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About My Private Residence

Life & Notes2008.09.25
About My Private Residence
xyt, if you don’t like this kind of thing, don’t come in~ About My Private Residence It has been more than a year since I moved from the former “Yangroupao Dwelling” into my new home; after going to graduate school I simply stopped applying for dormitory housing, so I can be said to have settled down here. At the very least, before I have children, this will certainly be my permanent residence. I once wrote a special piece on “Yangroupao Dwelling” and posted many photos, yet after moving into the new place for a year I still never mentioned it on the blog, merely slipping the new address in quietly…
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2008年9月25日
This Week’s Music: Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E Minor, First Movement

Life & Notes2008.09.10
This Week’s Music: Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E Minor, First Movement
http://www.yf.net.cn/musichall/foreign_music/080218-02.mp3 A faster link, but a different version: http://hdl7lhk7.hfes.cn/uploadfile/e.mp3 Here’s another violin concerto~ Reposting a brief introduction: http://www.hongen.com/art/gdyy/amqbl/ga30903.htm The Violin Concerto in E minor was composed between 1838 and 1844, and first performed in 1845. Among Mendelssohn’s violin concertos, this one is the most famous, and together with Beethoven’s D major, Brahms’s D major, and Tchaikovsky’s D major violin concertos, it is known as one of the world’s four great violin concertos. The whole work is filled with tender romantic feeling and an even, well-proportioned formal beauty; the treatment of the violin is exquisite beyond compare, the melody is lovely, and the technique dazzling, reaching the summit of perfection. It…
everyday life music works
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2008年9月10日
This Issue’s Music: Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219, 3 MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 5

Life & Notes2008.08.25
This Issue’s Music: Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219, 3 MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 5
For five consecutive issues I haven’t posted any classical music. With the Olympics over, and as a sign that life is returning to normal, let’s bring classical music back to the blog homepage again~ Speaking of classical music, apart from Bach, the composer I’ve listened to most is probably Mozart. Maybe the total time I’ve spent listening to Mozart is even greater. But looking back, I realized that I’ve reposted Bach’s works here five times, yet not once have I posted Mozart. That seems a little hard to justify… So, a Mozart piece it is! Mozart’s Fifth Violin Concerto is a fine one, and conveniently there’s a complete, high-speed link…
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2008年8月25日
[Repost] Yali’s piece about Liu Xiang’s withdrawal from the race is quite interesting~

Life & Notes2008.08.19
[Repost] Yali’s piece about Liu Xiang’s withdrawal from the race is quite interesting~
http://ariela.ycool.com/post.2927002.html I’ve also been a bit loquacious lately. After seeing Liu Xiang withdraw, once my own emotions had settled down a little, I thought: hmm, tonight I’m going online to look at the reactions from all sides. Sure enough, it was good reading. The Olympics are truly very good reading. Because we can infer that if Liu Xiang: 1 announced his withdrawal two days in advance. 1.1 He would be cursed to death by everyone, still betraying the 1.3 billion people and the 56 nationalities, still lacking sportsmanship, still being irresponsible; 1.2 He would be cursed to death by everyone, because he might fear he could…
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2008年8月19日
Human Flesh Search Is Terrifying

Life & Notes2008.07.23
Human Flesh Search Is Terrifying
Today I saw CCTV’s program “The Roundup of Human Flesh Search” on Everybody Talks Law, and it was truly astonishing. Too terrifying. Before, I had only witnessed the “power of Chinese netizens” in the Zhou Laohu affair; that power was indeed formidable, and its effects seemed positive as well, but even then my comments were anything but optimistic. Looking again at these “human flesh search” cases, they also serve to confirm my longstanding judgment: the Cultural Revolution is still continuing. The essence of the Cultural Revolution is not dictatorship or autocracy, but mob violence, the uproar of “justice.” When we see Chinese netizens, so “full of a sense…
everyday life China internet sociology
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2008年7月23日
“‘Pen’ Notes” During My Retreat in 2008

Life & Notes2008.07.20
“‘Pen’ Notes” During My Retreat in 2008
This “Notes” was written from the beginning, when I announced on February 22, 2008 that I was going into seclusion and locking up the blog, all the way to early July, and it was recorded in a notebook I carried with me. It really was because I had shut down the blog as a channel for pouring things out that I had no choice but to switch to another form. Writing by hand feels obviously different from typing, and the articles you produce that way feel different too. The train of thought and the structure both seem more obstructed and less fluent. But being able to jot down, in an…
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2008年7月20日
A Brief Note on “Wandering in the Clouds” (1)

Life & Notes2008.07.16
A Brief Note on “Wandering in the Clouds” (1)
From July 8 to 15 I went to Yunnan with my parents for a trip—“cloud roaming,” for short. Of course, this sort of traveling can’t compare with the real “cloud roaming” I yearn for. I’m using this title for the post just to indulge my own yy~ We went with a Spring and Autumn Travel Agency group. Spring and Autumn is one of Shanghai’s old-established travel agencies; back when my parents went on their honeymoon by travel package, it was also Spring and Autumn, so it was certainly more正规 and reliable than those small, fly-by-night agencies. Still, no matter what travel agency it is, it can’t be compared with independent…
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2008年7月16日
[Repost] Ya Li’s Remarks on Fan Meizhong

Life & Notes2008.07.06
[Repost] Ya Li’s Remarks on Fan Meizhong
鸭梨’s writing always feels pleasing to the eye~ Public opinion on the Fan Meizhong affair had two peaks. The first naturally came right after the incident; as far as I could tell, One When the incident first broke, I was also very confused: should this matter, and this person, simply be written off with one blow? I do not like Fan’s articles, especially that famous declaration, which began with his saying that he “pursues freedom and justice” and ended with his becoming a target of public reproach for not saving his mother, as well as the deep loathing he displayed in earlier writings toward his own country…
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2008年7月6日
Civilization IV (Beyond the Sword) Tech Tree

Life & Notes2008.06.02
Civilization IV (Beyond the Sword) Tech Tree
Technology Name Era Prerequisite Technology Leads To Agriculture Ancient – Pottery Animal Husbandry Animal Husbandry Ancient Hunting Or Agriculture Writing Horseback Riding Archery Ancient Hunting – Bronze Working Ancient Mining Iron Working Metal Casting Fishing Ancient – Pottery Sailing Hunting Ancient – Archery Animal Husbandry Masonry Ancient Mining Or Mysticism Monotheism Architecture Meditation Ancient Mysticism Priesthood Philosophy Mining Ancient – Masonry Bronze Working Monotheism Ancient Masonry And Polytheism Monarchy Theology Mysticism Ancient – Meditation Polytheism Masonry Polytheism Ancient Mysticism Priesthood Monotheism Literature Pottery Ancient The Wheel And (Agriculture Or Fishing) Writing Metal Casting Priesthood Ancient Meditation Or Polytheism Monarchy Code of Laws Writing Sailing Ancient Fishing Calendar Compass The Wheel…
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2008年6月2日
This Issue’s Music: Civilization IV Theme Song “Baba Yetu”

Life & Notes2008.06.01
This Issue’s Music: Civilization IV Theme Song “Baba Yetu”
Let’s have a little game for Children’s Day~ Although I already picked a track from Civilization for a previous music post, I’ll choose one again. I originally wanted to choose the theme song of the latest expansion, Beyond the Sword, but I couldn’t find a link online, so I had to dig out the famous “Papa Boar” song instead~ Civilization IV is already close to perfect; the Warlords expansion, while adding some bricks and mortar, doesn’t change all that much, but Beyond the Sword has added some genuinely new elements. As its name suggests, Beyond the Sword focuses on elements beyond warfare, though this has long been a tradition of…
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2008年6月1日