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戒网如戒烟，应该不难。许多人很轻易地戒过七八次。 首先要有同它拚个鱼死网破的决心。其次要有砸机不成反蚀钱的准备。同时也要有对妻离子散的恐惧。最后要相信党。党如果做不成的事，大约一定的很难做成的。如果党不能成功地让网民戒网不再发言，你为什么要尝试去戒网呢？ 没有这些，戒网很难。

Dido to that.

学位只是一个特定教育体系对完成某一类教育与训练的人的一纸认可方式。它与传说中丐帮长老身上的布袋差不多。九袋相当于博士，五袋相当于硕士，等等。 学位是现代职场中的货币：有了不万能但有时没有却万万不能。

就怕把单子上的提前都做完了，那就只有等死的份了。更怕从别人那得到许多IDEA，让自己的单子越来越长，至死也做不完，以至死不瞑目。 不过死并不可怕，艾迪-伍伦曾如是说，只要死发生时自己不在场就行了。

知道你最近很忙，所以没有多来打扰。上次有一贴说你已结婚，我还没有来得及高兴那贴就又不见了，不会是又离了吧？:) 祝你一切顺利。有事不让心乱，无事不让心空。

这些照片除了都很好。不过第一张的雪有点脏兮兮的，就是被用过的旧雪一样。

I like this characterization! I felt exactly the same way! Great minds think alike (a pat on my own back. :)

In what color?

不论是在网上还是网外，尊重他人是最基本的原则。没有了人与人之间起码的尊重，也就没有了讨论任何问题的前提。 此间有些人的行为与逻辑似乎同这样一个谬论有关：只有逆耳才算是忠言，不苦口的肯定不是良药。于是他们贬低肯定、鼓励及赞美的价值而拥抱刻薄、诽谤与尖酸。更有人将人身攻击视为文艺批评，把自己的恶意偏见等同于客观真理，用对作者个人问题上的吹毛求疵来代替对作品本身的分析与讨论。 用积极观赏的态度来接待周边的人与事，并不是忽略世间的不完美。刻意对作者与作品的否定与鞭挞也并不能体现自己的与众不同或独特品味。 人生

Oh my god! China is rapidly ascending to the ranks of Gods now, knowing where everybody is and they are doing.

这种”陌生化“，不管是通过艺术还是其它方式或许都与 ZEN中的“山不是山”的认知现象有些类似。当我们“近取诸身”熟物并在其中注入了自己独特的观察、领悟，或为其它观察者提供了一个新的视角与框架时，“陌生化”就产生了。

A nice, warm, cosy and comfy log cabin is every one's dream. Your pictures certainly have given shape, form and color to the dream.

WOA！原来是WOA的小说。暗自庆幸没有胡说八道。吁～～（出了口长气）

记得上次读你的雨伞故事让我也想到一个小雨伞的故事。不过没有时间写下。今天得空补上吧。 那是我同我太太(姑且称她为凤子吧) 还在热恋的时候。一次在她家里玩，我准备出门办事，看看外面乌云遮日，天有下雨的样子，她就主动提出让我带把伞走以防被淋。她拿出一柄很精巧好看的折叠伞，很爱惜地把它从伞套中取出。她告诉我说这伞是她的亲戚从香港带回的礼品，她自己还没有舍得用呢。在我反复练习开关伞诀窍各三次并对她一而再再而三 “不得把伞忘在外面” 的提醒都作了郑重承诺之后，我终于带着伞独自离开了。 不过我没有走到她家院门，凤子就又跟�

古人常说画鬼易，画人难：因为鬼谁也没见过。同样，在诗的题材上，写一个大家都熟悉的或已经被许多人写过的题材也比较困难。但笨诗的一个最大特色就是于视角的独到、感觉的细密及用词与意象上的奇异不拘。以此观之，这首诗与其它有类似题材的作品的不同就不为怪了。

说句题外话。 上月在纽约一家中餐馆就餐，巧遇当地华人媒体及两桌（主要是老年华人）知识分子在举行“纪念七七事变七十周年”讨论会。会上大家共话当年国耻并商谈兴国大计。说实话，我的感觉很难受。爱国者四海皆有，但中国在近代实在是一个让人失望太多的国家。人常谓祖国比为母亲，但有时这个母亲实在更象一个后母。她难以理喻，没有能力却刚愎自用，有的只是控制及虐待自己子女的欲望。 由于职业关系，我对日本有一些比较深刻的了解。日本能产生自清以隆不断取胜中国的实力不是偶然的。除去政治体制及同心协力的文化的因素，日人不慕浮华、极

这一线的问题与讨论都很有意思。 最近谈过两本小书：I AM A STRANGE LOOP & THE GOD DELUSION。它们有一个共同的目标：从一个体系中如何产生出超出这个体系之外性质的东西。比如一堆没有生命与意识的物质如何能产生生命及意识；人如何创造神。但要真正建立是人或进化”创造“了神，就如同要“证明”神的不存在显然是很困难的，所以Hawkin的核心一章有些单簿得令人失望。 或许问题是是否进化论能比其它理论（如神造论）能更好地解释并预测这个物质社会（对我而言答案是明显的），而不是去证明有神论是错误的。在一个各种理论彼此竞争的”市场“上

Thanks for lending me a pair of sympathetic ears to listen to my months long uphill battle against the out-of-dated software and my epic struggle with the ever changing computer operating system that far outpaces the development of any compatible Chinese platform. (I need to catch my breath here before moving on.) I hope I don't have to wait for 11 months before July comes back to help me. I would be very surprised if nobody here uses WuBi.

She surely sounds very nice. Do you have her phone number and email address?

Liaofan's Four Lessons is one of my favorite Chinese classics and I believe the book may shed some light on this topic. 了凡四訓 白話翻譯 明朝 袁了凡 先生 第一篇 立命之學 一、一切都是命半點不由人 我童年時父親就去世了，母親要我放棄學業（科舉），改學醫，她認為學醫可以養活生命，也可以救濟別人。並且學術有成，也可償父親的心願。 後來我在慈雲寺，碰到位老人，一臉長鬚，相貌非凡，看起來飄然若仙風道骨，我就恭敬向他作禮。這位老人向我說：「你有作官的命，明年就可進學，為何不讀書呢？」我就把原因告訴他。並請

We need a Chinese version of Second Life or, even better, a totally new online software, such as CyberGamy, to bring to life the idea. Those interested need to register the trademark and domain name of CyberGamy now before they are gone.

Apparently, the cause of altitude sickness, changed oxygen content due to elevation (hence pressure) difference, is much less complicated than that associated with scuba diving symptoms and risks. There, at least multiple factors, from oxygen toxicity to nitrogen narcosis, are at work.

It's nice to be able to play God once in a while. We can control, change and terminate a life at our whims. It is even better that we have the leisure--almost a luxury in many "modern" societies--to observe and interact with the nature.

What an exciting trip! Look forward to seeing more pictures.

In addition to the spiritual, philosophical and artistic dimensions of death, its preparation and aftermath rituals, and choices of ways leading to it, there's a more obvious, mundane aspect of death too. Lately I read about a man who survived a form of heart disease after receiving a heart transplant. While still on the waiting list for a donor and unsure whether he would receive a heart at all, the man started making plans for his death. His physician had told him he would only have a few months to live w

I happened to read the news from the New York Post last Friday. I like your timely report from the research front. This certainly is a great breakthrough, the significance of which can only be surpassed by the discovery that yawning is also contagious. :)

While personal experiences certainly color the way we view the world, in our response to any particular opinions, all of which are invariably personal in nature, we should refrain from getting too personal, much less resorting to statements close or tantamount to personal attacks. Statements directed at writers rather than their views have inhibitory chilling effect on the spirits of free expression and suppress the light that emits from the intellectual dialogue.

We all have a favorite list of likes and dislikes. But most people may not see the value of laundry-listing the bad stuff of a country.

A nice little story. A good read.

The illiterate population in China probably exceeds the entire national population of the U.S. Higher college enrollment rates in China certainly are good from that perspective. A better educated populace is critical to China's ambitious rise. Even if illiteracy in the 21st century is not longer defined by one's ability to read and write, but by one's ability to learn, relearn and unlearn, increased literacy in the traditional sense at least serves as a starting point for China's re-entry into the center of