[Conference]Fiber Society 2007 Spring Conference (5/22-5/26)

>> Monday, April 30, 2007

2007 Spring Conference
May 23-25, Westin Poinsett Hotel, Greenville, South Carolina
Tentative Program
Registration
Sign Up for Post-conference Tour at Clemson (o)
Exhibitor Information & Registration
Advanced Fiber Process Development Workshop, May 21-22(x)

Registration: $200 for reg grad students
(什麼時候註冊好像都沒差。)

Flight: $325
Tuesday, May 22 Flight: 385, 2932
Depart: Boston Logan International, May 22, 12:01 PM
Arrive: Detroit Wayne County Metropolitan Airport, May 22, 2:14 PM
Detroit Wayne County Metropolitan Airport to Greer Greenville/Spartanburg Airport
Depart: Detroit Wayne County Metropolitan Airport, May 22, 5:21 PM
Arrive: Greer Greenville/Spartanburg Airport, May 22, 6:58 PM
Greer Greenville/Spartanburg Airport to Detroit Wayne County Metropolitan Airport
Saturday, May 26 Flight: 3736, 1220
Depart: Greer Greenville/Spartanburg Airport, May 26, 4:01 PM
Arrive: Detroit Wayne County Metropolitan Airport, May 26, 6:02 PM
Detroit Wayne County Metropolitan Airport to Boston Logan International
Depart: Detroit Wayne County Metropolitan Airport, May 26, 9:05 PM
Arrive: Boston Logan International, May 26, 10:56 PM

HotelThe Westin Poinsett: $(159+195*2+169)*1.1=$790
The Westin Poinsett, Greenville
120 South Main Street
Greenville, South Carolina, United States
Phone (864) 421-9700 • Fax (864) 421-0460
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Total: 200+325+790=$1315
加上中晚餐和機場來回計程車費,看來$1500的總額很容易就可以破表。

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[歌曲]好聽的歌Hips Don't Lie (Shakira)

>> Saturday, April 21, 2007

[Shakira] 活潑熱情的歌曲。
Ladies up in here tonight. No fightin', no fightin'
We got the refugees up in here. No fightin', no fightin'

Shakira, Shakira

I never really knew that she could dance like this.
She makes a man want to speak Spanish.
Como se llama, bonita, mi casa, su casa.
Shakira, Shakira

Oh baby when you talk like that. You make a woman go mad.
So be wise and keep on. Reading the signs of my body.

I'm on tonight. You know my hips don't lie. And I'm starting to feel it's right.
All the attraction, the tension. Don't you see baby, this is perfection.

Hey Girl, I can see your body movin' And it's driving me crazy.
And I didn't have the slightest idea. Until I saw you dancin'

And when you walk up on the dance floor.
Nobody cannot ignore the way you move your body, girl.
And everything so unexpected - the way you right and left it.
So you can keep on shaking it.

I never really knew that she could dance like this.
She makes a man want to speak Spanish.
Como se llama, bonita, mi casa, su casa.
Shakira, Shakira

Oh baby when you talk like that. You make a woman go mad.
So be wise and keep on. Reading the signs of my body.

And I'm on tonight. You know my hips don't lie. And I am starting to feel you boy.
Come on lets go, real slow. Don't you see baby asi es perfecto.

Oh I won't deny my hips don't lie. And I am starting to feel it's right.
All the attraction, the tension. Don't you see baby, this is perfection.
Shakira, Shakira

Oh boy, I can see your body moving. Half animal, half man.
I don't, don't really know what I'm doing. But you seem to have a plan.
My will and self restraint. Have come to fail now, fail now.
See, I am doing what I can, but I can't so you know. That's a bit too hard to explain.

Baila en la calle de noche Baila en la calle del dia
Baila en la calle de noche Baila en la calle del dia

I never really knew that she could dance like this.
She makes a man want to speak Spanish.
Como se llama, bonita, mi casa, su casa.
Shakira, Shakira

Oh baby when you talk like that. You know you got me hypnotized.
So be wise and keep on. Reading the signs of my body.

Senorita, feel the conga, let me see you move like you come from Colombia.

Mira en Barranquilla se baila asi, say it!
Mira en Barranquilla se baila asi

Yeah She's so sexy every man's fantasy a refugee like me back with the Fugees from a 3rd world country.
I go back like when 'pac carried crates for Humpty Humpty.
I need a whole club dizzy.
Why the CIA wanna watch us? Colombians and Haitians.
I ain't guilty, it's a musical transaction. No more do we snatch ropes.
Refugees run the seas 'cause we own our own boats.

I'm on tonight, my hips don't lie. And I'm starting to feel you boy.
Come on let's go, real slow. Baby, like this is perfecto

Oh, you know I won't deny and my hips don't lie.
And I am starting to feel it's right.
The attraction, the tension. Baby, like this is perfection.

No fightin' No fightin'

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[波士頓]Symphony Hall

>> Friday, April 20, 2007

星期三,第一次到Symphony Hall聽音樂會,原來Symphony Hall離MIT這麼近。
我們聽的是波士頓交響管弦樂團的預演(Mozart, Previn and Ravel, Boston Symphony Orchestra),有莫札特,Previn(波士頓交響管弦樂團的指揮)和拉威爾的作品。

感想就是Symphony Hall蠻漂亮的,預演時大家都不穿正式服裝,非常隨性,觀眾隨便一個人上去台上,應該都不會被發現吧。莫札特和拉威爾演奏常被指揮中斷,尤其是莫札特,所以聽起來就很不對...我想聽完整的演出...唯一最完整演出的就是指揮自己的作品,但是不合我的口味,Jimmy還說,這彷彿是交響樂中的流行曲,在100年後絕對會消失的作品(同感)。最好笑的是,同行共六個人裡,正常而言會有兩個人在睡覺,最多大概有三四個。演奏到一個段落的時候,觀眾席會有一大堆咳嗽聲,因為在演奏時要忍住,大家真是太專心在聆聽音樂了。

PS.我喜歡Symphony Hall樓上的包廂。
PS2.現在宿舍好像警報器響了耶...我應該要離開宿舍了...
PS3.仔細再聽,其實那是我室友的鬧鐘聲,難怪聽了都沒有什麼緊張感...

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[波士頓]The Fogg Art Museum

>> Thursday, April 19, 2007

The Fogg Art Museum,我還蠻喜歡這個博物館的,整體感覺落落大方,中庭的寬廣,可以從樓上悠閒地眺望樓下,典型的博物館建築?!畫的擺設簡單大方,絲毫沒有MFA的擁擠。有許多曾經在美術課本看過的名畫,莫內、雷諾瓦、馬諦斯、畢卡索等,當然也有很多關於耶穌基督的畫,基於不是教徒,所以興趣不大,反而是一旁擺設介紹哪些礦石可以生產出哪些顏料,比較吸引我。但最令我印象深刻的是3F的小五生臨摹名畫,有實力高強的小畫家,和原本的畫相差不幾,但更有趣的是獨樹一格的小畫家,有那幅畫的輪廓,卻處處充滿童趣和自己的想像力,完全不同於原作,儼然是幅嶄新迷人的畫!真是太厲害了,小朋友看世界的眼光,的確和大人不同,天然又新鮮。

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[日影]推薦 Udon

>> Monday, April 16, 2007

最近推薦日本電影:現在,只想愛你
Udon(很不錯看喔,劇情有創意而且拍攝手法很特別的電影,對於人與人之間的情感刻畫地很好,還可以看到很多好吃的Udon)。
風味絕佳(森永牛奶糖原來有這麼深的涵義)。
不推薦:堤真一的地下鐵。(雖然裡面的演員我都蠻喜歡的,但是,就是覺得劇情不好)。

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[電影]The sleep of science (Science des rêves, La) (2006)

>> Sunday, April 15, 2007

IMDB:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354899/

The Sleep of Science (Science des rêves, La) (2006)

男女主角的名字,史蒂芬(Stéphane)和史蒂芬妮(Stéphanie)。史蒂芬的夢和現實是不分的,parallel,synchronized, and random,夢裡面的他有史蒂芬頻道,認為兩個大腦是可以有連結傳輸的。有一天他夢到他送給鄰居史蒂芬妮一封信,結果一邊做夢,真的把信送出去了(夢遊症!?),他發現之後,大驚,趕快把信從門縫下撈回來,沒想到史蒂芬妮竟然知道有過這件事情,他就深信他和史蒂芬妮大腦之間的連結,但其實是他送信的時候已經被史蒂芬妮發現了。他送給史蒂芬妮一台時空機器,幫史蒂芬妮的小馬玩偶裝置零件,變成會跑的小馬,和史蒂芬妮布置天空的雲和玻璃紙海浪上的船,夢到自己12個月代表性災難月曆深受好評。夢裡面有紙做的城市、汽車和攝影機,科幻繽紛的世界。

延伸閱讀:http://pots.tw/node/1302

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[心情]我起床了

>> Thursday, April 12, 2007

大概睡了快12個小時,還做了很有趣的夢,每個房間都在用projector放電影。

醒來之後就要面對現實,改我的Thesis Proposal,今天之內要改好,昨天忘記把檔案帶回來,今天只好去學校打,希望實驗室非常安靜,變成適合工作的環境,然後,還要找到一個ChE的Committee,這才更讓我頭痛。

台灣觀光局真不錯,會郵寄觀光影片給我,希望可以在I-Fair前寄到,這樣就可以在那天播放了。

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[心情]本日最好笑

>> Wednesday, April 11, 2007

[From NIJ Report]
背景介紹:在2003年夏天,有位穿著防彈衣的警官被槍擊,嚴重受傷。後來他們懷疑用Zylon製成的防彈衣會隨著時間和環境降低品質,所以開始進行一連串測試,發現,以Zylon製成的防彈衣的確有問題。

(In the summer of 2003, a Forest Hills, Pennsylvania, police officer was shot and seriously injured when a bullet penetrated the front panel of his Second Chance Ultima® armor, an armor made of multiple layers of fabric woven from Zylon® yarn.)

我覺得好笑的地方:儘管如此,NIJ還是鼓勵官員繼續穿Zylon製成的防彈衣,因為穿著品質有問題的防彈衣還是比沒穿防彈衣安全。

(NIJ continues to encourage public safety officers to wear their Zylon® - containing armor until it is replaced. Even armor that may have degraded ballistic performance is better than no armor.)

真是無聊的一篇po文,害我英文看到眼花,為什麼要用Zylon,其它材料不好嗎?都不和其它材料比較一下。

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[心情]Conference

>> Tuesday, April 10, 2007

在今年九月初(?)以前,可以花系上$1500去參加一個Conference,可能的選擇MRS,ACS,AIChE,IUPAC,但是現在看起來,時間上比較剛好的只有IUPAC,MRS(11/26-11/30, Boston),ACS(8/19-8/23, Boston <(= _ =)>),AIChE(11月在鹽湖城,看起來不錯,但是時間好晚),IUPAC可以參加的幾乎都是意大利、波蘭、捷克等,坐飛機要九個小時以上,飛機票加住宿加註冊費一定破表,說研究很相關,好像又不是那麼相關,嗚嗚,真糟糕。

有鑒於義大利治安太壞,所以或許http://www.nsti.org/Nanotech2007/也是個不錯的選擇,剛好學期結束,5/20-5/24,Santa Clara, California,飛機票$255-350左右,飛行時間約八小時多,天氣應該相當宜人,經費足夠住在相當不錯的旅館,悠閒地享受學術氣息。

Or another option: http://fs.tx.ncsu.edu/
5/23-5/25, Westin Poinsett Hotel, Greenville, South Carolina
My labmate said it is a nice place, especially for golf.

嗯,大致上計畫成立,4/18 meeting(最後期限)時把單子拿給老師簽吧,哈。

兩週前要訂好機票。YA!五月底去玩,等這學期結束(5/16)再來好好詳細計畫吧。

歐洲自助旅行對我困難度較高,等下次吧。

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[心情]這個週末

>> Sunday, April 08, 2007

這個週末最令我感動的事情,就是吃到Lisa煮的一桌菜,真的是太好吃了,吃著吃著,終於有想要好好學煮菜的念頭了,Lisa還烤好吃的蛋糕,熱騰騰出爐,更神奇的是,我們四個人竟然吃光它,後來的舞蹈教學錄影帶也很有趣,Lisa真是愈來愈令我佩服了!Hungjen搬到北卡,現在應該還在roadtrip吧。今天Yu-Chen家的Brunch也很棒,尤其從德州來的厚片葡萄乾吐司,好吃,豆漿也好喝,後來大家就說青島園的菠菜水餃很好吃,以後一定要試試。後來就和淑貞一起去看Rone打籃球,還看到認識的學弟,才發現這個比賽,有社會人士組、MIT組、BU組和UMass組等,要持續好幾個禮拜吧。
從明天開始,要好好認真專心於實驗,Fight!

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[BOA]2007 Museums on Us

>> Thursday, April 05, 2007

五月是博物館的季節,今年也一定要去,Bank of American,每年五月提供的免費博物館之旅,還想再去一次Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
http://www.bankofamericapromotions.com/museums/

UPDATE:不過,很遺憾的是,今年波士頓地區免費的博物館好像只有四家,其中的兩家憑MIT學生證本來就免費> _ <。

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[NE47]清潔工

>> Wednesday, April 04, 2007

NE47的清潔工很好,常幫我把喝剩的咖啡處理掉。

因為辦公室到水槽有點遠,我每次喝不完的時候都先放在桌上,常常隔天一來就不見了,真令人感動,至於為什麼喝不完,原因大概是NE47 4th的咖啡不好喝,明明外面用同樣豆子(green mountain),泡出來的口感就是不一樣,相較之下,連7-11的咖啡都異常地美味!

PS.今天發了10.584考卷,看到分數超傷心,分數還打在第一頁,超狠,基於滿分是85,整體分數看起來更難看,翻開考卷,還看到老師評語???,後來好像宣布平均是40,標準差很小,最高60多,耶,發現自己平均以上,欣慰了點,有種大家一起爛的感覺...(= _ =)。哈,不太想看答案。
PS2.我要強迫自己每天都要學習2.071。
PS3.如果我是科學狂人,現在最想要的東西就是防彈衣,應該問大弟去哪弄一件來研究看看,但是,我目前不是科學狂人...

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[波士頓]哈佛玻璃花博物館(Harvard Museum of Natural History )

>> Sunday, April 01, 2007

哈佛玻璃花博物館網站:http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/on_exhibit/the_glass_flowers.html
票價:成人$9,學生$7。
1. 麻州居民星期天早上九點到中午免費(全年),星期三下午三點到五點免費(九月到五月)。
2. 每個哈佛學生可以帶一個人免費進場。
3. 好消息,從2008/5到2009/4,BOA(Bank of America)卡的持有人,在這幾個月的第一個週末,可以免費到哈佛玻璃花博物館(還有其它博物館免費,請見http://promotions.bankofamerica.com/museums/)。

哈佛博物館裡的玻璃花(glass flower),一點都看不出來是玻璃做的,那對父子真是強者(Leopold Blaschka and Rudolph),大概把畢生心血都投入到裡面了吧。

看著那些玻璃花,除了想著到底是怎麼用玻璃做出來的之外,另一大半心思都在想,這到底是什麼花?大部分的花都認不出來,如果是植物系的學生,看到應該超開心的。

除了玻璃花之外,博物館裡還有很多動物標本,不知道誰跟我說過裡面有比人高的鹿,後來,果然找到了,把我當比例尺,那頭鹿的確是比我高很多,很像海賊王變身後的喬巴(by sx4rockman)。

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Exercise

目標:每週兩次。
目標:要變成羽毛球能手。
Practice: Toastmaster Friday Club.

小白備忘錄

1. Leverage S3E5, Lie to me: S3E12, Criminal Minds: S6E9.
2. Learn French, and Spanish?
3. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Non-Programmer%27s_Tutorial_for_Python_2.6
Dictionaries
4. 學化妝。

旅遊計畫

2011/6過後: 歐洲
Holiday:
待辦:三角飯糰工具,好的書桌和椅子。

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