嗨，北卡，别来无恙

真的又回去北卡的山间了，没有梦中的滑轮车，但初春的灰白里夹杂着嫩绿弱红的山景，也让一路的driving生气勃勃。没有山的水的活动总是有限的，无非是微波荡漾或惊涛拍岸；但没有水的山的景致依然连绵起伏，依然浮光幻影，色彩斑斓。

都说仁者爱山，智者爱水，其实还有俗者，爱的当然是高楼大厦。我应该是个不折不扣的俗者，山水只是用来换口味的。罪过罪过。

至于chapel hill之旅,完全是走马观花式的。走了该走的路，喝了该喝的咖啡，拍了该拍的照，你还有什么不满意的呢？想用不到两天的时间重验两年的日子，本来就是不切实际的贪婪。所以该瞑目啦。

看到自己以前住的apartment现在并没有人在住，松了口气。而发现上次没能带走的水管竟还别来无恙地躺在那里，更是如获至宝地搬上了车。嗯，搬家活动圆满结束。

weekend movies

暖春：2003年的大陆片，有获国内华表奖的什么奖项。surprisingly得幼稚，从故事到拍摄到演员，彻头彻尾的80年代。题目让人浮想连天（why？早春二月？），看完后有点茫然失措，觉得导演和我们开了个大玩笑。然后拍拍自己的脑袋说，谁说电影再不能这样拍了？

blow dry(爱情洗剪吹)：英国人讲故事嘛，总会有点小伤感的。不过里面的女演员都好好pp的说。

昨晚有看"孔雀"

是一部个人色彩很浓的散文式电影。将往事随意地铺展在我们面前，如同记忆的碎片留在我们心中。所以影片有一种支离破碎的效果，但并不影响我们理解那些有限的情节。当然有没有交代的地方，比如老三的断指，但这也正符合了该片的情绪，一种放松的，不期待的，任飘零的气质。

网上比较popular的反对意见有：
某些情节不真实，比如老二骑车拉降落伞，老二为要回降落伞abruptly地脱裤子。我的态度是，这是导演诗意化的安排，与全片散文诗的意境并不违背，是文学升华的需要吧。
病态的家庭，没有普遍性。这没错, and? 极端是可以拍电影的。而且影片中的极端实际上是我们都会有的心理的一种夸大而以。但我以为，电影没有处理好的是对人物性格的铺垫，造成了观众与角色的疏离。
too much怀旧符号，为怀旧而怀旧。这点俺完全同意，就是导演有点过。

至于青春啊，叛逆啊，逃脱啊，理想与现实的反差啊，是永恒的主题，俺没什么好废话的，只静心期待有一天我们能出一部“四百下”。

google x

googleX, and more about it.

汇报

上周末看的电影有：
看车人的七月--混淆有“红西服”的城市平民的酸楚，“十七岁单车”的少年人的惆怅，和“漂亮妈妈”的有限的爆发。反正大陆拍这种片子是最内行了。
the robots--精致，得体的少年梦。25岁以下不宜。

happy b-day, 老爸！

年年有今日，岁岁有今朝!

in my dream last night

又乘滑轮车远去了，在北卡的山间。嗯，也许该去smoky mountains了, or the blue ridge parkway indeed?

try to frequent the last one

i never advocate pseudo-chinese culture. i'm not excited about these two either: danwei and hanzismatter.

yet the best discovery of the day--drawn. this is something you should come up with! i don't know what you are doing there all day long! okay, i'm satisfied and can go back to work now.

a hypothesis frowning

google hired mark lucovsky from microsoft and some people are now confirmed that google wants to control os market. others are suggesting that google is trying to replace this os age w/ web service age. accordingly, we should be able to access all our document and practice all our operation anywhere we want. in other words, the moment you turn on ur computer, u r on google.

let's just say that this is google's ambition, or one of. i wouldn't feel comfortable putting my files on any web server, even if it's google. i wanna see how google assure users like me. well, no outsider can say what google is really up to. but one thing does bother me: technology can do everything, but why do we want it to do everything?

sink

feel brain dead these days. so does dufn; so does guo8; so does guo8's friend; so do many people. so it's not my fault. so i'm justified. so i can indulge. so i'm sitting there and staring at the white ceiling.

typing is a good thing.

1 yr anniversary

so it's been a yr now:
optimized the structure behind the library's web site while there is nothing we can do about the front end of the scene;
started the usability assessment;
a more cluttered office;
a more cluttered desktop;
a few more pics on the wall;
been to my 1st ala conference (wish i could do a poster session this year);
passed the supervisory stage;
have less coffee...

"and it's been 10 yrs since my freshman yr", i looked into the mirror this morning and thought to myself. if i could have a chance to go back and talk to that tom-boy-hair gal, i would pat on her right shoulder and say,"relax. life is unpredictable but in the end it's right". so let the suffer be suffer; let the laugh be laugh. cuz in the end everything will be just right.

knock knock...me in 10 yrs is at the door now.