----- Original Message -----
From: Kun-Mao Chao
To: ACB
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 4:50 PM
Subject: How do you measure a year?
Q: How do you measure a year?
Rent | Jonathan Larson:
In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee
In inches, in miles, in laughter and strife
In 525,600 minutes
How about love
Measure in love
Light: 9,460,730,472,580.8 km
Chiu-Yun: 當我的生日到了，一年就過了……
[KM: 生日到了，還差一天才過年，一天也很寶貴的呢！]
Yi-Ching:
1. 參加兩次導生宴 [KM: 今天是第二次導生宴]
2. 看到一軒回台灣 [KM: Yes, I-Hsuan came back last week.]
3. 鑽研一個新的研究主題
4. 寫滿一本年度記事本
5. 認識新來的研究室夥伴
6. 為了買母親節與父親節禮物而傷腦筋
7. 回老家看爺爺奶奶
8. 從衣櫃拿出羊毛被、或把羊毛被收回衣櫃
Cheng-Wei: In ACB Lab, I measure a year from the annual holding of
ISAAC.
[KM: Not bad, but why not FOCS or STOC?]
Bulin:
一年又過了。經過時只有忙碌與無數個假日的累積，回首時感覺一年只是一瞬間的事。共110天的假日在2009年；2012年有112天，更令人期待。唯一確定的，就是明年會跟今年很不一樣。
[KM: 嗯，要很不一樣才能生出那一本。]
Sheng-Yao: 我之前大學的時候都去算自己在 PTT BBS 上的上站次數跟文章發表數目，來看今年過完了沒~
[KM: 接下來要看在專業園地閱讀及發表論文的數量了。:-)]
Wei-Ying: Four seasons, and it's just like the mood change in our daily life.
[KM: Indeed, they are isomorphic.]
An-Chiang:
用目標來衡量，諸如今年慢跑累積 600km，網路相簿上傳 1G的容量。希望2010年能夠以看完 100 篇paper，做出四篇自己的小研究來當作度量單位。
[KM: 好樣的！精熟勝過「萬似通」，建議熟讀十篇論文，撰寫一篇上乘論文。]
Brandon:
The smell of air ...
不同的季節，空氣蘊含不同的味道
春季，青草泥土
夏季，悶溼壓抑
秋季，乾爽微涼，風吹，葉落
冬季，直衝腦門的冷冽
聞到不同季節的味道，會想起：「喔~ 去年我這時候在做什麼」
想想……
原來又過了一年
[KM: Sounds like a good taste of a year.]
Kuan-Yu: ... in the number of times I open the lab door.
[KM: How about the number of times you close
the lab door?]
Ping-Hui: ... a year is "365 incremental changes."
[KM: Hope you'll come up with more neat ideas
for the incremental alignment problem that you are currently working on.]
Yu-Jen:
1.腰圍又穿不下去年的冬衣了……
2.戶頭突然多了一筆年終……
[KM: 如果是多了一筆口袋裝不下的年終，那就更棒了。]
Debbie:
As the Big Dipper (北斗七星) rotates, then goes back its original position.
[KM: A cycle of a year!]
Eric:
All of a sudden I don't know how to measure a year, but I know how to measure
two years.
I measure two years by who sit next to me in lab.
家榮 came, and left.
芃安 came, and left.
韋霖 came, and left.
Thus I know it's already 6 years....sigh
Now 家榮 come again, and I guess that it is my turn to leave.
is it?!
[KM: Yes, it is!]
Yen-Wei: I'd like to measure a year in the number of Chinese New Year's eve
dinners. It's such a great time that all family gather in the same place.
[KM: That's right!]
Kun Chen: 每當車子的里程數多了 35XX 公里的時候，1年就過了… (台北到桃園約 33公里)
[KM: See
http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~kmchao/students/advice/advice20060929.htm]
John: 因為吃完飯後就坐車回嘉義了，不能交這個小作業，真抱歉。
[KM: 沒問題。這不是作業，算是能量交流吧。]
Rung-Ren:
記得第一次想到好點子是幾年前過年的時候
躺在床上思考為什麼我打牌都打不贏
突然就有了靈感
希望今年也能繼續出現好點子
有點離題了
我覺得一年就是「春夏秋冬都平安快樂」:)
[KM: 願你的靈感如萬斛泉源，年年不絕。]
Kun-Mao: 窗外小葉欖仁四季更迭的生命力……
[KM os: 自問自答、自言自語、自作自受、自吹自擂、
Pearls of Wisdom:
We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
--
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
--
Maria Edgeworth (1767 - 1849)
How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.
--
Fred Brooks (1931 - )