griffinn's Quotable Blog

Came across this one by accident.

Originally I was trying to find a connecting tone so distressingly out of fashion that people feel painful every time they try to call me. I ended up choosing a depressing little ballad from the 1940's. But then there must be some software glitch at the mobile operator, and now people get complete silence when they call me. Silence... and then more silence... and then out of the blue I pick up and growl hello (or I cut them off). Coolest ever.

I hope they never get around to fixing this glitch.

今天，巧遇由我負責 mentoring 的學妹。

本來高高興興的聽同學們討論成果，但最終還是逃不過要中途離座、繼續救火的宿命。

同學們談的，是前沿的方向、新的建設，但我們最近工作上面對的，好像就只有一次接著一次的後欄失火。

這樣說好像很悲涼，但其實又彷彿看到了我們這一輩的使命。如果讓這爛攤子一直的爛下去，到同學們畢業就要他們投身參與永無止境的救亡、補過，那實在太對不起下一代了。所以，即使自己大概沒機會在盛世中大展拳腳，起碼我們也要做到把亂局平息下來，讓後人有穩定的基礎去發展、去探索新的方向。

阻擋我們平亂的、趁勢撈政治本錢的人，就像那些大肆採礦捕獵、預支下一代自然資源的無良企業家一般可恥，其罪可誅。

病了，其實也是個科研的機會，可以乘機體會一下家裡的藥那種最管用。

Panadol ActiFast: 貴一點也值得，因為十分鐘開始見效，不到半個鐘就化解了忽冷忽熱的感覺。

Piriton: 竟然沒有睡意，而且有效驅除了鼻敏感那種惱人的痕癢，但鼻水還是會在毫無感覺的情況下繼續流下來。（如果抗抑鬱劑也是這樣，情緒穩定了，但眼淚還是無緣無故地流，那是多麼的可怖...）

同仁堂感冒沖劑（各種顏色）：無效了，可能是因為喝的時候已經在期待 placebo effect ？

• 我的工作並不是帶老婆去看一次她就會感受到其崇高意義那種。（主要因為並沒有甚麼崇高意義。）
• 始終相信人死了就是死了，屍體怎樣處理其實沒所謂，喪禮只是在世的人自己唱大戲給自己看。所以嘛... 到我死的時候，不必聘用禮儀師了，如果後人看得開的話。
• 幾年前好像有套電影加入了嗅覺元素，畫面上看到花田就會釋放花香。為了讓觀眾代入角色的真實處境，這套電影也可以考慮引進嗅覺技術。

We are all part of a slowly-progressing nightmare inside the mind of a sleeping god. The moment the god is awakened, we'll be gone.

I suspect someone somewhere already holds a patent on this. As soon as I try to turn this into a book or a movie or a belief system, lawsuits will start flying.

But if I were a tribal leader of 20 people in an isolated jungle, I'd totally turn that into a myth and create a religion around it. And the job of believers is to cause enough terror inside this nightmare to jolt the god awake.

I guess that makes my religion a doomsday cult. Specifically, an activist doomsday cult.