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♂蜗(guā)牛的奇妙冒险♂工作,锻炼,读书,随时备好背包,重燃生活的热情 6/27/2009 端午太行山太行山南部山脉位于河南和山西交界。去年的《中国国家地理》有一期专门介绍太行山的专刊,看杂志里介绍的峡谷和挂壁公路,心里痒痒的。今年端午节,趁着有假期,和几个朋友去了一趟。 如果满分是一百,这次出行我打七十分。稍微整理一下攻略,供后来人参考。 1、路线:
2、一些提示
废话少说,上图!
挂壁公路:刚看到会比较惊叹。不过这种公路在当地很多,慢慢就审美疲劳了。
秀色可餐
王莽岭:王莽岭其实并不高,也不是很险。但是当我们在最高点眺望的时候,可能是山风引起了回声,只听见风从四面八方吹来,让人充份体会到了什么叫“萧杀”。
霞光
6/13/2009 安全感和安全套有件事情我一直很奇怪,我们可能是一个缺乏安全感的民族,似乎自古以来就是这样。我们愿意把自己用某种东西围起来,以获得安全感。从长城,到紫禁城,到四合院的造型,都很好的说明了这一点。 到了近代,随着科学技术的发展,这种封闭心态更是得到了淋漓尽致的表现。某些生儿子没屁眼的精英分子和某些只顾挣钱的无良公司(我不会告诉你是思科的)勾结起来,创造性的发明了 Great Fire Wall (简称GFW),使得某些人可以随心所欲的替大家决定什么能看什么不能看。 本来以为事情到了这一步已经算很牛逼了,看来还不算完。某部花了4000万,准备一夜之间替全国人民的电脑装上安全套。为什么大家对这种事情反应这么强烈: 今天可以给你装防黄网的安全套,明天就可以把安全套换成绳索,而且这个绳索还是花你纳的税买的(领导还能从中拿一笔回扣)。这种民主政府想都不敢想的事情,在我们这儿居然这么名正言顺,看来社会主义优越性确实是高。 说到底,这可能还是我们自古就缺乏的安全感在作祟。这种安全感的缺乏,被某些上层人物放大以后,就成了荒诞的闹剧。闹来闹去,最后受到伤害的,还是我们自己赖以生存的社会。 生活在这样一个国家,真叫人无奈。 4/23/2009 皇帝与艺术家宋徽宗堪称是一个伟大的书法家、画家和词人,但是他的本职工作没有做好,是一个不折不扣的烂皇帝。作为皇帝,工作没有做好的结果比较严重:全家押送到东北,老婆被人凌辱,自己在鸟不拉屎的地方被关了9年,郁郁而终。 这个故事告诉我们,每个人有每个人的角色,在那个位置上时,就尽心尽力的把属于那个位置的事情做好。比如做为程序员,就把基础的知识扎扎实实掌握好;作为管理人员,就一板一眼的控制好各个管理过程。千万不能象宋徽宗那样,当皇帝时想做艺术家,有时间给他专门当艺术家,又想当回皇帝了。虽然我们的工作没有当皇帝那么危险,但是总是吃着碗里的想着锅里的,也是要不得地! 4/4/2009 Mama Mia! 如果你连续忙碌了一整个星期,在周末的夜晚终于能放松下来,什么也不愿意想,只想窝在床上看碟,那么再也没有比《Mama Mia》更适合的电影了。 一对即将结婚的年轻人,一段二十年前的恋情,三个可能的生父,三个热情的中年阿姨。剧情听起来简单到了极点,但是,这部电影有希腊小岛明快的的景致,有诙谐的细节,有ABBA乐队所有经典的曲目,有热烈的舞蹈,有出彩的群众演员。对了,还有《魔鬼穿Parada》那个女魔头,《傲慢与偏见》里边的达西先生,和前任007。ABBA几乎首首歌曲都很好听:Money, Money, Money 、Mamamia、 Dancing queen, Slipping through my fingers, The winner takes it all,I have a dream… 一星期来所有的疲倦,都溶解在奔放或者舒缓的音乐当中,让人觉得这个夜晚格外美好。 ![]() 3/27/2009 好的软件和坏的软件 乔布斯曾经说过,好的软件和坏的软件,最终的差别在于,好的软件比坏的软件,在界面上要多投入10%的功夫。我也曾经试用过交互恶劣,充满bug的软件,也暗笑过这种软件的作者是傻x。没有想到,今天我们努力做出来的东西,也被别人这么否定。心情很复杂,痛定思痛,吸取教训吧! 3/22/2009 圆明园 “万园之园”的称号真不是盖的。原本我以为照片上常见的大水法就是圆明园了,其实不是。广义的圆明园分成三个园:圆明园、长春园、绮春园,照片上常见的大水法只不过是在圆明园的一角而已。三个圆加起来有5200多亩,其中有大约1/3的面积是水域。我们走了一整个下午,也没彻底摸清楚里面的方向,还险些被累死。 不过,已经是三月中旬了,圆明园里已经隐约有了一些春天的气息。在凤麟洲上,种了一片樱花,已经悄然开放。千里之外的武大,也已经到了赏樱花的时节了吧? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 3/20/2009 Fed launches bold $1.2T effort to revive 看来中国这回是上了贼船了,2月份刚宣布增持美国国债,3月份人家就开动印钞机印钱,国内老百姓的钱真不是钱啊! WASHINGTON (AP) -- With the country sinking deeper into recession, the Federal Reserve launched a bold $1.2 trillion effort Wednesday to lower rates on mortgages and other consumer debt, spur spending and revive the economy. To do so, the Fed will spend up to $300 billion to buy long-term government bonds and an additional $750 billion in mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues wrapped a two-day meeting by leaving a key short-term bank lending rate at a record low of between zero and 0.25 percent. Economists predict the Fed will hold the rate in that zone for the rest of this year and for most -- if not all -- of next year. The decision to hold rates near zero was widely expected. But the Fed's plan to buy government bonds and the sheer amount -- $1.2 trillion -- of the extra money to be pumped into the U.S. economy was a surprise. "The Fed is clearly ready, willing and able to be the ATM for the credit markets," said Terry Connelly, dean of Golden Gate University's Ageno School of Business in San Francisco. Wall Street was buoyed. The Dow Jones industrial average, which had been down earlier in the day, rose 90.88, or 1.2 percent, to 7,486.58. Broader indicators also gained. And government bond prices soared. Heralding a coming drop in mortgage rates, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note dropped to 2.50 percent from 3.01 percent -- the biggest daily drop in percentage points since 1981. The dollar, meanwhile, fell against other major currencies. In part, that signaled concern that the Fed's intervention might spur inflation over the long run. If the credit and financial markets can be stabilized, the recession could end this year, setting the stage for a recovery next year, Bernanke has said in recent weeks. The Fed chief and his colleagues again pledged to use all available tools to make that happen, and economists expect further steps in the months ahead. Since the Fed last met in late January, "the economy continues to contract," Fed policymakers observed in a statement they issued Wednesday. "Job losses, declining equity and housing wealth and tight credit conditions have weighed on consumer sentiment and spending," they said. The Fed's announcement that it will spend up to $300 billion over the next six months to buy long-term government bonds was something that in January it had hinted it would do. But some officials had seemed to back off from the idea in recent weeks. Such action is designed to boost Treasury prices and drive down their rates, as it did Wednesday. Rates on other kinds of debt are likely to fall as well. "This is going to help everybody," said Sung Won Sohn, economist at the Martin Smith School of Business at California State University. "This might help the Fed put Humpty Dumpty back together again." The last time the Fed set out to influence long-term interest rates was during the 1960s. The Fed's decision to buy an additional $750 billion in mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by Fannie and Freddie comes on top of $500 billion in such securities it's already buying. It also will double its purchases of Fannie and Freddie debt to $200 billion. Since the initial Fannie-Freddie program was announced late last year, mortgage rates have fallen. Rates on 30-year mortgages now average 5.03 percent, down from 6.13 percent a year ago, according to Freddie Mac. The Fed's decision to expand the program could further reduce rates, analysts said. "This is not only going to keep mortgage rates low for a long period of time," said Greg McBride, a senior financial analyst at Bankrate.com. "The mere announcement may produce a honeymoon effect and bring mortgage rates down to even lower levels in the coming days." The goal behind all the Fed's moves is to spur lending. More lending would boost spending by consumers and businesses, which would revive the economy. The Fed also said it would consider expanding another $1 trillion program that's being rolled out this week. That program aims to boost the availability of consumer loans for autos, education and credit cards, as well as for small businesses. Where does the Fed get all the money? It prints it. The Fed's series of radical programs to lend or buy debt has swollen its balance sheet to nearly $2 trillion -- from just under $900 billion in September. Sohn believes the Fed's balance sheet could grow to $5 trillion over the next two years. The Fed has said it's mindful of the risks of pumping more money into the economy, bailing out financial institutions and leaving a key rate near zero for too long. There's the potential to plant the seeds for higher inflation, put ever-more taxpayer money at risk and encourage "moral hazard." That's when companies make high-stakes gambles knowing the government stands ready to rescue them. Across the Atlantic, the Bank of England last week began buying government bonds from financial institutions as it turned to new ways to help revive Britain's moribund economy. The Bank of England, like the Fed, already had lowered its key interest rate to a record low of 0.5 percent. Finance leaders from top economies have discussed coordinating actions from their governments and central banks to provide a more potent punch against the global financial crisis. The Fed is taking the new steps as the U.S. economy sinks deeper into recession. Businesses are facing weaker sales prospects as customers in the United States and abroad cut back, the policymakers said. Still, the Fed said it hoped its actions, the government's bank rescue effort and President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus of increased government spending and tax cuts eventually will help revive the economy. "Although the near-term economic outlook is weak, the committee anticipates that policy actions .... will contribute to a gradual resumption of sustainable economic growth," the Fed said. But even in this best-case scenario, the nation's unemployment rate -- now at quarter-century peak of 8.1 percent -- will keep climbing. Some economists think it will hit 10 percent by the end of this year. The recession, which began in December 2007, already has snatched a net total of 4.4 million jobs and has left 12.5 million searching for work. |
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