两周前去SAN PEDRO 港买回来的STONE CRAB， 石蟹。 一只一磅多吧。
看起来鲜艳，吃起来也香， 想在国内的时候，十几年也没吃过螃蟹，真不知道是不是我做错了什么事。
同时买的绵羊头，我用来炖豆腐，觉得没弄好，不知道哪里出了问题，反正没什么味道，可能是那个泥笋加坏了。但是感觉肉质很细，很好。葱姜都没有错。下次要改进下做法，虽然味道没弄好，但是我还是肯定了绵羊头属于上等鱼类，今天晚上准备用麻辣方便面改造一下味道来吃。
上周尝到了我有生以来最鲜美的鱼，毫不夸张，的确是我有生以来最鲜美的鱼，SEA TROUT。 翻作海鳟比较合适吧？ 微波炉高热两分钟后，上面的葱香，蒜末香，一点点酱油，豉油，让人食指大动。点了一筷子，那肉是蒜瓣子肉和凉粉之间的感觉，筷子夹不住，侧面看斜斜的蒜瓣一样的层次，必须用小勺，舀起来，蘸蘸汤，入口即化，我乐得都合不拢嘴，朋友们一边喝着啤酒，一边感叹，在加州这些年真是白活了，怎么到现在才发现这么好吃的鱼呢？
虽然下周我们可能仍然钓不上来石斑，准备去海边买石斑来吃，但是我们都觉得石斑的味道远不及海鳟。三块钱一磅，一条差不多是两磅左右。 如果枯禅知道，给评论评论，这海鳟如果是我最喜欢吃的鱼，是否我还算有品味？呵呵。
平生没吃过那么好吃的鱼，上周六见识到了，很满意，很满意。下次上照片。
It was Thursday night and people are ready for the weekend with the best mood of the week, so do people in the conference. more than half of the peers will take the monrning flights back home early.
So we had this big party at Embacadero Marina Park, which is a tiny perninnsula in the back of Marriot. Since it is the private property of the Yachts Club (You might have seen the picture of the yachts from my posts yesterday), it is legal for people to have alchohol there.
There are a variety of food all over the park, among burgers, sushi, and tacos, the most popular food is self-made taco. San Diego is merely three miles away from the Mexican border, on the other side of which there is the Mexican city of Tijuana. Therefore we were surrounded by the hilarious latin music, Samba, chia chia. Across the water, we can see the USSR carrier 76 (I don’t know which one that is) in the Navy base, hundreds of yachts, with taco and salsa in hand, sea breeze touching the glass of premium wine from Southern California’s Tamecular Valley, what else could we do to please the guest attendees all over the US?
Several entertainment shows are out there, among which I was pretty impressed by the acrobat given by six African American kids. The best programme? that must be the hispanic Samba dancer. She was leading a crowd in dancing, rythmic hip, turnaround, moving back and forth, no wonder people were getting creazy about her. Quite a few Germanies were getting excited in dancing, though a litttle bit clumsy.
That reminded me of a joke, German version. When the presenter showed us how fast the software installation, he said “see? it only takes 45 min to install this new module, just like Britney Spears’ marriage… what makes it better is that, look, there is an UNDO button…”
Germanies are humrous, sometimes, if not always.
report was called ” ‘report”,
write was called “white”,
variable was called “viable”,
a four hour lecture with hands-on exercise was well finished only seven minutes early. Zillions of information was delivered.
what is this all about? a German technology guru.
This is the first time I have ever seen so many German “uber geeks” getting together out of Germany. It is always amazing to see how different these Germanies think, behave from the local Californians as well as we Chinese.
The lecture I attended this afternoon was made by a typical German technology guru Boris Gebhardt.
He spoke fast, coz he had to finish this lecture in merely four hours, given the tons of information in the notes. His German accent is interesting, like report was called ” ‘report”, write was called “white”, and variable was called “viable”. However it is not so hard to understand, possibly because we share the same background knowledge in the specialized area. Ironically, quite some Chinese complained they do not understand Indian’s English while Americans seem to be fine. This time I see the majority of German instrutors requested the Indians to repeat their questions over and over again. Thereafter my conclusion is Indian English is universally hard to get across to the non-English speaking nations.
Eventually this guru was able to finish his lecture seven minutes earlier. I am very impressed by this great timing. Beyond that, I found these serious Germanies are getting more and more friendly, flexbile, easy-going, and entertaining than what they were thought to be.
Last night when I met two developers I saw each one of them having two cups of bud light in hand. Oh yeah, they love beer, for sure. It seems every German attendees love San Diego which is a typical California city, sunshine, beach, hot chicks, shorts even in winter, and micro-brewed beer. I mean what else do you need? oh yeah, and cheap Levis’ in Calsbad outlet store, a place where Germanies must go for.
Though 4000+ people attended the conference, I would say it was well organized. I don’t feel any inconvenience to access the information I need. Even when there is a little glitch, like my registered information session ticket was not updated before the ticket was printed out and handed over to me, I was able to get the ticket corrected in 30 seconds, amazingly super fast.
Another thing is the exhibitors do not need to get your business card or ask you to fill out the information card/registration card any more, they simply scan your badge to acquire the attendee’s information. This is very impressive technological improvement. I am very convinced by this systematic piece of work in a German way.
It was funny when I watch CSI and saw a hispanic lady saying “I am not upset, only you, white guys say ‘I am upset’. for me, yes, I am pissed off!”
some comments from one of my “friends” made me very uncomfortable, heretoforth, it pissed me off. I am not surprised that he lied again. When I said he lied, I mean he intentionally delivered the misleading information in his comments.
Well, I could bear with some trash talk on the internet, as well as some exaggerations. However, when we step into some serious topics, we could either shut up and listen, or we have to make a clear delivery of the message. This is where I saw him lying. I know he is lying, for sure. What has frustrated me is I could not pull out the full story nor could I tell him.
I just got such a feeling, by saying that, he doesn’t worth my words, not any more. Let’s take a look at what he said. He is in the US, enjoying his work, his life, his new car, his dream in which there will be a new house, a wife, a few kids maybe. Now he is telling people in China, “don’t come to the States coz China is better…”, “US is too bad…” “chinese student in CS major will have a gloomy future here in the States.”
My thoughts were like “FXXK you.” Where is your integrity? how do you explain your choice in your career development, your life vs. what you are talking about? If the States is so bad, why don’t you just go home? If the US has brought you so much great stuff, why didn’t you just admit it? You sit back in your chair, enjoy your work, your $$, your lifestyle here. Now you tell people in China don’t come coz it’s bad??? I understand there are some pros and cons, some pretty hot debate on the residence issue, however it has nothing to do with lying!
I feel too embrassed to quote his words here. I just can’t believe, his behavior far derives from his words. Now here comes my next question, how could I trust him anymore? Lier. If he deserves two words, that’s cheap lier.
Time to throw him into the trash can, and sealed it. I am not gonna have a single word for him, not anymore.
Please bear with my English, I am not able to type in any Chinese for this whole week.
很多人都听过麦当娜唱的LA ISLA BONITA吧？里面就提到了SAN PEDRO港。
位置： 洛山机港的一部分，在110高速公路到底的的地方。在洛山机国际机场东南大概20英里的地方。
路线：从405，或者5号，或者任何高速公路，接到110公路往南，最后终点前有一个出口，叫47号公路去VICENT THOMAS 大桥，这就是2003年传说恐怖分子可能要袭击的大桥之一。从这个出口出来，就是去大桥了，但是前行大约半英里到一英里，眼看就要上大桥之前，有出口叫HARBOR BLVD。从这里出来，然后在第一个红绿灯右转上HARBOR BLVD.
前行约半英里，看见W. 6TH ST.左转，然后立即右转上SAMPSON WAY，这样就在码头旁边，按照平行于HARBOR BLVD的SAMPSON WAY上开车了，右边会出现铁路，左边是码头，然后左边看见巨大的停车场，很多饭馆。
路标显示 PORT O’CALL 左转，这时候不要左转，继续前行，看见左前方有个停车场，DOCK上停着很多小货柜车，一栋红色的建筑物，
象仓库一样，前面是码头，后面就是装货的DOCK。中间就是海货处理的地方。好几家小公司，当天打的鱼就地卖，生意兴隆。然后早上有饭馆来提货。
时间：我6：30AM到的，已经晚了。墨西哥打鱼仔告诉我，应该是4:00AM到，肯定有母螃蟹。
别看路线说得那么复杂，其实早上去，你不会迷路。因为车少，大多数的轿车都是去一个方向，你从47号公路口下来，凭直觉，跟着走就可以了，不可能错。这里几乎没有白人来，都是西语裔人士，他们挑HALIBUT多，还有就是喜欢吃BONITO，最多的还是亚裔人士，无一例外，都是先挑螃蟹，还到处打听FEMALE CRAB，连打鱼仔都知道，亚裔人士就挑FEMALE(母的），公的连看都不看。 我进去已经俩菲律宾的在等打鱼仔从大水池里剩下的几十只里一个个翻开来看有没有母的，一人一个大塑料口袋，眼看螃蟹快查完了，她们俩口袋里都仅仅三两只，我看如果我不说话，就没有我的份了。于是我就跟打鱼仔以西语交流两句，算搭上话了，于是再找到，就平分一下。这样我弄到了两只。1。98元/磅，一磅是九两，算算应该比国内要便宜多了。结帐的时候，看见很多人买金枪鱼，奇怪大块头的RED SNAPPER没人买，这也是石斑，下回我也要买回家当主食吃它一星期。
结帐出来，俩螃蟹，两磅，四块钱。提着螃蟹去隔壁再看看，看见了一种奇特的鱼，给大家猜猜是什么鱼，
因为好奇，我就又买了一条，2.39/磅， 大概有四磅左右，太漂亮了，打听一下，老头告诉我，炖汤或者BBQ都可以，炖汤我一听，也是西方人的那种浓汤，想想价格跟石斑差不多，应该味道不差。 SEA BASS就是鳕鱼，2.35/磅， 金枪2.98/磅， 鲜贝肉，无壳，3.98/磅。刚要走，又看见冻螃蟹，询问一下，新鲜的母蟹全没了，要买，早上四点来。确认这也是今天的螃蟹之后，我就又挑了两只母的这才99分/磅。 突然发现有一只公蟹好玩，发育不对称，右撇子，右钳远远大于左钳，也就挑上了，拍照给大家看看。
这条怪鱼，加三只冻蟹（蟹重2。65磅）共11块5。
总体来说，今天来晚了，以后要来，就该早上四点来，对我来说，没什么难度。一瓶百事，俩烧饼，早上就兴奋了。 但是感觉很好，一进了SAN PEDRO鱼市，看到前店后厂的那种小车间，看到后面通道外的渔船，大塑料箱，冰块镇着的鲜鱼，活蟹，感觉来对地方了，刚上来的海鲜，比超市感觉还好。虽然蟹，鱼便宜，加上来回汽油费，肯定比超市贵，但是感觉对啊，感觉太对了。就是要这种农民，渔民的感觉，手里抓着鱼，心里踏实。
回来见一人，告诉我，其实我们这里北上一些，更近的OXNARD码头也有鱼市，（我GOOGLE没查到），也是码头现装现买虾，蟹，鱼。在101公路往北，CHANNEL ISLAND下来，就是，绝对丢不了。因为早上车少，而且大家都是奔那里去的，呵呵。
不多说了，俺这就买姜去，先蒸他两只螃蟹，给大家上上照片，馋馋大家。
大概是在六七年前，MOTOROLA开始推出家用的对讲机，称之为WALKIE-TALKIE，非常形象，边走边说。体积比警用的小多了，大概距离是两三英里，十二个频道，每个频道还有三种选择，基本上在繁华地段也够用了，只要不太懒，别老锁着一频道用，自己往上找些其他不常用的频道，也就不会串线了。缺点是耗电量大，四节七号用一会就完了。
当时还挺贵的，然后MOTOROLA开始给邮寄退款，刺激消费，这时候COLUMBIA进来了，首先推出邮寄退款后免费的对讲机，就是售价25元，邮寄退款25元，顾客实际付出的仅仅是销售税而已，才8％左右。COLUMBIA销量大增，顾客一去FRY’S，看见对讲机的货架上，总是放得满满的各种品牌，其中却塌陷下去一大块，跑进了一看，毫无疑问，是COLUMBIA的货被抢光了。放着免费的不要，非要去买30，50一对的？ 你愿意，你老婆也不愿意啊？其他厂家在激烈的竞争中挣扎，开始走其他的路子。有的厂家
出了配套的专用充电插座，可以接汽车12伏电源，有的厂家出了手表型的，有的厂家出
动画造型的。有的厂家出了长达七英里距离的。
这时候已经是在比，看谁耗德过谁了。或者是COLUMBIA金尽人亡，或者是其他厂家没有销量，库存压死。结果呢？
COLUMBIA 破产了。无论如何做，免费的对讲机仅仅是推销手段，靠这个挣钱是不可能的，代收的销售税也在零售商FRY’S手上，而且也是要交州政府的。COLUMBIA宣布破产，我们这些等邮寄退款的人呢？实话实说，要在国内，这就打了水漂了，但是重庆森林告诉我说他已经拿到了FRY’S寄来的支票，我还是吃了一惊。于是按照他给我的电话号码，我打过去，FRY’S总部接的，这时候已经跟COLUMBIA没有关系了，FRY’S接受了这个责任。他们让我给本地商店打电话，我电话打到本地FRY’S，他们让我去店里43号柜台处理。
走进去，解释一下，小黑妞痛痛快快复印了我的发票，然后说要交给总部处理。这时候，FRY’S就是COLUMBIA的债权人了，要根据这些发票，要求COLUMBIA首先还帐，然后再把钱寄还给我。此事也无法跟踪，只有听天由命了，我就当个活马来医吧。
走出FRY’S又有点伤感，当年要是好好饲养COLUMBIA,不那么猛烈地搞它，它是否能活到今天呢？回想起在广深高速上，一边开车，一边开着WALKIE-TALKIE，串到别人用的频道里，然后跟不认识的人胡说一气，对方居然没有生气，或者是将信将疑，或者是跟我一起乱扯，确是COLUMBIA带给我的乐趣。
咱们中国人，幽默风趣的，不多。大家把WALKIE-TALKIE随便开到哪个频道，开始胡说吧。
大家有没有想过,在过去的这些经历中,可能看到过一些事情,使得大家有过诸如”连他也……”,”他居然是….怎么可能?” 的问题?
下面要说的事情可能不能算政治正确,只好当闲话来说. 大家听听即可.此君, Q大计算机系毕业,来美四年,拿到计算机专业PHD学位,这点点PROFILE就该让人仰视.
其实不然,写程序很烂,不会动态分配地址, 在某项目中分配他写个记数的程序,他用了600-700兆内存,弄得其他各国PHD同学对他怒目而视,勉强控制了情绪没有爆发出来,他的程序一运行,机器就FROZEN了… 不谈什么高深的算法,一个PHD学生会写程序,写好程序可能是起码的要求吧?
回顾此君历史,原来他真是漏网之鱼. 进Q大因为是北京生源,所以考分低,然后因为统战色彩的作文(关于台湾问题,类似于廖承志给蒋经国的一封信)加分50,还有另外一个项目加分20,所以得进Q大.
怎么来美国的呢?乃是师兄推荐… 曾经跟某北大中文系毕业的女生同学一门课,该女生文科背景,请她老公(EE的背景)代写作业,似乎说得过去,此君以五年Q大计算机专业的水平,居然也请女生的老公代写作业. 众人不解! 他还经常向非计算机专业的同学请教基本问题,基本概念.
他还做过TA(TEACHING ASSISTANT), 解答学生问题时,将MINUS一律念成 米那斯,众学生震惊,然后忍受. 经某人指出后,他改成正确发音买呢斯. 但是他又开始了新的征途…系里某教授,名BIC,大家都念比克, 此君根据MINUS的发音,毅然念出了白克.
有次,他的车打不着火了,请我帮忙,我用JUMP CABLE接我车上替他打着了火,然后他的车钥匙锁在了车里.他就问我怎么办?言下之意我要负责,我当时极其不负责地回了他一句”你该干嘛干嘛去.”扬长而去.这几年前的事情我都忘记了,可他一直记心里.我也不知道该怎么回答才能让他满意了.
他考驾驶执照的时候在自己已经试驾过的考试路线上,看见地上有DIP(浅沟, 使车辆减速的方式),居然一踩油门,如同电影里一样,车飞起来,落在地上. 没有继续考下去,他就被惊魂未定的考官领回来了.
此人也是Q大毕业,也是计算机专业PHD毕业了. 不仅仅是这四年,是这过去的二十年,年年漏网,不容易啊.
一套CALLOWAY的高尔夫球杆，据说本地价格750＋税，我的一个同事650免税就从EBAY搞到了。麻烦也来了。
因为占了便宜，反而不放心，他查到八根杆上，只有主杆脚上打了钢印的序列号。于是EMAIL询问CALLOWAY，核对序列号。他被告知，序列号是对的。
还没结束，他又想，这根杆上的钢印号是不是打上去的呢？ 这号码不难伪造，找个真杆抄下号码就可以…而且另外七根杆呢？也是真的？怎么证明呢？不对，包装呢？他又查看了下包装的塑料袋和胶带扎紧的封口…
当然，这些疑问就无法从CALLOWAY那里得到回答了，除非把球杆送SAN DIEGO去检查。
他来问我，我当然首先是挑战他的球技是否已经到了需要或者可以分辨高级球杆的地步，然后举例向他说明我多年没有买过30美元以上的球鞋就是怕人给我“乔治踢球？记得，他球鞋不错，句号。”这样的评论。
呵呵，笑过之后，我先告诉他不要考虑包装问题，对于一个拥有专业机器的可能造假企业来说，包装可以做得天衣无缝，绝非他能分辨的出来的。一个电吹风就可以把DVD都还原成SEALED PACK，所以，不要做无谓的操心了。其次，我告诉他，如果普通销售商都是一套套卖球杆的话，那么拿一根真杆，其他七根都替换成假杆，没有意义。因为剩下的七根没有序列号的真杆也卖不出去，或者卖不出什么名堂。所以一套杆，或许都是真的，或许都是假的。
拿起来看看，钢印打得很规矩，不深不浅不歪，旁边的激光标记也在。这时候要注意细节了，我发现包装用的塑料袋边的小孔边缘都是锯齿型的，袋上印着报纸一样的密密麻麻的无意义的数字。我放心了，造假断不会如此注意细节，如果真是如此注意细节的造假，那么造出来的也是一件MASTER PIECE了。
我问他“用过吗？” 他说“没用过。”
“为什么怀疑是假杆？””便宜，所以怀疑…”
我祝贺他买到了真杆儿，并把我的判断告诉了他。说到底，还是DEAL搞少了，对便宜的东西没有心理准备。
“GEORGE，人不一样的，看见没有？这就是关注于负面的人(FOCUSE ON NEGATIVES).”另外一个同事开玩笑，倒也不无道理。
我最后的一个问题是给CALLOWAY的，作为名牌球杆制造商，一套750的球杆，难道不值得多花七块钱，在另外七个球杆上打上序列号吗？激光标记既然打上了，难道不该告诉我们如何鉴别激光标记吗？
For those of you who want to focuse on issues, share opinions, I am right here to have some fun talking to you.
For those of you who is more interested in outrageous assertion on people’s personalities, religious believes, gender, natinoalities, I am not going to have a single comment on you coz you don’t deserve. period.
The following words are for any issue-oriented visitors.
1. It is my belief that people’s privacy needs to be respected, no matter it is from nvnv or from chuzi, or anyone else. It is also my belief that MSN talk is one of the default privacies which are absolutely exclusive from any open BBS.
2. The content doesn’t matter, what matters is the nature of the talk. Whoever disclose this private talk is deemed to take full responsiblity of his/her own misbehaviors. It is up to the admin’s jurisdiction to determine what is the appropriate action to follow up, which may result in this person’s posts being deleted, and/or his ID being revoked. period.
3. This may not be executed by the admin, however this is definitely an choice left for the admin team. Regarding the appeal posts from the plaintiff, I see more privacy disclosed and thus imappropriate to be remained kept.
4. If someone is more interested in gossiping why he left school, how much rent they shared, who is the computer guy, blablabla, I prefer this sort of talk being taken offline on MSN or somewhere else. When you post this online, the admin team does not have too many choices. You might be unhappy to see me like a judge. Actually I am not. This merely serves as my vision on what is goingto happen, or we call it “my two cents.”
5. One more word, don’t try my patience coz I do not have much.
Generally I don’t delete comments unless it is too much offensive. Support and debating are welcome. Please make sure your comments is either issue-oriented, not personally offensive. Hehe, have a nice day.