김대중 대한민국 15대 대통령 서거

"행동하지 않는 양심은 악의 편"

답답하구나..

Play Chess

I started to learn Chess. As some of you might know, there is a similar Chinese game called Jang-Ki (장기). I think I'm not that bad player of Jang-Ki but Chess is quite different from it.

Especially, it's a little bit hard to get used to use Queen and Bishop because there are no such pieces moving like that in Jang-Ki.

And, also, Jang-Ki's pieces are moving along the lines. So, I usually build the attack and defense strategy based on the lines. But.. in Chess, pieces are moving along not the lines but the 'area' (I don't know how to exactly explain this...). So, it's a lot confusing to make a strategy.
Moreover, I still don't understand the 'stalemate' rule..

I played Chess with PC several times, and I just won one time... PC's are too good in my standard :)

Nevertheless, I think Chess is quite good game as much as Jang-Ki.

Let's play it!!

I bought Macbook pro today.

The problem is that... I don't have enough time to play with that now. It's still sealed. T_T...
Nevertheless, I'll upload the photos of my macbook soon.

I also got an iPod touch 8G, for free :), through the apple promotion 'Back to School'.
I was planning to sell the iPod to compensate the expenses I used to buy my macbook.
But.. after I had used it for a few days.. I just fell in love with the iPod :)
I can check email, papers, news and etc (including game!!) in my bed.
Of course, I jailbreaked the iPod.

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update #0. essential application : Firefox, Picasa3, Adium, VLC, Growl, smcFanControl, Gmail Notifier + Growl, iStatPro, Xee, NTFS-3G, MacFuse and etc.

update #1. OK don't use fink.. If you want to use it, just use it until installing python, numpy and scipy. Then independently install all other libraries without using fink (e.g. matplotlib, ipython, rpy and R!!!!!!.. piece of shit..)

update #2. OK macport looks not bad. so far so good. BTW, I'm installing R and rpy by myself now. I'm not using macport to install them.

update #3. I installed R and Rpy. Note that you can install any version of R higher than 2.6 on Leopard. During compiling rpy 1.0.3 you will get the error about the Rdevices.h. Just comment the 'include' line in Rpy.h in rpy/src directory. Then it should work.

update #3.1 I installed R 2.9.1 binary package compiled for Leopard. It provides nice GUI but... has some problems. If you run the R using the terminal, it cannot load tcltk library, which means you might not be able to use the GUI. Nevertheless, it doesn't matter for me because I might use R only in python environment :)

update #4. Texshop + BibDesk is quite cool.

update #5. There is no cut & paste in Finder as Window Explorer has...

update #5.1 Path Finder has a function for cut & paste. Nice.

update #6. UntraEdit for Linux/Mac is coming soon. I cannot wait!

update #7. Let's try to use Quicksilver. Everybody says it's a quite nice application.

update #8. Coherence mode of Parallel is awesome.

update #9. There is mac version DiffMerge. Nice.

update #101. wow.. iPod + Remote can control iTune on Mac!!! Awesome..
I don't need to wake up from my bed to turn on/off musics.
I copied about 80GB music files from my friend :)

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I have to admit that there are not as much great softwares for Mac as for Window.
So far, in my opinion, only one advantage of Mac is its user-friendly interface.
Nothing more than that. But, that is actually HUGE advantage over Window..
(ah, one more thing. If you use linux all the time, mac is a good choice for you just like for me.
I don't give much credit to Mac's pretty appearance. I prefer functionality than beauty.)

And, I also realized how much the Thinkpad T42, my previous laptop, is well-made laptop :)

Annual CfA BBQ Party

매년 이맘때면 열리는 CfA BBQ 파티!!

열심히 음식 준비중인 자원봉사자(?)들

크리스틴 & 나오미
Mrs. 크 때문에 올해초 비자연장 애 좀 먹었다는 ㅋㅋ

BBQ 파티에 빠지면 안되는.. 맥주!!

그리고 와인 :)

CfA 소장 찰스 아자씨. 명목상 마스터 P.와 더불어 내 지도교수이나...
너무 바쁘신 관계로 자주 보기는 힘들다.

대낮부터 좀 마셔댔더니.. 알딸딸 하더군 ㅋㅋ

2007/06/17

노무현 대한민국 16대 대통령

2009.05.23 오전 서거.

"너무 슬퍼하지 마라.
삶과 죽음이 모두 자연의 한 조각 아니겠는가?
미안해하지 마라.
누구도 원망하지 마라.
운명이다. "

마지막 독백이 너무나 가슴에 묻힌다...

Today's weather was so nice.

Thus I went to hike with my friend.

But.. I never expected I would climb the rock..
It's not as easy as I thought.. I was scared... T_T....

I'll update more photos later :)

필라델피아, 미국 (Philly)

얼마전에 필라델피아를 다녀왔다.
기차여행이 하고 싶었는데 마침 친구가
필리에 온다길래 다녀왔다.

South station에서 amtrak을 타려고 기다리는데
커다란 개쉬끼가 돌아댕기면서 킁킁댄다 ㅋㅋ
잠깐 휴지 버리러 자리 비운사이에 내 가방있는
의자에 발 터억 걸치고는 킁킁..
근데 얘네 되게 비효율적이다. 크지도 않은 역사에
개쉬끼가 세마리나 돌아다닌다. 돈 낭비.

기차를 타고 가는 6시간 동안 psp 하다가 자다가 하다가..

뭐니뭐니해도 기차여행의 백미는 간식!!
우리나라 기차처럼 아저씨가 밀고 올줄 알고
한참을 기다렸는데.. 안온다..
알고 봤더니 내가 가야된다.
귀찮아서 안갔다. 아침도 안먹었는데.. 걍 잤다 ㅡ.ㅡ;;

필리 도착해서 여기저기 다니고..
친구가 있는 fishtown 이라는 마을에서 축제가 있었어서
구경도 좀 하고.. 5km 달리기 대회가 있었는데
많은 사람들이 물고기 복장으로 달린다 ㅋㅋ

뭐.. 필리 있는 3박 4일 내내
점심먹고 달리기 시작해서 저녁까지
내리 술만 마신 것 같다. 물론 음식도 굉장히 잘 먹었지만.

나름 보람찼던(?) 여행.

... 뉴욕은 언제 가보지? ㅡ.ㅡ;;

난 아직

배워야 할 것이 너무 많다.

오늘따라 지나는 찬 바람이 시리다..

어느

유명한 극작가가 이런 말을 했다.

'사람들을 웃기는 제일 좋은 방법은 진실을 얘기하는 것이다.'

얼핏 보면 뭔소린가 싶겠지만, 상당히 일리 있는 말이다.
인간이란 존재가 항상 같은 경험만을 공유할 수 없으니까.

같은 상황에서라도 개개인의 차에 따라 받아들이는 경험의
방향과 질, 양은 천차만별.

따라서 한 개인이 예상가능한 범위에서 벗어나는 발언들은
가끔 사람들을 웃게 만든다.

물론 웃음의 형태는 발언의 종류에 따라 다르겠지만..



서론이 길었구만 근데..
"어릴 때부터 찬거 먹으면 이빨이 시려서 아이스크림 못먹는다"
라는 얘기가 그렇게 웃긴 얘긴가. 나름 심각하게 얘기한 거였는데 ㅡ.ㅡ;;

뭐 어쨌든.. 위 사진은 술안주로 딱 좋은 기름에 튀긴 송이버섯. 맛있다.

Emergency? Oh yeah, emergency!

First of all, it's not my fault :)

We were on the way to the lunch with ~10 peoples and got in the elevator.
Unfortunately(?), there was one tall guy standing in front of me.
So.. I just grabbed his shoulder and slightly jumped (oh well, several times..)

And, the elevator just stopped to move!! What the hell..
The elevator might think that there was an earthquake ( = emergency stop?? -_-;;).

Nevertheless, we eventually figure it out on how to escape there and save our lives as the above photo shows.

Anyway, it's was a fun experience at least for me. Hm.. maybe not for some others ;)