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ORZ，果然是N久没干活了。在同志们的一再催促下，决定开工！

现在发现SEU才是勤快的好地方——挖空，做挖空笔记，doodle。

回家后就再也找不到这份闲清逸志了——将时间消磨于吃饭，睡觉，上网之间，迄今只doodle了一张NP，看了寥寥几本书，也没笔记。

看了同志们的space——重返浦口，回忆往昔……感慨当年竟未能体会那份情趣，也许世人都不善于珍惜眼前的所有，而倾向于沉溺在对过去的回忆吧。

希腊神话，黑白电影，古典音乐，名著，诗词，历史……^_^看来我真是一个怀旧的人。好在遇到了同志们，于是有了许多话题。1，2，3，action! Days of Our Lives开播——

C通常是潮流的领导者，自从认识C以后，偶和木木终于知道了“龙”，“虫”是何许人也，也知道了后来被奉为经典的“卫青和霍去病的关系”，并从此在124的DB中建立了一张足以媲美Schindler's list的C’s list。为Human Right,被长江小吃赚去了无数的“三块钱”，虽然陈叔叔变成了刘叔叔，冰冰也不再是那个冰冰；为陈叔叔的王朝，义无返顾地冲到本不属于我们的圆桌前，记得某次木木竟一改淑女形象，登高而为之，记得最深的是看蓝齐儿与父亲决裂的那次，木木与C皆泪流满面；后来就是用陈粉的本本看《蓝色生死恋》了，连通了；再后来人们都有了本本，在哈那边看了圣某的冥王篇（全天的88个星座，我是一个都看不出来啊，555），和C，木木一起重温封神（猛然发现里面的家具首饰超前卫），以及后来的某游戏……

曾经124的夜谈也算有声有色，经典的topic是西大名著，古文明，C’s list，历史（C精于中国古代史，重点在汉，宋，清；木木擅长民国史，四大家族与文坛人物），我们曾经看过的动画片，武侠片……

谈名著一开始还像那么回事的，诸如三国里最倾佩谁，人物之间的关系，演义与正史的差异，红楼薛林之争，秦可卿的身世（一同事竟不知秦可卿，@_@）,最终的结局，水浒中的叛逆者和愚忠者，西游之前后矛盾（曾经无所不能的孙悟空后来只要碰到随便一个某的坐骑搞了个装备就被KO了）；但到后来就八卦了：赵姨娘成了抢手货，宝姐姐反到要孤老终身了……

有一段时间，是C开课讲卫青子夫汉武平阳，当时《汉武大帝》还没出炉呢。问：何以知如许？答曰：无事乱翻书。无聊时翻的居然是25史，木木大叹派头好。

动画片意味着一个时代：阿童木，忍者神鬼（天知道爱因斯坦跟其他三位有什么关系），变形金刚（折叠式汽车，高级啊），希瑞，希曼，某警长，恐龙某（1级准备，2级准备，3级准备），机器猫（现在改叫多拉A梦，而且康夫成大雄了，晕），花仙子（我和木木没看过，被BS），巴巴爸爸，嘿奔奔，一休（我以前有个卡纸做的，用线一拉手脚会动的，MS现在类似的东东有卖），葫芦娃，大闹天宫，天书奇谭（本人认为的最好的国产动画片），圣斗士（C没看过，激起公愤），邋遢大王……突然想起后来居然还去看了两眼犬夜叉。

说到N年前的武侠，木木想必无所不晓。当时突然提到一本狂老的内地武侠片——江湖恩仇录，于是笑成一片，原来全看过（FT，某83年的同事居然没听说过）。后来是在天涯上看到了相关的贴，居然点击率奇高啊。还有白眉大侠，没想到当年狂不幽默的白云瑞竟是后来策马哮西风里的傅红雪，彻底晕倒。再就是75，C尤好之（看来是25的倍子的C都喜欢，如50，75，哈哈）。当然少不了木木喜欢的香港武侠。射雕自不必说，后来还复习了一下绝代双骄，有某叔叔，还有吴岱融（这位当年还真的不幽默，如玉面飞狐里，可惜现在简直判若两人）。

一开始跟123似乎接触不多，只是911事件后，木木向孙风借了张环球时报，后来不知怎的，本班开始流传一句话：传说中的孙风。后来去看电影，碰到孙风和陈粉，记得那时看的是Spy Game和Vanilla Sky，后者看得云里雾里，孙风一怒之下，决定放弃看电影，不料错过了MJB的机会，于是生活中又多了一个目标。

后来听说孙风听古典音乐，看油画，不禁大喜，难得啊！于是戏称威廉退尔为自由射手，比较贝多芬和德彪西的月光，再有就是倒霉的肖邦，每次孙风的MP3容量不够了就难逃被删的命运，当当当，当！Davinci的智慧，Michelangelo 的力量，Raphael的美，油画要从文艺复兴开始看。Baroque过于华丽，Rococo又太矫情，于是看好新古典主义。孙风能欣赏到David那幅拿破仑的真迹，真是有幸了。有趣的是西方绘画，宗教题材颇多，孙风多不喜之，尤以耶酥受难为最，统称为上架下架。记得孙风似乎喜欢卢梭的，果然是眼光独到，诡异的自然，孙风喜欢的风格？据说卢梭画中的那些奇花异草皆出自想象，画家并未像其所述游历过许多地方。再近一点的：软钟，软表，玫瑰花头，蚂蚁，面包，抽屉，叉子，最后的也是最重要的——加拉。画中有画，远近高低各不同，果然是超现实。后来库里进了一套彩图铜板纸的书，于是迷上Constable的乡村，turner的大海。可惜后来全去了一楼，那时米勒就已经被折磨得支离破碎了。上层好享受，底层受折磨，物尤如此……想起所谓的“世风日下”，世风也难逃一劫了。

就次搁笔（更确切些，是键盘），不知所云。

以Memory结束次篇吧：

*第一家公司

老板：兔兔，今天工作忙不忙？

兔兔：不忙。

下班时老板对兔兔说：你明天不用来了。

兔兔：为什么？

老板：因为你不能多为公司干事，所以才会不忙，公司要你何用？

*第二家公司

老板：兔兔，今天工作忙不忙？

兔兔：很忙。

下班时老板对兔兔说：你明天不用来了。

兔兔：为什么？

老板：因为你做事没有条理性，所以才会整天忙，公司要你何用？

*第三家公司

老板：兔兔，今天工作忙不忙？

兔兔：还行。

下班时老板对兔兔说：你明天不用来了。

兔兔：为什么？

老板：因为你做事不理性，所以才会有什么"还行"不"还行"的，公司要你何用？

*第四家公司

老板：兔兔，今天工作忙不忙？

兔兔：刚忙完。

下班时老板对兔兔说：你明天不用来了。

兔兔：为什么？

老板：因为你做事效率太低，做完就不能检查一下么？公司要你何用？

*第五家公司

老板：兔兔，今天工作忙不忙？

兔兔：有些做完了，也检查过了，现在在做其他事。下班时老板对兔兔说：你明

天不用来了。

兔兔：为什么？

老板：因为你做事缺乏系统性，有些事不会一起做么？公司要你何用？

*第六家公司

老板：兔兔，今天工作忙不忙？

兔兔：我的工作都做完了，正在帮别人做。下班时老板对兔兔说：你明天不用来

了。

兔兔：为什么？

老板：因为你做事没有打算，你不会自己规划一下明天要做的事么？公司要你何用？

*第七家公司

老板：兔兔，今天工作忙不忙？

兔兔：今天的工作做完了，明天的工作也了。下班时老板对兔兔说：你明天不用

来了。

兔兔：为什么？

老板：因为你做事不考虑整体，你不会帮同事分忧解劳吗？公司要你何用？

*第八家公司

老板：兔兔，今天工作忙不忙？

兔兔：今天的和明天的工作都做完了，现在在帮同事的忙。

下班时老板对兔兔说：你明天不用来了。

兔兔：为什么？

老板：因为你太爱出风头，你的帮忙很可能造成其他人的懒惰或压力，公司要

你何用？

*第九家公司

老板：兔兔，今天工作忙不忙？

兔兔：等一下，我思考一下再回答你。

下班时老板对兔兔说：你明天不用来了。

兔兔：为什么？

老板：你目中无人，我问你话竟然一再搪塞我， 公司要你何用？

*第十家公司

老板：兔兔，今天工作忙不忙？

兔兔：我......我......不、不知道......该、该怎么、回答你。

下班时老板对兔兔说：你明天不用来了。

兔兔：为什么？

老板：因为你连做事忙不忙都不知道，公司要你 何用？

*第十一家公司

老板：兔兔，今天工作忙不忙？

兔兔：去你的，老子辞职了~~~~~~~~~~

老板：嘿！有个性，我们公司就不放你走!

 呵呵，大家工作忙不忙啊

游戏开始：

（被点名者，在自己的space上写下答案，并加一个题目，然后把题目丢给另外五个人，并且告诉这些人“你被点名了。”这五个人在自己的space注明是从哪一位好友那里传来的题目，然后写下答案，并附加一个问题，再去贴另外五个人。比如你自己回答14个题目，你回答完了再加一个，被你点名的好友就要回答15个题目，如此继续下去。）

野心谈不上，没什么烦恼就好

提问2：叙述你或者你想象中的最刻骨铭心的一次恋爱经历。（限原创）

晕，我还没空到没事就想这种问题的地步吧

提问3：如果你可以变成动漫/卡通里的角色，你想变成谁，说出原因。

动漫不太熟，变个机器猫可能不错，一直羡慕那个口袋

提问4：如果重新让你选择一次已经过完的这段人生，你会想从什么时候开始？换句话说，你对自己什么阶段最后悔，想重新来过？

没觉得有什么后悔的，即使重新再来，估计也不会有太大变化

提问5：你最后一次发自内心的笑是什么时候？

天天笑啊，都是发自内心的，写到这里，又笑

提问6：你睡前最后一个念头是什么？

睡觉啦，哈哈

提问7：另一半如果出轨的话，你会怎么做？

调查一下前因后果

提问8：你生命中最重要的到底是什么？

走自己的路，让别人去说吧

提问9：如果世界即将灭亡，你会如何渡过生命的最后一天？

看新闻，观察一下末日的群像

提问10：一天早上起来，发现自己身边的人都变成蛤蟆似的只会跳，只会呱呱叫，你怎么办

闭上眼睛，彻底睡醒了再说

提问11：如果给你个机会，你想对谁说抱歉，为什么？

没什么人要道歉的啊

提问12：2005年剩下的1个月当中最期待的事情是什么，要具体一点哦。

一切顺利，别出什么麻烦

提问13：在你居住的地方，你最想去的地方是哪里？

觉得家里就不错

提问14：你最满意自己身体的哪一部分，为什么？

头脑，还算好用，也不会没事就罢工

提问15：你是什么星座的，对星座的说法相信吗？

天秤，很多说法矛盾的，故不相信

提问16：你选择你的另一半是重德还是重色？为撒？

取加权平均，公平对待自己的眼睛和心灵

提问17：你知道五月天，喜欢他们么？

不知道

提问18：如果现实和理想有差距，你会怎样自我调整？

觉得是理所当然的，hope for the best and prepare for the worst

提问19：你觉得现在你身上最坏的，需要改进的习惯是什么？为什么？

没什么远景目标，日子过得糊里糊涂的

提问20：你要的自由是什么样的？

参见提问8

问题21：做得最离奇的梦是啥？

天知道都做过些什么梦

问题22：给你1000万或者一个爱人。选啥？

先看看所谓爱人到底是什么性质的，再做决定  

问题23：希望什么时候退休？

不想干的时候

问题25：你会觉得迷茫吗？当未来很不确定的时候，你会怎么办？

 迷茫啊，自我安慰：船到桥头自然直

问题26： 你认为什么样的女孩是幸福的？

 我这样的呀 ^_^

问题27：最喜欢的歌是什么哪一首？Why？听着它你会想到？

喜欢的歌很多，但没有最喜欢的

问题28：你最近和谁在一起最开心？让你忘却了什么烦恼？

家人，反正没什么要我操心的了

问题29：我最近最大的烦恼是什么？

忙啊

问题30：你最想去旅游的地方是哪里？

欧洲，深厚的文化底蕴

问题31：你心目中的朋友是什么样子的？你最想和朋友在一起干什么？

了解我的，有共同语言的，和朋友一起随便干什么都好啊

问题32：描述一下心目中感觉最美的风景

参见Corot的树林，Turner的海，Constable的乡村，Van Gogh的星夜……

问题33：你读过的最好的一本书是什么？

读过的N多书中，不少都很有感觉啊

问题34:

你的偶像是谁?他(她)吸引你的是什么?

本人认为历史上有三个强人，Da Vinci,B.Russel and R.Feynman.so versatile.

我加的问题：

你会羡慕别人吗？若有，那都是什么方面的，外表，头脑，出身，机遇……？

先点木木吧

Claude E Shannon's father was also named Claude Elwood Shannon and his mother was Mabel Catherine Wolf. Shannon was a graduate of the University of Michigan, being awarded a degree in mathematics and electrical engineering in 1936. Although he had not been outstanding in mathematics, he then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he obtained a Master's Degree in electrical engineering and his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1940. Shannon wrote a Master's thesis A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits on the use of Boole's algebra to analyse and optimise relay switching circuits. His doctoral thesis was on population genetics.

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he also worked on the differential analyser, an early type of mechanical computer developed by Vannevar Bush for obtaining numerical solutions to ordinary differential equations. Shannon published Mathematical theory of the differential analyzer in 1941. In the introduction to the paper he writes:-

The most important results [mostly given in the form of theorems with proofs] deal with conditions under which functions of one or more variables can be generated, and conditions under which ordinary differential equations can be solved. Some attention is given to approximation of functions (which cannot be generated exactly), approximation of gear ratios and automatic speed control.

Shannon joined AT&T Bell Telephones in New Jersey in 1941 as a research mathematician and remained at the Bell Laboratories until 1972. Johnson writes in [4] that Shannon:-

... became known for keeping to himself by day and riding his unicycle down the halls at night.

D Slepian, a colleague at the Bell Laboratories wrote:-

Many of us brought our lunches to work and played mathematical blackboard games but Claude rarely came. He worked with his door closed, mostly. But if you went in, he would be very patient and help you along. He could grasp a problem in zero time. He really was quite a genius. He's the only person I know whom I'd apply that word to.

Working with John Riordan, Shannon published a paper in 1942 on the number of two-terminal series-parallel networks. This paper extended results obtained by MacMahon who had published his early contribution in the Electrician in 1892.

Shannon published A Mathematical Theory of Communication in the Bell System Technical Journal (1948). This paper founded the subject of information theory and he proposed a linear schematic model of a communications system. This was a new idea. Communication was then thought of as requiring electromagnetic waves to be sent down a wire. The idea that one could transmit pictures, words, sounds etc. by sending a stream of 1s and 0s down a wire, something which today seems so obvious as we take this information from a server in St Andrews, Scotland, and view it anywhere in the world, was fundamentally new.

Shannon considered a source of information which generates words composed of a finite number of symbols. These are transmitted through a channel, with each symbol spending a finite time in the channel. The problem involved statistics with the assumption that if x_n is the nth symbol produced by the source the x_n process is a stationary stochastic process. He gave a method of analysing a sequence of error terms in a signal to find their inherent variety, matching them to the designed variety of the control system. In A Mathematical Theory of Communication , which introduced the word "bit" for the first time, Shannon showed that adding extra bits to a signal allowed transmission errors to be corrected. Slepian, in the introduction to [2], writes:-

Probably no single work in this century has more profoundly altered man's understanding of communication than C E Shannon's article, "A mathematical theory of communication", first published in 1948. The ideas in Shannon's paper were soon picked up by communication engineers and mathematicians around the world. They were elaborated upon, extended, and complemented with new related ideas. The subject thrived and grew to become a well-rounded and exciting chapter in the annals of science.

On 27 March 1949 Shannon married Mary Elizabeth Moore. They had three sons and one daughter; Robert, James, Andrew Moore, and Margarita. He continued his work showing how Boolean algebra could be used to synthesise and simplify relay switching circuits. He also proved results on colouring the edges of a graph so that no two edges of the same colour meet at a vertex. Another important paper, published in 1949, was Communication theory of secrecy systems.

In 1952 Shannon devised an experiment illustrating the capabilities of telephone relays. He had held a position as a visiting professor of communication sciences and mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956, then from 1957 he was appointed to the Faculty there, but remained a consultant with Bell Telephones. In 1958 he became Donner Professor of Science [1]:-

When he returned to MIT in 1958, he continued to threaten corridor-walkers on his unicycle, sometimes augmenting the hazard by juggling. No one was ever sure whether these activities were part of some new breakthrough or whether he just found them amusing. He worked, for example, on a motorised pogo-stick, which he claimed would mean he could abandon the unicycle so feared by his colleagues ...

R G Gallager, a colleague who worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote:-

Shannon was the person who saw that the binary digit was the fundamental element in all of communication. That was really his discovery, and from it the whole communications revolution has sprung.

His later work looked at ideas in artificial intelligence. He devised chess playing programs and an electronic mouse which could solve maze problems. The chess playing program appeared in the paper Programming a computer for playing chess published in 1950. This proposal led to the first game played by the Los Alamos MANIAC computer in 1956. This was the year that Shannon published a paper showing that a universal Turing machine may be constructed with only two states.

Latterly he felt that the communications revolution, which he had played a major role in starting, was going too far. He wrote:-

Information theory has perhaps ballooned to an importance beyond its actual accomplishments.

Marvin Minsky described Shannon as follows:-

Whatever came up, he engaged it with joy, and he attacked it with some surprising resource which might be some new kind of technical concept or a hammer and saw with some scraps of wood. For him, the harder a problem might seem, the better the chance to find something new.

He also applied his inventing genius to other areas [1]:-

... he once invented a two-seater version of his unicycle, and it is probably true that no one was anxious to share it with him. A later invention, the unicycle with an off-centre hub, would bring people out into the corridors to watch him as he rode it, bobbing up and down like a duck.

Shannon received many honours for his work. Among a long list of awards were the Alfred Nobel American Institute of American Engineers Award in 1940, the National Medal of Science in 1966, the Audio Engineering Society Gold Medal in 1985, and the Kyoto Prize in 1985.

He was afflicted by Alzheimer's disease, and he spent his last few years in a Massachusetts nursing home.

Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson