Monday, December 28, 2009

煤块,学校

在中国北方,到了冬天,人们生活取暖全靠燃烧煤炭。每年冬季北方城市消耗煤炭数量是多少?不知道具体数字,但一定大的惊人。

河北省张家口市尉县的教育局长葛祥在家中割腕自杀,据推测其动机竟是“没办法弄足够的钱为县里的小学买冬季供暖用煤”。

官方新闻报道

百度贴吧尉县吧里的评论

(待续)

Friday, December 25, 2009

圣诞节,洋人的

圣诞节,洋人的,别人的,反正不是我的。

今天在实验室电脑前度过了,决定后三天都如此~努力工作,把浪费掉的时间弥补过来。

我之前许下的诺言算是黄掉了...

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Heavy fog

This region's climate interests me. At this moment of the year it is changing drastically. We have been having heavy fog for days. Above photo was taken a few days before. Perhaps that was not fog, that was cloud -- nearly touching the ground.

Seen in my apartment two days later.
“毛脚贼”,呵呵。

Saturday, December 5, 2009

冷啊~

昨天傍晚雪很快就停了,然后低垂的云层很快向南边退去,天空就干干净净地露出来了--冷啊!

今天一大早出来,给小区里的公寓楼拍一张,发现在色彩明媚的时候这老柯达V550的成像效果非常好啊!理光的那个贼贵的GRDIII还是先不买了。。。

Friday, December 4, 2009

冻雨转大雪

如同昨天的天气预报,今天一早无比精确的下了冻雨。气温骤降至摄氏1度。

UPDATE:大雪持续了一整天,有时如鹅毛般大!听同事说,休斯敦上一次见到雪是2005年了~对于“本地人”来说,这相当于到西伯利亚了

这种大雪大雾天气在北京一般每年一次吧。。。

问了老兵,他说college station几乎没下多少雪,看来这里是冷锋面啊。跟他说这儿下大雪了,他问 那你们是放假了么?又不是刮飓风... 不过最好不要让我碰上啊


We had a heavy snow day in Houston, which lasts till now and will hardly stop. And the temperature drops to 1C (feels like -4C) See how the street looked like under the cover of heavy fog and snow:


作为对比,这是半月之前的某一天。看那明朗的秋日~
As a comparison, this is from the same view angle a few weeks before.




My new powerful Dell T7400 doesn't cooperate well with Ubuntu very well -- when using the terminal, the keyboard sometimes is not responding. Here's the solution from WEB:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=870490

1. sudo apt-get install scim-bridge-client-qt

2. Edit the file /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim by typing in a terminal (Applications>Accessories>Terminal):

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim

Change the line:

GTK_IM_MODULE=xim

into :

GTK_IM_MODULE="scim-bridge"

Change the line:

QT_IM_MODULE=xim

into :

QT_IM_MODULE="scim-bridge"

I also installed driver for graphic card, then I can activate Ubuntu's *coolest ever* visual effects:

Thursday, December 3, 2009

New starting...


终于决定要继续更新日志了,至少每周一帖!(有够懒--)

照片是%#@&%地方,猜吧... 休斯敦的天气不错,云彩变换无常,而且距地面高度很低。这张照的模糊了,隔着有色玻璃照的,而且模式选错了,对焦失败,但觉得这云彩不是什么时候都能碰得上的(或者碰巧有机会掏出相机来照)凑合看吧。

(下次再看到那羊群一样的云朵一定要照好...)

Hi all, I will continue to update my blog and document my thought (hopefully)...