Review: Dragged across Concrete

我这几天看了一个特长的电影，叫《拖过水泥地》，Dragged across Concrete。对，我是分成几部分看完的。

一开始我听名字就觉得又糙又疼。后来一看，果然，角色、画风、台词、人物造型、故事情节，甚至影片的剪辑，无不又糙又疼。说实话我是耐着性子看完的，尽管情节拖沓，但是不知道为什么我就很相信会有惊悚的事情发生。重要的是，影片并没有辜负我这乐观的期待。看完之后，我相当地意犹未尽，想不起来上次看到类似的影片是什么时候了。

再说回影片名字，你看的时候可以一直思考，究竟是谁被拖过了水泥地？

个人评分：7/10
当前IMDB评分：15,903 IMDb users have given a weighted average vote of 7.1 / 10

Two Largest Companies and Their Core Values

As we are thinking about our own core values right now, we are wondering how others did it. That is, what are the values that define some businesses and brands we have well known. Let’s take a look at some of the best company core values examples from two of the biggest brands and see what we can learn.

Google

• Focus on the user and all else will follow.
• It’s best to do one thing really, really well.
• Fast is better than slow.
• Democracy on the web works.
• You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer.
• You can make money without doing evil.
• There’s always more information out there.
• The need for information crosses all borders.
• You can be serious without a suit.
• Great just isn’t good enough.

As a technology company, Google’s priorities are a bit different. Their values also reflect the industry (and the company itself) in their tone, which is a bit less formal and more philosophical in nature. On Google's philosophy page, they don't just list their core values -- they also provide examples. For instance, consider their value, “You can make money without doing evil” would work just as well as the title of a TED Talk as it does a core value for a business. While many companies likely are boasting about integrity, Google makes its efforts to avoid "evil" business, including -- "We don’t allow ads to be displayed on our results pages unless they are relevant where they are shown … We don’t accept pop–up advertising, which interferes with your ability to see the content you’ve requested ... [and] Advertising on Google is always clearly identified as a 'Sponsored Link,' so it does not compromise the integrity of our search results."

Ultimately, a core value doesn't have much power if your company can't list intentional, calculated decisions it's made to put values ahead of profit.

Coca Cola

• Leadership: The courage to shape a better future.
• Collaboration: Leverage collective genius.
• Integrity: Be real.
• Accountability: If it is to be, it's up to me.
• Passion: Committed in heart and mind.
• Diversity: As inclusive as our brands.
• Quality: What we do, we do well.

Coca Cola demonstrates its diversity core value with its public Global Diversity Mission page, which lists the company's diversity-related efforts.

Additionally, Coca Cola's Global Diversity Mission page exemplifies their commitment to accountability, as well -- they've publicly included pie charts with statistics regarding their global employee gender and race ratios. By acknowledging both their efforts and their shortcomings, Coca Cola is able to show their desire to live with their values, while taking responsibility to minimise the distance of their ideals and reality.

What We Can Learn

One thing your business certainly should not do is to just lift a more established business’ core values and take them for your own. Of course you might share some values with other companies, but you need to spend time thinking very seriously about who your brand and business is and what you truly stand for. You can’t simply use someone else’s work to stand in for your own.

Top Five Eye Tracking Blogs

Background 

When going on the eye track project, my team typically starts their research looking the desired topic up in blogs (which happen to be increasingly written by academics in their spare time). As a professional, you usually often want to give back to the community that nurtures you. Therefore, we would like to present our top five of blogs that deal with eye tracking (often in a research context).

It has to be noted that such a list is always highly subjective. If your blog is not on this list and you feel it should be, feel free to leave your URL and a comment.

Here goes our top five:

The Top Five List

Martin Tall on Gaze Interaction. Martin is a PhD student in HCI at the IT University of Copenhagen in Denmark and blogs about all things related to eye tracking and gaze interaction. Very inspiring and personal.

Eyetracking. Set your strategy. Unfortunately, this blog is in Spanish, however people can let Google translate it automatically. It is especially interesting to know the industry.

This ain’t no game! Samuel Almeida’s blogs about his thesis project “Eye movement analysis for augmenting video game development”, which is delightful and interesting.

Eye Tools Blog. This is a blog about “design and content optimisation through eye tracking” from the eye tools company, which has not been updated for a while.

Feng GUI. An amazing, geeky and interesting blog about a crazy technology to generate eye tracking heat-maps without eye tracking.


Let’s not forget that you can always come back my blog here and read my articles about eye tracking.

Why we procrastinate

This blog was an assignment for an online course, which is Learning How to Learn. I omit the references because the content is based on the knowledge I got from this course.

Everyone may have some problem of delaying an important or urgent task because it is unpleasurable, which is called procrastination. For example, a student could procrastinate his/her homework to the last hour before the due time.

This essay discusses one possible reason of procrastination, analysis the insight of procrastination and provides some approaches to avoid procrastination.

When one is facing a task, he/she may encounters an unhappy feeling. It might because it is hard to solve in a short time, or simply difficult to finish. At this time, he/she would unconsciously shift his/her attention and narrow to some easy and enjoyable things. Subsequently, this person will gain a temporary happy, but more pain next time he/she has to face the task again. This is a typical routine of procrastination. One could have noticed that procrastination has a function of addiction. When procrastination gradually becomes more and more habitual, it might impact in many areas of one’s life.

One cause of the painful feeling is thinking too much about the product of a task. On the other hand, focusing on the process allow people participate the tasks in a relaxed way. The product is the final outcome of the task, which could be breakdown into small jobs. Even each of these jobs is easy to finish, the sum of them could be intimidating. Additionally, one, who is focusing on the product, has to question his/herself about the progress, which could be somehow frustrated. However, another way to manage a task is to do one piece of the task in a flow of time. In this way, a task could be accomplished by achieving many small milestones. Each time a job is done, the habit of overcoming procrastination is solidified more.

To procrastinate or to avoid it could be a habit. A habit has four aspects: the cue, the routine, the reward and the believe. For a procrastinator, the cue could be a message form social network, for instance; the routine is the shifting of attention; the reward is the temporary happy feeling; the believe is simply “I can not do it now”. For a person who is trying to avoid procrastination, the cue could be a place or time which he/she is likely to focus on the jobs; the routine could start with a plan; the reward could be anything make he/she happy after achieving a milestone; and the believe is “I can do it”.

One of the techniques to avoid procrastination is planning. A long term plan covers most important things in a long period of time, such as a week or a month. A short term plan lists things to do in a single day or even several hours. Setting up a quitting time is significant important for a short term plan because it clarifies when the jobs should be done and implies a nice reward. In both planning method, it is suggested that the most difficult task should be done as early as possible, because the rest of the jobs are always easier.

Reflective Essay about a Learning Challenge

This blog was an assignment of an online course, which is Learning How to Learn.

Assignment 1: "Reflective Essay about a Learning Challenge"
This assignment will ultimately be about 1 page long--there are five parts:
Briefly describe your current learning career and trajectory (College sophomore aiming for a degree in language?  High school student unsure of you future major but enjoying math and physics? Retired, In your mid-sixties and exploring the idea of learning something completely new?).
Briefly describe the learning aim that is of importance to you (it may be passing a particular class, excelling in a particular degree program, or something outside school, such as mastering culinary expertise.
Describe your biggest mental challenges in achieving your learning aim.
Outline existing research or learning techniques that are relevant to your challenges.
Propose how you will apply knowledge of research findings or learning techniques to help you overcome your challenges.

I am now an international student studying electrical and electronics engineering in The University of Adelaide, in the middle of the third year of a 4-year bachelor program. As I had been granted 2 years transfer credits, I directly started the program with the third year courses. So one may have been aware that I just finish my first semester here.

Obviously, as a student I should pass all the courses in the future study to obtain the degree. By saying “pass”, I mean passing each course with a grade better than “Pass”, which requires a mark not less than 65 out of 100.

At the right beginning of last semester, I had realized that the content of the courses were quite harder than I expected. Admittedly, there is a big gap between my previous education and work experience and the granted transfer credits, which means I am not totally prepared for the third year.

Additionally, because English is not my native language, I could not follow the lectures all the time, be afraid of asking questions, and consume more time on reading and writing than local students. These problems caused the study even more difficult.

Pomodoro - When I realized that I need more time for study, I soon found the Pomodoro technique. It helps people to be more effective to work and manage time.

Project management - Yet pomodoro is not good at managing time in a long term, I studied about project management. It provides some techniques of time management (and it is related to engineering). The most important ones for me are work-break-down (WBD) and Gantt Chart.

Pomodoro - It helps me to be used to the state of being focus, by ignoring the interruptions. Tuning off the notifications on my smartphone is easy to set and it does help. So now I could concentrate on studying easily. Moreover, sometimes I think 25 minutes is too short for a period of concentration and I do not want the 5-minute break to break my working, so I would change the rule from 25+5 to 50+10. I hope this change would not harm the effects of the technique.

WBD - A common cause of procrastination and bad time management is that a big job is hard to be executed. So a big job should be broken down to small tasks, until a task is fit to a 25-minute pomodoro. Then my pomodoros become more clear with aims. Similarly, a huge project should be WBD to jobs, then to small tasks. By doing this, I am not afraid of starting a huge assignment.

Gantt Chart - I reorganized my courses to projects and WBD them, so that I could apply Gantt Chart to manage my progress. I use a software which is simple but perfectly designed for this technique. What I need to do is to input the tasks, set up Gantt Chart network, reflect the progress of tasks, monitor the progress and, most importantly, make sure everything is done in time.

How I improved my learning during PEP

Reading plays a significant role in PEP study, because some assignments require good reading skills, such as IRW, Referencing Essay and Independent Research paper. To complete each of these assignments before due date, I should read a group of academic articles with efficient reading and note taking skills. I only used to underline or circle keywords to assist my reading, but in these assignments I started to use highlighters. Meanwhile I tried to take notes for readings in better ways, which include critical reading, evaluation of the article and cross-referencing. I also tried to use mind map softwares to facilitate the note taking, however they would devour more time for learning them, so I gave it up. Facilitated by these skills, I found it more easier to achieve these reading related assignments.

Additionally, we have more works after class such as case study, oral presentations. They also need lots of time. I should arrange time for reading, researching, writing as well as rehearsal for OP. So excellent time management skills are definitely required. To improve my time management, I learnt pomodoro technique. According to this system, I divided my assignments or other homeworks to smaller tasks, and allocated tasks into each “pomodoro time”, which is 25 min work-time plus 5 min break. The allocation become the log for everyday’s work so that I could evaluate my efficiency at the end of each day. These evaluation help me to realise the problems of wasting time and the potential ways to improve my time management.

Over all, I improved my English reading skills and time management skills during PEP. I hope I could keep the progress in further study in university.

My Reflection on a Discussion about Academic Writing

I answered a survey about academic writing in 22nd May, 2014. For there is not a similar concept in China, I did it according to my understanding about academic writing in Australia. I found it really hard to answer the survey if it is based on Chinese style, because it seems that all the options are not applicable.

We discussed in group in the next day and compared academic writing in Australian culture, Chinese culture and Korean culture with each other. Only few elements are the same, for example, “connecting ideas”. Korea share more elements with Australia than China. However, some elements such as “critical thinking” could only be found in Australia. The reasons for these differences is absolutely related to the culture and history in each country. For instance, in China, academia is a relative new concept for its people comparing with its long history. We has been struggling to accomplish the goal of 9-year compulsory education since 1911. The education system in China is too busy to make clear about how to educate a person, but have to educate hundreds of million young people. Even most of the lecturers in Chinese universities do not understand academic culture and its importance.

I have been practising some skills of academic writing for nearly five weeks in the PEP program. Now I know that I should give a clear main topic in the introduction part, which contains background of the topic, my position and the scope of this essay. And then, I should discuss an idea once a body paragraph, with some supporting ideas and evidence. Finally, I should write a conclusion to repeat the main topic in another way. The most difficulty is picking out a topic, especially in the referencing essay. Maybe it is because in my own education experience I was seldom asked to develop my own ideas.

How I study English for the first days in Australia

Australia is an English-speaking country, so it is full of opportunities for studying English as long as I want, and I do.

I started to practise my English as soon as I landed at Adelaide Airport. I talked confidently with an airport staff even though he was messing up and checking all my baggage. At the beginning of my Aussie life, I had to deal with something to settle down, for example starting a bank account. I walked into the bank with awareness that it is always a good way to practise my speaking and listening with someone who serves me. I live in a homestay now. The landlady and her family like to chat with me, which also helps a lot for improving my English. Of course, campus is a much better environment to practise English.

However on campus people use academic English, which would be easier than social English for me to understand because I am more familiar with academic vocabulary than social vocabulary. The accent was also a problem in the first days, but I overcame it soon. Speaking speed is another one stop me to understand. If an Aussie is talking with me too fast, I will not follow him; and it is hard for me to speak as fast as local people. This problem is somehow awkward.

I keep learning new words for better understanding of daily and academic conversation, assisted by a website. Some of them come from conversation and some of them come from observing. For each day, the website provides a plan of learning new words and reviewing familiar ones. The plan sums 100 words per day. Moreover I could check the statistics easily to know how many words I have learnt for a period of time. Additionally, I spend at least half an hour per day on chatting with the landlady. One day, when we were talking about something pretty funny and laughed aloud together, I realized maybe I had made a progress.

BTW, I would like to share that helpful website but I do not post any advertising in the blog. So if you need the URL, please comment with your email address. I will email you later.

试用消防斧

我的工作单位的院子里有消防用的斧子，我刚才装备上试用了一会儿，目标是从木质包装箱上拆下来的一块大约半平米的木板子。

就这个消防斧的质量来说，绝对算个灰色装备，质量非常差。我估计挥舞一百次之内，斧头就会从手柄脱落，我练习的时候经常要停下来修理。

这个斧头的结构也很蹩脚，手柄很长，斧头很轻，用的时候挺难控制发力的。

斧头半开刃，劈在木板的楞上能嵌进去3厘米，但是很难造成更深的伤害了。如果打在面上，也就是留下一个道印。如果碰巧用斧头尖击中板面，倒是能在背面留下一道印。不知道是不是这种多层板很结实。

想到那些劈材的人，好厉害。我猜他们的斧子应该很好用吧，不像这个这么轻。我觉得如果发生火灾，需要强拆一些障碍物，这破消防斧根本没用。

我练了一会儿觉得胳膊非常累，板子基本上还能用于包装箱。

我感觉败北了……

代表

今天有人把温佩琪的照片转给我看，于是想起昨天吃晚饭的时候……

同事：所里今天开职工代表大会了，你们都不知道吧？

我：不知道，我被谁代表了？

同事：我也不确定是谁。

我：我要是这代表我都不敢去开会，因为我不是民选的啊。我怕回来以后被那些被代表的人抽死——谁tm允许你代表我的？！

标准与检测中心的星期三

在2010年总结会上，我所在的部门领导说：以后每周三组织活动。活动项目是羽毛球或者游泳。
今天就是会后的第一个周三，跟风儿填诗一首……

你打，或者不打球
球就在那里
不飞 不跳

你游，或者不游泳
水就在那里
不温 不凉

你健，或者不健身
肉就在那里
只增 不减

你吃，或者不吃饭
尿就在那里
又酸 又甜

来一起挥汗
或者
让病进入你的膏肓
养颜 减肥
藏秘 排油

影评：非诚勿扰2

《非诚勿扰2》从另一个角度来观察爱情。

有诚意地扰了，扰出了爱情，爱到了火候，结婚。现在大家都识多见广心思缜密了，于是从“扰”这就一直思考着一个问题：婚姻是什么样啊？这个，深了去了……

王朔和冯小刚一边儿和咱们调侃着，一边儿就把这问题回答了，不过回答地挺晦涩的。这还真的得晦涩点儿，直白的大实话要是真说出来，这还不只是好听不好听的问题，是普遍能不能听懂的问题，那可能更招人骂。当然可能人家也没想教育谁，观众里面五行八作干嘛的都有，情圣、专家不乏其类，也不缺这俩拍电影儿的教育观众。就是讲一故事，都是编的。

梁笑笑和秦奋的故事，把婚姻这个问题回答了一少半，笑笑从心态上来讲和一般人差不多，一方面不了解自己一方面对婚姻比较朦胧，所以她的一些纠结行为差不多成了反面教材，在本片中其实是个配角儿。多亏还有秦奋一直捧着她，要不挺讨厌的。主角儿是香山，他回答了另一大半儿问题。香山活得潇洒，成也好败也好，有自己的主心骨，不纠结不错乱不动摇，是个汉子；芒果为证！

为什么说晦涩呢，就是正话非得反说。明明是说丑，非得从美开始说；明明是说热情，非得从冷淡开始说；明明是说婚姻，非得从离婚开始说；明明是说活着，非得从绝症开始说……可能是因为我也常常晦涩，我挺买账的，我懂了。看着看着我就想起《入殓师》来了，不知死，焉知生？

非2可能算个外传吧，给大家讲了讲秦奋身边的一位朋友，也讲了讲笑笑身边的一位朋友。看一个人就看他有什么样的朋友。

影评：赵氏孤儿

评分

在IMDB上，我给《赵氏孤儿》投票给了五分。目前这个电影在IMDB上还没有得分，还需要不到五个人的投票才能统计分数。

我这里的五分是什么概念呢？就是要是有朋友希望我陪她看这个电影我才会去看，面对邀请我会既不热情也不冷淡地同意下来；要是六分，我会不打磕巴儿地同意下来；要是七分，即使不用人邀请，如果我遇到了（比如电视里正在播放）就会看完；要是四分，我可能会勉强同意；真是无论如何都不想看第二遍的电影，那都在三分以下。

剧本

挺好的一个故事，竟然被编的这么矫情和幼稚。剧本非要写得什么事儿都解释，好像观众普遍缺乏推理能力；但是有的事儿又解释不清楚，好像编剧缺乏推理能力；有些都用烂了的台词还一遍一遍地用，好像编剧都没有创意。

思想

台词中还充满了现在中国社会中的病态价值观，赵氏孤儿的一言一行都在传达着“有个李刚做干爹真幸福”。赵氏孤儿好像从一开始就知道养育他的这位笑星只是一位养父，对他没有一点儿亲爹的感觉。所以在最后的那个转折让我觉得非常不可思议，一个成长于病态价值观环境中的孩子竟然突然间就有良心了！

我理解中的春秋时代的祖先们，他们的想法都朴实和简单得多；我们用最平和、单纯的态度去理解就可以懂了，不需要善和恶的倾向，如果你能够稍微谦逊一点儿甚至会被某些人的伟大的质朴感动地痛哭流涕。不知道是什么原因，编剧不能理解祖先的行为逻辑，还非要把自己解读到的东西呈现在荧幕上，另外再掺杂点儿貌似深刻或感人的对白硬撑门面，这就变得完全的纠结和矫情了。

造型

可能是我对剧情和思想性要求太高了吧，说点儿别的吧。令我欣赏的是造型方面，服装设计非常漂亮，很有气质。比如造型师充分照顾到了“背影”，脖领后面绷着一块麻将牌大小的金属质感的符文，让我感觉这是一种身份的象征；后背上的面料不是平淡的一马平川，而是有着青铜器上那些龙样图案；长袍、斗篷甚至有着丰富多彩的过渡色，华丽得耀眼。就像单田芳经常说的“身前身后，百步的威风”。我固然知道这不是春秋时代的纺织技术和时尚认可度可以达到的水平，但真的很希望祖先已经达到这个水平了。

表演

角色的表演细节也扣得细多了。比如：灵公的言语神态显然就是一位昏君；屠岸贾的姿态举止都表现出这是一个有高度自律的人；赵氏夫子的骄傲跋扈也是跃然“画外”；真正的忠臣是大夫的门客们。作为配角，几位门客的设计非常到位，无论是屠岸贾家的，还是赵家的。赵家的两位门客很给力的，如果你看了电影一定知道我说的是哪两位，因为他俩刚出场就抢了镜头，后来也把勇武忠臣表现得很到位。

演员阵容够强大的，可是吧，能不能别哪儿都有范冰冰，搞得我更相信《左传》版的情节靠谱一些了。我觉得诸位大腕中，既演过刘邦又演过项羽的张丰毅表现得最接近我对那个时代人物的理解，当数第一；王学圻演得相当卖力，无奈被剧情影响排名了；鲍国安要是更多的拿出曹操的劲儿可能更符合剧情设定；葛大爷最惨，被放在了这样一个角色上，最终还是把一部分观众逗笑了。

总结

如果通过Google搜索《赵氏孤儿》的放映时间，会看到这样一句话：

“陈凯歌《霸王别姬》后再次涉足悲剧题材，原著源远流长，其中强大的戏剧张力和悲剧气氛，相信会成为电影质量的有力保证。”

看完电影之后我觉得这个话分明是反讽——把有着“强大的戏剧张力和悲剧气氛”的原著拍成这样水平的电影，这是陈凯歌在《霸王别姬》后的又一悲剧。

张角是个术士

昨晚三国杀，连续用了几次张角，略有感悟，愿在此分享。

其中一次我把张角玩的那叫一个鬼使神差，那叫一个爆发力强，整个战斗很像在用一位WoW中火毁天赋的Warlock。不过我很久没玩WoW了，对它的印象还停留在WLK刚开始的时代。就让我用往昔的记忆聊以自娱自乐吧，呵呵。

Warlock in World of Warcraft

我记忆中的火毁Warlock有这么几个特点：一，术士依赖Soul Shards，这主要通过Drain Soul来获取；二，被打了有一定几率瞬发Shadow Bolt或Incinerate，暴击伤害可以达到200%；三，逮着机会可以cast一个伤害最高的Soul Fire，各种视频中秀的就是它了。

三国杀中的张角

再来看看张角，是不是相当的类似呢？！

其一鬼道，张角依赖黑色牌去改判定，尤其是黑桃花色。这个技能让张角这个角色非常的灵活，进可攻退可守，只要有手里有Soul Shard，啊……我是说黑色牌。为了触发雷击或闪电，张角应该有意识地储备一些黑桃牌。战术能力强的玩家，一定会用黑色牌不断换取各种锦囊，从局势上压制对手。生存意识强的玩家，也会果断弃掉黑色牌来换取桃。

其二雷击，张角出闪时有一定几率对某角色造成2点伤害。出闪一般是响应杀，这一点上倒是比Warlock舒服——并不是真正被命中后才触发，而且更加可控，从是否出闪到是否雷击都是玩家说了算，当然最可控也是最有爆炸性的就是当张角手中有黑桃时，可以配合鬼道改判定而使雷击必然命中！而命中后的这2点伤害在三国杀的语境里，基本上就等于一个暴击，还是元素伤害的。

其三闪电，当闪电从每位玩家的头上依次判定过去的时候，这就为张角储备了强大的能量，因为这每一次判定都可能为他带来引爆闪电的黑桃2~9。关键时刻，闪电的中与不中，都是张角说了算了。闪电是3点伤害，绝对可以媲美华丽的Soul Fire了。闪电和Soul Fire都有共同的“致命美感”，它们都需要酝酿，都需要等待最合适的实际，这是冷静的过程、果敢的判断、准确地出击，最终迎来灵魂注入一般的爆发！

战例分析

最后呢，奉上我昨晚的战斗记录和战场心得——天下大势为我所控。

借甄姬洛神和乐不思蜀的判定，张角鬼道数次，换取了闪准备雷击，也换到了触发雷击和闪电的黑桃牌，这样手里就储备了高伤害的能量。对手正好被乐不思蜀，也没有太多手段控制张角的手牌。当我引爆闪电的时候，有两个敌人死于过量伤害，这就像Soul Fire似的，作为终结技可能浪费很多伤害输出。有意思的是，三国杀里的过伤害是可以被高治疗补回来的；但不幸的是，敌人浪费了很大治疗量都没补够，只能说他们尽力了。有两位敌人能力有限，都没有记住我鬼道换取过闪，自投罗网杀过来后被轰到渣……这一点略显遗憾。

拿得起放得下——《凉州词》赏析

凉州词    王翰

葡萄美酒夜光杯，欲饮琵琶马上催。

醉卧沙场君莫笑，古来征战几人回。

代入感

凉州、葡萄酒、琵琶、马、沙场、征战……这些元素一一呈现的过程中，很自然地就把读者带入了西部风光，短短两句迅速快捷。这个道理如同于谦老师的不幸宿命一样，必须马上代入，说多了就没有感染力了，诗词短小的篇幅正好能这样，也必须得这样。而且，“这都是真事儿啊！”

格调

喝着美酒，弹着琵琶，都很美啊，说明他热爱生活。但，绝没有因酒醉而放纵，没有因声色而误事，一个战士不能沉沦，纪律也不容破坏。笔锋一转，我们就看到了使命感和责任感，军事有招人家就速度集合了，紧接着就是视死如归的豪迈。整个这感觉就很man啊！

“催”字在这里是个非常好的过渡，由缓入急，由悠闲入紧迫，让人觉得上下两句要说的事儿之间不是那么唐突了。

生死观

后一句讲的是什么呢？讲作者怎么看待生死，怎么看待一个战士的归宿。死亡，这谁都能读出来；那么死亡是什么？醉卧——你瞧，他把死比喻得这么稀松平常。死了就当是喝多了——平时常有的事儿，不是自己喝多了就是哥们儿喝多了，人人都可能喝醉，人人都会死。

但是这位战士显然不是那种对生死无所谓的人，因为对死都无所谓的话，对生也不会太在意了。不在乎生活的人，他的生活会失去光彩，没有品位没有追求（这一点是格调部分没有展开的）。他不会去品味葡萄酒的美味，而是随便喝点儿牛栏山二锅头喝晕了就够；不会去用夜光杯的高档夜店，而是找个路边用陶碗的酒肆。

温情

这位战士虽然视死如归但并不冷血，他还开着玩笑安慰一下牵挂自己的亲友。他希望亲友也不要把这事儿看的太重，就算回不来也不要惦念了。

境界

“拿得起，放得下”——这是这首诗最打动我的地方。这句话我们平时就常说，但是做起来，恐怕不容易啊。读者普遍对这种境界向往的心态，恐怕也是成就本诗的原因吧。

炼字

每次看到一首好的诗词，我都感叹古汉语的精炼，白话中也就是成语能稍微沿袭一下这种效率。很小就知道一个词叫“炼字”，为什么是锤炼的炼呢，就是因为要经过反复回炉捶打精炼才能定下一个字。这样出来的一首诗才有强大的冲击力。炼字是技术活儿，这需要对大量语言文字的掌握和灵活运用。现在看不到好的诗词，恐怕现代人从技术到心态到境界都比不了古人了。

李洪琪老师

教我们离散数学的老头，大概有六十多岁了，上课的时候精神头倍儿足，富有激情。恐怕这些枯燥的数学理论他都教了许多年了，但他仍然能在讲到新知识的时候表现出惊喜、渴望、期盼，带动着听者自然地集中了注意力。

老头儿的话讲得有艺术，缓慢平静的语速下，让你感到一种温柔的力量。比如：“虽然这里论述得不是那么严谨，但我们总是那么地善解人意……”、“每每遇到这种很重要的知识，我们就惦念起那些没有来上课的同学们……我们假设他们现在正在家里自学离散数学……”。

老头儿从来不说“什么”，都说“神马”。

影评：入殓师

Rating 9.
平静、温情、悟道。以无言鸣奏，借逝者代言，小而见大。

尚温的血污

西客站地下通道又见血案。

2010年10月28日，今早通过地下通道，走到接近南广场出口的地下一层时，看到有几个人向电梯后的一个角落围观，一位值班警察正在走出围观包围圈，可能是走向值班室。沿着警察远离的方向看过去，一位年轻男子坐在一个凉席上，衣着破旧，表情痛苦，像是流浪者。他身边的地上有几块稀疏的血迹；一个浸透血污的长布条甩在地上，反射着暗红色的亮光，把视线导向了受伤男子的腹部；他的双手都按在那里，看不清具体情况。

我推测流血量在刚开始挺多的，因为布条很轻易地就被浸透了。而我到的时候，他在通过按压的姿势控制出血。我比较担心血液会大量流进腹腔，这种情况的危险很大。不管他伤势如何，我想不出来谁有理由向这样一个人行凶。

我从警察的脸上看不到紧迫、焦虑，没有看到他使用通讯工具。他的步伐如常，和一般人的速度差不多。有两位车站的保安保持着两三米的距离看着伤者，和围观者的神态是一样的。围观者很少，不到十个，我也没有围观。像这样一个受伤者，仿佛得不到足够的重视。

如果他是一位本地居民，马上这事儿就能上7日之类的本地节目；如果他是一位女大学生，网络马上就会把此事放大；如果他是一位警察，可能他身边还有几个倒在血泊中的警察；如果他是一位特权者，这次事件就叫做“西站门”，特权者会到西站地下通道这件事儿本身就很惊奇了……社会底层就是底层，喷血都不被关注。

公平的社会不是这样。公平的社会中，他能够在远离首都的老家也过得安心，不必和全村的年轻男性跑出来打工，把孺留给老弱妇们形成的奇怪的成长环境。公平的社会中，如果他选择到一个新的城市发展，有确实的生活保障和丰富的就业机会，不至于最终落魄到在霜降时节以一领凉席席地而坐。公平的社会中，他在受伤后会得到及时的救治，不会坐在角落里无人理睬。

另外今天在通道中部还看到这么个二人组，一男一女，都是流浪汉。他们刚在公共卫生间洗了几件衣服，晾在了护栏上，还在滴水。女的岁数并不大，头发已经花白了，挺着一个超大的大肚子，我怀疑是不是长了肿瘤了。

西客站的地下通道像一个混乱的魔窟，充满了恶臭，隐藏着罪犯，容纳流浪者，总之就是邪恶和苦难。

参考资料：
[1].几个嫌疑分子
[2].冰冷的血腥

拒绝肥肉的训练

看到同事一边说着要减肥一边把肥肉干干净净地吃进肚里，我感到很神奇，怎么就有这么大的动力吃下这些肥肉呢？在回答这个问题之前，我又问了一个问题给自己：你为什么不吃肥肉？想来想去，我回忆起了这么一个小时候的经历。

小时候吃到的猪肉，不像现在这么细皮嫩肉，做的好的舌头一碾就化了，那时候的肉都很老，口感比较硬。现在的肉，作料也都进去了，一吃一口香，小时候的肉也做不到这么香，干巴巴的嚼起来乏味。其中，以皮的部分最难吃，大厚皮又硬又没味儿，有的时候相连的脂肪部分竟然也挺硬，要么就是特腻。总之这两块总是连体出现，还难吃。

红烧肉

小时候我傻了吧唧的，也实在就知道不能浪费，肉多贵啊，一年能吃几回肉啊！嚼不动不好吃也不吐出来扔掉，咬掉了瘦肉部分留着最后吃，皮和脂肪就生往下吞。偏偏肉块都很大，皮刚好卡在我的小嗓子眼里下不去上不来，得使劲吞咽。众所周知嗓子里有东西会有作呕的感觉，肉皮的大小和硬度刚好让这种感觉如滔滔江水连绵不绝。刚想吐吧也能忍住，也必须忍住，都吐了就更白吃了。待稳定了使劲一咽就又想吐，想吐吧就没劲儿咽了，肌肉无力了就继续卡着，停着不动的时候呕吐感还能先忍忍，歇一会儿还得往下咽，就这样循环了……不断地强化训练。

是的，现在想起这个经历来才发现这原来是一种训练，我笑称之为“我妈妈在吃肥肉问题上对我进行的巴普洛夫训练”。训练的结果就是，一看到肥肉就会微微地产生作呕的条件反射。在物质生活日渐丰富的现在，有这种条件反射是多么幸福的事儿啊。

同事听了之后非常感慨：我妈怎么没给我进行这训练呢！！笑过才想起来，辩解称自己小时候连肉都吃不到啊，惹得大家又是苦笑。

影评：Inception

Rating 8
完美呈现了我儿时关于梦的各种幻想，还有一些我没想到的元素，太炫了。剧情和场景都用了前所未有的模式，相当有创造力。
反复着真实与虚假的切换，对脑力有强大的考验。可能有不少人都得把剧情多捋几遍才能明白吧，呵呵。

Exploring the Labyrinth of the Mind

最近莱昂纳多使劲锻炼演技，拍完《禁闭岛》(Shutter Island)又出《盗梦空间》(Inception)，都是描述精神世界的片子，很考验功力。
惊喜的是，又看到了渡边谦。第一次看到他是在《最后的武士》(The Last Samurai)中，立马就被他的气质折服了。