Bus Ad: Kid's Face

Bus ad, Shanghai 2004

I felt like taking a shot while taking a cab. It was raining and dull but the kid's face kind of lit up things a bit.

三大件齐了

到美国三年，终于凑齐了洗衣机，冰箱和电视。三大件有了。

This Is What We Call A "Detour"

Oh YES, we ARE in the correct direction!

Tuesday night, after work, I drove from Santa Clara to Burlingame to pick up my uncle who is on a business tour and is staying at a hotel near 101. There was a storm that night in some places alone north 101 but that was not the part I am gonna talk about.

It is the way back to Mountain View: apparently we should take south 101 which is right there outside the hotel building, yet we ended up turning 720 (pronounced as "seven hundred and twenty") degrees before merging onto south 101. It was pretty bad, a '93 Civic plus four people plus a storm plus the mist outside plus the fog inside plus my 11 year old car battery plus my 165-75R13 tires. Yet we managed the 720-degree manuver at first attempt(Hallelujah......). Question: just who the BEEP designed this road?

国家图书馆借书记

南方周末　2004-10-14 16:08:48

“……国 家图书馆办理中文图书第一外借库（藏书较全的中文书库）借书证的条件是：在京中级及其以上技术职称者，在京处级及其以上行政职务者，在京就读研究生及研究 生以上学历者，外加手续费20元、押金100元”

“……办理外文图书借书证的条件是：在京中级及其以上技术职称者，在京处级及其以上行政职务，在京就读博士生及 博士以上学历者，外加手续费20元，押金1000元。办证只是入门的初步条件，馆内各室还有不同的“规定”或收费……”

暨南大学出版社副总编辑周继武也许做梦也不曾想到，自己到位于北京的中国国家图书馆借书，会有这样一段经历。《南方周末》把这个故事讲出来，恐怕又要得罪紫禁城里的什么人了。不过总而言之，这样的事情，大家都不陌生的。

《新语丝》同文链接

DOOCED: to lose one’s job because of one’s website.

I found this website by the word "dooced" which I overheard on NBC last nite. Long story short, it is a VERY BAD idea to write about work on personal pages. The aftermath is UNpredictable.

http://www.dooce.com

• I found this site interesting though I have not read much
• I do not know the person in any way
• I feel bad about her being the origin of the word "dooced"
  

SoC and Deng Xiaoping

Saw this artical about SoC among a dozen of others but I was amazed by its last paragraph where the author went the distance to quote former Chinese Prime Mnister Deng Xiaoping: "crossing the river by feeling for stones".

System on chip wrestles RF and digital integration issues
By Mike Clendenin
EE Times
October 11, 2004 (9:50 AM EDT)

创新是一个民族进步的灵魂

上海 南京路
Nanjing Rd., Shanghai 2004

A Waveform or Something?!

What exactly was I doing at 11:50am today?

"They were obsessed with speed, driven by pride and haunted by ghosts"

The Soul of A New Machine. Developers of the world's fastest oscilloscope and probe set were haunted by the ghosts of Bill Hewlett and David Packard. The specter kept them awake at nights and interrupted their workouts. First it was 8GHz, then it was 10. Let's do 12, they committed finally. EE Times records the "ah" moments in the development of a new machine. For a hands-on review, see Alex Mendelsohn's write-up. And for more on Test and Measurement achievements, come to eeProductCenter.com.

By Brian Fuller Stephan Ohr , EE Times
October 01, 2004 (3:47 PM EDT)
URL: http://www.eet.com/article/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=49400213

100th Post - 第100篇

Yuyuan, Shanghai 上海豫园

终于摸黑扫完了过去半年的几张照片，三更半夜，还是先贴一张吧。关于上海的种种，已经懒得再写了，百闻终不如一见，虽然是黑白，将就一下。

犯规了

自己原来说过的，不能连续贴图……

今天一口气出来就是四张，其实硬盘里边还有很多。自从开始上班，居然连一个字都没写过，可见过去的几个月无聊到什么程度……补偿一下罢。

突然想起还有两卷胶片没扫描，一卷没冲……

Wife freaked out by her own stuff :)

Time for absolute celebration, a smaller one, though.
-courtesy of United Airlines

A place with more than ONE floor

Got a pair of new glasses

关于第三条道路

前些日子看到一篇关于某电视剧的评论，说那部电视剧因为从男人的视角看问题，从而引起非议——那电视剧我没看过，但是单单是这个评论的话里，就有大问题： 这个人类看问题的视角，不外乎两种，不是男人的视角，就是女人的视角——哦不，好像我说漏了，还有gay和lesbian们的视角啊。从那个剧评的逻辑， 既然从男人的视角看问题不正确，那么从女人的视角看问题也不会是公平的，但是我们的剧评作者一定是公平的大师，所以嘛，初步估计是从gay或者 lesbian的角度……我不知道作者是谁，所以不好妄自推断是靠近gay呢，还是更靠近lesbian。

前几天路过北京的时候，看到一 个有趣的现象：买票上天安门城楼参观的，都要在后院里排队等候安检，这个把关可比航空公司严格多了，一个个轮流摸啊。无独有 偶，这安检排队的地方，用铁栏杆分出来三条通道。不用我说，其中自然一条是男同志排队等着被摸，一条是女同志等着被摸……至于第三条啊，偶尔有些个坐着官 车来的，下了车，不去和男同志排队，也不去和女同志排队，悠悠然地就走到那第三条通道里边去了。更其怪的是，从那条通道过去的，都趾高气扬，也没人摸ta 们——想必是身上的确没有什么可以摸的罢。这紫禁城虽说是×官们曾经战斗过的地方，留下了人家的青春啊，但是……唉，不说了。

一拖四，不是中央空调啊

搬进新屋三天了，今天终于搞定了网络……二楼有微弱的无线网信号，只有那台T41的卡是既能探测到网络又能建立链接……于是乎，T41带机站，机站拖两台 手提电脑外加两个台式机……一拖四，总共五台啊，免费上网中……下半月存够了银子，再开通自己的宽带罢，善哉善哉，希望那位忘记加密的仁兄心理素质比较过硬啊 ……

无线网络就是好啊，就是好啊就是好……

Thanks to Blogger Support

I never tried this: send an email reporting technical problems about a free internet service and GET reply. I sent two messages to Blogger Support about re-publishing and page layout and, I got two personal email replies within 3 days!

This is truly awsome. Thanks :P

A New Start

First post on blog after getting "back" to California. Way too busy, still no home to stay, no stable network connection ... ... however, I never have to use proxy servers to go around the Great F***wall again!

progress

[things to do:]

• PERL
• VHDL
• Verilog-AMS
• circuitry
• work notes

[things almost done:]

• THE manual
• spice
• unix
• gdb
• gcc
• gmake
• cvs