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Maybe a GRE vocabulary site one day

thinkweird — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:01:28 +0000

Maybe I will lauch my first ‘commerical’ site dealing with GRE vocabulary in the spring semester. Knowing a lot of words and be able to use them properly is something I want to do, and it would be wonderful I could teach and learn those words at the same time. Read more »

Getting things done with To-Do Desklist

thinkweird — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:44:16 +0000

So often does the computer become a lonely person’s companion rather than a tool to process information. I found myself aimlessly clicking my time away hither and thither on the computer without focusing on what I am supposed to do in this electronic box. Making a to-do list is one way of prompting action and avoiding procrastination. Unfortunately tools such as Tudomo, Task Coach and the popular web-based NXT are overkill for this purpose if they are not distractions themselves. Today, I found a nice tool called To-do Desklist and it does the exact thing as I expected: you create a list of things on your desktop and mark them as done when you finish them. Read more »

Migrating this site to a new place

thinkweird — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:03:04 +0000

I am choosing a new place for this site. That’s means probably a few days downtime. I’ll restore this site once I find another vps. I will keep writing. Read more »

Capitalism and freedom explained in one minute

thinkweird — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:30:24 +0000

The following is a comment made by Gabe at Engadget. I like the incisive insights, so I gleefully copied it here: Read more »

Insistence on Email and phone communications

thinkweird — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:57:27 +0000

Has it ever happened to you that your phone calls and email messages to someone go unanswered. What would you do? Thinking that person chose to ignore you and drop the initiation of communication, or trying to reach that person again? My recent experience taught me to always opt for the second option. Read more »

Some loopholes in Cambridge BEC test

thinkweird — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:29:39 +0000

I had the chance to be an oral examiner for Cambridge Business English Test. I participated all the three levels: preliminary, vantage and higher. I noticed there are some loopholes in the test, and frankly I think ESOL could do better to make more money. Read more »

Very Unfair Ending of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

thinkweird — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:46:01 +0000

Indiana Jones 4 is a decent sequel to the previous three Jones series. Unlike Pirates of the Caribbean, the sequel named Dead Man’s Chest was the first movie that actually made me fall asleep in the movie theater.

I generally enjoyed watching Jones 4. However, there are two things in the movie with which I want to find fault:

Does Shia LaBeouf have to transport his motorcycle all the way to Peru, and said a stupid line later in the movie “I lost my bike”. What is the point? Although he does handle his dagger with dexterity in a scene.
The ending of the movie is very unfair. I mean, by contract, whoever returns the crystal skull will be rewarded. The Russian Colonel played by Cate Blanchett returned the skull through a series of arch-villain acts. Despite the means she achieved her goal, she should get her rewarded as was promised. But it turned out that aliens infused into her brain was too much for her to handle, and she blow into dusts.

Wait a minute, aren’t the aliens supposed to be smart enough to know that too much knowledge will destroy her instead of doing the errand runner good? Still the aliens chose to destroy her by giving too much she could handle. Guess what? I think the aliens have just showed how untrustworthy they were, and no earthling would ever do the job for them again.