is a moral weapon in the fight for justice. But how can disobedience ever be moral? Well I guess that depends on one's definition of the word -- moral. In 1919, in India, ten thousand people gathered in Amritsar to protest the tyranny of British rule. General Reginald Dyer trapped them in a courtyard and ordered his troops to fire into the crowd for ten minutes. Three hundred seventy-nine died -- men, women, children, shot down in cold blood. Dyer said he had taught them "a moral lesson." Gandhi and his followers responded not with violence, but with an organized campaign of noncooperation. Government buildings were occupied. Streets were blocked with people who refused to rise, even when beaten by police. Gandhi was arrested. But the British were soon forced to release him. He called it a "moral victory." The definition of moral: Dyer's "lesson" or Gandhi's victory. You choose.

First Harvard Debater: From 1914 to 1918, for every single minute the world was at war, four men laid down their lives. Just think of it: Two hundred and forty brave young men were hurled into eternity every hour, of every day, of every night, for four long years. Thirty-five thousand hours; eight million, two hundred and eighty-one thousand casualties. Two hundred and forty. Two hundred and forty. Two hundred and forty. Here was a slaughter immeasurably greater than what happened at Amritsar. Can there be anything moral about it? Nothing -- except that it stopped Germany from enslaving all of Europe. Civil disobedience isn't moral because it's nonviolent. Fighting for your country with violence can be deeply moral, demanding the greatest sacrifice of all: life itself. Nonviolence is the mask civil disobedience wears to conceal its true face: anarchy.

Samantha Booke: Gandhi believes one must always act with love and respect for one's opponents -- even if they are Harvard debaters. Gandhi also believes that law breakers must accept the legal consequences for their actions. Does that sound like anarchy? Civil disobedience is not something for us to fear. It is, after all, an American concept. You see, Gandhi draws his inspiration not from a Hindu scripture, but from Henry David Thoreau, who, I believe, graduated from Harvard and lived by a pond not too far from here.

Second Harvard Debater: My opponent is right about one thing: Thoreau was a Harvard grad; and, like many of us, a bit self-righteous. He once said, "Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one...." Thoreau the idealist could never know that Adolf Hitler would agree with his words. The beauty and the burden of democracy is this: No idea prevails without the support of the majority. The People decide the moral issues of the day, not "a majority of one."

Samantha Booke: Majorities do not decide what is right or wrong. Your conscience does. So why should a citizen surrender his or her conscience to a legislature? For we must never, ever kneel down before the tyranny of a majority.

Second Harvard Debater: You can't decide which laws to obey and which to ignore. If we could, I'd never stop for a red light. My father is one of those men that stand between us and chaos: a police officer. I remember the day his partner, his best friend, was gunned down in the line of duty. Most vividly of all, I remember the expression on my dad's face. Nothing that erodes the rule of law can be moral, no matter what name we give it.

James Farmer, Jr: In Texas, they lynch Negroes. My teammates and I saw a man strung up by his neck -- and set on fire. We drove through a lynch mob, pressed our faces against the floorboard. I looked at my teammates. I saw the fear in their eyes; and worse -- the shame. What was this Negro’s crime that he should be hung, without trial, in a dark forest filled with fogs? Was he a thief? Was he a killer? Or just a Negro? Was he a sharecropper? A preacher? Were his children waiting up for him? And who were we to just lie there and do nothing? No matter what he did, the mob was the criminal. But the law did nothing -- just left us wondering why. My opponent says, "Nothing that erodes the rule of law can be moral." But there is no rule of law in the Jim Crow South, not when Negroes are denied housing, turned away from schools, hospitals -- and not when we are lynched.

Saint Augustine said, "An unjust law is no law at all," which means I have a right, even a duty, to resist -- with violence or civil disobedience. You should pray I choose the latter.

7月19日

Movie: The Great Debaters


"We must do what we have to do to do what we want to do."

 
7月18日

125街地铁站的鸽子


125街的地铁站与在岛上的大多数地铁站不太一样,是露天的。因而建的时候多了个棚子,为了遮阳挡雨。每年的这个时节,都会有一对鸽子在棚檐下筑巢产卵,哺育后代。在纽约的四年,我观察了它们三年。每见到它们筑巢,我便期待着抬头可见、破壳而出的惊喜。然后又是一轮期待:期待着鸟去巢空的那一天。那一天,老鸽子才算完成了它们的使命;小鸽子才算亲眼看到了整个世界。我总敬畏于老鸽子的责任感,和小鸽子旺盛的生命力与无畏的勇气——勇气去面对这样肮脏丑陋,充溢着垃圾食品的世界。去年的小鸽子没能飞出巢。今年的小鸽子刚出生一周多。我期待着。
7月16日


重新在Amazon买了十几本书。These books have too much sentimental value for me; I enjoyed a lot reading them.
The Complete World of Greek Mythology,
The Da Vinci Code, Special Illustrated Edition,
The New History of the World,
On Writing Well,
Influence,
Crossing the Chasm,
Inside the Tornado,
过不了多久,我又可以见到你们了。
7月14日

Death at a Funeral


A black comedy. Hilarious!

 

野火烧不尽,春风吹又生


My hair is growing back!!! LOL!

Alopecia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alopecia_areata

National Alopecia Areata Foundation: http://www.naaf.org/

中国的biotech能走多远


朋友前一阵子和我说Shanghai Bio做得不错(http://www.shanghaibio.com/)。

最近新有个firm叫BioHermes(http://www.biohermes.com/)。前阵子饶子和来的时候,他们还做了一把host。

穷啥不能穷教育


Introducing Freshman Fund: https://www.freshmanfund.com/
The founder Jason was the founder of CDNow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdnow).

Another interesting website: http://www.snooth.com/. The world's most comprehensive wine database.
7月12日

Introducing Girl Talk


Introducing Girl Talk. Girl Talk specializes in sample-based remixes, in which he uses at least a dozen elements from different songs to create a "new" song. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Talk_(musician)]

Reminds me of Strategic Intuition [http://columbiapress.typepad.com/]. Good artists copy; great artists steal.

 
 
7月6日

Indian condom ad (转载且未成年人不宜)


从大东blog上看到的……hilarious!

这别开生面的一雷 谈论 YouTube - Indian condom ad

我们为什么没有这样的公益广告呢, 还用印度各种语言写的广告词...太强大了....

其中最强的一幕...两个小胡子剪影对视, 下面歌词是有人说对我们不满意....看, 服务的社群都么周到...

    
7月4日

兄弟,你喝高了吧!


看到了大东的blog,想到了兄弟们……

   

两个三张多的傻瓜
勾肩搭背坐在夕阳下
风在吹 吹乱我们的头发
当年我们觉得这挺潇洒

你说人心实在太假
我说看不透是你太傻
有一天 发现有钱没处花
才意识到世上有些东西
实在无价

我说你别再说那些醉话
你说酒后的话没有半句是假
你说当时年轻不懂表达
所以只能装聋作哑

兄弟 你喝大了吧
兄弟 你喝高了吧
以前总是说受伤能让人长大
不知不觉就老了啊

兄弟 你喝大了吧
兄弟 你喝高了吧
那就把你这些年积攒的埋怨
都借着酒劲释放了吧