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The power supply for my external HDD enclosure lay on the carpet like a undersea fiber linking 2 shores across a big ocean.

Just dig up the tickets I have for the past snowboarding season....

48 tickets
12 runs a day
1 km per run

Milage: 48*15*1 = 576 km

Wow!

Winter is 6 months away.

The spring starts when all snow melt, tree is only with bare branches. Not much is happening for few weeks



Then green starts to grow.



and spring start to go into action

It is a rainy weekend, what a rip-off for a long weekend for those like to go out and do something.

It's exactly 天雨路滑.....



Then I had a car accident yesterday afternoon. It's nothing big, but enough damage. My car's front right wheel hit the curb on a left turn. It was a 90 degree kind of turn, because of the rain, the car slips. The rim is damaged but okay. However, the axial bent. I wasn't driving fast, but should have been more careful since it's raining. It's too late to say that now. Fortunately, I walk away alive and unscratch (yeah.... shouldn't make it a big thing for such a small accident. I had worse....)

So, I spent 2 hours waiting for tow truck to drop my car off to the repair shop. The rest of the weekend will be without a car.

This is my second car accident since I start driving in 1999, the first one was with my VW Golf on 2 years back on a showy night. My car slipped out of control before a light and hit a light pole sideway on the front....

For a 3 seconds incident, it has a great impact on life; cost money (hopefully not too badly), let someone down (I was on my way to pick up a friend to airport, she ends up have to take the bus in the rain), and mess up the Sunday boyz night outing (so someone else has to drive), put some bitter feeling in me.

From time to time, I'd suddenly think; "gee, what if this happened and I get into an accident?" It's kind of like a hair-raising alarm to me danger's ahead. That remind me to be careful. It's an level of alertness, I just not alert enough sometimes even I drive safe. That's what kind of bother me. And I should seriously thinking about taking advanced driving course to learn what to do on these kind of scenario.

I have seen my first RSS Ad since late last year, and the number has grow steadily.

So far, most of the Ads I see are banners on the bottom of an item. But some of ad actually appears as an item. This concerns me a lot; As the number of such ad grow, the noise level going to increase to a point that I'll have to filter a lot of junks before I can see see something useful. Sure, someone is going to come up with filter and other technique to battle these, but just like spams on other media (ie email), it's going to be a uphill battle.

RSS is supposed to be a simple format for people to notify the world they got new contents, but it's no longer simple.

from sidekick: 第一個RSS 廣告

Saw the news awhile back about the first lady's speech, finally have a change to watch it.

A funny speech from the First desperate housewife lady, who used to be a librarian. She talks about how useful a chainsaw to the cowboy, and he who milk the male horse, and definition of a short walk (about 20 foot).

Whether you hate the man or not, you're going to like the humor in it and got to see the man from another angle.

Jackson's Junction: Video: First Lady Laura Bush steals the spotlight at WHCD

I went back to work on Sunday to catch up with things, and saw a roadkill as I drove in.

It saddens me when I saw the animal laying on the middle of the road. What a stupid idiot runs over animal like this? The road is a 40km zone and the roadkill is just ~20m passed a speed bump.... don't tell me you didn't slow down to pass the bump!

Everyday when I left work, I saw these 2 ground hounds by the road side eating. They will run back into the bush if you stop and look at them. On the other side of the road there are a bunch of gooses. They are nice little cute creatures enjoying their spring.

Now's only one ground hound left....

Our campus is just next to a swamp that is designated as a protected habitat for migrating birds and local creatures. There is a short path running through it that many take a walk during lunch time. It's a nice little walk to be away from things for 15-20 minutes break. The treeline blocked the view to our site and you are like walking in the wild. I have done that a few times. We have other neighbors here like goose, and even one time I saw a deer.

People are just too good at destroying things. I always think it is an attritude thing, when people talking about save the Mother Nature. It all starts from small little things like respect the land and living with our envionment in harnomy.

Read it on 靚靚映風, your car is indeed a weapon.

p.s. My apology for the picture of dead animal.....

From time to time, I have too much left over rice after meal. The next day what I do is make fried rice.



Ingredient:
- eggs x2
- left over rice
- salt
- soy sauce
- optional: fixed vegetables

Procedure:
1. blend the eggs
2. add a little bit of water and salt in eggs
3. heat up pan with oil
4. put eggs in pan and scamble
5. add rice, spread a bit of water on top of rice (put in veget if wanted)
6. add soy sauce
7. mix up egg and rice until done

Went to watch The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy tonight on a date. Yeah... it's not really a good date movie. But I wasn't really on a date, anyway.

It got more what I call not-so-real sci-fi style, you know, the kind that you won't list the spec of the spacehip type XYZ and no crazy scientist will publish paper telling you this technology is coming in 10 years. A thing from the radio show days, maybe? It definitely no bleeding edge space technology like you see in Star Wars, but it's fun to see infinite improbability drive at work.

It got more imagination than special effect and CG. One example is you don't got to see spaceship landing, but just hear it touch down. I mean, I remember at least 2 cases of USS Voyager comes down from orbit and land with thruster. It's not they do not spend money on CG and such because there are some scenes with quite a health does of CG. I guess it's more of a subtle thing taken from the TV show?

Story wides, you can tell its British roots from the british humors, and Arthor, the main character just smells like from UK alright. I has a not of subtle humors and I particularly like the way it pokes at things like bureaucrats, politicians, and religion. Oh, also it's a very violent movie; all people on earth were killed within 15 minutes of the movie started. (sorry for the spoiler)

And just as most movies, there has to have a love line there; Loves makes man do things. ie go a long long distance to save the loved one.

BTW, it's 42, that's all you need to do.

I give a 2.5/5