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A Rambling Travel Log of Our Family’s New Year’s Eve Dinner During the 2009 Spring Festival

Life & Notes2009.02.09
A Rambling Travel Log of Our Family’s New Year’s Eve Dinner During the 2009 Spring Festival
A Running Log of the Family New Year’s Eve Dinner Trip During the 2009 Spring Festival Gu Chu published on 2009-02-09 20:56:31 Photos at http://picasaweb.google.com/HYL510/09124 Read 152 times Comments Personal homepage Drop a note Folder: Life——Outings This was this year’s so-called trip by the whole family (including the maternal cousins) from New Year’s Eve to the second day of the first lunar month, our first attempt at eating New Year’s Eve dinner away from home. In short, it was mainly about eating the New Year’s Eve dinner, and really can’t be called much of a trip… I’ll jot down a brief running log along the photos: photos at http://picasaweb.google.com/HYL510/09124 On…
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2009年2月9日
This Week’s Music: Vivaldi, Winter from The Four Seasons.

Life & Notes2009.02.04
This Week’s Music: Vivaldi, Winter from The Four Seasons.
http://amisam.com/mp3/09.%20The%204%20seasons%20(Concerto%20No.%204%20in%20F%20minor%20-%20%27%27Winter%27%27)%20_-_%20Antonio%20Vivaldi.mp3 Aside from Bach, the composer I’ve listened to most should be Mozart; but when it comes to pieces I never tire of hearing, first is “that” canon; second is Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos; third, probably, is Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Besides The Four Seasons, many of Vivaldi’s other pieces are also excellent; lately they have nearly pushed Mozart out of my MP3 player. Though I’m tone-deaf when it comes to music, I can still sense how close Vivaldi is to Bach, so much so that I can be certain they were contemporaries without even checking the references. Baroque really is not bad. I’ve chosen Winter to post. Although the Spring…
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2009年2月4日
JOKER! — The Clown, the One Who Tells Jokes, the Wild Card, the Big Joker, the King.

Life & Notes2009.01.16
JOKER! — The Clown, the One Who Tells Jokes, the Wild Card, the Big Joker, the King.
I am merely an unclaimed street performer, roaming the noisy, clamorous streets of the city, using the crudest props I happened to pick up to ply the cheapest tricks before passersby hurrying past, only hoping that busy modern people might stop for a moment now and then. —— Gu Cha He is neither arrogant nor deferential to others; he is simply striving to pursue true wisdom. A true joker is very different from the other cards. —— Sophie So, Sophie, now you must make a choice. Are you a child whose curiosity has not yet been worn away by the world? Or a philosopher who can never be such a…
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2009年1月16日
The Structure of a Pirate Ship

Life & Notes2009.01.15
The Structure of a Pirate Ship
Noolat has a famous metaphor, roughly to the effect that science is like a ship sailing on the boundless sea: if something goes wrong, people can only repair it with whatever is on hand, or with things that can be salvaged from the sea. You might say it would be better to dismantle the ship and rebuild it from scratch, but the problem is that in this boundless sea the ship is our foothold; we can only keep sailing while repairing it. This metaphor is a good one; however, what those philosophers of science have not sufficiently noticed is that science is not an isolated, freely drifting thing in human…
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2009年1月15日
On My Research Plan for the Next Few Years—Coursework for Reading and Writing

Life & Notes2009.01.07
On My Research Plan for the Next Few Years—Coursework for Reading and Writing
In academic matters, I am not used to setting plans or goals for myself. That does not mean I am a person who drifts with the tide; on the contrary, at any given moment I have a clear understanding of the road beneath my feet, and I will decisively take the next step, but I am not attached to some distant goal that has not yet entered my field of vision. Up to now, the path of my growth, seen in detail, has seemed as though every step were natural and continuous, yet taken as a whole it appears unexpectedly—although looking back now one can hardly find any obvious break…
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2009年1月7日
This Episode’s Music: Handel: The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

Life & Notes2009.01.01
This Episode’s Music: Handel: The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
http://www.musicec.com/videmo/1442/BK_Handel_The_Arrival_of_the_Queen_of_Sheba.mp3 New year, new atmosphere; looking ahead to a new era, I had originally wanted to find a piece of New Age music to suit the occasion, but as luck would have it I couldn’t find one appropriate, so I’ll just turn to a classical piece instead—but in fact, in all sorts of ways, it suits my present mood rather well. The anecdote of the Queen of Sheba probably goes something like this: the Queen of Sheba heard that King Solomon was quite something, so she traveled a long way bearing spices and jewels to meet him, and posed him many difficult questions to test him…… ……the rest doesn’t matter;…
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2009年1月1日
Draft Program for an Old-School Philosophy

Life & Notes2008.12.31
Draft Program for an Old-School Philosophy
If I were recruiting a crew, of course I would need to explain what sort of style and route this ship more or less has. When it comes to a program, it is actually a rather ambiguous thing: it is either too general or too specific. It can be condensed to a single character, “love” or “I”; to two characters, “freedom” or “seeking”; to three, “play games” or “possibility”; to four, “preserve sameness while seeking difference” or “strive for excellence”; to five, “know yourself” or “that old bear of a mother-in-law,” and so on. Any of these could be posted as a slogan at the entrance to Suixuan. Of course,…
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2008年12月31日
From Fisherman to Pirate

Life & Notes2008.12.30
From Fisherman to Pirate
The will that is inherited, the surging currents of the age, people’s dreams… these are things that cannot be stopped. As long as people continue seeking the answer to freedom, they will never cease! Recently, an online friend thought I was impressive and said he wanted to imitate my way of studying. Of course I told him, please, don’t ever do that. My lazy, irregular, and unambitious way of studying—if anyone else tried to imitate it, it would almost certainly be ruined. And I myself have always faced the danger of becoming a heap of useless waste who accomplishes nothing, so it’s definitely not something to take casually. More to…
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2008年12月30日
[Archive] Keke Forum Lecture 64: How to Solve the Underdetermination Problem—A Case Study of Cushing’s Defense of Hidden Variables

Life & Notes2008.12.26
[Archive] Keke Forum Lecture 64: How to Solve the Underdetermination Problem—A Case Study of Cushing’s Defense of Hidden Variables
http://hps.phil.pku.edu.cn/bbs/read.php?tid=882 Time: Friday, December 26, 2008, 3:00–5:00 p.m. Place: Academic Lecture Hall, Center for Science and Society, Chengze Garden Speaker: Bai Tongdong, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Xavier University, USA Topic: How to Solve the Underdetermination Problem—Using Cushing’s Defense of Hidden Variables as an Example Commentator: Liu Huajie Although I couldn’t really raise any questions, and Monday’s report can’t really continue along this line, today’s lecture was quite interesting. What I found interesting was not the topic itself, but rather the many inspirations that Professor Bai mentioned in passing during his talk. As for the topic, my reaction was rather like that of the journal office supporting orthodox quantum mechanics—although…
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2008年12月26日
At Last, I Have Some Confidence in Translation

Life & Notes2008.12.22
At Last, I Have Some Confidence in Translation
Wu Lao-shi’s translation assignment has remained untouched to this day; it will probably get fully underway during winter break. The reason I’ve dragged my feet for so long is, of course, first that my foundation in both English and phenomenology is too weak; second, because of my incurable laziness and old-fox style of doing things. But there is also an indirect factor: I simply cannot stand typing out words from my own pen that make no sense. If it were an English-to-Chinese translation in an English exam, then of course I could quickly write down a load of gobbledygook, just as in a politics exam I can more or less…
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2008年12月22日