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2002.03.24.
Sun
Mar 24, 2002.
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A gardener reports at the end of a March to his boss that the trees have grown 100% over the quarter, and asks for a bonus. He gets a laugh and the boot.
A CEO reported at the end of March 2000 to his board that the company stock price had grown 100% over the previous year, and asked for a bonus. He got a praise and a booty.
-- A random thought.
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2002.03.15.
Fri
Mar 15, 2002.
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"A London clinic is charging stressed professionals $5,680 to drill a hole in their armpits, snip away their nerve endings and eliminate their blushes for good. ... Side-effects can include increased sweating." -- a recent new item.
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2002.02.24.
Sun
Feb 24, 2002.
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"I felt I was hit by a big Mack."
"I felt I was hit by a Big Mac."
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2002.02.23.
Sat
Feb 23, 2002.
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"Hurt was treated in a hospital for cuts and bruises and released Sunday." -- a recent news item.
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2001.08.27.
Mon
Aug 27, 2001.
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Never touch your old code.
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2001.08.24.
Fri
Aug 24, 2001.
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Columbus is, in a sense that shall not be overlooked, a graduate, great but not the only one, from the school of navigation founded by Prince Henry of Portugal, "Henry the Navigator", in Sagres, Portugal, that conducted a large scale scientific experiment in maritime discovery.
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2001.08.23.
Thu
Aug 23, 2001.
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When asked whether he did market research before doing Apple computer, Steve Jobs replied that Alexander Graham Bell didn't do market research.
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2001.08.22.
Wed
Aug 22, 2001.
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"I can guarantee you one thing: there's going to be six more years of torment for Ted Kennedy and all rest of those other." -- Jesse Helms on winning his fifth term in 1996.
( A much funnier version, which appeared in today's LA Times, is ) "There's going to be six more years of torment for Ted Kennedy."
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2001.08.21.
Tue
Aug 21, 2001.
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Seven: 1.The cardinal number equal to 6 + 1. 2.The seventh in a set or sequence. -- The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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2001.08.16.
Thu
Aug 16, 2001.
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One reason we treasure long-term friendship is that, we get a chance to experience more than one life, since friends' lives are in some sense simulations of one's own.
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2001.08.15.
Wed
Aug 15, 2001.
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I watched a funny TV series and realized that the stories are the what-ifs of our lives: had we walked down the life paths as the characters, our lives might have unfolded as theirs.
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2001.08.14.
Tue
Aug 14, 2001.
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"I am going to be allowed to fulfill my destiny". -- Patton ( the movie ).
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2001.08.12.
Sun
Aug 12, 2001.
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"A-U-M". -- Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyer's interview.
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2001.08.10.
Fri
Aug 10, 2001.
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Where there are chickens and ducks, you find lots of droppings; where there are young women, you find lots of laughters ( -- "The Fortress" by Qian Zhongshu ); where there are high intellectuals, you find lots of useless opinions ( my spoof ).
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2001.08.09.
Thu
Aug 09, 2001.
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Sometimes it makes me utterly bored to watch a compatriot in action. I wonder how people feel after living at a same place for 30 years.
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2001.08.06.
Mon
Aug 06, 2001.
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Adding frost to snow. -- a Chinese idiom.
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2001.08.05.
Sun
Aug 05, 2001.
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You cannot judge a person by the looks. -- an ancient Chinese saying.
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2001.08.01.
Wed
Aug 01, 2001.
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In their 1972 meeting, when Kissinger asked Zhou Enlai, then Chinese Premier, for his views on the French Revolution, he was told that "It's too soon to tell". -- China is such a country where one thousand years ago there was a movement of studying how composition was done by ancient people 500 years before.
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2001.07.31.
Tue
Jul 31, 2001.
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"Google went from 30 million pages to 1.3 billion in two and a half years, which is a 110-mile-high stack of paper. In 12 years that 110-mile-high stack of paper will fit on a single hard drive in your shirt pocket." -- Google Chairman Eric Schmidt.
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2001.07.30.
Mon
Jul 30, 2001.
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Cook those that shall be cooked, boil those that shall be boiled. -- excerpt from an ancient cook book.
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2001.07.29.
Sun
Jul 29, 2001.
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There are things that you can quit and do it all over again, there are other things that you cannot quit.
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2001.07.28.
Sat
Jul 28, 2001.
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Pick the game is the most important thing to do.
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2001.07.27.
Fri
Jul 27, 2001.
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For those who don't know which is which, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, I have a simple, rule-of-thumb "missile test" for them: a) China has developed missiles and points them to Taiwan. If there is an accident then theoretically these missiles might hit the United States; b) Taiwan has bought missiles and points them to China. If there is an accident then these missiles might hit Russia; c) Hong Kong does not have any missiles.
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2001.07.23.
Mon
Jul 23, 2001.
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I watched an old man in (in)action and got a handle on understanding the efficiency and effectiveness that "tranquillity" is able to deliver.
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2001.07.22.
Sun
Jul 22, 2001.
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To use creativity is fun when one is young. It is a duty when one is not young any more.
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2001.07.19.
Thu
Jul 19, 2001.
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So we tune up our cars. Who tunes up us, then?
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2001.07.16.
Mon
Jul 16, 2001.
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When I commented on the ubiquity of cell phones, my friend told me that it was reported that in China beggars use cell phones to coordinate their activities.
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2001.07.10.
Tue
Jul 10, 2001.
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It is declared again that a job is welcome.
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2001.07.09.
Mon
Jul 09, 2001.
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Amnesia might be unpleasant to the brain, but I guess to the ears it must be like music since that is about the only time that they are shut and get some rest.
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2001.07.03.
Tue
Jul 03, 2001.
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"I come to state that I am a man, free to think for myself and do as I please." -- Clarence Thomas.
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2001.07.02.
Mon
Jul 02, 2001.
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Do not fail to do a small good thing just because it is small, do not do a small bad thing just because it is small. -- LIU2 Bei4, an emperor.
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2001.06.29.
Fri
Jun 29, 2001.
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A great master is whom other masters call master.
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2001.06.28.
Thu
Jun 28, 2001.
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Every number is interesting in some way. -- Leonard Kleinrock.
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2001.06.27.
Wed
Jun 27, 2001.
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"[U]nlike the hard sciences, computer science is not constrained by ( physical ) reality." -- Jeffrey D. Ullman, March 23 2000.
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2001.06.26.
Tue
Jun 26, 2001.
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Today's date is an interesting number. My first car was a 626.
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2001.06.25.
Mon
Jun 25, 2001.
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It is declared that a job is welcome.
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