回京见闻之版聚和学校

下午去参加了9# TVGames的版聚。我居然会在回北京的这短短两周里赶上这个,太奇迹了。。

大母牛组织的,我以为meteor会到,结果这人鸽子了。于是我变成了到场最老的,靠。其他依次有4字班5字班还有0字班的……如果我继续参加这玩意儿的话马上就要被套圈了。版聚内容是几个人守着一台PS3打P4A,一个2D格斗游戏。基本都是第一次玩瞎打,也挺欢乐的。这次版聚的成功之处在于出现了两个女生!想当年我组织的那会儿基本都是纯爷们阵容的,偶尔answer会加入一下。版聚地点是博士W楼的活动室,我们去的时候里面还有两桌三国杀,看到我们打格斗他们还过来交流了一下。这真是个很和谐的小空间,我当年怎么不知道有这么好的地方。

学校里面似乎从天而降了很多雕塑。说从天而降的意思是这些雕塑普遍难看到像是砸在地上砸坏了,就是那个“脸部着地”的典故了。其实还好了也还不太离谱。东操那儿修了个新楼看起来还不错。新楼前面特别特别绿的一大片草地,貌似是棒球场?他们现在这条件可真是改善了好多以前都是土场的。

学校里面依然有各种生机盎然的球场,卿卿我我的情侣,车流不息的主干道,人来人往的教学楼。人脸上没那么焦躁,说话的语气似乎也温和了许多。漫无目的的走过这些,觉得这里和围墙之外似乎截然不同,或者只是因为这里寄托了六七年单纯的生活。我甚至开始想没准儿毕业之后住在学校边上是个好主意。

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回京见闻之地铁与人

之前有一段时间我挺不理解为什么北京的朋友要买车,尤其是开车上班的。就北京这交通状况,非要买个车连车带人堵在路上那不是和自己过不去么?那时候我自己天天坐地铁,后来变成周末坐坐地铁,觉得好像还可以忍。

在纽约住了大半年,也是天天坐地铁,那边就没人开车上班大家都坐地铁坐的挺好。回来北京之后昨天(周六)坐了两次一号线,今天拎着些东西坐了趟五道口到朝阳门。我突然开始理解为啥要买车了,堵在路上就算慢点,舒适感可能也比坐地铁强……

北京这地铁站搞得很光鲜也还不太热,但地铁里面又热又闷。纽约是地铁站里面巨热,但车厢里面冷到你觉得冷气扑面而来那样。纽约地铁人也挺多,比北京少点但也有一趟上不去的时候,关键的区别在于:纽约地铁里即使人多,人和人之间很少有接触的,更没有推搡什么的,偶尔碰一下都要说个sorry;北京这边人稍微多点就感觉这儿碰一下那儿擦一下的,进出门挤来挤去,出站的时候也是都走得特密集,跟街上的车流风格完全一致。我觉得这个距离习惯的差异可能是因为美国人胖子太多!

周六的时候还在西单逛了逛。站在天桥上的时候下面密密麻麻的人潮真的挺壮观。我要是写Lonely Planet,对西单的介绍就是来天桥上看看这人就行了,其他的哪个国家都有。

中友和大悦城各有一个星巴克,其队伍长度和上座率完爆麦当劳KFC等一干快餐店。试图蹭wifi的我也站进长龙里,结果直到排到都没连上!只好心不甘情不愿的买了一杯。排队的时候后面俩人还交谈:“你说咋这么多人来买星巴克呢”“因为大家都有钱了呗”。说得太对了。还有一点就是外国品牌在中国的价值真是太大了,什么都是假的,牌子是真的。

买完了我还是没连上wifi。。。不能上网你开个毛的星巴克啊!

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回京见闻之四川办

跟一帮朋友去吃四川办。上学的时候老听说新疆办巴州办,貌似也都去吃了。川办应该是听过但是还真没去过。这次一去才发现就在建国门附近,住在旁边一年多都不知道……

菜做得还挺好吧,据在座两位四川人鉴定勉强可以算正宗,就是普遍偏咸。这不是本文的重点。

席间我们打算点一盘叶儿耙。一个看起来很敦厚的小姑娘服务员问“是不是要甜的”,全桌的人一起说“要咸的”。过了一会儿上了一盘,六个,三个人夹起来一尝。得,甜的。。

这事儿也没啥,也就是小姑娘糊涂点儿。我们就叫服务员过来说换了吧。旁边一个小男生服务员也过来了,两个人都表示很为难,厨房不给换什么的。到这儿已经有点2了。我们表示我们那么明确的告诉你是咸的了还搞错,凭什么不换。这时候他们居然提出我们已经吃了三个,于是最多只能换剩下的三个……而且他们还是表示不确定能不能换。

事情就此陷入僵局。两个小服务员私下嘀咕了一会儿,啥也不说就出去了……我们都愣了,也不知道这是怎么个意思。于是继续吃等人来再问。然后就有人说现在这个服务员是很难招,她们单位门口的饭店服务员都换了好几茬了,一茬比一茬差,现在这茬已经到了有点呆呆傻傻的程度了,让她怀疑是不是都是饭店给这些人下药了让他们来做服务员……

过了一会儿经理来了,居然还说不好换厨房不给换,这真nm是个厨房统治下的饭馆!然后又说我们已经把甜的吃到只剩一个了,于是只能换一个!@#$ 我们当时就很无语,说你换一个吧那就,你做得出来就行。

过了20来分钟还真上来了,明显现蒸的,一个大盘子里面孤零零一个叶儿耙。。之前剩下那个甜的他们也不拿走,到最后也没人吃就扔在那儿。

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Broadway on Broadway

We went to “Broadway on Broadway” free concert last weekend. It was a public show in Time Square, right at the cross of 46 St and Broadway. The performers are all from broadway musicals, basically one song for each show. There are more than 10 songs this year.

We arrived there 10 minutes before the show started. It was quite crowded already, and we could only stand by the TKTS glass stairs. From that place we could barely see the stage, but had to watch LCD screens all around us. The streets and audience area got much much more crowded after the show officially began, because so many passengers and tourists stopped for it. This is how it looks

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The TKTS stairs are actually a good spot to watch the show. But at first it is only open to some people. I guess they were members or bought some ticket. After the show started for about 10 minutes, the staff began to let other people in because there was still lots of space on those stairs and probably no one will buy ticket anymore. We were pretty lucky and got 2 seats :)

The show was very nice. It’s not an anytime opportunity to take a peek of lots of famous musicals on the stage. Though most performers are not wearing the costume, and the stage was not specially designed, it’s still a quite different experience to watch them there than on YouTube. I mean, much better. It’s a smart advertising way.

One of the most impressive shows that day for me was “MoTown”. It’s about to hit the stage in NYC in 2013 spring, so now it’s just a preview. The black girl singers and dancers were so energetic and vivid. It’s not easy to stay immune to their radiant performance, if possible. “Once” and “Spiderman” seem targeting teenagers. The female singer of “Scandalous” has an amazing voice. “Mamma Mia” and “Chicago” are 2 shows I watched,  which I still recommend.

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Considering to Get A 11” Air

Really attracted by this article http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3237-a-few-product-recommendations

Any suggestions? I think 11” is big enough for vim.. Will check it out in Apple Store.

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Checked the actual machines in an Apple store yesterday. The width of the screen is actually more than necessary at most times, so the height matters. 11” has 15% less height than 13” (768 vs. 900). With 14pt font, the size I’m used to, in maximized Terminal 11” can show 42 rows while 13” can show 49 rows.

Not sure if the further portability of 11” really matters to me, who just carries the laptop for commute and has been carrying 15” MBP for years. So probably I will go for 13” for this time.

Here is a reference link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_displays_by_pixel_density#Apple