看笑话

找到一个很好玩的地方去，best of craigslist。看craigslist上每周评出的最佳广告，好几次笑过去了；然后想到前几天，第一次主动点进mitbbs的笑话版，不晓得是不是正式进入看笑话的年龄了，就是自觉压力重的老人们了。

芳香之旅

“芳香之旅”，一般香啦。

受父辈的影响，对上个世纪六，七时年代的故事总有特殊的感情，一看见热火朝天的运动场景就趋之若骛，其实，真的，跟我没啥关系。这次也不例外，见到海报上范伟和张静初手握红宝书的结婚照，就毫不犹豫地搭了两个小时进去。

简单的心得是......

向阳号公车在乡野颠簸驰骋的情景，很容易让人想到电视剧“围城”里方鸿渐一行人靠李梅亭的名片和赵辛梅的行头挤上的那辆老爷车，是要哑然失笑的。但显然，我们这里是温馨美好的纯真年代，所以，请严肃一点，咧嘴，作幸福状。

年轻时的春芬，外表太过明艳，算是化妆师的失败吧。但那一脸奋力的幸福笑容，吃红烧肉时夸张的摇头晃脑，和玩解绷绷游戏时努力扑闪的大眼睛，就太生硬，太愣头青了。从“孔雀”到“芳香之旅”，张静初演戏的总体印象是，生猛 + 脱裤子。

电影音乐不错。结尾处一看，好象又是小日本制作的，就沉默吧。

不spoil the fun，故事情节就不说了。

"我们俩"

"我们俩"是谁们俩呢？是一个刁钻的老太太和她的小房客，一名中戏的学生。

电影是散文式的，冬春夏秋地记录了两人相处中的碰撞。开始只是为利益争吵，逐渐展现的是很中国式的含蓄的温情，直到最后她们已经在感情上难以分离。

可是电影拍的有点力不从心，感觉只是一部学生作品，类似电影里的那片作业，"老太太的一天"；人物关系和情感的转换都比较突兀牵强。好在于我们都是成熟且宽容的观众了，了解是马俪文导演的第二部作品，还是小演员宫哲初次触电，更有金雅琴老师的出色表演，也就衷心鼓掌了。

影片开始时，小马满世界找房子的经历，让我想起一段久久久久没有记起的往事，有点出神......北京的冬天真难熬啊。生命在于折腾，没的折腾，都得枯萎，连90岁的老太太都是。

还有就是，怎么会有长得那么像的呢？真苦闷。

疯长的四月

四月，亚特兰大春意阑姗，唤醒一些叫梦想的东西，在心灵的各个角落疯长，狂乱无序，却不容忽视。只好借笔抒发，希望它们能这样安息，哪怕只一个春天，让我安静从容地去面对生活。

据陈皮尔博格曼说，独自等待是一部香蕉电影，因为导演是个香蕉人，故事自然也就不本地，不正宗。我不爱吃香蕉，it just smells，让人蹙鼻。满怀蹙鼻的希望去看了这部电影，感觉并不难闻如香蕉。首先电影很北京，不仅是京腔京调，不仅是胡同小道，还是夏雨那张“阳光灿烂的”北方小汉子脸，和那群年轻人在北京灰蒙蒙的天空下散漫又悸动的状态，挺真实，挺朴素。然后就是...主题。真怕用这两个字，觉得自己没那个功力，充其量不过是后文学青年伤春悲秋的小情绪罢了，怎担当得起主题二字。所以不如说，“故事讲了”，一个很普遍却又让人困惑痛苦的问题，当真情遇到假意；然后呢，sb呗（pleast pardon my language）。场景演员本地化了，主题大众化了，这部电影香蕉不到哪里去。

“看上去很美”是我看的最后一部王朔的小说，那已经是我的后王朔时代了，没有任何印象，以至于直到这部同名的电影结束，我才确定我看过同名的小说。这么失败的记忆并不完全是我的错，i just don't get这个4,5岁的小男孩不幸的全托生涯，也从不愤怒中国的教育体制，更能接受个人与群体的差异，并始终认为个人是应该服从集体的。这样的意识形态和成长经历的差异，使我对故事缺乏共鸣；没有共鸣就没了欣赏，观众就是这么狭隘。

张元将小说改成电影，没有什么大的突破，形散神也散，让人始终摸不着头脑。于我而言，最大的败笔是电影的配乐。音乐是写给harry potter的，是给peter pan的，就不是表现中国儿童的，至少不是那个时代的儿童生涯。音乐的整体感觉是诡异。导演也许想体现的是一个四，五岁敏感而充满幻想的男孩的精神世界，以及这个精神世界在集体主义的训练中被压制的“不幸”遭遇；可是巫婆式的配乐只让人觉得突兀不当，进入不了状态。with all the grown-man-made craps，电影最出彩的是小演员们的自然表演，可以让你一路微笑下来。真的，真的，我们那样穿着开档裤调皮哭闹过。

其实，贴子开始时是想说说李安的。看了一些别人有关他的印象，心中沉沉的，很多滋味，又有点不是滋味。贴子梳理到现在，还是觉得自己没有准备好说他，只好暂时搁一搁，把自己回炉到“火热”的生活里去吧...还是没有准备好。

netflix sues blockbuster

it is said that in america, if ya can't beat'em, sue'em. netflix is suing blockbuster over their business methodology. 这帮奸商，想钱想疯了吧。

无穷动

有朋自远方来，带来了“无穷动”。这部片子，网上骂声比赞声大，看完后，我又一次成了少数派。这决不是小资电影，实际上是大资电影。几个女人都出身高干家庭，优越感是难免的；好在这种优越感太真实，所以并不show-off，反而衬得人物自信大气。（那些骂演员丑的评论就都显太小鸡肚肠了。）

情节有点简单，一女的发现自己丈夫有外遇，判断第三者是自己的女朋友。于是招了几个最值得怀疑的朋友来家里聚会，想找出是谁。其中穿插着各个来客的小故事。但拍得有水平，所以能把这样简单的情节铺展成一部电影，用一种暗潮汹涌的情绪丰富观众的感受，让人又紧张又同情。

影片结尾妞妞接到公安局的电话，通知说老公出车祸死了，开始还以为是妞妞给大家下的套呢。怎么也没等到她surprise大家，才知道，老公真死了，就这样了。觉得自己好莱坞式故事看多了，这种土土的包袱早就不流行了。真是虚虚实实，实实虚虚啊。

对了,周末还看了ice age 2，不错啊。记得ice age 1 还是在飞机上看的呢。

a late late report -- cil 2006 day 3

this report should have been up on 3/24/2006. i was late.

utilities for safeguarding your computing environment the speaker introduced 5 sections of security ware at lost cost. the sections included antivirus software, firewalls, spyware detection and removal, anti-trojans and rootkit removers, and other useful utilities. security ware mentioned in this session would fit for mid to small size libraries. with the collection of the security ware, we can propose a series of information session on security ware for our members.

SEs vs libraries
SE=search engine. gary price from ask.com talked about how search engines, like ask.com, of course, should be used by libraries and librarians. nothing impressive except that the search result from ask.com presents a well-designed link categories.

open source software for libraries
Glen Horton from gclc threw out a couple of slides on different types of open source (translate: free) software that can be used by libraries. The categories include digital collection (i'm surprised), ils, web content filtering/caching, wifi hotspot authentication, and thin client solutions.
another group from miami university libraries from oxford, ohio, reported on a new library system that categorizes the resources by course. this new resource index became popular among students, while faculty seem to be more inclined to resources by subject.

the web 2.0 challenge to libraries
one of the best sessions of the conference. the speaker, paul miller, from talis, talked about how we should push libraries everywhere, make libraries seeable, and how we should disaggregate library systems to build on our own needs, not what vendors impose on us.

virtual reference, im chat, and beyond
nothing innovative of this session.

something i noticed: a lot of vendors/publishers have people with british accent give presentations. does that add more value to the product? well...that's at least the underline message. hehe.

i'm back from the trip

atlanta is fine, but just cannot be bothered with this life anymore. it's just too much to handle. unnecessarily unhealthy.

an unavoidable day -- cil 2006 day 2

for a 3-day conference, sessions on the 2nd day are usually the lamest. cil 2006 presents no exception.

planning for a handheld mobile future
i was checking out carol's blueberry yesterday and we both laughed at its extremely slow response in browsing the web. then there was this session advocating mobile devices usage in library environment. e-books' comeback kicks off another round of development in super-reflective screens, e.g. microsoft's new ultra-mobile pc with a 7-inch display, usb ports, wi-fi capability, and a touch pad interface. glad to hear that some database providers, like lexisnexis,westlaw,pubmed, have developed interfaces for mobile devices. but it all makes sense that many of them are in the medical and legal areas. this echoes the findings that people use handheld device to seek for answers instead of searching or browsing.
yes, new gadgets certainly show a lot of exciting opportunities for libraries to bring on, but sometimes i just couldn't help feeling that the format outbeats the content in this field. hope time will prove that i am wrong.

exploiting the value of structured metadata
lorcan dempsey from oclc explored the value of structured metadata through 4 layers, flat application, rich interaction, data is the new functionality, and participation. a numeric scale was used to measure the audience level for individual book titles (though i wasn't sure what it was for). on the scale, the higher the score, the more likely the book was to be found in the research library; and then the academic library, and then the public library, and the lowest score corresponds to the school library.
things to add on my check-out list: livesearch, ajax, finctionfinder

vendor visit

eos luncheon
another library automation system. unfortunately i'm not all that familiar with products in this field to enable me to make any comparison of the product.

new library, new technologies, new services
it's actually not the "web 2.0" new; but all the challenges and solutions talked during the session are just indeed down-to-the-earth. so too little surprise, but a good session to reinforce some established understandings.

digital preservation & the open web
a disappointing session. nothing new about digitization, but not even clear clue of the presentation. no mention about the notion of "open web", let alone how digital preservation was related to it.

taxonomy tales
this was the second half of a consecutive session, so it was all broken to me.

tomorrow is another day.

2.0 vs. 1.0 -- cil 2006 day 1

i am right now at computers in libraries 2006 conference in dc.

there is probably no need for me to post about the conference on my one-woman-show blog because everything i have to talk about has already been covered by professional bloggers, writing exclusively for infotoday, and more. but i'm still writing in compliment of the great work of the conference organizors.

search engine report
-- gotta check out the new ask.com site. the google style interface is acceptable. how about the content?
-- google is more than a search engine. it is an advertising company, an ms killer, and a lot yet to come.
-- yahoo! still leads as a people mediated search via tagging and personalization. watch out yahoo! research and yahoo! mindset.
-- all those google projects, scholars, books, prints, which generated the wave of copyright issues. but check out the projects. these won't be simple cases, gordon ron parker v. google, perfect 10 v. google,etc., it's another revolution of society, or human history, and google and whatever it represents is going to win.
-- china and search. chris sherman, the speaker, was just back from his trip to china. some of his takes on china and search is kinda interesting to me, for instance, chinese people feel that they need censorship and filtering when they browse on the web. really want to know how he came to that conclusion. not that i don't believe what he said; as a matter of fact, i sort of understand. people in china probably want censorship over flg related reports because we are annoyed by the so-called lunzi; but people in china may not object censorship on 1989 event because we are afraid to know the truth. anyway, the speaker seems to be very positive in the search market in china, like everybody else, except for the bush government.

wikis in action
binghamton university library applies wiki technology on their staff intranet. unfortunately, i'm still not convinced of wiki's big role in the library community, or in any qulity content environment. you see, again, some degree of cencorship is not a bad thing.

vendor visit--info confidential

keeping one click ahead
a lot of tools to track the development of search engine are presented. i'm not listing the sites mentioned because they will also be available at infotoday site fairly soon (i will link the link asap), and part of the presentation is already up at http://www.resourceshelf.com/currentcil06.html. i'm certainly glad to see some warning about quality content vs. chitchat, e.g. blogs, which will put me into the old-fashion group, which i don't care.

federated search engines: lessons learned
this session is ahead before me. three groups of speakers from northwestern university, university of pittsburgh, and university of central florida gave advice on detailed issues when implementing federated search engines and user behavior observation, e.g. making it as simple as google; monitoring usage stats, esp. turnaways; on-going marketing efforts; implementing formal evaluation process; using consortium model to save trouble in hardware and coding efforts, but giving up some degree of management features in return; setting up deadlines for the project; forming focus group to receive feed backs, etc. etc. etc.

(god, i'm sleepy...it's 11:55pm)

searching the new digital formats
the presentation was on blog search and podcast search. the first speaker was a bit too fast in going over her resource list. the podcase search presented a better structure, and i'm glad to receive a full list of resources to check out. at least, i feel oriented.

creative visibility: toolbars and game nights
uncg's library set up an example of integrating library's resources and services into the firefox toolbar and made library more visible throughout users' browsing. there is limitation of the program, of course, for instance, the function is limited to firefox browser only, but it is a neat and handy tool to add on as it does not hurt in any observable sense yet.
wake forest library introduced a game night to bring students into the library. this could open our eyes on a series of activities that libraries can host to publicize among young users.

vendor visit--info confidential

digi techforum: looking at dead (library 1.0) & emerging (library 2.0) technologies
omg! the comedy show of the year! i bet that tons of blogs will record this fantastic show, so i'm not repeating here. some notes for me to check out: google office, the writely; tracking your package in a 2.0 way; make library site a good destination, not necessarily a starting portal--em, i said that years ago, hehe; myspace.com(well, according to the speaker, i'm so out of it as i still do not have a mysapce account. but this is a community action. so what can we do in chinese online community? i've learned my lesson: i'm blogging on blogger while all my fellows blog on msn. i'm so out of loop. not again this time with myspace, i hope.); facebook (fewer hands up in the room in user counting); pandora (even fewer).

well...i'm blogging, e-mailing, msning, google talking, phone chatting, and eating leftovers when i am writing down this post...so if i'm not yet 2.0, i'm at least in between 1.0 and 2.0. and....good...bedtime!

城市间

至今，新工作的出差机会都只是让我故地重游，而且都让我对故地有点失望。也许毕竟是在工作状态，人比较紧张的缘故。但也许是因为，25岁时眼中的世界是永远不能再重温了。

现在人在DC，住在一家叫carlyle的旅店，离dupon circle很近。不大的suite列着几件modern style的家俱。可是墙脚，门窗和地毯都透着破劲。旧不怕，就怕破。很像在这样的城市里的生活，光鲜的外表盖着拮据的里料。生活在这样的反差中，会让人始终处于一种不满足的状态，会exciting，也会挺累。巴尔地摩是这样，纽约更甚。忍不住想念亚特兰大了，就是挺舒服。

南方就这样一点一点渗了进来。

说点最近的自己

好像没在这里揭露过这么physical的自己，跟网上大家的奔来奔去有一拼了。我也来念念女人经。

买了一个漂亮的水杯，带了一加仑水来办公室，很高兴地发现自己还是很能喝水的，只是这种装饰工作要做足，希望对我的皮肤有好处。前两天在网上买的几见clarins的护肤品昨天也到了，主要有美白和防皱的。因为看网上介绍的经验，clarins的美白产品有去斑功效，正好也是我用的牌子，所以要试试。另外，前几个礼拜，发现自己嘴角有了一条小细纹，知道是到了防皱的时候了。再加一个晒后修复，因为觉得防晒用品一般沃尔玛的就可以了，但修复产品还是要用好的。

还有就是，买了一些化妆品，因为觉得自己已经到了不能再素面朝天的年龄了。不过每天上班是不化的，早上起不来，还是睡眠更重要；晚上或周末出门才化一点，当然是淡的。其实前几年也有一阵一阵试化妆，但对选到的粉底和眼影都不满意，所以都很快不了了之了。这次突然开了窍，一下选对了眼影的色系，原来亚洲女生，特别是皮肤不白和单眼皮的，不能用任何红色或深色系列，而浅紫浅蓝什么的都很适合。又稍微钻研了一下单眼皮的化法，知道颜色主要上在上眼皮中部以后。而针对自己瞳孔小，下眼线是不能画线的，但可以加眼影，就很活泼了。至于粉底液，也不知怎么的，突然找到一款特别适合的，不论是从颜色，质地，或效果来说，所以很高兴。化点淡妆，人精致一些，看镜子里的自己，心情也好很多。

好像很多事情都是这样，就是一个水到渠成，该来的时候才会来，之前怎么强求都没用。一个老朋友的聊天时对我说过，要有耐心。

长不大

看庄羽的小说和听许巍的歌是一回事，文字和音乐并非才华横溢，可是对青葱岁月的唏嘘和感慨都无比真诚。真诚的东西总是最能打动我的，于是即使作品不尽如人意，仍能乐此不疲地追随他们，期望着从字里音间能重回唐朝。

可是，怀抱这一份期望，我们怎么长大？

一个八十年代的时刻

昨晚重温了一个八十年代的时刻，就是李安得奥斯卡最佳导演奖时，竟然literally振臂欢呼了一小嗓子，立即觉得自己回到女排拿n连冠那会儿，很久违。

然后想到与老爸一起看比赛的日子。其实也不懂什么，但凑热闹的习惯就是当年养成的。

然后想到，昨天是老爸的六十岁生日，按他的算法。依我说，明年再过吧。

HBR的审判

有这样一个现象，现代人寿命增长的同时，社会主体的年龄在日趋年轻；导致的结果就是，被视为过时，废物的群体不断增大。

HBR三月的一篇叫inside the mind of the chinese consumer的文章里宣称，"companies should forget what they've learned about china' generation x -- people currently in their late twenties and thirties -- when marketing to the country's late teens and early twentysomethings, or generation y."

--就这么着，俺被扫进了历史的垃圾堆。有点太冤了。

徐静蕾

在看徐静蕾的blog，因为想让自己喜欢这个人。可还是到不了那份，以老徐来称呼她的那份，像她真正的粉丝。在blog里，徐静蕾兢兢业业地絮道拍电影的点点滴滴，每天的体会，可是不怎么出彩。不是说拍电影的日子平淡，虽然那些日子在她的笔下也的确平淡；而是说她对文字感觉实在很一般，真算不上什么才女吧。可是这并不影响徐小姐blog的点击率。

这让我想到这两天看洪晃的“我的非正常生活”的一点体会。里面反复在用别人的口强调，洪晃的英语很牛。come on，都什么年头了，还这样夸奖一个人的英语，难免让人觉得小家子气，难免会贻笑大方。可是因为是洪晃，英语好也真成了可众口交赞的一项本领了。

做名人真好。

至于我为什么想让自己喜欢徐静蕾，理由其实挺私人，因为总觉得徐长得像表妹。还是去给她打个电话吧。

trillian

i think now i understand why google talk/gmail chat is so funky -- it's all because of trillian. i have to say that this time google makes me uncomfortable. maybe more in the future?

the free trillian basic collects all major chat/IM tools and puts them in one interface. however, google chat service is an exception; it is only available in trillian pro, a paid service.

what an evilly smart idea! trillian will win chatters from all vendors by luring them into its one-stop shop, and then easily roll this success over to google's chat, which is too young to compete with the major players like msn and yahoo!; and what's more, trillian pro charges!

i am not spoiled by all the free services that google fed us before. i wouldn't mind if they charge for whatever they solidly developed. however, trillian pro is not technically sophisticated enough to be a charging service, compared to many other free products google holds. it is just a brilliant idea built upon other players' yearly efforts. of course, it is perfectly legitimate to make profits out of pure smart ideas. it is just...this is not google.

anyhow, trillian is the master of the domain/king of the county/queen of the castle/lord of the manor. i really enjoy the detailed control it offers. i'm not the chat type of person, but i may even buy the trillian pro in the future. who knows? it's only 25 bucks.

more洪晃及其他

看别人对洪晃的描述，总结出大姐大的一个特色是，把像我辈私下里只对体几说的话，不分场合不分对象地说出来。总结的有点夸张，但就这么个意思。比如说她在批评女生下属交活不全时说到，“有这样的吗，交一半的稿就算交了，你们打炮也打一半吗？你们肯定不干。”嗯，挺上我的狐朋狗友的路子，只不过身处异乡的我们会用fuck取代一切打炮的同义词--还是中文丰富啊，你看，打炮，多么文雅风趣呀；抑或是我们的英文还是太有限。扯远了，只是想标榜一下自己与洪晃可能是一类人的体会。

上个周末看了“断背山”和小贾的“世界”。两部都需要重看，才能再说点什么。对“断背山”，我很脸红，因为没有字幕，很多没听明白--一直以为自己听南方口音已经很不错了呢；真是要戒骄戒躁呀。至于“世界”，有点淡，有点碎，容我再体会体会。

洪晃

看洪晃的blog，把我乐歪了。好几次必须关了browser来笑。不仅是因为她的痞，还因为她的真，和别的一些什么。

很多人，特别是像我这种人，都在侠女洪身上找到很多共鸣的东西。但我是决不会自比的，那是自不量力，要被人笑邯郸学步的。因为，人还是讲出身的。但admire，worship，跟跟屁总可以吧。

想想这位侠女洪也真有意思。人出名总有点卖点，政治，经济，文化，whatever，总得沾点什么，就算是芙蓉姐姐，也要摆几个pose，才能出名。可我们的侠女洪，偏偏逆流而上，先生生地红起来，然后才弄点自己的副业。其实也没那么悬，就是，出身鸿门+才华+京痞=洪晃出名。

这么短的一篇贴子，两次提到出身，有妄自菲薄之嫌。其实一点都不是，我都爱死我爹我娘了。只是人要识时务，要踏实，要甘心做一个观伶人。

改了

不带手机，戴手表了。人这一辈子真tmd长啊。