Friends Again

第九季的时候，好像是因为换了翻译，Friends的中文字幕天翻地覆，开始逐渐靠近正常智力水平了。

Blahblahblahblu....... ※×％$%@^&*%$ （这就已经看出了进展）
Days of Our Lives 《光辉岁月》 （不是八零年以后的孩子干的）
Ross the Devorce Force 螺蛳离婚生力军 （终于有中国特色了）
Cool. 强。
Breaking up sucks. 去TMD分手。
Damn it! TMD! （自从国防部……）
Maybe. 也许:) （so international）
He's gonna flip out. 他会发飙的。

不过还是有翻船的时候：

I'll give you two a minute. 我给你2分钟。（一一得一，一二得二，……※％￥＃）
I think you are good with the poultry. 我想你很有诗意。（面朝鸡笼，春暖花开 ）

After two months I came to realize that there is no way I could finish frames 34 to 36 of that roll which has been in my camera since May 30th, so I decided to go have it processed. I went to the small shop which I have been using in the past for my color prints and was told that slides will take 3 days and I cannot get mounted ones unless I pay an extra 100 for 50 frames because the frames are only availeble on wholesale. Considering the nice and professional work they had done for me in the past, I believe that the guy was serious. In fact I was later told that there is no slide processing service in this entire city and my roll will be shipped to Chengdu and that's what's taking so long.

If I settled here, I am gonna open a shop some day.

It has been so long since stopped working and my memory is fading. Yesterday I downloaded a version of Emacs for Windows only to realize that I have forgot a lot. The only things I can remember about Emacs are: open file, write to file, save and exit, exit, paste (yank) incremental search and split window. I can't even remember the command to run GDB in Emacs which I have been doing for over 10 hours a day because that's my job. Man, time does kill.

老婆今天生日

老婆从张家界考察归来，休息一下先zzz...

BBS中的政治游戏

今日在网上闲逛，得此奇文，才晓得这个夏天无聊的不止我一个。像BBS这样的玩意，其实大可不必如此认真，但是既然有人有心要做一下学问，不妨成全一把，留此存照。

原贴来自：法学时评网 周濂

有点儿乱

外语片看多了，得了个怀习惯，一只眼睛看画面，另外一只看字幕，神经兴奋过度。可怜今天借来的是中文对白英文字幕，眼睛还是止不住往下面晃，时而又省悟过来，弄得我神经兮兮。

在租碟店里晃悠了二十多分钟，老板舍不得开空调电扇，汗把我背都湿透了。也许是进来文艺界不景气，可看的东西少而又少。好不容易在众多色魔怪兽和反恐英雄 中找到几部国产电影。其实近年由于身在他国，倒还有些想念中国的片子，其中既有好了伤疤忘痛的成分，也还因为看过几部不错的中国电影。《绿茶》是有一点 烂，然而这样的故事并非无中生有，只是不太适合观众的人群。同样的，《寻枪》其实是不错的电影，然而暂时无法成为主流观众能够接受的风格。反映平平的《手 机》其实是一部佳作，冯小刚和葛优是真正的国宝。公私生活的纠缠，人到中年的危机，名誉，亲情，背叛和忏悔被一片片剥开，让观众在央视黄金档主旋律的阴影 下看到中国社会特定阶层真实的道德危机，这或许正是《手机》反响不大的缘由，因为有太多人被点到了痛处。在贺岁片的档期上映，想象冯小刚是有意为之，在年 复一年皆大欢喜的迷云中一招“含笑半步颠”，直捣难言之隐，中国版的American Beauty。而《卡拉是条狗》中葛优啃一条黄瓜的功夫，不是梁朝伟在《花样年华》里面抽几根烟能够悟到的。

而这部《洗澡》就不同，我不得不承认后半部我是靠快进看完的，快进常常是我老婆对付韩国连续剧的手段，为我所不齿，说“既然选择要看，就看嘛”。除了最后 两分钟，《洗澡》乏善可陈，东拉西扯，不知所云。从北京街头未来主义的全自动洗澡设备到已经老得发霉的京片子和蝈蝈，从黄土高坡疲惫的群众演员到又一次青 藏高原上布满壕沟的老妪的面容和转经轮……从不到二十部国产电影中，单靠剪接就能够拼出这整部电影。论国产想象力，当数《甲方乙方》和《大腕》，至今无出 其右者。至于近期港片，一口痰耳！

《盲井》 Blind Shaft

http://www.smth.org/pc/pccon.php?id=1341&nid=61508&s=all

前些日子刚刚看过盗版碟——不要怪我，这样的电影如果有正版我一定会买，如果不被电影局禁掉，我也一定会到影院去看。

那几天还在拨号上网，来去匆匆，今天偶然发现flying1979同学的一片短评，省去我爬格子了，谢过。链接如题。

相关链接:

侧面之一：故事及其他

《盲井》在柏林电影节上胜出，获得艺术成就银熊奖，影片的主演表示都没想到会胜过张艺谋的大片《英雄》。《盲井》导演李扬借片向在”金钱至上的过渡期“里生存的中国人提出了问题。

侧面之二：《盲井》获奖并不意外

对于国内的媒体来讲，与其说李杨是匹黑马，不如说他是半路杀出来的程咬金，咬得让大家有点发蒙。就像上一届诺贝尔文学奖得主揭晓之后，国内媒体对获奖者匈牙利作家伊姆雷．凯尔泰斯却一无所知一样，尴尬得很。

侧面之三：主演李易祥

李易祥拍这个戏，不洗头不洗澡，不单单是外表，就连神态动作都变了。他回到北京时，灵灵看着他都害怕，说：“你怎么一点都不象原来的你了。”

侧面之四：关于《神木》

印在煤上的树叶就是煤的魂。死物有魂,何论生物。

中文清晰版 Sex and the Nation

以下文字拷贝自中国三大门户网站之一的新浪（www.sina.com.cn）首页，时间是北京时间2004年7月27日：

美女啦啦队新鲜出炉
影视　歌星　旅游　试听　人体　言情　简历　小说
论文　书库　周易　股票　模特　百科　电视　科学
武器　武侠　留学　服装　网游　科技　内衣　兼职
免费　保健　硬件　动漫　演员　情感　减肥　写真
奥运　新碟　丰胸　壁纸　英文歌　美少女　演唱会
好歌　美腿　歌手　爆笑　低胸装　排行榜　真人秀
♀美女♂酷男
窈窕淑女放电
爱上猫的老鼠
性商测试
想做性感小猫？快行动吧!
和处男谈婚论嫁
悔当初只看中她美貌 旗袍风情秀(组图)
撞见老爸不堪的一幕 女人夜生活的本质
夏日美眉性感模型 美图壁纸下载
测你的性感姿势
致命爱情 望欲 麝月
蒋介石的女人们
处女情与肉体记忆 搭配出惊艳感 沟通无限心理
组图：街头美女偷眼看
● 组图：女星比基尼抢眼
● 组图：布兰妮梦幻写真
● 组图：港姐观南海观音
● 组图：沙排美臀当道
倡导素食情侣街头拥吻

以 上仅仅是新浪首页上的文字链接，还不包括图片和弹出广告窗口。眼下全国网上大扫黄，网站被封、服务器整 机拆除之类事件此起彼伏，大量毫无色情内容的中小网站无辜遭连座，依靠租用服务器的个人小网站更是叫苦连天，苦心操持多年的知名度和数据毁于一旦。而大打 擦边球、公然贩黄拉皮条的中国三大门户新浪、网易、搜狐却任凭风雨飘摇而金枪不倒，网民怨声载道。

其实岂止是网站，整个中国传媒，在过去的两年，已经取代老中医们的电线杆，成为最大的性信息门户。此起彼伏的选美大赛搞得处处波涛汹涌。刚刚过去的欧洲杯，道貌岸然的中国中央电视台，在直播间 里就有十六位衣着宽松、智商为零的“足球宝贝”搔首弄姿，面向十三亿观众的清晰特写镜头里，也不乏宝贝们的乳沟、小腹和大腿根部。也许是领导们同情球迷之 挑灯夜战，也许是节目组值夜班也有生理需求，局外人不得而知。刚刚过去不久的北京车展，屏幕与报纸当然是连篇累牍，频率最高的汉字除了“车”当然有“美 女”。央视更是派出新一代有波无脑的女主波在展厅里高声尖叫，并向全国播出。最精彩之一：女主波围绕一辆兰博基尼叫床接近尾声之时，变换姿势爬到车身前 部，喘着粗气对观众们说：“让我们来看看他的心脏——发动机！……”随即拔开前盖，自然是空空如也，美女先是一惊，随后两眼圆睁，昂首挺胸又一次喊道： “啊，啊，没有，没有！……”

中国大地色情激昂的两年，我正远在美国留学，所以我今天是一条海带，非常的无聊，在家里读书上网看电视。然而相比之下，当我身处思想腐朽生活糜烂的资本主 义社会，荧幕上的所见使我有愧于道貌岸然的文明古国。相比中国传媒泛滥的美女面孔与身体，美国的大多数节目主持人均为男性，且以中年为主。收视率靠前的 Late Show、Tonight Show、 Monster Garage、 Orange County Chopper、 60 Minutes 甚至厨艺节目的主持人甚至都是男人。CNN、 MSNBC、 ABC 等电视台的新闻和社会栏目主持人也是男性居多，而且不论男女，年龄都普遍偏大，形象更加稳重而不乏吸引力。影视产品分级制度严格，像父母带着孩子看《十面 埋伏》直面激情章子怡这样的局面更是无从想象。广告、图书等载体上，不同种族、年龄、肤色的人像照片分庭抗礼——试问，我们的哪个门户网站上能找到60岁 女人的漂亮照片？

每每要证明中国什么东西少，有人就说咱们“人平均”如何如何；而到了需要证明什么东西多的时候，有人就说如果“每人”怎样，那么十三亿人就有多少云云。我 等才 疏学浅，发明不出新鲜的理论，所以也套用一下经典罢。如果每个中国人两腿之间有一样东西，那么大概有十三亿个，其中有大约一半和剩下的不同，而且由于出厂 日期有先有后，有的暂时还不能用，有的已经过期了。但是咱人多啊，那么剩下的也不应该是一个小数，所以全中国就有大量的闲置设备。虽然我们的公检法和国家 机关也有大量的闲置人员，开展一两次或者十七八次轰轰烈烈荡气回肠的运动如同探囊取物，但那个野火吹不尽春风吹又生的道理，恐怕就连足球宝贝们也能够倒背 如流。

但在中国有一些规律，那就是州官可以放火，但是百姓不能点灯。每每遇到下一轮的运动，倒霉的都是无名无姓的草根阶层。坐在空调办公室数钱的，永远都是同一 群人。在中小网站六月飞雪的同时，新浪网易搜狐这样的全国性门户虽有所收敛，但无关痛痒，因为无数的收费短信已经把黄段子、激情图片和同城幽会播撒到神州 大地，钱已经进帐。与此同时，电信部门作为网上色情交易的付费渠道，已经爽够了。各方酒足饭饱，打点停当，当然就到了立起牌坊，隔岸观火的时段。而下一次 聚会应该已经为期不远，因为不论是两腿之间还是两耳之间，都蕴藏着无穷无尽的革命力量和创造源泉，而真正欲火焚身的，并不是你我在荧幕上看见的欲望小妹和 宋朝 公安。

——仅以此文献给楼下街口的租碟老板。

相关链接： 将色情进行到底

Sex and the Nation

Born in the late 70's of last century, I thought I am living after the time of movements on this piece of land and I am wrong. I came back to my country for just a few months and I am seeing one of the most spectacular and fussy nation-wide movement in web space for the first time.

Two Dials on One Line

Today I just realized that I can use ADSL and voice moden on the same phone line at the same time (for two computers, of coz). Both work well except that I can hear a very faint noise on the voice moden which does not happen when it is used alone.

20 Years of Apple

And another link

The Road Ahead

Due to the fact that I am so bored staying at home all day, I started looking into the old bookshelf which came into our house in 1996 when we moved in. Among the Chinese literature, cook books, dictionaries and my old textbooks, there is a copy of The Road Ahead, Chinese version by Willian H Gates III, copyright 1995 and printed in China in 1996. And I picked it up after watching 12 episodes of Friends on my computer today.

The translation is lousy, I have to say. The text feels like the work of a code generator rather than real human being. But they are forgiven since back then, 10 years ago, not many people know what Bill Gates was really talking about and aside from that, it was good enough to have someone working to bring interesting books to the Chinese people at a reasonable price. It cost me 20RMB (about $2.50) and that was an expensive book for me at high school. I did not read much of that immediately thanks to the translation of those programmers, and this book somehow made it to my small bookshelf in college dorm. But I did not bother to read it either. Finally it came back home.

Today I read it. Or should I say skimmed through it within half an hour. I did not dive much into the details bacause I do not want to be caught in the fuzzy translation. However, it was quite impressive.

I do not like this man by the name of Bill Gates whose company sells secondary-grade software at high price and makes my computer crash for no reason. But it does take some vision for anyone to describe your life to you ten years before it happens. This books covers quite some of the things that are happening in the digital life today and although the picture may not be exactly like reality, the prediction was in the right direction. It may had too much confidence in ISDN (Integrated Service Digital Network or It Still Does Nothing) and ATM (Asychronous Transfer Mode), and failed to predict giants like google, but I wasn't expecting such a systematic yet real plan of what's gonna happen in the near future. It did miss something (see some more opinions from other people) but the Gates of Bills was just one person.

Now the question becomes: what's the revolution of our current times?

Picasa and Hello

Just tried Picasa and Hello and impressed.

In addition to free hosting, Hello makes it super easy to add photoes to blogger.com. The only thing needs improving is that Hello uses IE as web browser which we all know is a bad, bad idea!

Picasa is nice. A lot better than ACDSee, without all the unnecessary features yet it feels friendly, sophisticated and elegant. This reminds me of a lecture by google staff a year ago about being "useable" or "useful". ACDSee version numbers keep growing while the software is achieving newer levels of sucking. The best ACDSee version is the one I used back in 1998 (ACDSee32 v2.40) which is nothing more than an image organizer and browser and is even faster on 33MHz 486 than today's fancy ACDSee on 2.8GHz. Moore's Law is only ture in terms of hardware speed. In terms of useful performance computers are growing not just fast and in some cases such as ACDSee, it's even negative.

Me. 

My wife had her ear(s?) pierced recently and now she is travelling with her younger sister.

Very First Picture Here

Nothing, just a shot I got a few months back. I post it here to see how the Hello software is working with blogger.

Rule for Myself

Now I can put up photos on the blog. Instead of going nuts about this, I am gonna say at most three pictures per week and no two images in a row.

Look, I do not have a digital camera and my savings will run out if I keep posting :)

A Face-lift

I am kind of lazy so I chose to switch to this ready-cooked template. Plus it looks fine to me with the blue because the previous white background hurts my eyes a little.

And I have opened to comments from registered members of blogger.com. Again since I am lazy I may not respond to any of the possible comments if there are anyone interested in my stuff at all. This blog is not meant to be read by more than a few people in the first place. Because I am not a nice guy I may simply hide some of the comments I do not like. So sorry, first.

One last thing, I understand no more than Chinese and English.

Welcome and enjoy your stay here.

Monopoly

A month after I activated this pre-paid cell phone card and more than a year before it's expiration date, it stopped working with over 30% of its value left. After the dial tone the only thing you can hear is "your pre-paid phone card has expired". China Telecom, the largest Chinese public communication company and the only one allowed to provide land line service and the one who just got the entire business of 2008 Beijing Olympics, is the absolute No. 1 monopoly throughout this entire country thanks to its bond with the government.China Mobile, one of the only two companies which provide mobile phone service in China, is actually part of China Telecom and not surprisingly, is surpported by the government to bully all competition. China Mobile is actually the one who got the Olympics contract, but we can symply save the trouble and call it China Telecom.

Put in a short way, China Telecom is even worse than Microsoft. The latter, at least, is not backed up by the government in any way and their monopoly is based on their own product.

So my pre-paid cell phone fee is down the toilet and since I am not insane I am not going to argue with China Mobile about this. This interesting phenomina has been around for so many years: nearly everyone hates China Telecom and China Mobile, yet they are still in excellent business. Recently the government has just passed a new law banning any company to charge only the caller for mobile communication and banning anyone from lowering service price without government (pronounced as "China Mobile") approval. Meanwhile after state exams, examinees need to call China Telecom's info service to know their scores and the service fee is 5RMB per minute, which is even more expensive than international calls. But you just have to call and pay for it unless you do not really wanna know. And just another pieces of news was on TV yesterday: China Telecom refuses to provide detailed phone bill records to customers due to "technical reasons"(pronounced as "you-are-stupid"), instead everyone can only see the total amount and man if you do not pay in time, your phone is cut off right away. My mom saw this happen once with no warning at all.With more and more Chinese people getting online, broadband internet service is so booming and there are a mumber of companies providing subscriber service but you don't wanna waste your time guessing who is the winner: China Telecom's ASDL serivce. There are companies providing T1 to the living room for less than half the price but you simply cannot get it because they are not allowed to enter certain areas of the city - maybe just the populated areas, all other places are open to fair competition for everyone.

This has been on the media recently: up till now less than 10 counties recognize China as a market economy and no major economic body is on that list. Both the EU and the US refuses to see China as a market economy and Chinese am I, I think they are absolutely right.

It has been so boring these days and even I am writing this stuff.

《南方周末》 反垄断法：现实与期望

Betrayed Will

Found this amazing re-construction of an acient classic Chinese poem:

骆宾王的《咏鹅》，暴强

提交者 : 山外山 于 北京时间 2004-07-22 10:05:08


　　《咏鹅》
　　鹅 鹅 鹅，

　　曲 项 向 天 歌。

　　白 毛 浮 绿 水，

　　红 掌 拨 清 波。

　　这首诗中骆宾王模拟鹅的感受控诉环境污染的严重，写得极为辛辣生动。

　　首先要解释下“鸟”字在古代多表骂人的意思，而“鹅”字恰由“我”“鸟”两部分构成，所以全诗的意思应该是∶

　　我操！我操！我操！

　　我仰着头对天这个骂呀，

　　这水被他妈的谁污染了，全是绿毛呀，老子刚泡了会澡就掉了一池子的白羽毛，这还让不让鹅活了！

　　赶紧拼了老命往岸边划吧，哎呀妈呀，脚掌都开始秃碌皮了，已经露出了俺红扑扑的嫩肉，难道这就是那帮人类嘴中唧唧歪歪称赞不休的狗屁清波池吗！