已經好一段時間了，凡凡睡覺前每每會唸一段《大學》給凡凡聽， 經過這麼久，總算有收獲了，凡凡有時一個人玩的時候就一直在那兒覆誦大學之道在明明德。
不過，好像也就那幾句而已。而且，凡凡現在很愛問「為甚麼」「是甚麼」，大學裡面有些篇章連大人都沒有共識怎麼解了，要跟兩歲的小朋友說明是甚麼意思真的有點困難。
Sunday, January 18, 2009
又是玩雪
一如預期，到了週末又下起大雪了，等到了晚上，把在屋子裡悶了一天的凡凡帶下樓讓他活動活動玩玩雪。
不過這次就出問題了，凡凡本來爬雪山爬得很高興，不知怎的雪靴鬆脫在雪裡，赤腳的凡凡終於感覺到冷了，開始哀哀叫說要穿鞋。
不過這次就出問題了，凡凡本來爬雪山爬得很高興，不知怎的雪靴鬆脫在雪裡，赤腳的凡凡終於感覺到冷了，開始哀哀叫說要穿鞋。
Monday, January 12, 2009
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Christmas Message
This is on the whiteboard in our SysBio kitchen. Seems not everyone has a merry Christmas...
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Saturday, December 20, 2008
努力吃飯
Boston 下了第一場大雪，凡凡睡醒後便一直嚷著要出去玩雪。跟他說要吃完午飯才可以出去玩，凡凡聽了便卯起來吃，一口接一口，還不是眼睛巴望著窗外的落雪，從沒看過這麼努力吃飯的凡凡。
很快就吃完了。
很快就吃完了。
Friday, December 12, 2008
TGIF Poster
TGIF poster from microbiology department. Funny, uh?
Hmm...Not so funny any more after reading this news...
A freeze on salary raises for all faculty and non-union staff members as well as a hold on the bulk of current searches for tenure-track and tenured faculty were among the cost-cutting measures announced in a letter circulated to department chairs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday afternoon.
Signed by the top deans of the Faculty, the letter also put forward a new, more restrictive set of guidelines for what sort of candidates will be considered for “essential” instructorships and visiting faculty positions.
The new policy marks a considerable departure from the stance outlined by FAS Dean Michael D. Smith at a Faculty meeting in November, when he told department leaders to go ahead with all current searches if applicant pools remained as strong as anticipated.
Citing a projected 30 percent drop in the University’s endowment value this year, the deans wrote that the cost-cutting measures followed from a need to reduce the budget for the next fiscal year to levels at least $105 million below the current year’s budget. The Faculty’s budget for the fiscal year beginning on July 1, 2009 is set to be completed by March.
Department leaders were urged to keep news of the cuts quiet and withhold the information from colleagues until an official announcement at today’s Faculty meeting. A copy of the letter was obtained by The Crimson yesterday evening.
The deans’ letter re-confirmed Smith’s earlier commitment to maintaining a system of tenure-track promotion, and left open the possibility for a “small number of exceptions” to the ruling against tenure-track searches—a hint of flexibility that some professors said yesterday was encouraging.
“Frankly, if the University were to shut down all expansion, all hiring it would be a huge mistake in times like these, precisely when you need to be making smart investments and changing the University so that we’re stronger,” said biomedical engineering professor David A. Edwards.
Several professors, including Edwards, indicated yesterday that they had not yet read the letter, but that they were not taken aback by the measures it outlined, given the extent of the financial crisis.
“How could it be a surprise?” said comparative literature professor Ruth R. Wisse. “If there is a real budgetary slash, then obviously everybody has to bear their share of it in some way.”
“The easiest thing to do is to stop making new hires rather than to try and fire people,” she said.
In recognition of the difficult job market facing current graduate students, the deans also mentioned plans yesterday to develop a new position “akin to a teaching post-doc” for the University’s crop of newly-minted Ph.D. recipients.
The deans also asked that recent Ph.D. recipients, along with faculty from local institutions, be favored in situations where searches for non-ladder faculty instructors and visiting faculty are authorized as essential.
When asked why the deans requested that the news of the cuts be kept quiet until today, Smith wrote in an e-mailed statement, “I prefer to communicate directly with my faculty.”
“The Faculty Meeting gives me that opportunity. It also allows them to ask questions and offer comments.”
Harvard’s endowment—the largest in higher education—fell 22 percent in four months from its June 30 value of $36.9 billion, trumping the previous record loss of 12.4 percent in 1974, according to a letter from University President Drew G. Faust last week.
It was unclear yesterday how many faculty searches were pending and would be affected by the new policy. Faculty hiring has been in a "pause" period since April, when Smith informed professors that he was slowing down hiring to give FAS administrators a chance to take stock of how to move forward with their priorities.
Smith ground staff hiring to a halt in late November, setting administrators the task of finding what "critical" positions would still be filled.
The FAS leader wrote yesterday that he planned to comment more extensively on the letter’s policies in tomorrow’s Faculty meeting.
“This must be a nightmare for people who have to make these decisions,” said math professor Wilfried Schmid.
Hmm...Not so funny any more after reading this news...
FAS Freezes All Faculty Salaries, Cuts Searches
A freeze on salary raises for all faculty and non-union staff members as well as a hold on the bulk of current searches for tenure-track and tenured faculty were among the cost-cutting measures announced in a letter circulated to department chairs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday afternoon.
Signed by the top deans of the Faculty, the letter also put forward a new, more restrictive set of guidelines for what sort of candidates will be considered for “essential” instructorships and visiting faculty positions.
The new policy marks a considerable departure from the stance outlined by FAS Dean Michael D. Smith at a Faculty meeting in November, when he told department leaders to go ahead with all current searches if applicant pools remained as strong as anticipated.
Citing a projected 30 percent drop in the University’s endowment value this year, the deans wrote that the cost-cutting measures followed from a need to reduce the budget for the next fiscal year to levels at least $105 million below the current year’s budget. The Faculty’s budget for the fiscal year beginning on July 1, 2009 is set to be completed by March.
Department leaders were urged to keep news of the cuts quiet and withhold the information from colleagues until an official announcement at today’s Faculty meeting. A copy of the letter was obtained by The Crimson yesterday evening.
The deans’ letter re-confirmed Smith’s earlier commitment to maintaining a system of tenure-track promotion, and left open the possibility for a “small number of exceptions” to the ruling against tenure-track searches—a hint of flexibility that some professors said yesterday was encouraging.
“Frankly, if the University were to shut down all expansion, all hiring it would be a huge mistake in times like these, precisely when you need to be making smart investments and changing the University so that we’re stronger,” said biomedical engineering professor David A. Edwards.
Several professors, including Edwards, indicated yesterday that they had not yet read the letter, but that they were not taken aback by the measures it outlined, given the extent of the financial crisis.
“How could it be a surprise?” said comparative literature professor Ruth R. Wisse. “If there is a real budgetary slash, then obviously everybody has to bear their share of it in some way.”
“The easiest thing to do is to stop making new hires rather than to try and fire people,” she said.
In recognition of the difficult job market facing current graduate students, the deans also mentioned plans yesterday to develop a new position “akin to a teaching post-doc” for the University’s crop of newly-minted Ph.D. recipients.
The deans also asked that recent Ph.D. recipients, along with faculty from local institutions, be favored in situations where searches for non-ladder faculty instructors and visiting faculty are authorized as essential.
When asked why the deans requested that the news of the cuts be kept quiet until today, Smith wrote in an e-mailed statement, “I prefer to communicate directly with my faculty.”
“The Faculty Meeting gives me that opportunity. It also allows them to ask questions and offer comments.”
Harvard’s endowment—the largest in higher education—fell 22 percent in four months from its June 30 value of $36.9 billion, trumping the previous record loss of 12.4 percent in 1974, according to a letter from University President Drew G. Faust last week.
It was unclear yesterday how many faculty searches were pending and would be affected by the new policy. Faculty hiring has been in a "pause" period since April, when Smith informed professors that he was slowing down hiring to give FAS administrators a chance to take stock of how to move forward with their priorities.
Smith ground staff hiring to a halt in late November, setting administrators the task of finding what "critical" positions would still be filled.
The FAS leader wrote yesterday that he planned to comment more extensively on the letter’s policies in tomorrow’s Faculty meeting.
“This must be a nightmare for people who have to make these decisions,” said math professor Wilfried Schmid.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Sunday, December 7, 2008
下雪了
這個禮拜天終於下了今年的第一場雪，比往年晚了許多。
凡凡期待了好久，總算可以出去玩雪了。於是帶了個盆子說是要出去「抓雪」跟「裝雪」，興高采烈地出門了！
試了一陣子發現抓不到雪，還被雪打中眼睛！最後嚷著說要去上班。
發現雪不但抓不到，原來也裝不起來。
最後裝了幾塊冰塊意思一下。
凡凡期待了好久，總算可以出去玩雪了。於是帶了個盆子說是要出去「抓雪」跟「裝雪」，興高采烈地出門了！
試了一陣子發現抓不到雪，還被雪打中眼睛！最後嚷著說要去上班。
發現雪不但抓不到，原來也裝不起來。
最後裝了幾塊冰塊意思一下。
Friday, December 5, 2008
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Sunday, November 30, 2008
要買 WALL-E
這陣子感恩節跟耶誕節兩大採購節慶，家裡收到了一堆商品目錄與廣告傳單。
凡凡也會拿起來翻，而且專看玩具的廣告；可以專心地一項一項慢慢看，仔細研究後做出決定跟你講說他要買哪一個。問題是沒人問凡凡要買甚麼啊？
昨天剛看了 WALL-E 的 DVD，開始對 WALL-E 狂熱起來，自然看到 WALL-E 眼睛一亮就把剛才想買的東西全拋下，只要買 WALL-E 了。
不過就只是個垃圾處理回收的機器人嗎？EVE 炫多了。可是小朋友似乎還是比較喜歡 WALL-E。
凡凡也會拿起來翻，而且專看玩具的廣告；可以專心地一項一項慢慢看，仔細研究後做出決定跟你講說他要買哪一個。問題是沒人問凡凡要買甚麼啊？
昨天剛看了 WALL-E 的 DVD，開始對 WALL-E 狂熱起來，自然看到 WALL-E 眼睛一亮就把剛才想買的東西全拋下，只要買 WALL-E 了。
不過就只是個垃圾處理回收的機器人嗎？EVE 炫多了。可是小朋友似乎還是比較喜歡 WALL-E。
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
尿尿
連續兩個週末全家人輪流感冒，輪流沒力...
凡凡現在會自己上廁所了，曉得脫褲子，但總是忘記要穿回去。
本來看他走了又回來以為是想到褲子還沒穿，結果原來是想到剛剛吃的乖乖忘了拿，趕緊折回來拿，仍舊光著屁股。
凡凡現在最愛吃的零食，奶油椰子乖乖。
凡凡現在會自己上廁所了，曉得脫褲子，但總是忘記要穿回去。
本來看他走了又回來以為是想到褲子還沒穿，結果原來是想到剛剛吃的乖乖忘了拿，趕緊折回來拿，仍舊光著屁股。
凡凡現在最愛吃的零食，奶油椰子乖乖。
Sunday, November 9, 2008
停下來不能走
凡凡在家玩火車，現在有兩種火車，除了之前的 Geotrax 外還有 Ikea 買來木製的小火車。
凡凡開火車到一半忽然停住了，原來是他看見了紅色的手的標誌，知道是停止的意思，便停下來不走了。平常時過馬路教凡凡說紅色的手不能走，要等到白色的人才可以走，看來凡凡的確有聽進去。
Geotrax 的紅色停止標誌。
凡凡開火車到一半忽然停住了，原來是他看見了紅色的手的標誌，知道是停止的意思，便停下來不走了。平常時過馬路教凡凡說紅色的手不能走，要等到白色的人才可以走，看來凡凡的確有聽進去。
Geotrax 的紅色停止標誌。
Bike and Sport
禮拜天回暖了一點，帶凡凡外出騎他的小三輪車，順便看看他能騎多遠。
騎到設計學院，停下來拿起後座的籃球，要投籃，只是個子實在太小，沒有辦法。
騎到 Science Center，還曉得起來按無障礙設施的門，待門打開後再騎進去。
騎到設計學院，停下來拿起後座的籃球，要投籃，只是個子實在太小，沒有辦法。
騎到 Science Center，還曉得起來按無障礙設施的門，待門打開後再騎進去。
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