背影

前幾天看到文章寫到，背影最是難拍。因為非得要有感情，拍出來的畫面才有感覺。

I really like this shot.



凡凡真的長大了。

還要玩

帶凡凡到海水邊玩耍，凡凡效法歐陽修以沙灘為紙習字。

擺出米勒名作「拾穗」裡的姿勢。

望海的凡凡。

其實今天不是到海邊的好天氣，氣象預報說偶有陣雨，不過因為是沙雕比賽的最後一天，所以還是來了。玩了一陣天上烏雲緩緩飄來，便拉拉凡凡的手準備要回家了，凡凡意猶未盡，一直喊著「還要玩還要玩」。

還是滾滾滾

就算到了海灘玩, 凡凡還是不忘要「滾滾滾」。從高高堆起的沙堆上一路翻滾。


滾完半邊臉都是沙。

Revere Beach

Revere Beach 有沙雕比賽，便帶著凡凡前往。凡凡一天到晚嚷著要去海邊玩，真到了海邊，果然超興奮。


媽媽牽著手看沙雕。

綠巨人浩克。

閒雜人等。

凡凡最最最喜歡的賽車，凡凡看到就大喊「Lightning ！」

看完後凡凡開始自己做沙城堡。

倒立

凡凡一早起來, 便開始秀不知哪時學會的新把戲 ─ 倒立。


從床上倒立到床下。

Why So Serious ?

TGIF poster of the week.


In case you don't get it, here is the original poster. The Dark Knight is very IN these days.

Naming Game

Our department crew is very creative, always bringing something unique to the department. Recently, they start the naming game.

For instance, our copy room.


This is our fancy copy machine.

Her name is Endora, after the famous character.

"Endora is a special lady. She can scan documents into PDF's as well as make copies for you. She likes to read while copying or scanning, so please place your documents face down. If you were hanging around all day, you'd want something to read as well.

Endora usually leaves the copies in the tray to your left or the tray underneath the scanner.

Don't be fresh."

Our shredder also has a name - Maude. Yes, it is named after the mouthy one in Golden Girls.

The note said:

"Please respect Maude
- DO NOT stick your appendages into the shredder for any reason. Not even for that reason, NOPE.
- DO NOT mistake the shredder for a fax machine. It will shred instead of faxing.
- DO NOT take our your frustration on Maude. She needs time to chew like anyone else."

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This is our kitchen.

Even our coffee machines have their own names - Thelma and Louise.


The note of reasons:

"The traditionally female names of these coffee makers should in no way suggest that the making of coffee should be perceived as a "feminine" duty or task. Gender is a flawed social construct in our flawed society, and many vessels (and vessel-bearing things), objects, and the locations are routinely referred to as female such as France. The USS Enterprise scaffolding, or sometimes musical instruments. We do not condone or endorse such engendering, but simply enjoy the performances of Ms. Geena Davis and Ms. Susan Sarandon in the early 1990's film, Thelma and Louise, to such a degree that we have decided to name our coffee makers after the essence of these characters, who were righteous vigilantes on a path of glorious destruction. The fact that genders of the characters, Thelma and Louise, and their players, Davis and Sarandon, respectively are in fact female is purely coincidental."

爬

每次帶凡凡出去玩，如果可以，都會儘量讓凡凡打赤腳，畢竟現代小孩子用雙腳踩著泥土的機會是越來越少了。凡凡爸爸就很討厭穿鞋，如果得穿就穿涼鞋，還是尺吋大一號的鞋子，不喜歡雙腳被包覆住的感覺。凡凡在這方面似乎也很相似，有機會就自己把鞋給脫了跑來跑去。

凡凡很能爬，這建築是政府學院下的中東研究中心，面對胸口高度的平台，凡凡也是輕鬆地就爬了上去。


鑽洞，很意外凡凡竟然真能穿過去。


跳舞，快樂地轉圈圈(好像很耳熟，哈哈)。

滾

下午帶凡凡去草地上玩耍，凡凡見到斜坡很自然地又跑去滾來滾去，不旦滾下來，還可以滾上去。


要爸爸也得一起滾。


踢足球踢一踢也想到帶著球一起滾。

跟龍蝦捉迷藏

凡凡媽媽今天買了一對龍蝦回來，凡凡水族館去多了，對龍蝦是一點也不害怕，很快地就把冰箱上的磁鐵龍蝦和螃蟹拿了下來，把龍蝦當玩具玩了起來。


眼看龍蝦快跑掉了，直講抓回來，還想跟龍蝦捉迷藏。


之後自己跟磁鐵龍蝦和螃蟹玩了起來，忽然想到要穿爸爸的拖鞋，然後指定爸爸去穿媽媽的那雙。

自拍

凡凡今天起得早，睡眼惺忪，反轉相機讓凡凡透過鏡頭看著相機中的自己；凡凡開始耍寶，眼睛閉著就說看不見凡凡了。

Just Do It

People here usually love to have creative/unique posters for various events. Here is an example on Aaron's thesis defense, before and after it.

A Worthy Repost

Yes, now we made some changes on the poster. I think this has not been officially released yet. Should see it coming soon!

繼續滾

在河邊玩耍凡凡總是吃得特別多。

裝憂鬱

不一定要在斜坡，就算是平地凡凡一樣可以滾得很快樂。

炒飯

在美國野餐，飛盤是必備之物。凡凡現在還不太會丟飛盤，不過他發現了另一個玩法，就是把飛盤當鍋子學媽媽炒菜。凡凡自己說他在做蛋炒飯，不時還會把嘴湊進發出津津有味的聲音，說好吃。


後來想到了，又把樹枝拿來當鍋鏟繼續炒他的蛋炒飯。

舉重

照例禮拜日帶著凡凡去 Charles River 旁邊遊玩，凡凡的表哥這陣子來玩，就一起到河邊野餐。

凡凡看到了不知是修剪過還是自然掉下來的樹枝，很高興地去撿起來玩舉重，還會稱讚自己「好厲害」！過程中還自然地學會要抓重心比較好出力，也算是學到了甚麼吧。

凡凡力氣真的很大，最後還可以將這麼大的樹枝整個舉起來。

Good Start of the Day

Finally I got the cell I wanted badly, the hybridoma for anti-GFP antibodies.

I was looking for good monoclonal anti-GFP antibodies for IP, and found a paper from China. I emailed them and later was informed they were leaving for the epidemic prevention in Sichuan Province where the horrible earthquake took place. After their return, they were very nice to me, and eventually said yes to give me their hybridoma cells. I told them that I came from Taiwan and felt very sorry about the earthquake. Possibly the significant donation from Taiwan really warms their hearts. It is really a big favor for giving away the hybridoma cells for nothing. I truly appreciate it.

All the President's Men

The news just came in yesteday.

Tim won the election and will be the president of ASCB at 2010. A British as the president of American Society of Cell Biology.

Hooray ???