Monthly Archives: January 2008

多事之秋

上午同事来办公室就问我们知道陈冠希的事情了吗? 我隐约知道这是个娱乐圈里的明星。
原来08一开始他们就出了大事,有人将他的隐私照片都放到网上了
同时涉及很多当红的女明星
忍不住要谴责一下那肇事者,真没道德
不过娱乐圈一向说是很黑暗的,里面可能涉及诸多的利益在里面,比想像中要复杂的多
当事人所在的英皇马上出来申明说这是假的
但据说很多人从各个角度分析说,不象是ps出来的东西
Anyway,除了当事人,其他人都还是一样的过日子了,多了些茶余饭后的谈资罢了
 

雪灾

人呆在美国,家里人也不准备回南方老家,所以尽管早些时候看到南方雪灾的报道,也都没有兴致看究竟。今天有朋友给我讲雪灾十分严重,很多人被困回不了家。我又翻看了天涯上的一些帖子,受影响面积很大,有上万人被困在高速路上,有达4,5天之久。很难想象这么冷的天气被困在路上该如何办? 火车上据说一瓶水都卖到10来块。湖南等好些地方物价都涨的很高。据说广州站积了50万人出不去。

有人建议今年的春晚可以改成赈灾捐款义演了,举双手同意。

要不春晚上某主持人罗列贺电时,再加一句,被困路上的人民代表给晚会发来贺电,祝大家新年快乐,云云。也能显示祖国强盛、歌舞升平。

看到温总理跑湖南慰问,想到以前一句玩笑话,中国不是说全部当官的都是贪官,胡书记温总理至少不会贪。看到总理的被困群众估计也可以稍为安慰一点吧。

太糟糕了

ArcGIS 9.0与IE 7冲突,表现在运行ArcToolbox的任何命令,都会关闭整个app。
以为是我机器的问题,figure it out花了好几个小时
后来发现是本身的问题,ArcGIS 9.1提供了Patch,ArcGIS 9.2已经兼容
但ArcGIS 9.0是manual support,建议将IE 7卸掉。
ESRI不是一般的黑。变着法子让大家花钱去升级。

See here for official statement.

A conference announcement

The 4th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC’08)
The 5th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery
(FSKD’08)

25-27 August 2008, Jinan, China

Submission Deadline: 25 March 2008

http://www.icnc-fskd2008.sdu.edu.cn

ICNC’08-FSKD’08 aims to provide an international forum for scientists and
researchers to present the state of the art of intelligent methods inspired
from nature, including biological, ecological, and physical systems, with
applications to data mining, manufacturing, design, and more.

All accepted papers will appear in conference proceedings published by
the IEEE and will be indexed by both EI and ISTP. Furthermore, extended
versions of selected papers will be published in a special issue of
Soft Computing: An International Journal (SCI indexed).

Grove City

Today, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Shuya, Yanzhi and I visited Grove City, the largest shopping factory outlet in Pennsylvania, 2hr far away from Pitt. There are many clothes shops, a variety of famous brands, as well as other kind of stores, for ex, book seller, Steeler shops, houseware store, etc.
As things sold there are directly from factory and even without tax deductible, making price much lower than elsewhere. Shuya bought four Coach bags for his friend and family, saying it would take much higher in Taiwan. Oh, the two guys together with me are Taiwanese. A lot of things (clothes, pants, shirts, etc) are tagged with prices under 10 usd, even much acceptable for Chinese people who earn money in RMB.
I will take my family to this place again if they could be here. I am sure they will be much happier than me.
For me, I got two coats 80% off, costing approximately 30 for original 100 usd. The first time I experienced " shopping happiness" as Shuya said. In China, there are also all kinds of discount. But I am hard to trust those vendors, some of discounted bad in quality, or there something fraud in price. In US you can take all those things off your mind.

她不需要你为她做什么

有同学Z在网上跟我讲,你看一个白领女的跳楼的消息了吗
是姜岩那事吗
她说,我看了她的博客,好感动
你真是后知后觉,我都已经感动过了,并已经开始忘掉了,不再去关心了
对方失望地敲了个苦笑脸,说看到有网友去远洋天地去悼念,网上还有活动照片
除JY的家人外,这事只是个新闻故事,注定隔些事情被忘却,大家还是一样过自己的日子
jy不需要大家的同情,也不要大家为她去报复那没良心的丈夫,她只要解脱
那么现在她已经解脱了,搁在法医中心的身体已经跟她没有关系了
大家声讨的跟她也没有任何关系了,她不需要你为她做任何事情
尊重她的选择,让她清静
用心去记住这件事,然后过好日子。

眼睛疼

看了一下午的文献,眼睛酸疼。
看文献找思路
过去跟老梁谈,一下子就问了几个问题,都是我在看的时候没想到的
不佩服不行

今天讲了一堂GIS课

下午4点-5点半给这边的Under讲了一堂ArcGIS的基础课,Overview了一下,并结合一个实例给演示了一下。英语还是比较糟糕,不过结束的时候,老梁显的还是挺高兴,说挺好挺好,以后多锻炼会更好。怕后半句才是实话吧。好在都还是鼓励的话。不过我倒知足了,至少没有出现冷场的情况。看下面的学生听的也还是蛮认真,好玩的是有一个学生上课时当我看他,就使劲地点头,难道我有讲的这么好?

为什么大家关注姜岩自杀事件

昨晚上QQ上一个朋友突然问,按说每年自杀上百万人,成功也有20来万,为什么单姜岩这事引起大家这么大的关注与愤慨?

仔细想了下,可能有这么几个原因

很多女性都有类似的被男人伤害的经历,所以她们感同身受,所以同情

男人们欣赏姜对爱情婚姻的执着专一,在这个物欲横流道德沦丧一切向金钱看的年代,更显得尤为可贵

其实从大家的反应看,对自杀行为大家还是理性看待的,大家欣赏的是执着和显示出来的才情,愤慨的是王家人的薄情

刚才看到北京有网友自发组织到王家抗议他们的行为