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aqiun2024-06-28
这种时刻对波士顿的local interest 不减：
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/06/26/mbta-subway-cars-googly-eyes-joy
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2024-06-26
无意中找回一首以前很喜欢的歌，Sophie Zelmani - Going Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO6BgqS4814
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2024-06-22
陈以侃怎么老是这么会夸人：
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/JGGiUkIzcsZnVq2d8H45Ng
* 写东西的人，在书架上发现了跟自己脾气相投的天才，既忍不住学他，又怕太像他，这是肯定的，但照布鲁姆的构想，你只能“误读”，只能靠把范本想歪了才能写出自己，这种恶性的冲动能看作创造力的源泉吗？布鲁姆教授深信不疑，在他眼里，文学史就好比一张家谱，能用教鞭指着，一路点出每对父子间的吵架内容。
* 谁不想写这种把译者一掌拍倒在马路牙子上的句子？我那时候以为，任何作家在年轻时能被艾米斯强烈甚至暴力地影响，那才真叫“老天爷赏饭”。扎迪·史密斯所谓的“抄袭”，抄的是一种节奏，一种跟字词的亲近，一种跟语言同一战线的心里有底之感；她懂得，小说家全新认知世界的责任，跟取悦读者是同一件事；就好像她自己都急切想要看看，世界本身的荒唐和有趣会怎么化成下一个句子。
* 很多人夸艾米斯的文字electric，带着电的，科学的事情我少插嘴，但生物学上，他是庆贺生命的，他让你对人类的创造力充满信心。
* 文风，用普鲁斯特的话来说，不是装饰，不关乎技巧，它是你感受到的宇宙的质感（这个宇宙，只有你能看见，艺术家提供的愉悦是让我们更加了解他的那个宇宙）。
而那个“道德”，也不是那种能颁布行为规范的道德，它指的是作家用何种姿态把自己放在他的那个宇宙中，用什么东西给自己导航。当然，有人能在腐坏的想法周围编织优美的文字，但艾米斯只是相信——这不该是每个读者的信念吗？——我们能辨别出那种不匹配，如何写比写什么更会出卖作者。
* 这也是他为什么要与陈词滥调一战，就是他不相信有任何东西普遍到你只能用枯燥的写法才能呈现。庸常永远要求它那份应得的美。陈词滥调是一个写作者偷懒，怠工，是他在某种不真切的认知面前躺平，说“算了，就这样吧”，这的确是个道德问题。
* 但没有办法，我被锁在我过往的人生、教育、阅读和另外所有局限之中，包括吾生也有涯和阅读费工夫之间的巨大冲突，在文学事上摆出不偏不倚的百科全书气度，其实是反文学的。
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2024-06-18
对我简直是catnip的读物：https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/07/books/literature-translation.html
"a playful pursuit of equilibrium across an entire work, an exhilarating and, yes, joyful balancing act of loyalties: to sense, to significance and to style."
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2024-06-17
好想转给哪个牙医朋友，如果有的话：
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/
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2024-06-05
Mark 一下，虽然现在很少有时间听播客：https://www.bumingbai.net/
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2024-05-31
中学里读过张辛欣的小说，今天突然被推送到她的微博，昨天34条有罪的判决对她是‘一记闷棍’，粉籍不能太明显。
非常牵强概括为文二代又不靠谱了一次。
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2024-05-31
《那不勒斯四部曲》被剧透得透透的，也挺好 - https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/yUhcZFDsRo026QCZsz-TIA
* 莉拉让人想起《呼啸山庄》里的卡瑟琳，一个粗野的“小蛮子”——家中保姆耐莉这么称呼她，这其实是一个古典的形象。《圣经》新约马太福音里，向希律王索取施洗约翰头颅的莎乐美；古希腊神话里的梅杜莎，妖娆的蛇是她的头发，凡看见她眼睛者都会石化……是历代艺术家创作的母本。这大约就是小说的经学，在同一模式里注入不同的内容，将抽象演绎成具象。中国小说则更接近史学，是个别的叙事体。
我不能断言莉拉脱胎于卡瑟琳，卡瑟琳脱胎于莎乐美、梅杜莎，但她们的关联性仅仅视作巧合又不足以解释，我更倾向将她们排列谱系，纳入同组基因。这种古老的人格，越过漫长的驯化，豁免普遍规律筛选，保持特殊性，非具有平均值以上的活力。文明进步却是趋同的过程，社会组织越来越严密，就像卯榫结构，挤压和排斥异质成分，这些“史前物种”，生存环境一日比一日艰难，几近灭顶。
* 革命有着和爱情同样的破旧立新的假相，动力也同出一源，荷尔蒙和美学。
* “他说计算机是一种语言，”又解释道，“不是我们写小说的语言。”《巴黎圣母院》，克洛德副主教向夜间来客、权柄等同法兰西国王的杜韩若长老宣布：“这个要消灭那个！”所谓“这个”是指案上的纸质书，“那个”是圣母院，意思是“印刷术要消灭建筑艺术”。再坚固的建筑也抵不过战争、动乱，甚至只是一场大火，而印刷术以无穷复制的方式将事物永久保存和传播。
* 。“有些事情，要么你就讲清楚，要么你就别讲，但你正好停在中间。”她说。文字语言显现出狡黠的特性，它按某一种自私的需要补缀着世界的裂隙。莉拉大约就是要纠正文字的谬误，开始了她对那不勒斯的实地研究，历史和现在，她的世界只有那不勒斯，可是谁又能说，那不勒斯不代表世界呢？
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2024-05-31
翻阅Stephen Sondheim 遗物拍卖，老爷子的东东很符合我对他的想象——许多vintage桌游：
https://www.doyle.com/auction/lot/lot-83---rare-puzzle-print/?lot=1389395&so=0&st=&sto=0&au=8984&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=0&pp=96&pn=1&g=1
https://www.doyle.com/auction/lot/lot-88---group-of-nine-glass-paperweights/?lot=1389569&so=0&st=&sto=0&au=8984&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=0&pp=96&pn=1&g=1
https://www.doyle.com/auction/lot/lot-327-
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2024-05-31
梁实秋《我的一位国文老师》:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/gWOvUDJQq9KdP2gpolupMw
"徐先生教我许多作文的技巧。他告诉我：“作文忌用过多的虚字。”该转的地方，硬转；该接的地方，硬接，文章便显着朴拙而有力。他告诉我，文章的起笔最难，要突兀矫健，要开门见山，要一针见血，才能引人入胜，不必兜圈子，不必说套语。他又告诉我，说理说至难解难分处，来一个譬喻，则一切纠缠不清的论难都迎刃而解了，何等经济，何等手腕！"
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2024-05-28
可怕的火腿 - https://reactormag.com/the-scary-ham/
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2024-05-27
这篇文章想存下来看看小孩会不会辨别真假Morris：
https://maggieappleton.com/generative-forgery
以前应该读到过May Morris但完全忘了，喜欢她绣的手套：
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/sep/29/family-tree-the-exquisite-brilliance-of-william-morriss-daughter
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2024-05-26
小孩新学校发来72页暑假书单，她要在里面挑三本。我欣然翻阅，展望她几年后有好书读的样子...
一天之后我脸色就变了——小孩把她同学的书单全部照抄过来了，而那些是：
The House of Leaves
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Midnight's Children
The Book Thief
The Color Purple
White Noise
不用怎么暗黑文学吧？更何况她这种读到‘他们一天到晚残害小猫咪’就会哭出来的豆腐心... 而且干吗老白男浓度这么高？最后一本简直滑稽，但我就好难对此有幽默感 ：（
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2024-05-17
所以其实 "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" 可以在维多利亚时期写？
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-beauty-of-concrete/
* The Palace of Westminster is covered with tens of thousands of square meters of extraordinarily ingenious and coherent ornament. This is not because Victorian London was awash with carver- sculptors of genius. It is because virtually every detail of the enormous building, down to the last molding profile, was designed by one man, the strange and brilliant Augustus Pugin. Pugin carved nothing, but he produced an immense flood of drawings, which were executed in stone and wood by numberless other hands. Indirect carving made Pugin many thousands of times more productive than he could have been otherwise.
* In fact, stonework is only finally being mechanized today. I recently visited what is probably the world’s most advanced factory for cutting stonework with a computer-controlled machine, Monumental Labs in New York City.
* In Europe, the effect of these advances was obscured by fire safety laws that tended to ban woodwork on the exterior of urban buildings. But such laws were generally absent in the United States, where there was thus an enormous proliferation of ornamental woodwork in the late nineteenth century, a process bound up with the popularity of what Americans call the ‘Queen Anne’ and Eastlake styles.
* Most early twentieth-century skyscrapers actually had a complete set of ornament modeled for them bespoke, but the buildings were so enormous that substantial economies of scale were still achieved. This is one reason why terracotta was such a popular material for skyscrapers in interwar America, a component of American Art Deco that has now become a striking part of its visual identity.
* The explanation, in other words, is a matter of what people demand, not of what the industry is capable of supplying: ornament survives in the housing of the less affluent because they still want it.
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2024-05-02
感慨夸夸夸这技能还是要从小抓起，看游泳队老师怎么夸我家这个运动渣的：It was my pleasure to work with A. Her efforts and determination inspired the creation of the Tough Duck award so her legacy will live on.
试图译成中文就是不能达到那个行云流水。
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2024-04-21
最威武的还是我们猫头鹰： https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-feathers-are-one-of-evolutions-cleverest-inventions/
* whether this creature could fly have centered on something called vane asymmetry. The two flat “blades” of a feather on either side of the main shaft are called vanes. In living birds that fly, the feathers that arise from the hand, known as the primaries, have asymmetrical vanes... What matters is that the feather is aerodynamically asymmetrical, and for this to be the case, the vane asymmetry must be at least three to one—that is, the trailing blade needs to be three times wider than the leading one. Below this ratio, the feather twists in a destabilizing rather than stabilizing way during flight.
* Asymmetry matters only if the flier spreads its primaries apart in flight like many modern raptors do—a feature called slotting... which makes the wing much more efficient at low flight speeds... Slotting also makes the wing tip very resistant to stall
* In fact, the maneuverability made possible by slotted wings might have helped birds compete with pterosaurs and ultimately survive the end-Cretaceous extinction.
* They are so eerily noiseless that even if they fly over your head close enough for you to feel their wake, you will still hear absolutely nothing... All the owl wing sounds you hear in the Harry Potter movies and other films? Those are added in.
* More important, the feathers on the leading edge of an owl’s wing have a set of comblike structures, whereas those on the trailing edge have fluffy fringes. The leading-edge comb stirs the air in a specific way called micro vorticity. These tiny, swirling streams of air cause the main flow to stick to the wing. In aerodynamic speak, we say the combs “inject vorticity into the boundary layer.” When this modified flow then passes through the trailing-edge fringes, the net result is a wake that contains no coherent waves of linear pressure and therefore no sound.
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2024-04-17
不该在微博里搜索《听客溪的朝圣》的，热贴里引用的译句大半是我有异议，觉得有没翻到位、含糊其辞部分的，然而显然并不影响别人觉得这些句子好，那我又在fuss啥呢。
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2024-04-15
日全食过后一个星期， 复习Annie Dillard 的《全日食》：
* The mind—the culture—has two little tools, grammar and lexicon: a decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel. With these we
bluster about the continents and do all the world’s work. With these we try to save our very lives.
* may have time to think, “Soon it will hit my brain.” You can feel the deadness race up your arm; you can feel the appalling, inhuman speed of your own blood. We saw the wall of shadow coming, and screamed before it hit.
This was the universe about which we have read so much and never before felt: the universe as a clockwork of loose spheres flung at stupefying, unauthorized speeds.
* When the sun appeared as a blinding bead on the ring’s side, the eclipse was
over. The black lens cover appeared again, backlighted, and slid away. At once the yellow light made the sky blue again; the black lid dissolved and vanished. The real world began there. I remember now: we all hurried away. We were born
and bored at a stroke.
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2024-04-13
看到这段就想举手说我我我也是- https://marthawells.dreamwidth.org/649804.html :
* But for all the anxiety, depression, angst, and fear that went into its creation, at its heart, Murderbot is a story about achieving bodily autonomy and mental autonomy. It's set in a far-future which is an extrapolation of what happens when you don't have labor unions and corporations have more human rights than actual humans. Murderbot is about the idea that maybe having huge existential thoughts about our place in the universe is not something everybody aspires to. Maybe some of us are put on this earth to a: not hurt each other and b: find happiness in games, books, art, and streaming channels. And that's okay.
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2024-04-13
开始读这篇有关北美原住民联邦制度的post的时候完全没有想到里面会讲到两次（！）全日食。https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1834580.html
* Per that history, the way that the Onondaga were brought into the Confederacy was not by them being conquered, nor Tadodaho being killed or overthrown, nor his being compelled to Let the Onondagan People Go by a series of divine plagues, but by the snakes being removed from Tadodaho's mind through the persistent efforts of Hiawatha, and Tadodaho being healed of his evilness. Here please imagine me staring pointedly at the Abrahamic faiths.
* One of the things about cannibalism is that, unlike tamer political opinions, it can show up in the archaeological record.
* We have a time of year, we have a location on the surface of the Earth, and we have a total solar eclipse. All that remains, then, is to calculate what total solar eclipses would have been visible from Ganondagan during that time of the year.
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2024-04-11
我说某位不知名书画家的名字怎么这两天老是零星看到，原来他刚和年纪差很多的女性结婚了——而知道这个是因为朋友圈里有一位对此发表感想，说看到如此事迹，一下子开始考虑让她儿子学书画去了。
可能她觉得这话说得挺幽默的，我没有。
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2024-04-09
weibo.com/ttarticle/p/show?id=2309404278043349803520
倪湛舸：传统文学是传统的人学啊，它的着力点是individuals，是他们的内心世界。而德勒兹说我们生活在控制社会，这个控制社会比福柯的训诫社会更强大，简单地说就是流量和监控决定一切，连教化都懒得做了，这其实是dividuals的世界，人都被数据化了。
倪湛舸：对，就好像摇滚乐，它在东欧和中国好像很具有先锋性，但在美国它早就洗白了，商业化了，越战时政府派出去慰军的“文工团”就是摇滚乐队。还有现在的R&B，Hiphop，听上去很美很时髦，但它们在受压迫的种族和阶级那里的根源就是被强行压制下去了。所以任何现象都要看具体的语境，都得留心它随时随地的变形。如果说资产阶级的审美因为各种因缘际会曾经在中国成为先锋，那么真正的先锋的潜力反而有可能蕴含在通俗文学中。
所以审美独立不是说审美跟政治经济没有关系，而是说艺术有无法被政治场域和经济场域所收编的维度，艺术有着对人类集体生活的独特贡献，不可被其他活动所取代。
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2024-03-28
昨天小孩说生活就像一盆意大利面条，而你手里只有一把刀。
如果这真是她能够想象出来的人间疾苦的极限...
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2024-03-27
作者干得真好 - https://archive.is/LGyqU
*This is a world in which the soft art of self-care is made concrete, in which Goop-adjacent platitudes find solidity in peer review.
* There are Huberman Husbands (men who optimize), a phenomenon not to be confused with #DaddyHuberman (used by women on TikTok in the man’s thrall).
* They cared immoderately about what went into their bodies.
* Andrew liked to dote on the dog, she says, and he liked to be doted on by Sarah. “I was never sitting around him,” she says.
* “I don’t have total fidelity to who Andrew is,” says his friend Patrick Dossett. “There’s always a little unknown there.”
* (A spokesperson for Huberman denies that he and Sarah had decided to have children together, clarifying that they “decided to create embryos by IVF.”)
* Huberman’s specialty lies in a narrow field: visual-system wiring. How comfortable one feels with the science propagated on Huberman Lab depends entirely on how much leeway one is willing to give a man who expounds for multiple hours a week on subjects well outside his area of expertise.
* (A spokesperson for Huberman denies the account of the denigration of women and the dead-baby story and says the hair story was taken out of context.)
* “The landscape has been incredibly hard,” he said. “I let the stress get to me … I defaulted to self safety … I’ve also sat with the hardest of feelings.”
* She could see them through the window. “If you’re going to be a cheater,” she advises me later, “do not live in a glass house.”
* They realized that on March 21, 2021, a day of admittedly impressive logistical jujitsu
* The kind of women to whom Andrew Huberman was attracted... these were women who paid attention to what went into their bodies, women who made avoiding toxicity a central focus of their lives.
* Narcissism comes up consistently. One can see attempts to understand and also places where those attempts swerve into self-indulgence.
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2024-03-27
可爱死了，那个埋了链接的蓝衣Arial字体一出来真是倾倒~ Arial 和Helvetica还组了cp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXbW42uTKYo
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2024-03-22
"数出十五个啤酒瓶的水滴，大概这就是他已有人生中忍受痛苦的极限了吧。
在他四十三岁那年的秋天，他像个迷惘而冰冷的圣徒，不知道把忠诚献给谁。而那些被数出来的水滴，更像是自我怀疑论者的眼泪。":
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/wNNmFQefA5-ZR6cYPvtEMw
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2024-03-22
是不是属于‘人生完整’了一桩：居然受到微博管理员 ”账号功能限制通知“ “由于你发布涉民族宗教类违规信息，违反了《微博社区公约》第5章第27条，你的账号被禁言7天”。
好气加好笑的是我什么时候发布过和民族宗教类有关的文字了？都是晒小孩日常之类最温良的内容了。人偏偏不说哪条触犯了天条了，就晒着你。
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2024-03-08
虽然年纪这么大了觉得自己也算没皮没脸了，但老同学短信里从最近看的小说说到她和丈夫对性生活的分歧我还是接不住话。
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2024-03-06
最近的嗜好是逐句对照中英文版读"Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"，翻译得比"Cold Comfort Farm"好许多，但还是不够细致，连footfall认成football的失误都有，原本Dillard文字间处处灵光闪动，也被掩埋不少。我日日边看边改，一边义愤填膺一边自鸣得意，心态那个膨胀得简直面目狰狞。
今天闲得想起查查译者还有什么作品，却查到她是一位文二代，一时心情复杂。
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2024-03-05
So well written: https://web.archive.org/web/20240301170542/https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a46975496/behind-f1-velvet-curtain/
*That designation has been transferred to Asheville, the North Carolina mountain town that's now a mecca for people who did the softer drugs in college and like beer that tastes like pine needles.
* I saw people with the kind of Rolexes that make strangers cry on Antiques Roadshow... The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever. People clinked glasses of free champagne in outfits worth more than the market price of all the organs in my body.
* After being in the presence of the car, I perceived him differently than before, when he was just a guy driving in circles on TV. The scope of his capabilities became more directly known to me in the face of that which I believed to be unknowable. All of that was built in service of him.
* This was beautiful to watch in real life. The unfurling of the apparatus of the setup, groups peeling back one by one until there are only these alien cars, these technological marvels kissing the ground. Before the heartbeat, they respirated.
* Here, I stood, and the cars merely passed, and when they passed, numbers changed on a big tower. It was so clean and almost proper, the way they flew by me in the sprint, dutifully, without savagery.
* The car is both the most studied piece of human engineering, tuned and devised in lab-like environments and at the same time a variable entity, something that must be wrestled with and pushed. The numbers are crunched, the forms wind-tunneled. And yet some spirit escapes their control, and that spirit is known only by the driver.
* To be a have-not and be talked to by the haves has an air of the farcical to it. Everything is just manners with nothing inside.
* We used to call this magnificence when we believed in kings. I don't know what we call it now. Excellence, maybe. The irony of parading someone incredible like that around in the backrooms of petrochemical executives is not lost on me. I was grateful that I got the opportunity to speak to Lewis Hamilton, someone I am not ashamed to say I admire. I would have preferred it if they let him go home and rest instead.
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2024-03-04
趁还记得清楚，回味一下昨晚的一局Scrabble：盲组了一个FITC(H)，为了2倍分放弃了CALLOW，Z(U)蹭上了3倍分，纵横分别续了(YO)YO和(DEN)Y，最后又2倍了个(QI)N，终于打入150分大关。
小孩昨天头次达到了100分，但最后封局扣回到98，哭了一小会儿。
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2024-02-27
看到《邦查女孩》里某人的想法，赞叹高山湖的夜景描写帮ta度过了四川的酷暑，‘真希望国家早点统一，我好去那里看看’。
无语得我。
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2024-02-22
crookedtimber.org/2024/02/19/death-lonely-death/
* They turned off its internal heater a few years ago, and they thought that might be the end. But those 1970s engineers built to last, and the circuitry and the valves kept working even as the temperature dropped down, down, colder than dry ice, colder than liquid nitrogen, falling towards absolute zero.
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2024-02-22
老是一边忘一边学：https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/surprising-origins-wave-particle-duality/
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2024-02-22
真的看完了tab都舍不得关
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2024-02-14
情人节有神仙同人文看，妥妥的幸福~
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2024-02-10
nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/04/arts/design/berthe-morisot-in-england.html -- 应该以前看过，复习时注意到这句：
All that is solid melts into brushstrokes.
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2024-02-05
工作日面对长期老大难问题坐在那里只眼皮打架，最后还是熬不住睡了个午觉，本来醒过来就心虚，写字台前刚坐好slack里又给同事联合起来教育了一顿，说密码不用专门密码管理软件是多么地不负责任，心态更崩了。
能怪我荒废这一天吗
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2024-01-02
年终单子还没停: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/12/science-facts-that-blew-our-mind-2023/676959/
* When you look at a tattoo, you’re seeing ink shining in the “belly” of an immune cell that has gobbled up the ink and failed to digest it.
* Until the 1800s, merchants, lawyers, and aristocrats each wrote in their own distinctive script.
* A pill may be easier to swallow if you turn your head as it goes down.
* Rest is not necessarily the best treatment for a concussion.
这种时刻对波士顿的local interest 不减：
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/06/26/mbta-subway-cars-googly-eyes-joy
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2024-06-26
无意中找回一首以前很喜欢的歌，Sophie Zelmani - Going Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO6BgqS4814
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2024-06-22
陈以侃怎么老是这么会夸人：
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/JGGiUkIzcsZnVq2d8H45Ng
* 写东西的人，在书架上发现了跟自己脾气相投的天才，既忍不住学他，又怕太像他，这是肯定的，但照布鲁姆的构想，你只能“误读”，只能靠把范本想歪了才能写出自己，这种恶性的冲动能看作创造力的源泉吗？布鲁姆教授深信不疑，在他眼里，文学史就好比一张家谱，能用教鞭指着，一路点出每对父子间的吵架内容。
* 谁不想写这种把译者一掌拍倒在马路牙子上的句子？我那时候以为，任何作家在年轻时能被艾米斯强烈甚至暴力地影响，那才真叫“老天爷赏饭”。扎迪·史密斯所谓的“抄袭”，抄的是一种节奏，一种跟字词的亲近，一种跟语言同一战线的心里有底之感；她懂得，小说家全新认知世界的责任，跟取悦读者是同一件事；就好像她自己都急切想要看看，世界本身的荒唐和有趣会怎么化成下一个句子。
* 很多人夸艾米斯的文字electric，带着电的，科学的事情我少插嘴，但生物学上，他是庆贺生命的，他让你对人类的创造力充满信心。
* 文风，用普鲁斯特的话来说，不是装饰，不关乎技巧，它是你感受到的宇宙的质感（这个宇宙，只有你能看见，艺术家提供的愉悦是让我们更加了解他的那个宇宙）。
而那个“道德”，也不是那种能颁布行为规范的道德，它指的是作家用何种姿态把自己放在他的那个宇宙中，用什么东西给自己导航。当然，有人能在腐坏的想法周围编织优美的文字，但艾米斯只是相信——这不该是每个读者的信念吗？——我们能辨别出那种不匹配，如何写比写什么更会出卖作者。
* 这也是他为什么要与陈词滥调一战，就是他不相信有任何东西普遍到你只能用枯燥的写法才能呈现。庸常永远要求它那份应得的美。陈词滥调是一个写作者偷懒，怠工，是他在某种不真切的认知面前躺平，说“算了，就这样吧”，这的确是个道德问题。
* 但没有办法，我被锁在我过往的人生、教育、阅读和另外所有局限之中，包括吾生也有涯和阅读费工夫之间的巨大冲突，在文学事上摆出不偏不倚的百科全书气度，其实是反文学的。
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2024-06-18
对我简直是catnip的读物：https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/07/books/literature-translation.html
"a playful pursuit of equilibrium across an entire work, an exhilarating and, yes, joyful balancing act of loyalties: to sense, to significance and to style."
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2024-06-17
好想转给哪个牙医朋友，如果有的话：
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/
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2024-06-05
Mark 一下，虽然现在很少有时间听播客：https://www.bumingbai.net/
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2024-05-31
中学里读过张辛欣的小说，今天突然被推送到她的微博，昨天34条有罪的判决对她是‘一记闷棍’，粉籍不能太明显。
非常牵强概括为文二代又不靠谱了一次。
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2024-05-31
《那不勒斯四部曲》被剧透得透透的，也挺好 - https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/yUhcZFDsRo026QCZsz-TIA
* 莉拉让人想起《呼啸山庄》里的卡瑟琳，一个粗野的“小蛮子”——家中保姆耐莉这么称呼她，这其实是一个古典的形象。《圣经》新约马太福音里，向希律王索取施洗约翰头颅的莎乐美；古希腊神话里的梅杜莎，妖娆的蛇是她的头发，凡看见她眼睛者都会石化……是历代艺术家创作的母本。这大约就是小说的经学，在同一模式里注入不同的内容，将抽象演绎成具象。中国小说则更接近史学，是个别的叙事体。
我不能断言莉拉脱胎于卡瑟琳，卡瑟琳脱胎于莎乐美、梅杜莎，但她们的关联性仅仅视作巧合又不足以解释，我更倾向将她们排列谱系，纳入同组基因。这种古老的人格，越过漫长的驯化，豁免普遍规律筛选，保持特殊性，非具有平均值以上的活力。文明进步却是趋同的过程，社会组织越来越严密，就像卯榫结构，挤压和排斥异质成分，这些“史前物种”，生存环境一日比一日艰难，几近灭顶。
* 革命有着和爱情同样的破旧立新的假相，动力也同出一源，荷尔蒙和美学。
* “他说计算机是一种语言，”又解释道，“不是我们写小说的语言。”《巴黎圣母院》，克洛德副主教向夜间来客、权柄等同法兰西国王的杜韩若长老宣布：“这个要消灭那个！”所谓“这个”是指案上的纸质书，“那个”是圣母院，意思是“印刷术要消灭建筑艺术”。再坚固的建筑也抵不过战争、动乱，甚至只是一场大火，而印刷术以无穷复制的方式将事物永久保存和传播。
* 。“有些事情，要么你就讲清楚，要么你就别讲，但你正好停在中间。”她说。文字语言显现出狡黠的特性，它按某一种自私的需要补缀着世界的裂隙。莉拉大约就是要纠正文字的谬误，开始了她对那不勒斯的实地研究，历史和现在，她的世界只有那不勒斯，可是谁又能说，那不勒斯不代表世界呢？
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2024-05-31
翻阅Stephen Sondheim 遗物拍卖，老爷子的东东很符合我对他的想象——许多vintage桌游：
https://www.doyle.com/auction/lot/lot-83---rare-puzzle-print/?lot=1389395&so=0&st=&sto=0&au=8984&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=0&pp=96&pn=1&g=1
https://www.doyle.com/auction/lot/lot-88---group-of-nine-glass-paperweights/?lot=1389569&so=0&st=&sto=0&au=8984&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=0&pp=96&pn=1&g=1
https://www.doyle.com/auction/lot/lot-327-
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2024-05-31
梁实秋《我的一位国文老师》:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/gWOvUDJQq9KdP2gpolupMw
"徐先生教我许多作文的技巧。他告诉我：“作文忌用过多的虚字。”该转的地方，硬转；该接的地方，硬接，文章便显着朴拙而有力。他告诉我，文章的起笔最难，要突兀矫健，要开门见山，要一针见血，才能引人入胜，不必兜圈子，不必说套语。他又告诉我，说理说至难解难分处，来一个譬喻，则一切纠缠不清的论难都迎刃而解了，何等经济，何等手腕！"
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2024-05-28
可怕的火腿 - https://reactormag.com/the-scary-ham/
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2024-05-27
这篇文章想存下来看看小孩会不会辨别真假Morris：
https://maggieappleton.com/generative-forgery
以前应该读到过May Morris但完全忘了，喜欢她绣的手套：
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/sep/29/family-tree-the-exquisite-brilliance-of-william-morriss-daughter
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2024-05-26
小孩新学校发来72页暑假书单，她要在里面挑三本。我欣然翻阅，展望她几年后有好书读的样子...
一天之后我脸色就变了——小孩把她同学的书单全部照抄过来了，而那些是：
The House of Leaves
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Midnight's Children
The Book Thief
The Color Purple
White Noise
不用怎么暗黑文学吧？更何况她这种读到‘他们一天到晚残害小猫咪’就会哭出来的豆腐心... 而且干吗老白男浓度这么高？最后一本简直滑稽，但我就好难对此有幽默感 ：（
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2024-05-17
所以其实 "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" 可以在维多利亚时期写？
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-beauty-of-concrete/
* The Palace of Westminster is covered with tens of thousands of square meters of extraordinarily ingenious and coherent ornament. This is not because Victorian London was awash with carver- sculptors of genius. It is because virtually every detail of the enormous building, down to the last molding profile, was designed by one man, the strange and brilliant Augustus Pugin. Pugin carved nothing, but he produced an immense flood of drawings, which were executed in stone and wood by numberless other hands. Indirect carving made Pugin many thousands of times more productive than he could have been otherwise.
* In fact, stonework is only finally being mechanized today. I recently visited what is probably the world’s most advanced factory for cutting stonework with a computer-controlled machine, Monumental Labs in New York City.
* In Europe, the effect of these advances was obscured by fire safety laws that tended to ban woodwork on the exterior of urban buildings. But such laws were generally absent in the United States, where there was thus an enormous proliferation of ornamental woodwork in the late nineteenth century, a process bound up with the popularity of what Americans call the ‘Queen Anne’ and Eastlake styles.
* Most early twentieth-century skyscrapers actually had a complete set of ornament modeled for them bespoke, but the buildings were so enormous that substantial economies of scale were still achieved. This is one reason why terracotta was such a popular material for skyscrapers in interwar America, a component of American Art Deco that has now become a striking part of its visual identity.
* The explanation, in other words, is a matter of what people demand, not of what the industry is capable of supplying: ornament survives in the housing of the less affluent because they still want it.
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2024-05-02
感慨夸夸夸这技能还是要从小抓起，看游泳队老师怎么夸我家这个运动渣的：It was my pleasure to work with A. Her efforts and determination inspired the creation of the Tough Duck award so her legacy will live on.
试图译成中文就是不能达到那个行云流水。
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2024-04-21
最威武的还是我们猫头鹰： https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-feathers-are-one-of-evolutions-cleverest-inventions/
* whether this creature could fly have centered on something called vane asymmetry. The two flat “blades” of a feather on either side of the main shaft are called vanes. In living birds that fly, the feathers that arise from the hand, known as the primaries, have asymmetrical vanes... What matters is that the feather is aerodynamically asymmetrical, and for this to be the case, the vane asymmetry must be at least three to one—that is, the trailing blade needs to be three times wider than the leading one. Below this ratio, the feather twists in a destabilizing rather than stabilizing way during flight.
* Asymmetry matters only if the flier spreads its primaries apart in flight like many modern raptors do—a feature called slotting... which makes the wing much more efficient at low flight speeds... Slotting also makes the wing tip very resistant to stall
* In fact, the maneuverability made possible by slotted wings might have helped birds compete with pterosaurs and ultimately survive the end-Cretaceous extinction.
* They are so eerily noiseless that even if they fly over your head close enough for you to feel their wake, you will still hear absolutely nothing... All the owl wing sounds you hear in the Harry Potter movies and other films? Those are added in.
* More important, the feathers on the leading edge of an owl’s wing have a set of comblike structures, whereas those on the trailing edge have fluffy fringes. The leading-edge comb stirs the air in a specific way called micro vorticity. These tiny, swirling streams of air cause the main flow to stick to the wing. In aerodynamic speak, we say the combs “inject vorticity into the boundary layer.” When this modified flow then passes through the trailing-edge fringes, the net result is a wake that contains no coherent waves of linear pressure and therefore no sound.
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2024-04-17
不该在微博里搜索《听客溪的朝圣》的，热贴里引用的译句大半是我有异议，觉得有没翻到位、含糊其辞部分的，然而显然并不影响别人觉得这些句子好，那我又在fuss啥呢。
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2024-04-15
日全食过后一个星期， 复习Annie Dillard 的《全日食》：
* The mind—the culture—has two little tools, grammar and lexicon: a decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel. With these we
bluster about the continents and do all the world’s work. With these we try to save our very lives.
* may have time to think, “Soon it will hit my brain.” You can feel the deadness race up your arm; you can feel the appalling, inhuman speed of your own blood. We saw the wall of shadow coming, and screamed before it hit.
This was the universe about which we have read so much and never before felt: the universe as a clockwork of loose spheres flung at stupefying, unauthorized speeds.
* When the sun appeared as a blinding bead on the ring’s side, the eclipse was
over. The black lens cover appeared again, backlighted, and slid away. At once the yellow light made the sky blue again; the black lid dissolved and vanished. The real world began there. I remember now: we all hurried away. We were born
and bored at a stroke.
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2024-04-13
看到这段就想举手说我我我也是- https://marthawells.dreamwidth.org/649804.html :
* But for all the anxiety, depression, angst, and fear that went into its creation, at its heart, Murderbot is a story about achieving bodily autonomy and mental autonomy. It's set in a far-future which is an extrapolation of what happens when you don't have labor unions and corporations have more human rights than actual humans. Murderbot is about the idea that maybe having huge existential thoughts about our place in the universe is not something everybody aspires to. Maybe some of us are put on this earth to a: not hurt each other and b: find happiness in games, books, art, and streaming channels. And that's okay.
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2024-04-13
开始读这篇有关北美原住民联邦制度的post的时候完全没有想到里面会讲到两次（！）全日食。https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1834580.html
* Per that history, the way that the Onondaga were brought into the Confederacy was not by them being conquered, nor Tadodaho being killed or overthrown, nor his being compelled to Let the Onondagan People Go by a series of divine plagues, but by the snakes being removed from Tadodaho's mind through the persistent efforts of Hiawatha, and Tadodaho being healed of his evilness. Here please imagine me staring pointedly at the Abrahamic faiths.
* One of the things about cannibalism is that, unlike tamer political opinions, it can show up in the archaeological record.
* We have a time of year, we have a location on the surface of the Earth, and we have a total solar eclipse. All that remains, then, is to calculate what total solar eclipses would have been visible from Ganondagan during that time of the year.
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2024-04-11
我说某位不知名书画家的名字怎么这两天老是零星看到，原来他刚和年纪差很多的女性结婚了——而知道这个是因为朋友圈里有一位对此发表感想，说看到如此事迹，一下子开始考虑让她儿子学书画去了。
可能她觉得这话说得挺幽默的，我没有。
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2024-04-09
weibo.com/ttarticle/p/show?id=2309404278043349803520
倪湛舸：传统文学是传统的人学啊，它的着力点是individuals，是他们的内心世界。而德勒兹说我们生活在控制社会，这个控制社会比福柯的训诫社会更强大，简单地说就是流量和监控决定一切，连教化都懒得做了，这其实是dividuals的世界，人都被数据化了。
倪湛舸：对，就好像摇滚乐，它在东欧和中国好像很具有先锋性，但在美国它早就洗白了，商业化了，越战时政府派出去慰军的“文工团”就是摇滚乐队。还有现在的R&B，Hiphop，听上去很美很时髦，但它们在受压迫的种族和阶级那里的根源就是被强行压制下去了。所以任何现象都要看具体的语境，都得留心它随时随地的变形。如果说资产阶级的审美因为各种因缘际会曾经在中国成为先锋，那么真正的先锋的潜力反而有可能蕴含在通俗文学中。
所以审美独立不是说审美跟政治经济没有关系，而是说艺术有无法被政治场域和经济场域所收编的维度，艺术有着对人类集体生活的独特贡献，不可被其他活动所取代。
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2024-03-28
昨天小孩说生活就像一盆意大利面条，而你手里只有一把刀。
如果这真是她能够想象出来的人间疾苦的极限...
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2024-03-27
作者干得真好 - https://archive.is/LGyqU
*This is a world in which the soft art of self-care is made concrete, in which Goop-adjacent platitudes find solidity in peer review.
* There are Huberman Husbands (men who optimize), a phenomenon not to be confused with #DaddyHuberman (used by women on TikTok in the man’s thrall).
* They cared immoderately about what went into their bodies.
* Andrew liked to dote on the dog, she says, and he liked to be doted on by Sarah. “I was never sitting around him,” she says.
* “I don’t have total fidelity to who Andrew is,” says his friend Patrick Dossett. “There’s always a little unknown there.”
* (A spokesperson for Huberman denies that he and Sarah had decided to have children together, clarifying that they “decided to create embryos by IVF.”)
* Huberman’s specialty lies in a narrow field: visual-system wiring. How comfortable one feels with the science propagated on Huberman Lab depends entirely on how much leeway one is willing to give a man who expounds for multiple hours a week on subjects well outside his area of expertise.
* (A spokesperson for Huberman denies the account of the denigration of women and the dead-baby story and says the hair story was taken out of context.)
* “The landscape has been incredibly hard,” he said. “I let the stress get to me … I defaulted to self safety … I’ve also sat with the hardest of feelings.”
* She could see them through the window. “If you’re going to be a cheater,” she advises me later, “do not live in a glass house.”
* They realized that on March 21, 2021, a day of admittedly impressive logistical jujitsu
* The kind of women to whom Andrew Huberman was attracted... these were women who paid attention to what went into their bodies, women who made avoiding toxicity a central focus of their lives.
* Narcissism comes up consistently. One can see attempts to understand and also places where those attempts swerve into self-indulgence.
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2024-03-27
可爱死了，那个埋了链接的蓝衣Arial字体一出来真是倾倒~ Arial 和Helvetica还组了cp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXbW42uTKYo
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2024-03-22
"数出十五个啤酒瓶的水滴，大概这就是他已有人生中忍受痛苦的极限了吧。
在他四十三岁那年的秋天，他像个迷惘而冰冷的圣徒，不知道把忠诚献给谁。而那些被数出来的水滴，更像是自我怀疑论者的眼泪。":
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/wNNmFQefA5-ZR6cYPvtEMw
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2024-03-22
是不是属于‘人生完整’了一桩：居然受到微博管理员 ”账号功能限制通知“ “由于你发布涉民族宗教类违规信息，违反了《微博社区公约》第5章第27条，你的账号被禁言7天”。
好气加好笑的是我什么时候发布过和民族宗教类有关的文字了？都是晒小孩日常之类最温良的内容了。人偏偏不说哪条触犯了天条了，就晒着你。
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2024-03-08
虽然年纪这么大了觉得自己也算没皮没脸了，但老同学短信里从最近看的小说说到她和丈夫对性生活的分歧我还是接不住话。
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2024-03-06
最近的嗜好是逐句对照中英文版读"Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"，翻译得比"Cold Comfort Farm"好许多，但还是不够细致，连footfall认成football的失误都有，原本Dillard文字间处处灵光闪动，也被掩埋不少。我日日边看边改，一边义愤填膺一边自鸣得意，心态那个膨胀得简直面目狰狞。
今天闲得想起查查译者还有什么作品，却查到她是一位文二代，一时心情复杂。
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2024-03-05
So well written: https://web.archive.org/web/20240301170542/https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a46975496/behind-f1-velvet-curtain/
*That designation has been transferred to Asheville, the North Carolina mountain town that's now a mecca for people who did the softer drugs in college and like beer that tastes like pine needles.
* I saw people with the kind of Rolexes that make strangers cry on Antiques Roadshow... The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever. People clinked glasses of free champagne in outfits worth more than the market price of all the organs in my body.
* After being in the presence of the car, I perceived him differently than before, when he was just a guy driving in circles on TV. The scope of his capabilities became more directly known to me in the face of that which I believed to be unknowable. All of that was built in service of him.
* This was beautiful to watch in real life. The unfurling of the apparatus of the setup, groups peeling back one by one until there are only these alien cars, these technological marvels kissing the ground. Before the heartbeat, they respirated.
* Here, I stood, and the cars merely passed, and when they passed, numbers changed on a big tower. It was so clean and almost proper, the way they flew by me in the sprint, dutifully, without savagery.
* The car is both the most studied piece of human engineering, tuned and devised in lab-like environments and at the same time a variable entity, something that must be wrestled with and pushed. The numbers are crunched, the forms wind-tunneled. And yet some spirit escapes their control, and that spirit is known only by the driver.
* To be a have-not and be talked to by the haves has an air of the farcical to it. Everything is just manners with nothing inside.
* We used to call this magnificence when we believed in kings. I don't know what we call it now. Excellence, maybe. The irony of parading someone incredible like that around in the backrooms of petrochemical executives is not lost on me. I was grateful that I got the opportunity to speak to Lewis Hamilton, someone I am not ashamed to say I admire. I would have preferred it if they let him go home and rest instead.
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2024-03-04
趁还记得清楚，回味一下昨晚的一局Scrabble：盲组了一个FITC(H)，为了2倍分放弃了CALLOW，Z(U)蹭上了3倍分，纵横分别续了(YO)YO和(DEN)Y，最后又2倍了个(QI)N，终于打入150分大关。
小孩昨天头次达到了100分，但最后封局扣回到98，哭了一小会儿。
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2024-02-27
看到《邦查女孩》里某人的想法，赞叹高山湖的夜景描写帮ta度过了四川的酷暑，‘真希望国家早点统一，我好去那里看看’。
无语得我。
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2024-02-22
crookedtimber.org/2024/02/19/death-lonely-death/
* They turned off its internal heater a few years ago, and they thought that might be the end. But those 1970s engineers built to last, and the circuitry and the valves kept working even as the temperature dropped down, down, colder than dry ice, colder than liquid nitrogen, falling towards absolute zero.
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2024-02-22
老是一边忘一边学：https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/surprising-origins-wave-particle-duality/
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2024-02-22
真的看完了tab都舍不得关
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2024-02-14
情人节有神仙同人文看，妥妥的幸福~
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2024-02-10
nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/04/arts/design/berthe-morisot-in-england.html -- 应该以前看过，复习时注意到这句：
All that is solid melts into brushstrokes.
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2024-02-05
工作日面对长期老大难问题坐在那里只眼皮打架，最后还是熬不住睡了个午觉，本来醒过来就心虚，写字台前刚坐好slack里又给同事联合起来教育了一顿，说密码不用专门密码管理软件是多么地不负责任，心态更崩了。
能怪我荒废这一天吗
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2024-01-02
年终单子还没停: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/12/science-facts-that-blew-our-mind-2023/676959/
* When you look at a tattoo, you’re seeing ink shining in the “belly” of an immune cell that has gobbled up the ink and failed to digest it.
* Until the 1800s, merchants, lawyers, and aristocrats each wrote in their own distinctive script.
* A pill may be easier to swallow if you turn your head as it goes down.
* Rest is not necessarily the best treatment for a concussion.
