Wednesday, October 8, 2008

UFO observed 晚间观察到不明飞行物体

刚刚在来实验室的路上观察到一个不明发光飞行物体
I just observed a bright object flying in the sky, on the way to lab.

时间:10月8日晚18:40~18:50
Time: Oct 8, 18:40~50, pm

地点:中国农大西校区校园内
Place: Campus of China agricultural univ.

描述:今天空气能见度非常高,一轮新月悬在仰角不高的天空上,光线也非常强。月亮的旁边(右边?)有一颗很亮的星体,肯定是行星,但不知道是哪个。当时我上方的天空有一架民航飞机在兜圈子,飞得很低。这时我看到头顶正上方有另一个更亮的发光物体,它肯定是突然出现在那里的。我把它与月亮边上那个行星比较了一下,该物体光线比行星的光线白很多,几乎不显黄色,并且它在以比较慢的视觉速度移动,因此我想它不会是流星。如果只瞟一眼的话,几乎会把它当成一颗行星。因为只能看到一个光点儿的缘故无法估计该物体所处的高度。我观察到这个东西在直线朝南偏东方向飞行。大概有1分钟多一点之后,这个东西已经飞到仰角很小的远方,这过程中,它的发光强度一直在减弱,最后就不见了。这过程中它没有发出任何闪烁。在观测过程中,那架民航又从我与那个物体之间的天空飞过一次,对比之强烈使我认为那个物体肯定不会是普通飞机。不知道民航的驾驶员有没有看到这个东西。

Description: The air quality of that night was very good. I shining star could be seen to the right of the moon, which I guess could be a planet. There was a plane flying in circle to land in a nearby airport. I was staring at sky at that time, as I'm always doing in clear nights. Suddenly I noticed a bright "star" straight above my head. It looked very much like a "planet", but it was moving slowly, like a man-made satellite. Its light was white and stronger than the planet in the other side of the sky. It was moving in a straight line towards south-east. Neither the shape nor the flying height of the object could be estimated. I stopped and watched it for 1-2 minutes, meanwhile the object's light faded gradually, then disappeared completely. That looks like the light was turned off, or it was blocked from me by the structure of that object itself.

Monday, September 29, 2008

Busy than ever

Dear all, now I have great hope to graduate in advance (for half a year). That would be really important for my career and life. It is required that I submit my dissertation at October 15. As a result, I'm busy with it all these days and the following, and I have to cancel all travel plans.

The day before I have prepared to give a lecture on Dr. Su's class on Oct 6, when he will be absent. I have generated a length lecture notes about bioinformatics web services, most of it is summary of my view & understanding about the business. But Dr. Su said there's room to add even more contents, eg, to introduce the DBs that this lab created. I shall put this note on my personal website, free access.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Waiting for interview

As you probably know, I'm near graduation and I'm expecting that to come earlier.

During the time my ``tCalculator'' paper was in revision (and was accepted then, owing to everyone's blessing, thanks!), I was busy looking for postdoctoral position and composing my dissertation. I finally got in touch with one professor in CSHL. She would like to interview me, and it has been arranged in the following days. I hope I can join her group to work on those grand and complicated knowledge systems on crop genomics. That is fancy, really appealing for me.

Readers with good memory should tell that Dr. Lincoln Stein resides in CSHL, too.

Oh yes! I watched Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society this evening. Complicated animation, fancy INDEED.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Google Page is out of my reach

Shit it! I cannot visit pages.google.com for months. This means I cannot modify my page contents, and visitors abroad keep on reading the same boring stuff over and over again, and my fellow country people reads nothing for no reason >_<

Don't quite know what's the cause but I'm forced to use my ``back-up'' website so as to ensure everyone can read something meaningful.

Visit http://bioinfo.cau.edu.cn/~xzhou/ for more info.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

再登鹫峰

On August 31st, 2008, we went to Jiufeng Hill again. This time, we went quite far beyond.
Beijing had plenty of rains this summer, and there was a big shower in Aug 30, so we enjoyed the clear sky and clean air that day. How wonderful it is!
北京今年夏天的雨水特别多,空气也比往年要好不少。趁着前一天下过雨,我们就在这天出发爬山去了。天真的好蓝啊!


这是在鹫峰公园入口不远处。
this photo was taken near the park entrance.

Zhao Yang was on the road. Hills are connected with each other and you never know where the climax is. Only you know is you are getting higher. The altitude of the highest point there is over 1000 meters, and we have been there. Note the altitude of Beijing city is around 40 meters.

We three. The camera was placed on a rock.