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爱不用太笨 [转]

// July 18th, 2007 // No Comments » // Lifestyle, Quotation

From 蔡康永的博客

談戀愛的對象，最好比你笨 ——
戀愛是艱難的對決，
何苦去招惹你打不過的對手。
嗯…..可是啊……

談戀愛的對象，最好比你聰明 ——
戀愛確實是艱難的對決，
但請不要搞錯對手：
愛情、才是你的對手；
至於愛人、是你的做戰夥伴、隊友。

Good stuff in the weekend

// January 21st, 2007 // No Comments » // Web Resources

Well, this is just another so-so weekend: sleeping a lot, reading the boring course papers for next week, and wandering around the internet. You know, most of the time on the internet is just wasted unless you could find something really enjoyable. Luckily, I got some really good stuff which made my weekend not so tedious:

  1. Graduation Speech - Steve Jobs
    iTunes video | iTunes audio | Google Video | YouTube | Transcript
    This is a great speech by Apple’s visionary CEO, Steve Jobs, at Stanford in June 2005. He talks about his own stories - college drop-out, love and death - which are really moving and motivating life lessons. Besides, I really appreciate his breeze-like and persuasive presentation style, either in this speech or in the keynotes at Macworld. I highly recommend you to take a look at this. It deserves!
  2. Zirr.us - an online whiteboard/to-do list
    I admit this should be nothing, yet just another web 2.0 toy to organize your to-do list online with the beta label. But I really like its clear interface and easy-to-use features. It includes a tag cloud of your designated tasks, and you can sort your task by priority, color, and date. It is worth a play if you have time.

Unleash the power of your brain

// December 3rd, 2006 // No Comments » // Web Resources

Here is a helpful article which provides 22 ways to overclock your brain. I really recommend it to you if you have the same feeling as me that you are not as smart as you were. Following is what I learned from it:

  1. Don’t rely much on the damn computer. Do the daily math with your head, not the calculator; memorize the temporary phone number in your heart, not on the notepad.
  2. Ask Why. Yes,we were told to ask why when we are young. However, as we grow up, many of us stifle or deny our natural curiosity. Make it a new habit to ask “why?” at least 10 times a day.
  3. Play. Take time to play. Play cards. Play video games. Do puzzles. It gives your brain a chance to keep it working.
  4. Write. The greatest benefit of writing is what it does to expand your brain’s capacity. Find ways to write - by writing papers, writing blog for your friends or whatever - just write to be read.
  5. Eat. Some oils found in nuts and fish are a brain booster. Eat them, but don’t eat fat. Fat can reduce the flow of oxygen-rich blood to your brain. Also, some drugs are helpful to increase brain power. Ginkgo biloba has been shown to increase blood flow to the brain and improve concentration.
  6. Laugh.
  7. Do Physical Exercises.

Oh, the (Lack of) Humanity

// November 9th, 2006 // No Comments » // Quotation

"So the next time a bum tries to cadge a buck out of you, at least have the courtesy to pull the earbuds out and engage him as a fellow human being. Don’t give him any money if you don’t want to. But acknowledge him. He’s not a blot on your aesthetic little world. If he is, well, your problems are bigger than his."

— By Tony Long From Wired.com

Think Different

// October 16th, 2006 // No Comments » // Quotation

Here’s to the crazy ones.

The misfits.

The rebels.

The troublemakers.

The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules

And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,

disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing that you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.

They invent. They imagine. They heal.

They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.

How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?

Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.

While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can

change the world, are the ones who do.

The video could be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No1MxAnHuJM

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