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2023-12-29
kottke.org/23/12/52-interesting-things-i-learned-2023
* Queen Victoria had a dog named “Looty” that was stolen from China by a British soldier while looting a palace in Peking in 1860.
* Humans have pumped so much groundwater out of the ground that it’s changed the tilt of the Earth’s axis 31.5 inches to the east.
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2023-12-29
读这篇时有想到《繁花》https://www.switchyardmag.com/issue-1/bulgarianfrontier
* A decision was made to discontinue digging… and commence burying. The latter job had never been properly completed either and that was how, two decades later, a few kids from all over the world got to sail on a makeshift raft of Styrofoam in an enormous ditch filled with rainwater.
* Communism had always relied on teleology for its existence, but now the frontier had been closed. It was as if time itself had stopped moving forward and had entered a cyclical almost medieval agricultural pattern: winter, spring, summer, autumn; winter, spring, summer, autumn; 10th Congress of the Party, 11th Congress of the Party, 12th Congress of the Party, 13th Congress of the Party.
* The highly repressive functions of the totalitarian machinery disappeared, but money was no worse an instrument of control, perhaps even a better one because more refined and insidious.
* the American frontier Frederick Jackson Turner, “coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and for evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom.”
* Like Communism, capitalism is a teleological system at its root, relying on a narrative of progress, on a forward-moving vector of time, but when that time turns cyclical, repetitive, without a clear direction, the system begins to disintegrate, not under the weight of its own contradictions, as Marx would tell us, but under the weight of its own uniformity.
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2023-12-28
这篇多处hits home。以前也是为了扩展英文词汇量开始做crossword的 - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/25/can-crosswords-be-more-inclusive ：
* dutiful tick marks next to frequently occurring answers, in the stocky, diligent handwriting of an engineer—they seemed like flash cards for a fun-house citizenship exam.
* Nabokov’s fiction brims with anagrammatic avatars of the author: Vivian Darkbloom (from “Lolita”), Adam von Librikov (“Transparent Things”), Bladvak Vinomori (“King, Queen, Knave”), Baron Klim Avidov (“Ada, or Ardor”). Immigration is an occasion for “self-renaming,” exposing, as one of Nabokov’s characters notices, the fact that all names—the ones we come into the world with and the ones we make a new world with—are formed from the same set of letters;
* the ultimate ideogram for the hybrid crossworder-novelist-migrant: the half-finished puzzle, always anagramming, escaping and assimilating at the same time.
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2023-12-22
年度新闻标题https://nitter.net/paulisci/status/1737612673746083911：
显然‘Icahn see clearly’ 应该赢
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2023-12-12
作为程序员，索索发抖地看到：
* The advantage of having a “retrospective time scale,” as Levine calls it, is being able to “look back and detect things that you could never detect in real time.”
* Lately, Choquette says, the division has been focusing on biopharmaceuticals, and working on NIST’s first SRM for a living material: a Chinese hamster ovary cell line.
* “We’ve dematerialized all of our units,” said Leon Chao, a NIST researcher. “Now all of our measurements are derived from universal constants.”
* For GPS to work, it needs ultra-exact timing: accuracy within fifteen meters requires precision on the order of fifty nanoseconds.
* “A clock accurate to a second over the age of the cosmos,” Patrick Gill, a physicist at the U.K.’s National Physical Laboratory, is quoted as saying in New Scientist, “would allow tests of whether physical laws and constants have varied over the universe’s history.”
* Accuracy, in measuring the kilogram or the second, is perhaps less about knowing you are right than about having an achingly exact understanding of how often you are likely to be wrong.
https://harpers.org/archive/2023/04/the-science-of-the-perfect-second/?src=longreads
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2023-12-04
2023 冷知识 https://medium.com/magnetic/52-things-i-learned-in-2023-a3bbb9f9323d：
* The US Defence Department earns $100m/year operating slot machines used by soldiers on their bases.
* Humans are now roughly as tall as we were 12,000 years ago. 4,000 years ago, the average man was 5’4”.
* A “nonattitude” is a weakly held belief, entirely invented in response to a question in an opinion poll.
* New research shows that placebos are effective in reducing feelings of guilt, but they work less well on shame.
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2023-12-03
经常依赖网上的反向词典查同义词，每次看到’系统暂不支持该查询‘的错误信息就不禁感叹钢印的无微不至。
迄今为止遇到的违禁词：淫秽，示威。
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2023-12-01
感谢懒惰的自己：email邮箱总是不记得及时清除，于是当旁组的人毫无征兆地找上来说你看过我写的spec没有，我可以把早在七月就发过给他们的spec email 扒拉出来，告诉他们不必重起炉灶了。
（他们听不听我的呢？当然不听。但我现在是正义之师了！）
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2023-11-26
Emily Dickinson 这首 "I dwell in Possibility" 真的很合适读给造房子的人听: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj_LYsvGF0E
但还是Judi Dench 读的Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 更厉害，从When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, 到 That then I scorn to change my state with kings.，语气似乎都没有变，但一下子就拨云开雾。
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2023-11-14
记一下非常被种草的木刻：
https://mokuhankan.com/catalogue/thumbnails.php?search_key=general
（骑自行车的女孩，猫八景，Misty Day in Nikko）
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2023-11-08
妈说起商业头脑，说以前的同事里有一名姓贺的，家里是第二食品商店的原主，住陕南村里。动荡时期同事被单位隔离月余，我妈帮她给她老公传过字条。后来她来我家玩，我妈对她倾诉自建房里小家庭没有独立空间，她说那你从你父母那里把房子买下来好了，分割起来就有理有据了嘛。我妈照做了，并几十年后还在念叨她出的好点子。
而后面房子买下来以后打官司，让她侄子搬走的后续，是我妈自己想出来的了。
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2023-10-28
想象一下这个画面：As he was starting up the stairs, Yeats and a couple other members of the group appeared at the top. The two men began to literally shout magic spells at each other
https://dearest.substack.com/p/a-glittery-bat-a-poofy-owl-and-a
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2023-10-23
啊啊啊突然又想起来前个星期Keanu Reeves的乐队来我们这里演出过！当然我是后知后觉，是小孩好友的妈妈告诉我的。
乐队名Dogstar真是好有九十年代特色啊。（这个词的残影突然从记忆里钻出来也真辛苦它了。）
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2023-10-21
查parody novel查到这个：
The Batrachomyomachia or Battle of the Frogs and Mice is a comic epic, or a parody of the Iliad, commonly attributed to Homer，插图和封面都太可爱了：
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Gcds8FKYL.jpg
https://octodon.social/@strangefoe#:~:text=%E6%9F%A5parody%20novel,org/wiki/Batracho
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2023-10-20
查词义查到一本绝版书 "Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes: Origins and Development of the U.S. Navy's Officer Personnel System, 1793-1941", 挂出来的四本$600起价，要不就看不到这本‘monumental study 。’
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2023-10-11
想起来安兰德把《源泉》里的一场性强暴堂皇辩解为‘rape by engraved invitation’，由此可以理解一点点林奕含对巧言令色的绝望。
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2023-10-11
有一种心态，是‘既然你是有偿服务我提的要求就都是合理的’，简称剥削精神。
（看网文，参与海运拼团有感）
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2023-10-07
这位可能不是我的茶 —— "Miracle Polish" By Steven Millhauser
* She was dressed in clothes that no longer seemed a little drab, a little elderly, but were handsomely understated, seductively restrained. Not for a moment did the mirror make her look young, or beautiful, for she was not young and she was not beautiful. But it was as if some inner constriction had dissolved, some sense of her drifting gradually into unhappiness. In the mirror she gave forth a fine resilience.
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2023-10-07
终于读了这篇关于plumber的故事：https://harpers.org/archive/2023/09/man-called-fran/ 联系The Wager，好多（差点）出人命的工作关系。
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2023-10-02
都说google现在不行了，但搜个‘间谍文学 大学课程’，第二条就让我锁定某uu所在大学了。（当然就此止步，但小朋友们的警惕性还是有待加强啊）
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2023-10-01
记一下省得忘记：从小孩学校的杂志里得知作家Ruth Ozeki是校友。（不知道什么途径可以去夸奖她把自己的有声书读得那么好听。）
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2023-09-20
忽然想起以前爸妈吵架，我爸嘲笑我妈是‘南村的女鲁迅’，真替我妈光火。
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2023-09-13
也就是这里说说的刻薄话：特德·姜和刘宇昆的区别有点像学神和学霸的区别。
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2023-09-08
九何 boosted
BrianBinh@dice.camp
strangefoe
Brian Bình
brianbinh@dice.camp
EN
The English suffix "-ard" (as in "drunkard", "laggard", "braggard", and "sluggard") is used to make adjectives into deprecating nouns.
"He's drunk" is just a description.
"He's a drunkard" is a moral judgment that finds the subject lacking.
The same process turned "he's wise" into "he's a wizard".
"Wizard" was the medieval equivalent of "smartass".
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2023-09-06
群里贴了一张截图，说哪位NPS雇员想出这里用commit这个动词的该得诺贝尔文学奖: 'Bathroom supplies may not available here. Please check the roll before you commit.'
然后我的大脑就提供了‘坐实’这两个字。
群友点评才发现这个pun只有坐厕才合适。（什么叫女性视角，这就是）。当然‘坐实’这个词也经不起推敲，但比动静太大的‘投入’好。
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2023-09-05
很久没有在mefi上看到这么受欢迎的post了：
https://www.metafilter.com/200490/I-just-published-a-wildly-over-researched-article
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2023-08-24
我婆婆的本事——把大家的心情都弄得乌糟糟的，以至于我坐下来面对一堆爬满虫子的代码只觉得精神气爽
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2023-08-20
把小孩送到住宿营后两人就在车里进行了一场长长的不太愉快也不太顺利的交流，想出‘emotional hypochondria’这个词但很大度地只是心里想想。然后晚上没有及时说好是否晚饭一起吃，于是一起吃了但后几天不了。
所以这算是体会到空巢了？
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2023-08-17
等资料下载的时间继续工作吐槽。
File个虫子主题只说‘运行遇到错误’，你倒是说是哪里出错啊，去看个医生你还至少要说是哪里不舒服呢，只说你病了看哪个医生鸟你。
然后上传了两条相关日志，完全不够看的。我说还有吗，文件‘xxx‘呢？喏，这下起劲了，一下子上传了10份压缩文件，每份都接近2G大小。有这么积极挥霍别人的数据流量的吗？我有这个纽约时间海底捞针的吗？
最近看养成系职场文，前面评论里都是嫌弃失误百出的职场菜鸟的，说看得都要结节增生了。然。
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2023-08-16
呃，好奇有些人把陈年老虫转给别人的时候心里有没有一点点不好意思。他们就不怕虫子留久了成精吗？
并且碰到这种情况就觉得自己划水的分寸还是比较小。
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2023-08-08
还以为对Gloucester蛮熟的，但不知道Hopper夫妇在那里画了那么多，也不知道Jo Hopper擅长画水彩画：https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2023/08/03/edward-hopper-show-cape-ann/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjkxMTIxNjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjkyNTAzOTk5LCJpYXQiOjE2OTExMjE2MDAsImp0aSI6IjY0YWMyZTJkLTQ3MzAtNDgxYy05ZWYzLTk0OWYzYTcyOGIzNCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50L2FydC8yMDIzLzA4LzAzL2Vkd2FyZC1ob3BwZXItc2hvdy1jYXBlLWFubi8ifQ.EcZNHR5Y3B6hJqzoGvTNssLwCIhd2M1DW7lmgxtpLD0
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2023-08-03
最近在ebay上努力断舍离，到底碰到麻烦买家了，发信息说你寄的东西是假货！拜托三张照片拍得清清楚楚哎，哪里货不对板了。但作为成年人还是努力共情发了一封‘我很抱歉你失望了’的回复。
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2023-07-26
昨天晚饭时和阿迪讨论到秦刚被免，我说微博上都讳莫如深，评论大多被过滤掉了，只翻到一条说他和哪位配不上‘荣耀’的女士有牵连。 然后我就福至心灵，想起从上星期起零星会见人提起某傅记者，质疑她的来历和资历，终于把两个二放一起了...
顿悟后放狗一查，果然满天谣言都符合我的猜测，遂有点得意地告诉阿迪。他眼神有点奇怪地（后来意识到是’我家居然没通网吗？‘的神态）告诉我NYT对此有名有姓地持续报道有一阵了都。
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2023-07-24
更新KTN时发现JetBlue 网站的烂处：1. Chrome上不行 2. 同行旅客信息是一起更改的，小孩原有的frequent flyer 号因为是美联航的，最近刚刚退出它们同盟，于是直接更新后被吞了。（让人职业病发作的bug）
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2023-07-21
觉得我应该读读 Mary Renault 了
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/07/the-american-boy ：
* Socrates, faced with an earnest, if pretentious, student, resorts to “teasing him out of his pomposities”—as canny a characterization of what it’s like to teach freshmen as any I know of.
* (Sweetman, in his biography, relates how a young actor had written to her, offering to have “the operation” if it meant getting the part. “That,” she wrote back to him, “would be gelding the lily.”)
* “If characters have come to life,” she once wrote, “one should know how they will make love; if not it doesn’t matter. Inch-by-inch physical descriptions are the ketchup of the literary cuisine, only required by the insipid dish or by the diner without a palate.”
* The writers we absorb when we’re young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust.
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2023-07-20
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n14/patricia-lockwood/where-be-your-jibes-now 没看懂很多，given that 我对DFW的长短小说完全无感：
* Of course, as so often with Wallace, on actual investigation this turns out not to be true. The fact withdraws itself, and only the epiphany remains.
* Poured out that peculiar quantum, my readerly goodwill. I thought, what is it exactly? He makes people feel they are in real possession of the word ‘volute’, that their vast untapped icebergs of vocabulary and perceptual detritus are readily available to them. His entire personality is present in the word ‘supposedly’ – it is actually frightening.
* Every so often Wallace offers you a set piece that’s as fully articulated as a Body Worlds exhibit – laminated muscles pinwheeling through the air, beads of plasticine sweat flying – or pauses the action to deliver a weather bulletin that approaches the sublime.
* ‘Since we all breathe, all the time,’ he writes at the end of The Pale King, ‘it is amazing what happens when someone else directs you how and when to breathe.’ The novel does this, as much as any hypnotist. The rhythms of another person’s sentences do this, wind across the grid, Illinois, their attempts to keep their mother alive for all time by reproducing her idiom down to the letter.
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2023-07-19
修士们的好客排名：
https://www.thestopgap.net/leave-monks-alone/
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2023-07-19
#昌先生 古希腊墓志铭：https://www.metafilter.com/199980/The-Most-Embarrassing-Tombstone-of-All-Time
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2023-07-16
Wordle 757 2/6 黄石
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2023-07-14
Wordle 755 5/6 主打一个清一色吧
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2023-12-29
kottke.org/23/12/52-interesting-things-i-learned-2023
* Queen Victoria had a dog named “Looty” that was stolen from China by a British soldier while looting a palace in Peking in 1860.
* Humans have pumped so much groundwater out of the ground that it’s changed the tilt of the Earth’s axis 31.5 inches to the east.
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2023-12-29
读这篇时有想到《繁花》https://www.switchyardmag.com/issue-1/bulgarianfrontier
* A decision was made to discontinue digging… and commence burying. The latter job had never been properly completed either and that was how, two decades later, a few kids from all over the world got to sail on a makeshift raft of Styrofoam in an enormous ditch filled with rainwater.
* Communism had always relied on teleology for its existence, but now the frontier had been closed. It was as if time itself had stopped moving forward and had entered a cyclical almost medieval agricultural pattern: winter, spring, summer, autumn; winter, spring, summer, autumn; 10th Congress of the Party, 11th Congress of the Party, 12th Congress of the Party, 13th Congress of the Party.
* The highly repressive functions of the totalitarian machinery disappeared, but money was no worse an instrument of control, perhaps even a better one because more refined and insidious.
* the American frontier Frederick Jackson Turner, “coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and for evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom.”
* Like Communism, capitalism is a teleological system at its root, relying on a narrative of progress, on a forward-moving vector of time, but when that time turns cyclical, repetitive, without a clear direction, the system begins to disintegrate, not under the weight of its own contradictions, as Marx would tell us, but under the weight of its own uniformity.
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2023-12-28
这篇多处hits home。以前也是为了扩展英文词汇量开始做crossword的 - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/25/can-crosswords-be-more-inclusive ：
* dutiful tick marks next to frequently occurring answers, in the stocky, diligent handwriting of an engineer—they seemed like flash cards for a fun-house citizenship exam.
* Nabokov’s fiction brims with anagrammatic avatars of the author: Vivian Darkbloom (from “Lolita”), Adam von Librikov (“Transparent Things”), Bladvak Vinomori (“King, Queen, Knave”), Baron Klim Avidov (“Ada, or Ardor”). Immigration is an occasion for “self-renaming,” exposing, as one of Nabokov’s characters notices, the fact that all names—the ones we come into the world with and the ones we make a new world with—are formed from the same set of letters;
* the ultimate ideogram for the hybrid crossworder-novelist-migrant: the half-finished puzzle, always anagramming, escaping and assimilating at the same time.
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2023-12-22
年度新闻标题https://nitter.net/paulisci/status/1737612673746083911：
显然‘Icahn see clearly’ 应该赢
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2023-12-12
作为程序员，索索发抖地看到：
* The advantage of having a “retrospective time scale,” as Levine calls it, is being able to “look back and detect things that you could never detect in real time.”
* Lately, Choquette says, the division has been focusing on biopharmaceuticals, and working on NIST’s first SRM for a living material: a Chinese hamster ovary cell line.
* “We’ve dematerialized all of our units,” said Leon Chao, a NIST researcher. “Now all of our measurements are derived from universal constants.”
* For GPS to work, it needs ultra-exact timing: accuracy within fifteen meters requires precision on the order of fifty nanoseconds.
* “A clock accurate to a second over the age of the cosmos,” Patrick Gill, a physicist at the U.K.’s National Physical Laboratory, is quoted as saying in New Scientist, “would allow tests of whether physical laws and constants have varied over the universe’s history.”
* Accuracy, in measuring the kilogram or the second, is perhaps less about knowing you are right than about having an achingly exact understanding of how often you are likely to be wrong.
https://harpers.org/archive/2023/04/the-science-of-the-perfect-second/?src=longreads
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2023-12-04
2023 冷知识 https://medium.com/magnetic/52-things-i-learned-in-2023-a3bbb9f9323d：
* The US Defence Department earns $100m/year operating slot machines used by soldiers on their bases.
* Humans are now roughly as tall as we were 12,000 years ago. 4,000 years ago, the average man was 5’4”.
* A “nonattitude” is a weakly held belief, entirely invented in response to a question in an opinion poll.
* New research shows that placebos are effective in reducing feelings of guilt, but they work less well on shame.
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2023-12-03
经常依赖网上的反向词典查同义词，每次看到’系统暂不支持该查询‘的错误信息就不禁感叹钢印的无微不至。
迄今为止遇到的违禁词：淫秽，示威。
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2023-12-01
感谢懒惰的自己：email邮箱总是不记得及时清除，于是当旁组的人毫无征兆地找上来说你看过我写的spec没有，我可以把早在七月就发过给他们的spec email 扒拉出来，告诉他们不必重起炉灶了。
（他们听不听我的呢？当然不听。但我现在是正义之师了！）
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2023-11-26
Emily Dickinson 这首 "I dwell in Possibility" 真的很合适读给造房子的人听: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj_LYsvGF0E
但还是Judi Dench 读的Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 更厉害，从When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, 到 That then I scorn to change my state with kings.，语气似乎都没有变，但一下子就拨云开雾。
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2023-11-14
记一下非常被种草的木刻：
https://mokuhankan.com/catalogue/thumbnails.php?search_key=general
（骑自行车的女孩，猫八景，Misty Day in Nikko）
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2023-11-08
妈说起商业头脑，说以前的同事里有一名姓贺的，家里是第二食品商店的原主，住陕南村里。动荡时期同事被单位隔离月余，我妈帮她给她老公传过字条。后来她来我家玩，我妈对她倾诉自建房里小家庭没有独立空间，她说那你从你父母那里把房子买下来好了，分割起来就有理有据了嘛。我妈照做了，并几十年后还在念叨她出的好点子。
而后面房子买下来以后打官司，让她侄子搬走的后续，是我妈自己想出来的了。
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2023-10-28
想象一下这个画面：As he was starting up the stairs, Yeats and a couple other members of the group appeared at the top. The two men began to literally shout magic spells at each other
https://dearest.substack.com/p/a-glittery-bat-a-poofy-owl-and-a
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2023-10-23
啊啊啊突然又想起来前个星期Keanu Reeves的乐队来我们这里演出过！当然我是后知后觉，是小孩好友的妈妈告诉我的。
乐队名Dogstar真是好有九十年代特色啊。（这个词的残影突然从记忆里钻出来也真辛苦它了。）
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2023-10-21
查parody novel查到这个：
The Batrachomyomachia or Battle of the Frogs and Mice is a comic epic, or a parody of the Iliad, commonly attributed to Homer，插图和封面都太可爱了：
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Gcds8FKYL.jpg
https://octodon.social/@strangefoe#:~:text=%E6%9F%A5parody%20novel,org/wiki/Batracho
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2023-10-20
查词义查到一本绝版书 "Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes: Origins and Development of the U.S. Navy's Officer Personnel System, 1793-1941", 挂出来的四本$600起价，要不就看不到这本‘monumental study 。’
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2023-10-11
想起来安兰德把《源泉》里的一场性强暴堂皇辩解为‘rape by engraved invitation’，由此可以理解一点点林奕含对巧言令色的绝望。
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2023-10-11
有一种心态，是‘既然你是有偿服务我提的要求就都是合理的’，简称剥削精神。
（看网文，参与海运拼团有感）
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2023-10-07
这位可能不是我的茶 —— "Miracle Polish" By Steven Millhauser
* She was dressed in clothes that no longer seemed a little drab, a little elderly, but were handsomely understated, seductively restrained. Not for a moment did the mirror make her look young, or beautiful, for she was not young and she was not beautiful. But it was as if some inner constriction had dissolved, some sense of her drifting gradually into unhappiness. In the mirror she gave forth a fine resilience.
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2023-10-07
终于读了这篇关于plumber的故事：https://harpers.org/archive/2023/09/man-called-fran/ 联系The Wager，好多（差点）出人命的工作关系。
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2023-10-02
都说google现在不行了，但搜个‘间谍文学 大学课程’，第二条就让我锁定某uu所在大学了。（当然就此止步，但小朋友们的警惕性还是有待加强啊）
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2023-10-01
记一下省得忘记：从小孩学校的杂志里得知作家Ruth Ozeki是校友。（不知道什么途径可以去夸奖她把自己的有声书读得那么好听。）
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2023-09-20
忽然想起以前爸妈吵架，我爸嘲笑我妈是‘南村的女鲁迅’，真替我妈光火。
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2023-09-13
也就是这里说说的刻薄话：特德·姜和刘宇昆的区别有点像学神和学霸的区别。
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2023-09-08
九何 boosted
BrianBinh@dice.camp
strangefoe
Brian Bình
brianbinh@dice.campEN
The English suffix "-ard" (as in "drunkard", "laggard", "braggard", and "sluggard") is used to make adjectives into deprecating nouns.
"He's drunk" is just a description.
"He's a drunkard" is a moral judgment that finds the subject lacking.
The same process turned "he's wise" into "he's a wizard".
"Wizard" was the medieval equivalent of "smartass".
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2023-09-06
群里贴了一张截图，说哪位NPS雇员想出这里用commit这个动词的该得诺贝尔文学奖: 'Bathroom supplies may not available here. Please check the roll before you commit.'
然后我的大脑就提供了‘坐实’这两个字。
群友点评才发现这个pun只有坐厕才合适。（什么叫女性视角，这就是）。当然‘坐实’这个词也经不起推敲，但比动静太大的‘投入’好。
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2023-09-05
很久没有在mefi上看到这么受欢迎的post了：
https://www.metafilter.com/200490/I-just-published-a-wildly-over-researched-article
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2023-08-24
我婆婆的本事——把大家的心情都弄得乌糟糟的，以至于我坐下来面对一堆爬满虫子的代码只觉得精神气爽
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2023-08-20
把小孩送到住宿营后两人就在车里进行了一场长长的不太愉快也不太顺利的交流，想出‘emotional hypochondria’这个词但很大度地只是心里想想。然后晚上没有及时说好是否晚饭一起吃，于是一起吃了但后几天不了。
所以这算是体会到空巢了？
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2023-08-17
等资料下载的时间继续工作吐槽。
File个虫子主题只说‘运行遇到错误’，你倒是说是哪里出错啊，去看个医生你还至少要说是哪里不舒服呢，只说你病了看哪个医生鸟你。
然后上传了两条相关日志，完全不够看的。我说还有吗，文件‘xxx‘呢？喏，这下起劲了，一下子上传了10份压缩文件，每份都接近2G大小。有这么积极挥霍别人的数据流量的吗？我有这个纽约时间海底捞针的吗？
最近看养成系职场文，前面评论里都是嫌弃失误百出的职场菜鸟的，说看得都要结节增生了。然。
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2023-08-16
呃，好奇有些人把陈年老虫转给别人的时候心里有没有一点点不好意思。他们就不怕虫子留久了成精吗？
并且碰到这种情况就觉得自己划水的分寸还是比较小。
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2023-08-08
还以为对Gloucester蛮熟的，但不知道Hopper夫妇在那里画了那么多，也不知道Jo Hopper擅长画水彩画：https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2023/08/03/edward-hopper-show-cape-ann/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjkxMTIxNjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjkyNTAzOTk5LCJpYXQiOjE2OTExMjE2MDAsImp0aSI6IjY0YWMyZTJkLTQ3MzAtNDgxYy05ZWYzLTk0OWYzYTcyOGIzNCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50L2FydC8yMDIzLzA4LzAzL2Vkd2FyZC1ob3BwZXItc2hvdy1jYXBlLWFubi8ifQ.EcZNHR5Y3B6hJqzoGvTNssLwCIhd2M1DW7lmgxtpLD0
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2023-08-03
最近在ebay上努力断舍离，到底碰到麻烦买家了，发信息说你寄的东西是假货！拜托三张照片拍得清清楚楚哎，哪里货不对板了。但作为成年人还是努力共情发了一封‘我很抱歉你失望了’的回复。
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2023-07-26
昨天晚饭时和阿迪讨论到秦刚被免，我说微博上都讳莫如深，评论大多被过滤掉了，只翻到一条说他和哪位配不上‘荣耀’的女士有牵连。 然后我就福至心灵，想起从上星期起零星会见人提起某傅记者，质疑她的来历和资历，终于把两个二放一起了...
顿悟后放狗一查，果然满天谣言都符合我的猜测，遂有点得意地告诉阿迪。他眼神有点奇怪地（后来意识到是’我家居然没通网吗？‘的神态）告诉我NYT对此有名有姓地持续报道有一阵了都。
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2023-07-24
更新KTN时发现JetBlue 网站的烂处：1. Chrome上不行 2. 同行旅客信息是一起更改的，小孩原有的frequent flyer 号因为是美联航的，最近刚刚退出它们同盟，于是直接更新后被吞了。（让人职业病发作的bug）
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2023-07-21
觉得我应该读读 Mary Renault 了
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/07/the-american-boy ：
* Socrates, faced with an earnest, if pretentious, student, resorts to “teasing him out of his pomposities”—as canny a characterization of what it’s like to teach freshmen as any I know of.
* (Sweetman, in his biography, relates how a young actor had written to her, offering to have “the operation” if it meant getting the part. “That,” she wrote back to him, “would be gelding the lily.”)
* “If characters have come to life,” she once wrote, “one should know how they will make love; if not it doesn’t matter. Inch-by-inch physical descriptions are the ketchup of the literary cuisine, only required by the insipid dish or by the diner without a palate.”
* The writers we absorb when we’re young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust.
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2023-07-20
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n14/patricia-lockwood/where-be-your-jibes-now 没看懂很多，given that 我对DFW的长短小说完全无感：
* Of course, as so often with Wallace, on actual investigation this turns out not to be true. The fact withdraws itself, and only the epiphany remains.
* Poured out that peculiar quantum, my readerly goodwill. I thought, what is it exactly? He makes people feel they are in real possession of the word ‘volute’, that their vast untapped icebergs of vocabulary and perceptual detritus are readily available to them. His entire personality is present in the word ‘supposedly’ – it is actually frightening.
* Every so often Wallace offers you a set piece that’s as fully articulated as a Body Worlds exhibit – laminated muscles pinwheeling through the air, beads of plasticine sweat flying – or pauses the action to deliver a weather bulletin that approaches the sublime.
* ‘Since we all breathe, all the time,’ he writes at the end of The Pale King, ‘it is amazing what happens when someone else directs you how and when to breathe.’ The novel does this, as much as any hypnotist. The rhythms of another person’s sentences do this, wind across the grid, Illinois, their attempts to keep their mother alive for all time by reproducing her idiom down to the letter.
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2023-07-19
修士们的好客排名：
https://www.thestopgap.net/leave-monks-alone/
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2023-07-19
#昌先生 古希腊墓志铭：https://www.metafilter.com/199980/The-Most-Embarrassing-Tombstone-of-All-Time
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2023-07-16
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2023-07-14
Wordle 755 5/6 主打一个清一色吧
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