分类:Life & Notes

  • An Explanation of the Progress of My Pursuit of mm

    Life & Notes

    An Explanation of the Progress of My Pursuit of mm

    In one sentence: there has been no progress. On the Progress of My Search for a Girlfriend In one sentence: there has been no progress. There are very few applicants, but there are indeed several—at least three, in fact—mostly second-year master’s students. It seems second year is a delicate period… The applicants before this were basically all frightened away. In the previous article I already said that I merely adopt a very ordinary cool indifference; I would never pretend to be anything in order to scare people off. On the contrary, the so-called methods of frightening people amount to nothing more than laying bare my true characteristics. Judging from previous…

    阅读全文
  • This Week’s Music: Boccherini — “Serenade on the Way to Madrid” (Long Live Vacuum Tubes)

    Life & Notes

    This Week’s Music: Boccherini — “Serenade on the Way to Madrid” (Long Live Vacuum Tubes)

    Newman’s MP4 really is awful. Though it’s nice that it can play lossless files, there are simply too many lossless files that explode with clipping; by experience, one can generalize that APE is usually more prone to clipping, and the higher the quality of the music, the more likely it is to clip. But the “Antique Vacuum Tube String Baroque” album I downloaded recently is a counterexample—it is both APE and ultra-high quality, yet it plays with remarkable smoothness…… This is also the first time I’ve clearly heard the difference between lossless and MP3. I don’t even know exactly what this vacuum-tube microphone is, but it really is different! This…

    阅读全文
  • My Biological Clock Has Been Abnormally Disrupted Lately…

    Life & Notes

    My Biological Clock Has Been Abnormally Disrupted Lately…

    I say “recently,” but in fact it’s been bad ever since this semester started… The key problem is that the class schedule this semester always seems somehow out of harmony… ——Classes on Monday and Tuesday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., on Thursday from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., on Friday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, and the occasional or not-so-occasional Keke Forum on Friday afternoons. At first glance, afternoon classes seem most suited to me. I can get up at noon and go straight to school; after lunch I can read for a while and then go to class, and after class I can even have dinner before…

    阅读全文
  • A Set of Questions About Falling in Love

    Life & Notes

    A Set of Questions About Falling in Love

    A Set of Questions About Dating   I saw this set of questions on Mist’s campus page (though he likes to change his name; still, I’ll allow myself to address him this way) (http://blog.xiaonei.com/GetEntry.do?id=341170940&owner=5675), and he didn’t go on to tag anyone else. But looking at these kinds of questions, I thought they might be somewhat helpful in introducing my views on love, so I took the initiative and asked him to tag me~ After all, if I always use my own language and perspective to explain my views on love and such, the things I focus on may be completely at cross purposes with what ordinary people care about….

    阅读全文
  • This Week’s Music: BWV 1051 (Brandenburg Concerto No. 6) (and a Few Casual Thoughts on Listening to Music)

    Life & Notes

    This Week’s Music: BWV 1051 (Brandenburg Concerto No. 6) (and a Few Casual Thoughts on Listening to Music)

    http://www.lirazelscastle.net/choir%20royal/Concerto%20No.%206%20in%20B%20flat%20major%20I%20[Allegro].mp3  Although the effect of the new MP3 player is not ideal, in basic terms it is still quite good. After testing, it seems that only some music files produce obvious popping noises during playback, while others can be played smoothly. Broadly speaking, the Flac format is better than APE, but some MP3 files are very choppy.   I bought a pair of headphones that cost about as much as an MP3 player, and indeed there is a difference! I only hope they will live a long, long life. The MP3 player is truly a marvelous invention (of course, its earlier ancestor was the Walkman), and it provides a way…

    阅读全文
  • Supplementary Notes and Self-Introduction Following “Zheng mm”

    Supplementary Notes and Self-Introduction Following “Zheng mm”
    Life & Notes

    Supplementary Notes and Self-Introduction Following “Zheng mm”

    坦白说,我的征mm启事发得实在缺乏诚意,本来想好在谈完“概念问题”之后就谈谈自己的个性和特点的,结果扯了一通概念后发泄完毕,就不想写别的了,结果整个启事连同诠释在内关于我个人情况的介绍几乎就只有第1条这么点儿——当然,这一句话包含了最为核心的部分。 当然,即便对我的各种情况毫不了解,只是看了启事就来应征的人,我也是欢迎的,只不过在随后的接触中我早晚也一定会把我的各种特点展示给她看。而对mm来说,如果能够事先看过我的介绍,心中有数再来应征,总比接触之后再被我吓走来得更好。所以我现在还是多少先说明一些吧。 Supplementary notes and self-introduction following the “seeking mm” notice 坦白说,我的征mm启事发得实在缺乏诚意,本来想好在谈完“概念问题”之后就谈谈自己的个性和特点的,结果扯了一通概念后发泄完毕,就不想写别的了,结果整个启事连同诠释在内关于我个人情况的介绍几乎就只有第1条这么点儿——当然,这一句话包含了最为核心的部分。 当然,即便对我的各种情况毫不了解,只是看了启事就来应征的人,我也是欢迎的,只不过在随后的接触中我早晚也一定会把我的各种特点展示给她看。而对mm来说,如果能够事先看过我的介绍,心中有数再来应征,总比接触之后再被我吓走来得更好。所以我现在还是多少先说明一些吧。 Before introducing myself, let me first say a few more words about what I think of mm’s or applicants’ side of things. As I said before, I do not preset any standard for “what the relationship between an mm and me ought to be”; as for “what it even means to be an ‘applicant,’” I am even less in possession of any definite concept. Obviously, the mere fact that you say “I’m applying” and I say “Sure” does not mean the establishment of any more specific relationship. The question is, then what? In short, whether as “mm”…

    阅读全文
  • Miscellaneous Notes on the Daguang Festival

    Life & Notes

    Miscellaneous Notes on the Daguang Festival

    Compared with the previous two years, this year’s Guanggun Festival was quite enjoyable. Of course, nothing good actually happened; it was just that I was in an especially good mood. Lately I’ve been in a very good mood all the time, and that is one of the motives behind my post soliciting a mm. What excited me most today was receiving the new MP3 I bought a few days ago. Originally I had bought it as a birthday present to myself, but unexpectedly it still arrived a little late. Oh well, let’s count it as a festival gift~ The old MP3 of mine actually hadn’t broken, it just had a…

    阅读全文
  • This Episode’s Music: Mussorgsky – A Night on the Bare Mountain

    Life & Notes

    This Episode’s Music: Mussorgsky – A Night on the Bare Mountain

    http://course.szu.edu.cn/yinyue/xinshang/jiaoxiangyue/bjjc/mussorgsky/s15-57.mp3 It’s been a long time since I last posted music. Why? I forgot. Anyway, let’s pick one~ I’ve posted two pieces of serious classical music in a row, so this time let’s change the flavor and go with something eerie~ Halloween has already been over for a week, but let’s just barely count this as seasonally appropriate~ http://www.xici.net/b340764/d38035860.htm The fantasia *Night on Bald Mountain* was originally named “The Night of St. John’s Eve on the Bare Mountain.” It is a famous work by the Russian composer Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky. *Night on Bald Mountain* is a single-movement programmatic piece, with narrative and pictorial qualities; its structure is free, close to…

    阅读全文
  • 【This event has ended】[Paused][Unpinned][Pinned 3] Seeking mm~【This event has ended】

    【This event has ended】[Paused][Unpinned][Pinned 3] Seeking mm~【This event has ended】
    Life & Notes

    【This event has ended】[Paused][Unpinned][Pinned 3] Seeking mm~【This event has ended】

    一、Announcement 1.  Male. Born in ’85. Philosophy of science and technology at Peking University. Suixuan Gucha. Born in Shanghai, settled in Beijing. I love wisdom, books, and cartoons. 2.  Seeking one mm. 3.  No conditions, no requirements (except those conditions that are analytically included within the ordinary understanding of the concept mm). 4.  This post will remain in force until the blog entry is closed. 5.  Reposting and circulation are welcome, but only this announcement section may be reposted, with the source indicated as EPR.ycool.com. 6.  Aside from interested parties or people interested in introducing someone to me, I will not report related progress to any other friends. 7.  Contact…

    阅读全文
  • The Hard Drive Broke…

    Life & Notes

    The Hard Drive Broke…

    Among all hardware, the thing one least wants to see break down is undoubtedly the hard drive—especially a hard drive on which one has already installed all sorts of software and drivers, saved countless files, materials, music, and photos, and made no backup whatsoever. One simply does not want it to fail, no matter what… and yet… and yet…  Within the warranty period, anything else can break; at worst, you just get it replaced. Other hardware is usually first repaired if possible, and only if it cannot be fixed do they give you a new one. Only hard drives do not really have a “warranty” so much as a “replacement…

    阅读全文