UP (天外奇蹟) 很好看！影片前的 Partly Cloudy 短篇故事也很棒！
Pixar 說故事的功力真的很強。
Pixar 在 2004 年就開始編寫這部電影，在過程中導演還帶著工作人員到南美洲實景勘查:
影片中可以看到電影裡 “出現” 的峭壁、岩石與瀑布！
推薦這部電影！
( Wikipedia 上面介紹這部片的時候提到恐怖谷效應 (uncanny valley) ，滿有趣的，有興趣的人可以自行查詢。 )
UP
Posted by H. Lee on July 1, 2009
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d3o
Posted by H. Lee on June 27, 2009
d3o is a dilatant material. In normal status, it’s very flexible and malleable, but on abrupt force its molecules lock together to absorb the impact energy. Therefore, it’s very useful in protective clothing.
Although it’s invented in 2005, I haven’t got the chance to see a real product so far.
You can find more demos on Youtube.
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Anything You Can Do
Posted by H. Lee on June 25, 2009
Song by Bernadette Peters & Tom Wopat
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Accept that you don’t control what will happen and what has happened to you
Posted by H. Lee on June 24, 2009
I saw this youtube clip and watched the movie Peaceful Warrior today. They both reminded me something…
Something that I think trivial might be important to others.
Something that I feel important now might actually be trivial to me in the future.
Quotes from Peaceful Warrior:
1. Letting go of allowing your emotions to control you.
2. Nearly all of humanity shares your predicament. If you don’t get what you want, you suffer. And even when you get exactly what you want you still suffer because you can’t hold onto it forever.
3. You don’t surrender your dreams. You surrender the one thing you never have and never will, control. Accept that you don’t control what will happen to you. That you may or may not compete in the Olympics & that you are something exceptional either way.
4. The mind is just a reflex organ, it reacts to everything. Fills your head with millions of random thoughts a day, none of those thoughts reveal any more about you than a freckle does at the end of your nose.
5. People are not their thoughts. They think they are and it brings them all kinds of sadness. I am not what I think.
6. The journey is what brings us happiness, not the destination.
7. Know that nothing stays the same.
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Wicked
Posted by H. Lee on June 17, 2009
Watched Wicked with my family today at SF.
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Ph.D. Commencement Ceremony
Posted by H. Lee on June 14, 2009
I walked through the Stanford Commencement Ceremony today as a graduating Ph.D. candidate.
I was really happy to see my family, relatives, and many friends during the ceremony. I am especially grateful to those people who came here for me and cheered for me when I was hooded on the stage.
This should be the last graduation ceremony in my life, and afterward I am sailing into the unknown…
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Google Holodeck
Posted by H. Lee on June 8, 2009
They can combine this technology with the Omni-directional Treadmill.
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Celebrating 25 Years of The Tetris Effect
Posted by H. Lee on June 6, 2009
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Project Natal
Posted by H. Lee on June 2, 2009
The ideal game (control) in my mind for many many years… it finally comes true!!
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Stanford informed of seven probable H1N1 flu cases
Posted by H. Lee on May 30, 2009
Stanford University officials today, Friday, were informed by the Santa Clara Public Health Department that samples from seven students have tested as probable for the novel influenza A (H1N1), also known as swine flu.
These are the first cases of probable H1N1 flu reported at Stanford. The students who tested positive have since either recovered from their illnesses or are on the way to recovery. None required hospitalization. The university will continue to monitor the students and situation.
The students were either seen at the Stanford Hospital or treated at the on-campus Vaden Health Center.
“Following the guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the county public health department, we are treating this as we would seasonal influenza,” said Ira Friedman, director of Stanford’s Vaden Health Center. “So we recommend that students follow the precautions they were given to avoid spread. Based on the advice of county health officials, we do not believe there is need for any other action at this point.”
He added, “The flu has been circulating widely in the country, state and county, so these results do not surprise us.”
Because of privacy laws, student names or residences will not be released.
The university’s academic school year will end in two weeks. No changes in the university schedule or its plans for Commencement are envisioned, although the university is augmenting health precautions around upcoming events.
The university continues to recommend that students who are experiencing flu-like symptoms seek evaluation at the Vaden Health Center. Faculty and staff should consult their primary care physicians.
More information can be found at http://ucomm.stanford.edu/flu/.
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