http://www.thumbedthrough.com/blog China China China US US Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:08:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Both Van Gogh and Schumann survived suicidal attempts and died young, but Schumann died alone in a asylum at age 46 while Van Gogh passed away with his brother Theo's accompany at Ravoux Inn, to where he went just after he was released by the hospital treated his chest wound ... http://www.thumbedthrough.com/blog/?p=60#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed "He was the most Russian of us all", said Stravinsky. Had a short a marriage of nine-days despite his homosexuality, and attempted suicide after this headlong trial. Admired Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner, and didn't like so much Berlioz, Brahms. Was Ultra-Sentimental and thus is an all-time favorite of the Gauche and unpolished populace. http://www.thumbedthrough.com/blog/?p=56#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Just heard the news that Jiaqi Guo has passed away, after fighting with leukemia bravely for almost a year. Life is so short when you look back at the exit. Yet she left us a beautiful story, about a girl fighting with death, so defiantly, so undauntedly, that it just ... http://www.thumbedthrough.com/blog/?p=51#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Just two weeks away from the 60th Anniversary of the establishment of his motherland, for which he had such a deep love, indeed, the love impelled him going back to China right after he finished his postdoc research here at Northwestern University, to accept a starting faculty position at Zhejiang ... http://www.thumbedthrough.com/blog/?p=47#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Pundits on TV screens, columnists in their little gardens of letters, professors on podiums, and independent writes in their blogs, quite a majority of these people keep saying that the trends of freedom and democracy cannot be stopped, as if these two intrinsically unrelated things, freedom, and democracy, were Siamese ... http://www.thumbedthrough.com/blog/?p=41#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. Sanity keeps reminding man how fearful the real life is and how far away it is from the ideal state. Happiness requires a man to enjoy the status quo and quit thinking about anything else but these that are here and now. Over the last five-some ... http://www.thumbedthrough.com/blog/?p=36#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed I found this hilarious exchange of opinions here. Also hung there before the league of noble peers are a lot of other big shots, such as Micro$oft, Apple, EA, SEGA, MPAA, Warner Bros, etc. =========================================== Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 18:21:43 -0100 (GMT) From: anakata To: KMWLAW@flash.net[/email] Subject: Re: Unauthorized Use of DreamWorks SKG Properties On Mon, 23 Aug ... http://www.thumbedthrough.com/blog/?p=29#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed 眼高手低，是蹩脚大厨回应客人的话。要不然你来做一个看看？这是从细处着眼。谁有何尝不是如此呢？在自己的工作上并不安分，看到别人混日子做出来的事情又火冒三丈，回过头来自己不过依然是做个混世魔王，于是乱七八糟，七十二行全都不成个样子。学术界，翻译界，出版界，新闻界，多是滥竽充数；制造业，建筑业，影视业，食品业，就好以次充好。说到一个眼高手低，各行各业又都看谁都是磨洋工的，虽说自己也是挨时度日的主儿。什么时候能够认真一点，面前的一双皮鞋真给刷亮了，手头的一本词典真给翻烂了，街头的目击者都给问遍了，能吃的不能吃的都给分开了，或许中国能是一番不一样的局面。 http://www.thumbedthrough.com/blog/?p=25#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Where Satan present will not be wanting, as are said in various stories. And women don't like the feeling of wanting. To be rich, so I can provide. Using money to eliminate want as wipe out dew. After all, Satan is what I strive to be all along. http://www.thumbedthrough.com/blog/?p=20#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed I have heard a lot of my friends comment that they are surprised by the neck-breaking development happened in Japan after WWII, given the havoc wreaked there by the war, and they compare it to the fast marching of the Dragon economy. They didn't know that  the single most important factor ... http://www.thumbedthrough.com/blog/?p=17#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed