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Awesome cafe

Excellent mix of music and coffee here

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More time in office

This semester I m going to stay in office longer and have a continuous time.

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New Blog?

Let's start a blog detailing my random thoughts and ideas about research and life

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其實我真的要證明的對象，是我自己吧。

我現在坐在圖書館我最習慣的位置，經濟學類書籍的旁邊。回想起五年前我還是個博士生，雖然快要畢業了卻找不到什麼工作，只好回台灣跟大陸。那時心情真的很沮喪。每天我一早就出發等公車，那太陽剛昇上來時，雪跟冰在我身邊融化的冷的感覺，我到現在還記得。接著一直用功到晚上十點才回去。每次從公車下來，我一定要把音樂調到1976的”壯遊前夕”，大聲的鼓勵著自己。雖然人在密西根偏遠的鄉下，但在我的心中看見的是一座閃著光芒的城市，而我正從注視著它的高山上往城市跳下去。我不知道那是哪，但我從沒懷疑過一定會有適合我的去處的，我很努力的相信著。就跟我一年級時考資格考時，最愛聽著五月天的倔強邊跑邊大聲唱：就算沒有人相信我、就算連我自己也不相信自己，我還是要繼續努力下去，證明給大家看我真的可以。現在回想起來，那時的感覺還是很悲壯的。其實我真的要證明的對象，是我自己吧。最不相信我的，也許是自己吧。就因為這樣，才要更用力去相信的呀。

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Stay competitive...is hard

I just read resumes of some Taiwanese profs, mostly ones in NTU, and was shocked by the recent progress they made. It's like I finally made some hits, maybe doubles, that raised my avg or ops to somewhere closes to .300/.400, and was satisfied by my performance. But when I check the performance of the other players, I found I definitely was not exceptional, and should feel lucky that I somehow maintained to stay a bit above average among all the players. Just like I thought I should be a most added player this semester, but turned out there are a lot of substitutes...should not be that satisfied and relax these past two months, was really naive I guess...

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One friend I ran into on the street could focus only on the lens pointing at her. “Can it see into my soul?”

New York Times article about Google Glass, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/magazine/googling-yourself-takes-on-a-whole-new-meaning.html?hpw&pagewanted=all&_r=1&

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THE job of clever people is to ask difficult questions. The job of very clever people is to ask deceptively simple ones. Eighty years ago a young British economist wondered: why do companies exist? The answer that he gave remains as fascinating today as it was back then. ...And he set a test that every boss still has to answer: what does their firm do that cannot be done more efficiently elsewhere?

From the Economist, Sep 7th 2013. http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21584985-anyone-who-cares-about-capitalism-and-economics-should-mourn-death-ronald-coase-man

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My office ("S" for Spartans!) and the roof of my college. I stay here almost every night.

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Our campus, so beautiful. Like a park.

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Gordon Biersch

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牛奶是我人生中的第一台車。2006年的暑假我用3900大洋跟一位退休老師買下這台十年十二萬miles的Honda Accord. 從此他載著我穿越密西根的大街小巷，在雪裡風裡來去。他曾在紐約州的鄉下大爆胎，驚人的情況讓我以為車子爆炸了；也曾在皇后區的路邊安全的待了一晚，雖然窗戶忘了關。更別提他曾從芝加哥一路單眼開回來(車頭燈只亮一個)，還撞到安全島(左前方完全看不到啊)。 不過他最常發揮的功能還是帶我從我家移動到的家去玩,還有載著我和室友 去買菜。我離開後,他還陪了Ryan and Wan-Hsuan Lin 好一陣子, 加起來大概又是另一個十年吧。這麼強悍的生命力也讓我從此愛上Honda,回國後買了牛奶的弟弟，黑豆漿(civic)。 現在牛奶要離開我們去載新主人了，讓我想起好多好多關於他的回憶。希望他的下一個主人也會跟我們一樣愛他。巧合的是,我正在看的"終於悲哀的外國語"中,村上剛好提到他在Princeton訪問時,第一部買的就是Accord(如照片)。下次也來談談村上跟我的親密關係吧。

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First time

This is my first time using tumblr!