[quote]Coco’s letter responding to the change of schedule

I’d like to quote the whole letter to express my support to Conan O’Brien.

People of Earth:

In the last few days, I’ve been getting a lot of sympathy calls, and I want to start by making it clear that no one should waste a second feeling sorry for me. For 17 years, I’ve been getting paid to do what I love most and, in a world with real problems, I’ve been absurdly lucky. That said, I’ve been suddenly put in a very public predicament and my bosses are demanding an immediate decision.

Six years ago, I signed a contract with NBC to take over The Tonight Show in June of 2009. Like a lot of us, I grew up watching Johnny Carson every night and the chance to one day sit in that chair has meant everything to me. I worked long and hard to get that opportunity, passed up far more lucrative offers, and since 2004 I have spent literally hundreds of hours thinking of ways to extend the franchise long into the future. It was my mistaken belief that, like my predecessor, I would have the benefit of some time and, just as important, some degree of ratings support from the prime-time schedule. Building a lasting audience at 11:30 is impossible without both.

But sadly, we were never given that chance. After only seven months, with my Tonight Show in its infancy, NBC has decided to react to their terrible difficulties in prime-time by making a change in their long-established late night schedule.

Last Thursday, NBC executives told me they intended to move the Tonight Show to 12:05 to accommodate the Jay Leno Show at 11:35. For 60 years the Tonight Show has aired immediately following the late local news. I sincerely believe that delaying the Tonight Show into the next day to accommodate another comedy program will seriously damage what I consider to be the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting. The Tonight Show at 12:05 simply isn’t the Tonight Show. Also, if I accept this move I will be knocking the Late Night show, which I inherited from David Letterman and passed on to Jimmy Fallon, out of its long-held time slot. That would hurt the other NBC franchise that I love, and it would be unfair to Jimmy.

So it has come to this: I cannot express in words how much I enjoy hosting this program and what an enormous personal disappointment it is for me to consider losing it. My staff and I have worked unbelievably hard and we are very proud of our contribution to the legacy of The Tonight Show. But I cannot participate in what I honestly believe is its destruction. Some people will make the argument that with DVRs and the Internet a time slot doesn’t matter. But with the Tonight Show, I believe nothing could matter more.

There has been speculation about my going to another network but, to set the record straight, I currently have no other offer and honestly have no idea what happens next. My hope is that NBC and I can resolve this quickly so that my staff, crew, and I can do a show we can be proud of, for a company that values our work.

Have a great day and, for the record, I am truly sorry about my hair; it’s always been that way.

Yours,

Conan

11 years

Leading China Dissident Gets 11-Year Term for Subversion
或者到twitter上面搜索#freeliuxiaobo的tag.

七百年后

特地找了一个live的版本，本身的mv并不是我对这首歌的理解。这首歌本身收录在H3M的专辑里，听过很多便了，在我的ipod里，但是由于是粤语，所以怎么听都不知道歌词，这次再看这个视频的时候重新听到了这首歌，看到了歌词，配合着情景，被深深打动。

七百年后歌词：
作曲：柳重言 作词：林若宁
编曲：柳重言 监制：柳重言/DavyChan/CY/陈奕迅
你那太空舱
能够发出金色的光
我废置一方
抬头便会为你守望
一天天催迫生活在现代化
缤纷星空抛低我寄存繁荣垃圾岗
多得你原谅我肮脏
送你破黑胶
廉价发出歌声依稀
送你破灯泡
便宜地照亮你天地
一箱卡式带一直没落仍能回味
那套旧文艺戏
生生不息的凄美爱情逾越物质跨过世纪
文明能压碎
情怀不衰 无论枯乾山水
旧时年月投入垃圾里
你我一起同居
仍然能送你 儿时玩具
老地方抱著一起安睡
七百年 潮流里
瞬息过去 弃置那棵花
容我带它的根归家
送你这棵花
来怀念已逝去初夏
漆黑的星体花叶树木无从留下
你会在流泪吗
花开的沙丘滋养我们贫穷地方优美似画
文明能压碎
情怀不衰 无论枯乾山水
旧时年月投入垃圾里
你我一起同居
仍然能送你 儿时玩具
老地方抱著一起安睡
七百年 潮流里
建筑统统破碎
天天进化热潮已记不起
用霓虹去建设欢喜
虽则你我被每粒星唾弃
我们贫乏却去到金禧
文明能压碎
情怀不衰 无论枯乾山水
旧时年月投入垃圾里
你我一起同居
仍然能送你 儿时玩具
老地方抱著一起安睡
七百年 随年岁
记忆老去 仍然有你的忠心爱侣

【转】给冯正虎先生和无家可归的人

[转自]兰小欢牛博空间
给冯正虎先生和无家可归的人
兰小欢 @ 2009-12-5 2:20 阅读(5302) 评论(9) 推荐值(1478) 引用通告 分类: 未归类

去年大约这个时候，我为《零八宪章》签了名，一周后回国，当时的博客第一句话就是：“回到了北京，入境的时候还是有点儿小忐忑，因为我不太怕出不去，但很怕回不来。” 这心理阴影我一直有，所以看着冯正虎先生就忍不住想象换成是自己会怎样，心有戚戚；所以读几天前被迫来美的高耀洁医生发表的声明，心有戚戚，她说：“我不是贪生怕死，我要把艾滋受害者的真实情况整理成书出版，留给后人，做为历史的一页，否则我死不瞑目。于是我决定外出，这时我不知哭了多少回。我流的泪有时把枕头湿透。我已经80多岁了，在世时日有限，此行明知是埋骨异地。为了中国艾滋病疫情的真相，我实在是不得已而为之。”

“不让回家”是很重的惩罚，无故加于任何人都会招来反抗，不管他多懦弱。“强制拆迁”就是“强行不让回家”的意思，拆的是房子，迁的是人，自然引起很多抗争。冯先生是被“强迁”出去了，成了守在还没拆的“中国”门口的“钉子户”，家没拆但不让回去，可强迁人既没有理由也没有补偿，可谓奇冤。

冯先生当然没有犯法，否则不会被赶出国门。中国自己有司法系统和监狱，冯先生是中国公民而不是移民，哪有犯法后就被驱逐出境送到日本这样的便宜事？所以除了亡命天涯的逃犯，一国政府不让自己的公民回国一定是由于其他不可言说的“敏感”理由。虽然中国政府现在已经在G-20会议上举足轻重，西方媒体现在也整天把中美两国的G-2组合挂在嘴边，但不管是G几，炫耀的同时也不需要把自己敏感的G点满世界的暴露吧？G点都扔在外面不要了，国内怎么搞“世勃会”还不都是假高潮？再说，脸总得时不时地要一下吧？

我的IPhone上有个小软件，叫“你的权利”（Your Rights)，是“美国公民自由联盟”（ACLU）开发的小软件。内容很多，其中有一部分是问答，列举各种政府和警察找麻烦时你的权利和应该采取的行动。专门有一部分讲 “移民的权利”，留学生自然是暂时移民，寄人篱下难免小心谨慎些，所以我细读再三，不幸发现我这寄居者权利实在多，美国政府想把我驱逐出境基本上麻烦到死，也就心安了。反观中国政府不由分说一脚把冯先生这个公民踢出去的态度，我不由得有些恍惚：“妈的，我是哪个国家的移民？”

冯先生当然曾经给中国政府制造过些麻烦，所以虽然是“公民”，但算不上“顺民”，是“刁民”。按我国以受虐狂为主旋律的社会风气看，一脚把他踢出去都算仁至义尽了，否则应该像谭作人先生或者胡佳先生那样关起来严加管教才对。“因为你不乖，所以你活该”的逻辑相当于在美女被流氓强奸后责怪美女生得美而且不懂出门前要用狗血和牛粪化妆。可是美女的美是天生的，她错了么？很多权利也是做为“人”本身就是天赋的，被侵犯后，受害人错了么？不想涂着狗血和牛粪行走江湖，想清清白白漂漂亮亮干干净净做人，错了么？

“美国公民自由联盟”有句格言：“因为自由不会保护自己。”冯先生今天在做的事，是在为我们战斗，是在保护我们“不被无故一脚踢出国门”的自由。像每个曾为自己也为我们战斗过的战士一样，他现在真正成了“丧家之犬”。也许有一天我们都会成为丧家之犬，这不重要，重要的是每当“主人”让我们sit的时候，我们就给他shit。

Writing with Latex

I’m not gonna write a tutorial on Latex. There’re bunch of them on the internet, so if you need it just google Latex tutorial or just latex and the function u wanna figure out. I begin using Latex after I studied in US and kind of never heard it before in China. I felt so weird that some useful tools, not just the effing alleged anti China thing, will be censored there.

C++ books

Copy these suggestion from Daniweb c++ forum for a backup which makes it more convenient to find for myself. And I’m reading the first one recently.

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The following books are recommended; read them in mostly the order listed.

* “Accelerated C++” Andrew Koenig & Barbara Moo
* “The C++ Standard Library” Nicolai Josuttis — a “must have”
* “Effective C++”, “More Effective C++”, “Effective STL” Scott Meyers
* “Exceptional C++”, “More Exceptional C++” Herb Sutter
* “The C++ Programming Language” 3rd edition or later Bjarne Stroustrup
* “Modern C++ Design” Andrei Alexandrescu
* “C++ Templates” Vandevoorde & Josuttis
* “Standard C++ IOStreams and Locales” Langer & Kreft
* “C++ Coding Standards : 101 Rules, Guidelines, and Best Practices” Herb Sutter, Andrei Alexandrescu
I’d like to add a title or two as well, which even though not C++ specific should be required reading for any serious student (or practitioner) of software development.

*
Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices. Robert C. Martin (Affectionately known as Uncle Robert among software engineers)
the same author has another book called “Clean Code“
* The C Programming Language. Kernighan and Ritchie. C++ is derived from C after all and a lot of C features can still come in very handy.

* Your compiler documentation

“What’s up” and what you will say in Chinese

The part between the stars is a definition of “what’s up” copied from urban dictionary. I agree it a lot cause it really annoyed me when I just came to US. Some one throw this question to me and I just didn’t get it, I didn’t know what should I reply to it. So far as I know, “what’s up” is the short for “what’s the update”. “Nothing new” is definitely a good answer or just “what’s up” back. In China, people also has some same shit as “what’s up”, “最近怎么样”, like “how’s going recently”. It’s always hard to answer cause nothing’s new and I hate to hear such thing but when I meet some people and that’s the first sentence come out. “一样”(“Same”) is a funny answer that I like, kind of a Chinese word joking.

PS: SSDD short for Same Shit Different Day.
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what’s up 661 up, 107 down love it hate it

An extremely annoying question that has (unfortunately) replaced “Hello” or “Hi” as the most popular form of casual greeting. For full effect, best delivered while walking past someone at about 90 m.p.h. so the person you’re talking to has no time to respond, and in a tone that suggests you really don’t give a shit about “what’s up” with them.
Dude #1: “Hey, man. What’s up?”
Dude #2: “Uh…” (what he managed to get out before Dude #1 was already too far away to hear the rest of what he was going to say)
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Mr Clutch –Derek Fisher

You may say it’s kind of late to post this now. It’s true. The new NBA regular season will begin tonight and Lakers will defeat the team from the same city, Clippers.
I am still blood rushing excited when I watched the video again, again and again. I still remember I was having a lab in school and I watched the game on line. And I stopped watching a few minutes before the end, yeah I miss that time, but the reason why is during the time I was watching Magic caught up with Lakers. So I made a self sacrifice for the winning of this game. Aha~ When I thought the game is over and it would be 2-2, then a shout from the other side of the lab get into my ear. It was amazing!

Hope Lakers can get another Championship this season. Good luck for all the player of Lakers.

U2 Sunday will Perform @Rose Bowl, Pasadena,CA

Don’t have enough money for a U2 live. Then here you go. You can watch it on U2be(Youtube). Lol

Idon’t

No Iphone.
I need Idon’t. Lol