Recently I paid a lot of attention while writing in Strava. Because it was always regarding a just finished activity, I tried to record something interesting, it had to be past tense. And that made me aware how I had tended to make grammar mistakes.

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Message to the maker of "Throw Bricks at Pedestrians Simulator Deluxe"

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Two weeks ago there was a SCIOLY event (Science Olympiad) at UChicago. This week there was again a similar event at a middle school in Arlington Heights. Both were pretty good - impressive.

(Speaking as a parent volunteer, I wish I could help kids with the subjects, or any testing rules/tricks, but I didn't have much experience. I did information ( Read more... )

Last time I wrote a review was in 2018, about 2017. Or maybe I wrote something elsewhere, maybe on Twitter? It was hard to write something freely even with my mother language.

The last week of 2020 was a happy time. The company I worked for (Morningstar) made a decision to let everyone take off this entire week. I kept telling myself unlike before ( Read more... )

Yesterday JY learned a lot about Yoga poses. I keep saying that as "yogurt", no idea why.

- Child's pose. Surprisingly hard for me!
- Triangle
- Butterfly
- Turtle
- Diamond, which needs two kids
- Resting, which is the easiest, except that you cannot rest face down
- Lion, where you roar loudly and crawl
- Snake, also crawl and make the "Szzz"

Jimmy had an obsession about bad guys. He wanted to be a bad guy in his star of the week report. He even wanted to live with bad guys. Then he asked if policeman's job is to gun them down ( Read more... )

Jimmy learnt about X-Ray fish today at Ms. Pam's Twinkling Stars preschool. At first I thought it was a fish under X-Ray, and I don't quite believe what he is saying. Then Google helped. It turns out to be a little fish that is quite transparent. From Wikipedia[1], "Pristella maxillaris, the only species in the genus Pristella, is commonly known as ( Read more... )

事情正在起变化----过年娱乐围观方舟子战韩寒

我对这一事件的任一方都没有什么感情偏向，纯酱油围观。试图对本人进行诸如韩粉，方粉，五毛，带路党的分类是毫无意义，如此作为者及口出污言者删掉拉黑，莫谓言之不预也。

作者提到理工宅，我觉得关注这个的主要是理工男才对，明明不太懂，又很有求知欲，想搞清楚那些名词都是什么东西。。我也很想知道，不过太忙了。很反对毫无事实依据的说法。我跟张丽说，我有很多自己的观点，所以我不能跟你描述那些事情，你得自己去看、去Google或者维基去查，你要是听了我讲，就会受我的片面观点的影响。居安思危，君子慎独，自己看不见自己的问题，灯下黑，所以不要以为自己是对的。没有事实就不要评论，有了事实还不见得是真的，真的也不见得是重要的。张丽说怪不得你妹妹嫌你烦。

如果说那个委员会在拿自己的名声来冒险，本以为选了一个全人类的楷模，没想到却是这样的一个错误，也不为过。那个委员会之前有出错的情况没？我总觉得和平奖不像理化之类那么让人信服。为什么不能在他被抓起来时评奖？为什么不能等他被放了再评奖？为什么不考虑中国人民的感情？

"for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China".

我不敢也不会签署“08宪章”。

光武回来，去吃了披萨。很久没有吃披萨了……

雨下得不大，但是很久。

公司又租了对面的半层楼，布置得有模有样(虽然还是雏形)。桌子大概比现在的还要小，恐怕身体又要变差一些。

不知道为什么喜欢那个小单肩包，是因为拉链还是提手呢。