世上, 我发现, 没有神医, 只有统计学.
过敏症状查完只后, 发现我好像对什么都过敏, 从花粉到大豆. 而医生最多能做的是给我开些药, 减轻症状, 而不是把问题 - 病 - 给治好. 但当然, 我这么说也不太公平. 过敏本来就是没治的. 起码, 不管怎么说他让我手上的泡逐渐下去了, 所以我该为此感到...什么? 感激吗? 有点. 不能用手的那几天我懊恼的想发疯, 几乎什么比较起来都比那几天要好. 高兴? 有点. 原因跟刚才一样. 幸运吗? 差远了去了. 我好像很久没有这么不幸的假期了.
考试准备比我想象的要难, 主要因为当你全身都在搔痒时你通常没什么心思去关心一个老掉牙的名词的反意词是什么. 通常你的精力会集中在幻想如果你可以放开狂抓那么五, 六分钟后全身会感到多么痛快. 所以, 进展并不是非常理想, 但是我也尽力了.
假期也就大概在每天这种忙忙叨叨的生活中过去了. 这么折腾后, 也没什么心思去玩了. 如果下次的药能使全身止痒的话那这个, 我想, 将回是我这个假期最大的快乐.
20070830
20070828
Doll making frenzy
Yep, popped back online today because Lusine introduced me to digital dollmaking and we made dolls of the guys from the Lunatics story. Between the two of us there are 12 pictures, 4 versions of each guy, which I'm going to post here:
Mike: .gif)    |
Nick:     |
Zach: .gif)    |
As for who made which versions (each of us made 2 versions each) that's for us to know and you to guess.
20070817
In which more playing around ensues
There are getting to be a lot of bugs in the backyard. Twice already I've come in from yard work, sat down with a book, and had a bug crawl off of me. It reminds me of when I'd go out into the fields at Davis, where the general rule of thumb is if you stayed out there for more than an hour, the first thing you do after you get home is shower. With lots of scrubbing and soap. Though in defense of field botany you seldom get things worse than mites or a spider or two.
An ant just crawled off. Huh.
So yes, occasionally I guess you get ants as well.
Ubuntu trial's failed for no clear reasons that I could detect. A check with hash values told me that the iso file has downloaded correctly, but for some reason I can't check the CD itself after it's been burned. I can get around crc error by resetting the boot sequence and the logic block 0 error seem to bypass itself, but once Ubuntu hits the local boot sequence it starts cycling and the computer is effectively dead. I've requested a Ubuntu CD, on the hunch that there's something wrong with the CD despite of my careful rechecking with the directions. The helpful banner at the website informed me that the CD should be arriving in 4 to 6 weeks. Meanwhile dad gave me a Linspire CD and I've been playing with that instead. (Loads up like a charm, the network setup, internet and LAN, as well as user settings, are all set up within an hour - and you get a direct console - that's like the command prompt in Windows except better - built in, which is way cool.) From how well THAT particular OS's been running I think I can safely say that the problem with booting Ubuntu's not because of the hard drive.
Such a shame. And I had such high hopes for it too - I've looked up the content before downloading and Ubuntu came with most of my favorite open source programs (Audacity, anyone?).
Speaking of computers (and geeking out over them), mom's decided that I should know something about how memory works, so I've been assigned a bit of short reading. It is, in retrospect, a lot like a short lecture in biophysics, if I were to consider the computer as something that is alive. There's the prerequisite knowledge of circuits that needs to be applied to a frightening amount of models and acronyms. I despise acronyms, and the computer industry is just as bad as any other field of science I've ever encountered (there's DRAM, SRAM, and then you get SDRAM...). There must be a rule somewhere, way back when they were inventing each field, that informed people that no one would ever take them seriously unless they have a plethora of acronyms for every single worthwhile object/ idea that they encounter. Still, I should be fair. At least as far as nicknames are concerned, they're still heaps more regular than what English, as a language, came up with.
An ant just crawled off. Huh.
So yes, occasionally I guess you get ants as well.
Ubuntu trial's failed for no clear reasons that I could detect. A check with hash values told me that the iso file has downloaded correctly, but for some reason I can't check the CD itself after it's been burned. I can get around crc error by resetting the boot sequence and the logic block 0 error seem to bypass itself, but once Ubuntu hits the local boot sequence it starts cycling and the computer is effectively dead. I've requested a Ubuntu CD, on the hunch that there's something wrong with the CD despite of my careful rechecking with the directions. The helpful banner at the website informed me that the CD should be arriving in 4 to 6 weeks. Meanwhile dad gave me a Linspire CD and I've been playing with that instead. (Loads up like a charm, the network setup, internet and LAN, as well as user settings, are all set up within an hour - and you get a direct console - that's like the command prompt in Windows except better - built in, which is way cool.) From how well THAT particular OS's been running I think I can safely say that the problem with booting Ubuntu's not because of the hard drive.
Such a shame. And I had such high hopes for it too - I've looked up the content before downloading and Ubuntu came with most of my favorite open source programs (Audacity, anyone?).
Speaking of computers (and geeking out over them), mom's decided that I should know something about how memory works, so I've been assigned a bit of short reading. It is, in retrospect, a lot like a short lecture in biophysics, if I were to consider the computer as something that is alive. There's the prerequisite knowledge of circuits that needs to be applied to a frightening amount of models and acronyms. I despise acronyms, and the computer industry is just as bad as any other field of science I've ever encountered (there's DRAM, SRAM, and then you get SDRAM...). There must be a rule somewhere, way back when they were inventing each field, that informed people that no one would ever take them seriously unless they have a plethora of acronyms for every single worthwhile object/ idea that they encounter. Still, I should be fair. At least as far as nicknames are concerned, they're still heaps more regular than what English, as a language, came up with.
20070815
是草中虫
早上到后院去补种了些萝卜和豆角, 修剪修剪花草, 结果被草里的什么虫子咬了三个包, 算是挂彩了. 又拔了两根玉米. 萝卜籽放的时间够长的, 我想可以扔了.
下面接着叙述这几天, 也就是近来这段时间会有的事:
昨天面试顺利通过, 下一步是等待通知, 然后去参加宣誓典礼. 之后, 算为美国公民后, 便要去改我学生 (和其它东西的) 身份文件. 多余的备份文件和通知书现在和绿卡之类的先战时放在我这儿. 我想它们会在周六去银行的时候 (KATE的房租费寄来了)被放回保险柜 (但是备份大概还是我留着).
UBUNTU 最后试验失败. 开始是有CRC错误, 换了BOOT顺序后, 这个错误虽然消失了, 但却被LOGIC BLOCK 0 ERROR 给代替. 每次BOOT到开始LOCAL BOOT SEQUENCE时便出现错误, 导致程序一遍, 一遍的重复它自己. 已经用HASH查过, 文件 (是个ISO类型的) 下载是没问题的. 烧盘我是按着说明一步一步做的, 但是它不许我查盘烧的怎么样, 所以这也没法确定. 目前爸给了我LINSPIRE的盘, 所以我先装上了这个玩一玩. 安装算满顺利的, 速度还挺快. 现在正在打算设定LAN之类的, 以便我可以在用LINUX的情况下也可以照旧做文件备份 (从LAPTOP上把文件通过LAN传过去).
发现周五跟医生预约的条忘了交给门前的护士, 所以急急忙忙的得打电话. 终于算是加上了个两点四十五的预约. 保险的事还是得折腾. 我得向医生要文件寄给保险公司.
开始复习GRE考试. 我想生物的得在十月份考 (因为专科考试一年只有三次, 所以我也没什么选择). 在这之前我想我应该有时间考基础GRE. 如果能在十一月份之前把这些事全都弄完最好.
SF活动取消, 因为只有两个人能在开学前我们所选的这几日里腾出时间.
下面接着叙述这几天, 也就是近来这段时间会有的事:
昨天面试顺利通过, 下一步是等待通知, 然后去参加宣誓典礼. 之后, 算为美国公民后, 便要去改我学生 (和其它东西的) 身份文件. 多余的备份文件和通知书现在和绿卡之类的先战时放在我这儿. 我想它们会在周六去银行的时候 (KATE的房租费寄来了)被放回保险柜 (但是备份大概还是我留着).
UBUNTU 最后试验失败. 开始是有CRC错误, 换了BOOT顺序后, 这个错误虽然消失了, 但却被LOGIC BLOCK 0 ERROR 给代替. 每次BOOT到开始LOCAL BOOT SEQUENCE时便出现错误, 导致程序一遍, 一遍的重复它自己. 已经用HASH查过, 文件 (是个ISO类型的) 下载是没问题的. 烧盘我是按着说明一步一步做的, 但是它不许我查盘烧的怎么样, 所以这也没法确定. 目前爸给了我LINSPIRE的盘, 所以我先装上了这个玩一玩. 安装算满顺利的, 速度还挺快. 现在正在打算设定LAN之类的, 以便我可以在用LINUX的情况下也可以照旧做文件备份 (从LAPTOP上把文件通过LAN传过去).
发现周五跟医生预约的条忘了交给门前的护士, 所以急急忙忙的得打电话. 终于算是加上了个两点四十五的预约. 保险的事还是得折腾. 我得向医生要文件寄给保险公司.
开始复习GRE考试. 我想生物的得在十月份考 (因为专科考试一年只有三次, 所以我也没什么选择). 在这之前我想我应该有时间考基础GRE. 如果能在十一月份之前把这些事全都弄完最好.
SF活动取消, 因为只有两个人能在开学前我们所选的这几日里腾出时间.
20070814
Sound off
I went, as most of you probably know by now, to watch Stardust, which was both better and worst than expected in the sense only a favorite author's work, modified so that it's missing some crucial information but yet still managed to make sense and fluffiness afterwards, can inspire.
Isn't it reassuring to know that, regardless of the years and my (questionable) changes in writing style, run-on sentences will never be out of fashion? Yep folks, it goes on and on and on and on, just like either the energizer bunny or, if you know who the Arrogant Worms are, their song about Celine Dion.
The yard had evolved while I was in Davis, and now the mint's flowering and there're bees everywhere, busy pollinating and generally getting in the way. The neighbor's fruit tree snuck in under the fence and began to invade our yard, strangling the calla lilies but, for most part, stayed at the area where the alyssums, being the opportunistic sort of plant they are, invaded right back. So it's all worked out or at least, until I trim the garden over there. I guess I'll just have to be more careful about maintaining the delicate ecological balance in my backyard.
The dill experiment with the dill seeds (which Annie had brought from home and which had died because of a general lack of sun and high bromate concentration in water) has, more or less, produced two flourishing dill plants and lots of dill seeds which I've harvested. I've also learned that dill does not repel aphids, but the aphids will eventually leave after the seed pods are done growing and have dried out. The snails are still eating everything in sight including, but not limited to, the radishes, the marigolds, the sunflowers (I managed to save two seedlings from total oblivion). The garlic (from that time when Kate got more garlic when I'd already got some garlic and we ended up with garlic sprouting in our fridge) is the sole plant to escape mass extinction by the sole virtues of being garlic and, therefore, stinky. I thinned the garlic yesterday and dad put the ones I thinned out in the supper meat dish and it was very good.
Harvested corn. Puzzled over corn cross-pollination. Puzzled over pollen dispersal until mom suggested I number all the corn I picked to keep track, so I started doing that yesterday. (The plant from row 2, column 1 yields corn with pure red kernels.)
On top of that, my INS interview's today and I started playing with Ubuntu yesterday, meaning that I've been attempting to install it on my old desktop. I've uninstalled the original harddrive (safety reasons) and swapped it for the 2.5Gb one that I originally had as backup and tried to boot from the CD, but it turned out too slow. Dad gave me a 3 Gb one which is slightly better, but considering my RAM's only 128 there's...not much difference to be expected. Dad did offer to give me another strip of RAM, which'd double the memory to 256, but I told him that I should wait until I'm done experimenting before I involve anything that might still be potentially useful in the future. I'm serious: my desktop is scrambled together by my dad and contains parts that have been either taken off of broken computers or used to be broken, but have been fixed by him. The harddrive date at around '98 and is actually hold enough and decrepit enough for me to play around with. (I would not DARE to experiment on laptops, if only because I can't keep track of the screws - in laptops everything has to be bolted down so it's harder to swap parts if you just want to see how much you can improve performance just for the heck of it.)
I've currently got screws and computer bits littering my room. Along with lots of pens and pencils and an unholy number of books (mostly from SC library).
Needless to say, I'm, in my own way, enjoying myself.
Isn't it reassuring to know that, regardless of the years and my (questionable) changes in writing style, run-on sentences will never be out of fashion? Yep folks, it goes on and on and on and on, just like either the energizer bunny or, if you know who the Arrogant Worms are, their song about Celine Dion.
The yard had evolved while I was in Davis, and now the mint's flowering and there're bees everywhere, busy pollinating and generally getting in the way. The neighbor's fruit tree snuck in under the fence and began to invade our yard, strangling the calla lilies but, for most part, stayed at the area where the alyssums, being the opportunistic sort of plant they are, invaded right back. So it's all worked out or at least, until I trim the garden over there. I guess I'll just have to be more careful about maintaining the delicate ecological balance in my backyard.
The dill experiment with the dill seeds (which Annie had brought from home and which had died because of a general lack of sun and high bromate concentration in water) has, more or less, produced two flourishing dill plants and lots of dill seeds which I've harvested. I've also learned that dill does not repel aphids, but the aphids will eventually leave after the seed pods are done growing and have dried out. The snails are still eating everything in sight including, but not limited to, the radishes, the marigolds, the sunflowers (I managed to save two seedlings from total oblivion). The garlic (from that time when Kate got more garlic when I'd already got some garlic and we ended up with garlic sprouting in our fridge) is the sole plant to escape mass extinction by the sole virtues of being garlic and, therefore, stinky. I thinned the garlic yesterday and dad put the ones I thinned out in the supper meat dish and it was very good.
Harvested corn. Puzzled over corn cross-pollination. Puzzled over pollen dispersal until mom suggested I number all the corn I picked to keep track, so I started doing that yesterday. (The plant from row 2, column 1 yields corn with pure red kernels.)
On top of that, my INS interview's today and I started playing with Ubuntu yesterday, meaning that I've been attempting to install it on my old desktop. I've uninstalled the original harddrive (safety reasons) and swapped it for the 2.5Gb one that I originally had as backup and tried to boot from the CD, but it turned out too slow. Dad gave me a 3 Gb one which is slightly better, but considering my RAM's only 128 there's...not much difference to be expected. Dad did offer to give me another strip of RAM, which'd double the memory to 256, but I told him that I should wait until I'm done experimenting before I involve anything that might still be potentially useful in the future. I'm serious: my desktop is scrambled together by my dad and contains parts that have been either taken off of broken computers or used to be broken, but have been fixed by him. The harddrive date at around '98 and is actually hold enough and decrepit enough for me to play around with. (I would not DARE to experiment on laptops, if only because I can't keep track of the screws - in laptops everything has to be bolted down so it's harder to swap parts if you just want to see how much you can improve performance just for the heck of it.)
I've currently got screws and computer bits littering my room. Along with lots of pens and pencils and an unholy number of books (mostly from SC library).
Needless to say, I'm, in my own way, enjoying myself.
20070813
继续汇报
虽然过敏原还没有查出来, 吃了三天药之后, 起码过敏症状好了许多. 前几天曾经跟朋友去玩过宝林球, 看过电影 - 总之过的挺开心的. 考试成绩在周六终于出来了, 所以也松了口气. 这周四有可能跟同学一块去SF, 但是目前还在等同学的EMAIL, 不知道谁来谁不来. 如果人太少的话我们有可能会把这整个事给取消了, 因为如果招呼半天才有两个人能来的话那也就没什么太大的意义了.
所以: 还在等EMAIL.
昨天把GRE考试书算是买全了. 看来下几天, 一但有空, 就有得开始复习东西了. 不管怎么说, 总是会有事的. 比如: 我明天有美国公民入级面试, 所以今天多少得把面试的题再看一遍. 面试的地点得上网去查, 面试的时间得三番五次, 神经兮兮的去确定, 面试的文件得做复印件, 面试的衣服, 我想, 如果不合适的话到时候会很快的被妈给指出来的. 又举例: 今天把妈的存钱盒给打开了, 已便她好看看里边的那三个硬币上是否有FLORIDA的两毛五.
此时此刻我正在一边敲这个, 一边企图装LINUX的UBUNTU. 目前看来需要把两个操作系统 (加上WINDOWS) 装在两个不同的硬盘上 - 问题不大, 我有个多余的, 平时当储藏文件的硬盘. 问题是该怎么清理它, 然后让电脑从CD上BOOT, 直接读到它上. BOOT 可以在SETUP BIOS 底下设定, 硬盘吗...我现在在纳闷IDE 到底是个什么东西.
祝我好运.
所以: 还在等EMAIL.
昨天把GRE考试书算是买全了. 看来下几天, 一但有空, 就有得开始复习东西了. 不管怎么说, 总是会有事的. 比如: 我明天有美国公民入级面试, 所以今天多少得把面试的题再看一遍. 面试的地点得上网去查, 面试的时间得三番五次, 神经兮兮的去确定, 面试的文件得做复印件, 面试的衣服, 我想, 如果不合适的话到时候会很快的被妈给指出来的. 又举例: 今天把妈的存钱盒给打开了, 已便她好看看里边的那三个硬币上是否有FLORIDA的两毛五.
此时此刻我正在一边敲这个, 一边企图装LINUX的UBUNTU. 目前看来需要把两个操作系统 (加上WINDOWS) 装在两个不同的硬盘上 - 问题不大, 我有个多余的, 平时当储藏文件的硬盘. 问题是该怎么清理它, 然后让电脑从CD上BOOT, 直接读到它上. BOOT 可以在SETUP BIOS 底下设定, 硬盘吗...我现在在纳闷IDE 到底是个什么东西.
祝我好运.
20070808
Netherlands
The recovery time from school, I've discovered, is directly proportional to the number of classes taken, the type of classes taken, and the amount of time lapse before the final grades are posted. As such, I am not fully recovered yet since I'm still waiting for my final grade from cell bio, which, according to the teacher, should've been posted but I have yet to figure out where it is, lost in the vast landscape of cyberspace as it is.
I did upload the candle-cake picture to my laptop though, so I can post that picture now:
My parents remembered that I like berries, so that, folks, was about a pound of blueberries stashed on top of a rather belabored looking cake. It was great.
In terms of more recent events Anna, Victoria, Kateryna and I went bowling last night at Valco's new bowling alley. The style of the place appears to be targeted more toward teenagers than adults, given the too loud music and really, really um...geometrical decor. (Large brightly colored round dots, that's what they look like.) Kateryna, as the only one of us who actually had some experience at the game, tried to give us pointers such as "aim it at the dots" (which are painted on the ground on each aisle). The rest of us, however, are more concerned with just trying to get the darn thing to go in a straight line which, given the number of gutter balls, IS a sufficiently difficult challenge. I'm quite awful at it, of course, but it was fun and we get different animations on the display screen after we lugged each ball haphazardly toward the pins at the far end.
Anna gravitated toward the arcade games afterwards, where there was giant Spongebobs in the robot-claw-in-a-plastic-box thing. All the games are astonishingly expensive, though, so we left to wander around the mall and goggled at the "power smoothie" that's sold at the stands, which served as a good example of where advertisement has way too much information. How many people wanted to know that there're algae and wheat grass in their smoothies and, what's more, that they're rich in chlorophyll and apparently aid in respiration and sperm DNA repair? Too much information people, WAY too much. And why would anyone name a smoothie "Bee sting"? (Or was that "Bee Stinger?")
Victoria's still fixated on hooded things and we're still going to try the Thanksgiving-Valleyfair trip, despite of the crowd. Some things don't change.
I did upload the candle-cake picture to my laptop though, so I can post that picture now:
My parents remembered that I like berries, so that, folks, was about a pound of blueberries stashed on top of a rather belabored looking cake. It was great.
In terms of more recent events Anna, Victoria, Kateryna and I went bowling last night at Valco's new bowling alley. The style of the place appears to be targeted more toward teenagers than adults, given the too loud music and really, really um...geometrical decor. (Large brightly colored round dots, that's what they look like.) Kateryna, as the only one of us who actually had some experience at the game, tried to give us pointers such as "aim it at the dots" (which are painted on the ground on each aisle). The rest of us, however, are more concerned with just trying to get the darn thing to go in a straight line which, given the number of gutter balls, IS a sufficiently difficult challenge. I'm quite awful at it, of course, but it was fun and we get different animations on the display screen after we lugged each ball haphazardly toward the pins at the far end.
Anna gravitated toward the arcade games afterwards, where there was giant Spongebobs in the robot-claw-in-a-plastic-box thing. All the games are astonishingly expensive, though, so we left to wander around the mall and goggled at the "power smoothie" that's sold at the stands, which served as a good example of where advertisement has way too much information. How many people wanted to know that there're algae and wheat grass in their smoothies and, what's more, that they're rich in chlorophyll and apparently aid in respiration and sperm DNA repair? Too much information people, WAY too much. And why would anyone name a smoothie "Bee sting"? (Or was that "Bee Stinger?")
Victoria's still fixated on hooded things and we're still going to try the Thanksgiving-Valleyfair trip, despite of the crowd. Some things don't change.
20070806
在
回家三天了. 后院的玉米已经长的差不多的, 我现在大概每天掰一个玉米棒子. 不知为什么, 我上次种的花出来的很少, 只有零零落落的几棵 (我看着都可怜). 原因得另一天调查.
明天晚上和ANNA和VICTORIA出去玩去 - 多少开始有点假期的感觉了.
还在等考试成绩.
明天晚上和ANNA和VICTORIA出去玩去 - 多少开始有点假期的感觉了.
还在等考试成绩.
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