I had a one-hour talk with Tianyi before sleep. I am not sure if this is the reason keeping me from sleep. Anyway, I kept my eyes open for almost the whole night. I heard my hearbeats clearly–it’s so noisy that I was kept awake.
Seems time at night was stretched infinitely. I had no clue how to count time when everything seemed to stop. The restless night was so long that I was afraid it would never end.
When the alarm clock rang I jumped off the bed to shut it down. I was even so overjoyed at that point because I didn’t have to foce myself into sleep, which I never get done last night.
In the morning I looked into the mirror on the wall. Dark circles certainly. Thank God I don’t have red eyes.
When I was writing this post, I felt hesitant which category to put it in. Dreams or Met?
Finally I decided to define it simply a dream. I might have had a nightmare in which I suffered from insomania for the whole night.

At the very end of the story, she basically said, “My name is 2318. Please don’t forget our stories. Please tell our stories so this doens’t happen again.” She didn’t refer to her as Magda Blau but 2318.

–Debra Fisher
Listen to the story shared by Debra Fisher. Follow her into the room you can never get out.
1945 - 2005.

I’m Jealous, jealous, jealous!
…
See, another reason I failed to state in my previous post about why I blog.
Emotional outlet.
BTW, I’m so happy that unkymoods is back. I miss you so much.

你能在自己生活的城市里找到10个属于自己的地方吗？它们并不一定是名胜古迹，或许是一个餐厅，一个酒吧，一个咖啡馆，一个公园，又或者是一条林阴小道。是那些让自己感觉最舒服的地方，是三两好友谈天说地的地方，是心烦意乱之时独自停留的地方。
–Owen’s Blog

文心又出了个好点子。如果你想加入10 Places of My Place活动的话，请访问他的blog获取更多详细信息。感谢quawn设计的精美图标。

米城十地–回应文心
如果你对密尔沃基的印象仅限于NBA的雄鹿队的话，wikipedia的这个条目应该对你会有所帮助。
Lake Michigan
上初中时学过美国地理，对五大湖区印象深刻。Milwaukee就是位于密歇根湖畔的港口城市。Lake Michigan是Milwaukee的观光客必游之地，也是密尔沃基人休闲度假的好所在——从港口停泊的密密麻麻的私人游船便可见一斑。当然，你不需要游艇也可以感受密歇根湖——赤脚走在细腻的沙滩上的感觉也很不错哦。难怪每年中国学生联合会的迎新BBQ，都是在湖畔公园举行的。不过由于沿岸重工业污染严重，湖里的鱼已经没有人敢吃了。:(

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I’m studying why people blog. Before I ask every blogger I run into the question “why do you blog?”, it’s wise to think over the question myself beforehand. So, why I blog? The following reasons are not in a particular order.

1. Tweaking Movable Type is fun. I feel like “queen of the blog”.

I used to work as a web editor and hated the awkward CMS to death. Whenever I tried to change some configurations [ without evil I swear! ], a pop-up with a huge BANG would freak me out. That is absolutely unbearable for a person who usually explores the “options” or “preferences” whenever she installs a new app. For the sake of reason I gave up Blogger.com too after realizing I can’t change it the way I like. MovableType suits me best in that it’s powerful and compliant–now I have full control over everything on my blog. It’s a good toy I play with my HTML+CSS practices. Nothing is cooler than changing the looks of two hundred pages in seconds, eh?

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Kamiel Proost’s originally miniature-painted on one Dollar-bills.
The Party

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Alan Williamson, software developer for blog-city.com, posted great notes from a lecture given by Marissa Mayer at BayCHI lecture at PARC. Marissa, Product Manager for Google, released some interesting facts about Google. Here is a summary:
1. The Google home page is so bare because the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface.
2. In the earliest stage of Google, there was no the submit button rather a hit on the RETURN key.
3. Due to the sparseness of the homepage, in early user tests people were just sitting looking at the screen. After a minute of nothingness, they said “We are waiting for the rest of it” in reply to the “whats up?” question.
4. The “Did you mean…” feature, which is indeed a spell checker, works most effectively when placed at the bottom of the search results.
5. “I feel lucky” is nearly never used. It was a comfort button.
6. Orkut is very popular in Brazil. It was the brainchild of a Google engineer who was given free reign to run with it. No wonder it doesn’t look like Google at all.
7. Google use the 20%/5% rules. If at least 20% of people use a feature, then it will be included. At least 5% of people need to use a particular search preference before it will make it into the ‘Advanced Preferences’.
8. The name “Google” was the original founders’ typo.
9. Employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time working on their own projects. That’s why we have Google News and Orkut now.
See Alan’s full post here.

Like Tom while unlike Alex, I’m far less nerdier than I expected.


Do age and education act as regressors in the Multiple Regression model?

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I had a wonderful dinner with Tianyi and Xuying on Mon at P.F. Chang China Bistro. Delicate interior design, good food and a little question. Who is P.F. Chang?
So I wrote to P.F. Chang out of curiosity.

Hi,
I`m curious about what P.F. Chang stands for. I know Chang is a common last name in China but have no idea what P.F. is short for. Is it a real name of somebody or just made up? Thanks in advance.

Today I’ve got the quick answer.

Dan,
Thank you for your note and inquiry. P.F. Chang’s China Bistro was developed by Paul Fleming and Philip Chiang. The first restaurant was opened in Scottsdale, AZ in 1993 and the rest is history.
Have a wonderful day!
Elizabeth Harris
P.F. Chang’s China Bistro
Guest Relations

So that’s it! I don’t have to call P.F. Chang “Zhang Pei FU” anymore. LOL! Wait…why is Chang instead of Chiang? Anyway, enough clue for googling.

The name P.F. Chang stands for Paul Fleming and Philip Chiang, whose mother, Cecilia Chang, owned the popular Mandarin restaurant for many years. He took over his mother’s Beverly Hills Mandarin in 1979 after she sold the San Francisco restaurant.

–Jane Knoerle “P.F. Chang’s: The food is good, but it’s not a wok on the wild side”