seems like people don't like to read articles in english, there are so few comments...
anyways, things've been well these days. the human subjects approval for my thesis experiment has arrived, i can officially get the money and start my experiment now. but there are still some technical difficulties that need to be fixed.
machine shop work has been fun, though i cut myself a couple times besides cutting aluminum. our rock crusher is expected to exert 25000N force when a person weighs 60kg steps on it. and we think this will break the all time record of rock crusher projects, haha
i've finished the conceptual design of my knitting chair, looks pretty good in drawings. need to make a 3d model of it to see if it actually works. i have 6 weeks after spring break to actually fabricate the whole chair, hopefully it's enough time.
squash is really fun, tough tiring. can't get enough power on forehand shots, which really bothers me. should practice more.
Friday, March 09, 2007
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Leader
Leadership is not rank, privileges, titles, or money. It is responsibility.
A Leader Has A Mission That Matters
A Leader Is A Big Thinker
A Leader Has High Ethics
A Leader Is A Change Master
A Leader Is Sensitive
A Leader Is A Risk Taker
A Leader Is A Decision Maker
A Leader Uses Power Wisely
A Leader Communicates Effectively
A Leader Is A Team Builder
A Leader Is Courageous
A Leader Is Committed
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
future
some more information about the job that i am applying in Motorola. the group is formerly known as Symbol Tech, which was recently acquired by Motorola. the position i am applying for is a position somewhere between industrial designer, industrial engineer and ergonomics researcher, which is exactly what i would like to do. and the fact that they came to me at the first place, and that they would like someone who can speak chinese, makes the chance of me getting hired much higher. so i'm really excited about it! but in the meantime, quite a bit nervous too! hope everything goes well."A bit about the group: we have two UI designers, two design researchers (including me), two ergonomists, and one market/innovation researcher. There is a fair amount of cross over, as I've designed a number of keyboards and conducted human factors studies and the UI designers and ergonomists have done design research. Our larger group is the former Symbol Technologies industrial design group that also includes industrial designers and a team of engineers working on advanced concepts. We are currently working through details of how we will work with the team that already existed at Motorola in our division. Motorola is divided into three divisions, Mobile Devices (cell-phones), Networks & Enterprise (us), & Connected Home (cable-boxes and similar home network/entertainment equipment). The ID group that already existed in the N&E division mostly did work designing walkie-talkie-type devices and police & fire communications equipment. They also did a few products that competed against us.
The main products that our group has worked on are mobile computers, bar-code scanners, and RFID equipment. Symbol also makes wireless (Wifi) equipment, but the design group has been less involved in its development. We might also start covering the walkie-talkies and police & fire equipment. The main things tying all of this together is that it is equipment used for people's jobs and allows these jobs to be done better through providing mobile access to communications, computing, and data capture. Our stuff gets used by a large number of industries, but the major settings include: stores, warehouses, factories, transportation hubs, hospitals, and in mobile field applications (think guys repairing telephone equipment or the guys delivering a package to your house and taking your signature)."
Monday, March 05, 2007
Saturday, March 03, 2007
forza manchester united
manchester united and liverpool derby, THE most fierce and eye attracting english premiership derby, ended with a 91 minute goal, the only goal of the game, from john o'shea.
i got up at 7:30am to watch the exciting game, and my team didn't disappoint me!! but i have to admit, liverpool was the better side. bellamy caused a lot of trouble for our defense, vidic didn't really have the agility to do a great defense on him. and because we were the away team at anfield, sir alex furguson must think that he would be satisfied with a draw. our team played a little bit conservatively, leaving most of the court for liverpool to attack and trying to steal a winning goal by counter attack. van der sar was definitely the key to the clean sheet, his several brilliant world class saves made the reds leave the stadium empty-handed.
after rooney was forced to be substituted by o'shea and scholes was sent off for a furious fist swing, everyone thought that the game was going to end with a boring draw. but luck stood by us again today, at 1 minute into overtime, ronaldo's furious freekick went pass the wall and reina couldn't hold on to the ball, o'shea scored a close range shot which helped us bring home 3 points!
so we have a 9-point lead and only 9 games left. beating chelsea at stamford bridge would be the best way to win the premiership. forza manchester united, we are the champions!
i got up at 7:30am to watch the exciting game, and my team didn't disappoint me!! but i have to admit, liverpool was the better side. bellamy caused a lot of trouble for our defense, vidic didn't really have the agility to do a great defense on him. and because we were the away team at anfield, sir alex furguson must think that he would be satisfied with a draw. our team played a little bit conservatively, leaving most of the court for liverpool to attack and trying to steal a winning goal by counter attack. van der sar was definitely the key to the clean sheet, his several brilliant world class saves made the reds leave the stadium empty-handed.
after rooney was forced to be substituted by o'shea and scholes was sent off for a furious fist swing, everyone thought that the game was going to end with a boring draw. but luck stood by us again today, at 1 minute into overtime, ronaldo's furious freekick went pass the wall and reina couldn't hold on to the ball, o'shea scored a close range shot which helped us bring home 3 points!
so we have a 9-point lead and only 9 games left. beating chelsea at stamford bridge would be the best way to win the premiership. forza manchester united, we are the champions!
Friday, March 02, 2007
wet shoes
have you ever have this experience, that you are walking on a rainy day, rain drops on your umbrella, the ground is wet, water running under you and by your side. all of a sudden, you find that your toes are feeling cold! so you look down, and find the heads of your sneaker all wet!
so this is an example of common design problems that everyone of us must have experienced. from the human walking motion, a flick at the head of our foot towards upright will happen when we are moving our foot in front of us, before stepping down. so if there is water under our shoes, inertia of the water makes it keep going up and land on the heads of our shoes.
no one wants to walk around in a pair of wet shoes all day long, so even though this is a tiny problem, it is annoying! a simple solution to the problem might be adding some grain at the front of the sneaker so that when water goes up along the heads of our shoes due to inertia, there is resistance making it stop before it reaches to the top of our shoes. also, add a small part of water proof material at the head top of our shoes.
let's walk with a pair of DRY shoes!
so this is an example of common design problems that everyone of us must have experienced. from the human walking motion, a flick at the head of our foot towards upright will happen when we are moving our foot in front of us, before stepping down. so if there is water under our shoes, inertia of the water makes it keep going up and land on the heads of our shoes.
no one wants to walk around in a pair of wet shoes all day long, so even though this is a tiny problem, it is annoying! a simple solution to the problem might be adding some grain at the front of the sneaker so that when water goes up along the heads of our shoes due to inertia, there is resistance making it stop before it reaches to the top of our shoes. also, add a small part of water proof material at the head top of our shoes.
let's walk with a pair of DRY shoes!
Thursday, March 01, 2007
nervous
Subject: RE: Resume
From: "Marshall, Graham", graham.marshall@motorola.com
Date: Thu, March 1, 2007 9:18 am
To: "Vincent, Xin Wang"
Xin, thank you for your resume. We are interested in setting up interviews for early March. I will be in touch soon.
Thank-you
Graham
From: "Marshall, Graham", graham.marshall@motorola.com
Date: Thu, March 1, 2007 9:18 am
To: "Vincent, Xin Wang"
Xin, thank you for your resume. We are interested in setting up interviews for early March. I will be in touch soon.
Thank-you
Graham
squash
just bought a squash racquet online, head liquid metal 140g, about 80 bucks, feeling great! i have been taking a squash class this semester, fell in love with the game.first of all, it's an indoor game, which makes it can be played even it's snowing crazy outside like the winter here in ithaca. second of all, it's a relatively small court and since i'm old, it's easier to run around a smaller court. and third, hitting the ball really hard, or i should say, smashing the ball is really fun and feels really good.
though our instructors (one freshman and one sophomore, who is also called vincent, whose last name is also wang, who also comes from guangzhou... talk about coincident!) told us that if we played tennis or racquetball before, we should definitely forget all about them because squash is a very different game from them, which involves very different swings and game strategies, i still found my experience with tennis is helpful to my game, cause at least i can hit the ball alright! so even though my swings are too big, which can be fairly dangerous to my opponent, i think i'm quite good at the game as a beginner who only played the sports for less than 10 hours. xixi =P
oh, forgot to mention, alan, my thesis adviser, also plays squash, and a couple of my friends play it too, so it would be really fun to play with them and hang out. you know, socializing is always important.
though our instructors (one freshman and one sophomore, who is also called vincent, whose last name is also wang, who also comes from guangzhou... talk about coincident!) told us that if we played tennis or racquetball before, we should definitely forget all about them because squash is a very different game from them, which involves very different swings and game strategies, i still found my experience with tennis is helpful to my game, cause at least i can hit the ball alright! so even though my swings are too big, which can be fairly dangerous to my opponent, i think i'm quite good at the game as a beginner who only played the sports for less than 10 hours. xixi =P
oh, forgot to mention, alan, my thesis adviser, also plays squash, and a couple of my friends play it too, so it would be really fun to play with them and hang out. you know, socializing is always important.
Monday, February 26, 2007
deadline
so deadline is a weird word. what is a deadline exactly? is it a line, by which if you pass, then you will die? nooot exactly!
instead of a visible, physical line, deadline usually is a time, by which if you pass, then severe consequences will happen. so as a time stamp, deadline usually serves as a mechanism for people, lazy people like me, to organize their work, and get them work done.
the argument states as follows: like the thesis grant proposal i submitted today, it was right before the deadline (4pm this afternoon). i was editing and printing, running around to get signatures, and so on and so forth, all sorts of things that i could have done a couple weeks ago. however, because i had other deadlines back then, so the priority for this deadline just dropped down. also, i wouldn't have done all these even if i don't have other deadlines because i would think that there is still time and i need some time for myself to relax and sleep. hence, deadlines organize my work.
how do deadlines help to get work done? because severe consequences would happen if i should miss a deadline. i'll be still using the proposal example to illustrate this point. if i don't get the proposal done by the deadline, i will have no money for my experiment, which is needed for my thesis. therefore, i won't have a thesis and i shall not be able to graduate this year, which would make my plan of getting out of ithaca and get a job this year vanished. therefore, i have to get the proposal in before the deadline. and that, is how the deadline helps me to get work done.
ok, enough crazy talk today, should rest... in peace
instead of a visible, physical line, deadline usually is a time, by which if you pass, then severe consequences will happen. so as a time stamp, deadline usually serves as a mechanism for people, lazy people like me, to organize their work, and get them work done.
the argument states as follows: like the thesis grant proposal i submitted today, it was right before the deadline (4pm this afternoon). i was editing and printing, running around to get signatures, and so on and so forth, all sorts of things that i could have done a couple weeks ago. however, because i had other deadlines back then, so the priority for this deadline just dropped down. also, i wouldn't have done all these even if i don't have other deadlines because i would think that there is still time and i need some time for myself to relax and sleep. hence, deadlines organize my work.
how do deadlines help to get work done? because severe consequences would happen if i should miss a deadline. i'll be still using the proposal example to illustrate this point. if i don't get the proposal done by the deadline, i will have no money for my experiment, which is needed for my thesis. therefore, i won't have a thesis and i shall not be able to graduate this year, which would make my plan of getting out of ithaca and get a job this year vanished. therefore, i have to get the proposal in before the deadline. and that, is how the deadline helps me to get work done.
ok, enough crazy talk today, should rest... in peace
Friday, February 23, 2007
luck
So possibly, I could get a job that found me. I hope, I hope I still have some luck left in my luck bank. This is where I really need it!
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
I'm back
Deserted here for a long time. I've decided to write this blog in English. Yeah, might be childish words, but I am trying.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Friday, September 08, 2006
蛋蛋的问答题
好长,答的好累,蛋蛋要看哦,呵呵,名我就不点了,睡觉去...
10+1+5游戏玩法：
10：请列出10样最想做的事情(短期/长期均可)
+1：被点名人士除了要回答别人的问题，还要在最后出多1条问题。
+5：加5个朋友，顺道去他们的博客留言，告诉他们被点名了
10样最想做的事情:(排名不分先后)：
1.骑车或者backpack游欧洲
2.骑车去西藏
3.拿到车牌!!nnd拖了4个月了
4.学法语德语西班牙语其中的一种或多种
5.在海边或者湖边买个房子,后院有个dock,家里要布置的暖暖的
6. 做个product designer
7.放假能回家陪陪爸爸妈妈爷爷奶奶
8.睡觉赖床
9.尝遍各国美食美酒
10. 有个人能分享我的快乐和悲伤,和她环游全世界
--------------------------------------------
Q1：如何在心情低落的时候恢复积极呢？
答：看部超级悲情电影,然后睡一觉
Q2：你心目中的理想伴侣是什么样的？(要提出标准哦)
答：我珍惜也珍惜我的
Q3：相比两年前,自己有什么变化？
答：在地球的另一端了,英文好了,老了,累了
Q4：你目前面对的最大的难题是什么？
答：没时间写我的thesis
Q5: 你有没有过厌恶自己的时候？为了什么？
答：有,放不下该放下的东西的时候
Q6：你希望怎样过这辈子？
答：和我珍惜也珍惜我,能分享我的快乐和悲伤的那个人环游世界
Q7：你做过的最伤心的事情是什么？
答：挂上一个电话
Q8：你觉得时间真的能冲淡一切吗?
答：不能
Q9：上一次哭是什么时候…为什么….
答：几周前,看if only
Q10：上次撒谎是为什么?
答：跟advisor说会尽快email他...- -|||
Q11：你认为男女之间存在真正的友谊么？
答：有
Q12：什么时候是最开心的时候？
答：无忧无虑的初中
Q13：你最爱的人和第二爱的人是谁？
答：爸爸妈妈
Q14：自己努力的没有结果，你会怎么平衡心理的落差？
答：通常努力都会有结果,但如果没有,let it be
Q15：你觉得点你名的人怎么样？
答：漂亮的蛋蛋
Q16：你想收到什么生日礼物？
答：小小的明信片,从每个我认识的朋友
Q17：你觉得做自己喜欢的事重要还是喜欢自己做的事重要？
答：这句话看着别扭,难道不是一样的?
Q18: 你觉得现阶段，身上扛的最大的责任是什么？
答：找工作
Q19: 你未来5年计划是什么！？
答：在美国找到份我喜欢的工作
Q20: 你梦想的职业是什么？
答：product designer
Q21:你目前最喜欢和谁一起打发时间？
答：anton
Q22：什么是你认为的幸福?（Bianca）
答：简单满足
Q23：满意自己现在的生活状态，为什么?（Angela）
答:不满意,忙,累,懒
10+1+5游戏玩法：
10：请列出10样最想做的事情(短期/长期均可)
+1：被点名人士除了要回答别人的问题，还要在最后出多1条问题。
+5：加5个朋友，顺道去他们的博客留言，告诉他们被点名了
10样最想做的事情:(排名不分先后)：
1.骑车或者backpack游欧洲
2.骑车去西藏
3.拿到车牌!!nnd拖了4个月了
4.学法语德语西班牙语其中的一种或多种
5.在海边或者湖边买个房子,后院有个dock,家里要布置的暖暖的
6. 做个product designer
7.放假能回家陪陪爸爸妈妈爷爷奶奶
8.睡觉赖床
9.尝遍各国美食美酒
10. 有个人能分享我的快乐和悲伤,和她环游全世界
--------------------------------------------
Q1：如何在心情低落的时候恢复积极呢？
答：看部超级悲情电影,然后睡一觉
Q2：你心目中的理想伴侣是什么样的？(要提出标准哦)
答：我珍惜也珍惜我的
Q3：相比两年前,自己有什么变化？
答：在地球的另一端了,英文好了,老了,累了
Q4：你目前面对的最大的难题是什么？
答：没时间写我的thesis
Q5: 你有没有过厌恶自己的时候？为了什么？
答：有,放不下该放下的东西的时候
Q6：你希望怎样过这辈子？
答：和我珍惜也珍惜我,能分享我的快乐和悲伤的那个人环游世界
Q7：你做过的最伤心的事情是什么？
答：挂上一个电话
Q8：你觉得时间真的能冲淡一切吗?
答：不能
Q9：上一次哭是什么时候…为什么….
答：几周前,看if only
Q10：上次撒谎是为什么?
答：跟advisor说会尽快email他...- -|||
Q11：你认为男女之间存在真正的友谊么？
答：有
Q12：什么时候是最开心的时候？
答：无忧无虑的初中
Q13：你最爱的人和第二爱的人是谁？
答：爸爸妈妈
Q14：自己努力的没有结果，你会怎么平衡心理的落差？
答：通常努力都会有结果,但如果没有,let it be
Q15：你觉得点你名的人怎么样？
答：漂亮的蛋蛋
Q16：你想收到什么生日礼物？
答：小小的明信片,从每个我认识的朋友
Q17：你觉得做自己喜欢的事重要还是喜欢自己做的事重要？
答：这句话看着别扭,难道不是一样的?
Q18: 你觉得现阶段，身上扛的最大的责任是什么？
答：找工作
Q19: 你未来5年计划是什么！？
答：在美国找到份我喜欢的工作
Q20: 你梦想的职业是什么？
答：product designer
Q21:你目前最喜欢和谁一起打发时间？
答：anton
Q22：什么是你认为的幸福?（Bianca）
答：简单满足
Q23：满意自己现在的生活状态，为什么?（Angela）
答:不满意,忙,累,懒
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
普及一下刚刚google到的一个小常识
為什麼貓王叫做「貓王」?
貓王原名Elvis Aaron Presley，出生於美國南方田納西州的夢菲斯(Memphis)小鎮，南方歌迷暱稱Elvis為The Hillbilly Cat，貓是由此而來，至於王呢，則是因為他在美國搖滾樂界的地位，被統稱為The King，所以華人圈在稱呼Elvis Aaron Presley這名字落落長的歌王，就乾脆叫他貓王。
後來被香港,大陸及華人引用而稱呼,換言之,其他國家根本沒叫他貓王
主页上贴的歌,是Elvis的Always on my mind.
深情的给旧情人的歌,在ally mcbeal的第5季里听到的,个人觉得ally里的live更好听些,呵呵
深情的给旧情人的歌,在ally mcbeal的第5季里听到的,个人觉得ally里的live更好听些,呵呵
Maybe I didnt treat you
Quite as good as I should have
Maybe I didnt love you
Quite as often as I could have
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time
You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind
Tell me, tell me that your sweet love hasnt died
Give me, give me one more chance
To keep you satisfied, satisfied
Maybe I didnt hold you
All those lonely, lonely times
And I guess I never told you
Im so happy that youre mine
If I make you feel second best
Girl, Im sorry I was blind
Quite as good as I should have
Maybe I didnt love you
Quite as often as I could have
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time
You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind
Tell me, tell me that your sweet love hasnt died
Give me, give me one more chance
To keep you satisfied, satisfied
Maybe I didnt hold you
All those lonely, lonely times
And I guess I never told you
Im so happy that youre mine
If I make you feel second best
Girl, Im sorry I was blind
Friday, September 01, 2006
累
开学第一周,longest week ever ever!
太多的事情,奔波于MVR的1楼3楼4楼之间,TA的各种杂事劈头盖脸的砸来;奔波于各个上课地点之间,各种reading都没时间读,课本超级贵,还没想好买不买...
TA的english assessment interview小紧张了一下,结果还很顺利,发现自己紧张的时候说话特别快,blahblahblah的说了半个多钟头,于是就A OK了,呵呵
拿到了第一张TA的check,头两周的薪水是$1075,该死的联邦扣税和州扣税扣掉了将近两百块钱,于是只剩900大洋,什么世道啊!!不过还好中国和美国有tax treaty,头5000的收入免税,不过要到明年四月报税的时候才能拿回来...这里的税务制度真是好麻烦,一堆paper work根本都不知道怎么填,怪不得做accountant收入也挺高,的确是很需要professional知识的,特别是合理逃税避税的时候 =P
Friday, August 25, 2006
咬文嚼字
转载自CY的space,最喜欢最后的《距离》
容易被忽略的东西中最宝贵的。同时是宝贵的东西中最容易被忽略的。
再给我多少钱，我也买不到了。
《催眠》
即使在不快乐的时候，也要不停地跟自己说，我很快乐吧我很快乐呀我很快乐啦。最后就以为自己真的很快乐了。
(--鼻子酸酸的...vincent)
《孤单》
被误解的次数越来越多，但不愿做解释被遗忘的次数越来越多，但懒得去争取
被冷落的次数越来越多，但无法去融合《距离》
心与心的距离，走近，是一瞬间的事
疏远，是下一瞬间的事
-------------------------------------------------------------今天开学,9点开始从这个TA的教室跑到那个上课的教室,下课了在系里跑来跑去准备明天TA的课上的东西,晚上7点多才回家,胡乱炒了点饭吃,好久都没有这么累的感觉了,实实在在的累,看着planner上密密麻麻的to do list,新学期静悄悄的就来了
正式选上了fencing,白色的noble art~~golf课程居然半天就选满了,真是ft
下学期准备上scuba diving,嗯哪,cornell这么多好玩的体育课,要是阿韬在就好了~~
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Friday, August 18, 2006
sports
一年前瞎写的东西,曾经很幻想成为一个professional athlete的,但是身材所限,这辈子是没有机会了,呵呵,怀念年轻时洒下的无数汗水
享受足球,喜欢热身时排着队做操,喜欢短传轻触,喜欢大力抽射时足球从脚下飞出的感觉,喜欢带球飞奔对方后卫吃尘的快感,喜欢和队友们互相鼓劲不到最后一分钟不放弃的精神,喜欢绿茵场的草香和广阔
享受篮球,喜欢nothing but net的响声,喜欢后仰时短暂的飞翔,喜欢快攻的酣畅淋漓,喜欢3分的致命,喜欢后卫从后场带着球上来时的指指点点如将军,喜欢流畅的传球制造空档的easy
享受排球,喜欢大力扣球时球拍在手上落在地上的响声,喜欢拦网成功时的兴奋,喜欢手大力打在球上的感觉,喜欢扣球时腾空的飞翔,喜欢沙滩上的飞身救球,喜欢贴在手指上防止戳伤的白胶带:P
享受跑步,喜欢压腿时把紧绷的肌肉拉松,喜欢钉鞋踩在软软的跑道上的感觉,喜欢风猛烈的打在脸上,喜欢冲刺的窒息和喜悦;喜欢长跑时数着的剩下的圈数和默记的目标时间,喜欢在跑道上超过一个又一个,喜欢马拉松上参加者的百态,喜欢路旁加油的喝彩,喜欢冲过终点时的完整
享受网球,喜欢击球时厚实的感觉清脆的声响,喜欢挥动球拍时呼呼的风声,喜欢发力击球时的喊叫,喜欢那个黄绿色的小小的精灵
很多时候,体育不是为了喝彩,虽然喝彩能带来精神上的享受和证明,但是,没有喝彩的体育才是最纯正的体育
享受体育享受生命,享受在日光下流汗的感觉,大口大口喘着气,大口大口喝着水,证明你的生命你的存在
basket,最喜欢偷球以后的快攻上篮
享受排球,喜欢大力扣球时球拍在手上落在地上的响声,喜欢拦网成功时的兴奋,喜欢手大力打在球上的感觉,喜欢扣球时腾空的飞翔,喜欢沙滩上的飞身救球,喜欢贴在手指上防止戳伤的白胶带:P
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