Klein Hsu' blog 盛宴之後 After the Party...

Martin Hellman, co-inventor (well, at least in the U.S., independently from the U.K. team in GCHQ) of public key cryptography, cited by the book Code Book , "... only fools keeps trying. You have idea number 1, you get excited, and it flops. Then you have idea number 2, you get excited, and it flops. Then you have idea number 99, you get excited, and it flops. Only a fool would be excited by the 100th idea, but it might take 100 ideas before one really pays off. Unless you're foolish enough to be continually excited, you won't have the motivation, you won't have the energy to carry it through. God rewards fools" We have been little, but not completely fool for a while in the lab. And we got a little reward. We might continue to be.

Richard Feynman, in Character of Physical Law , (p. 168) "What are these philosophies? They are really tricky ways to compute consequences quickly. A philosophy, which is sometimes called an understanding of the law, is simply a way that a person holds the law in his mind in order to guess quickly at consequences." Reminds me of Dr. Shepard quoting his professor, "Never start the calculation until you know the answers." That's the understanding of laws and the physical picture. Not any less important in experimental physics. One needs to have very good physical pictures, especially at micro-scales, to guess "what is going on down there." Good physical picture helps designing, de-bugging, getting results much faster, while a bad one throws one into confusion and frustration.

Richard Feynman, in The Character of Physical Law , (pp. 163 - 164) "I am sure that history history does not repeats itself in physics, as you can tell from looking at the examples I have given. The reason is this. Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations' - are known to everybody now, and they are all tried all the time. When you are stuck, the answer cannot be one of these, because you will have tried these right away. There must be another way next way next time. Each time we get into this log-jam of too much trouble, too many problems, it is because the methods that we are using are just like the ones we have used before. The next scheme, the now discovery, is going to be made in a completely different way. So, history does not help us much."

一個師兄第4年就準備口試畢業了。上下幾屆的人幾天來就見人不斷地說：「I can't believe it! Can you believe GT is defending!?」充滿了哀怨的氣氛。

Grow. Gain strength. Fight with the giant.

寶貝啊，不讓妳吃太多雞蛋就是為妳好啊！雖然我希望的是我比妳晚死，但是妳可別早我太多。早一點點就好。 http://www.fda.gov/Food/NewsEvents/WhatsNewinFood/ucm222684.htm

You got to get two beers and jump. The most kick-ass way of quitting a job. http://abcnews.go.com/US/ jetblue-flight-attendant- steven-slater-arrested-flight- jfk/story?id=11361298

Take necessary steps, only. Take essential things, only. Get rid of junks.

Everybody gets challenge. Everybody strives.

Make your story flow. Lead your audience. Use active sentence. Say the key point of the approach. Imagine you are selling products. You have to compare products. Tell them what is the limitation of each one.

今天第一次有見到“故人之子”的感覺。之前都是見到比自已大的親戚的小孩，沒什麼特別的感覺。今天是同學的女兒來了。 細細的眼睛，說不上是像誰。可能是爸爸。 很可愛的小女孩。剛見到時嘴角微微的上揚，像是在頷首微笑。(我心裡淌血了一下，真的當伯伯了orz) 希望妳一直都有這樣美好笑容。(要像爸爸那樣的笑容也是可以。) 祝願你們一家都能常常歡笑、快樂。

老師要為學生犧牲

Set up mail forwarding from old to new address online through USPS ($1.00 charge) Important places to call/email to notify change of address: Bank (checking and credit card accounts) University (payroll and international SEVIS) Driver's license center Insurance company (car and health insurance) Cell phone network Internet company (it should go without saying, if you find yourself "disconnected" in your new apartment) Not so important place to notify the change of address: Coupon senders Catalog senders

Getting along with the manual is quite a nice way of learning.

Feeling sad about how opinions are being controlled (or suppressed) in China. My lady lately found that she couldn't add item of read book and/or broadcast any piece of thought (like what's on your mind on Facebook) on her favorite website about books, music and movies. Those functions seemed to be disabled all through. It's a Chinese website. Later she realized, "Oh, it's about 21st anniversary of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989."

Taipei 101 Ex–tallest building in the world On Jan. 4, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai made the Taipei 101 irrelevant. You think little boys read the Guinness Book of World Records and ask their dads, "One day, do you think I can go to the top of the second tallest building in the world?" Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1984685_1985389_1985284-6,00.html#ixzz0o1uiYKM9

Have seen the TA evaluation for the Spring term, for Phys0110, Introduction to Physics for health-related majors. A bit surprised to see some improve on the students' comments and performance averages, since I thought I put less effort on TA this term. Most of the comments are pretty positive, though still some complaining my English is hard to understand. But when seeing that they like the recitations, I felt it's all worth the effort. Every time in the mid of the term, I felt like "NO, I am not doing this anymore!", but upon seeing the encouraging comments, (well if not so much research work ahead), I feel like doing TA again! Like a senior friend of mine in the group, now an instructor in a college, told me that research is most of the time frustrating, but for teaching, you will quickly see the reward.

10. Even if you're not, say you're proud. 9. Don't stare at the hairpiece. 8. Kids love construction sites. 7. Lower your expectation. 6. When your child won't stop crying, say, "enough, David, you're 63!" 5. To keep baby company, how about a raccoon? 4. If he learns to shoot pool, he'll never go hungry. 3. There's no better babysitter than television. 2. No matter how much he begs, don't go to the prom with him. 1. Once they're 18, they ain't your problem.

突破林立的重圍 物件導向的insight 物件，就是那流動的粒子 物件，是力的計算 他們漂亮地分割了性質和行為 粒子有性質 力決定行為

玩了paint ball game (真人CS)，相當刺激緊張。某一場中傻不拉嘰被人從側向開槍射中肚皮(完全沒意識到有對手從那邊摸過來)。現在小小淤青一塊。看來，我有一天可以當總統。