AFI's 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes

so familiar. simply listing them here actually doesn't make any sense. only after you watch the movie, know the plot and the actor/actress, you can truly understand them. 

1. "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Rhett Butler Gone with the Wind

2. "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." Don Vito Corleone The Godfather

10. "You talkin' to me?" Travis Bickle Taxi Driver

13. "Love means never having to say you're sorry." Jennifer Cavilleri Barrett Love Story

17. "Rosebud." Charles Foster Kane Citizen Kane

21. "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti." Hannibal Lecter The Silence of the Lambs

22. "Bond. James Bond." James Bond         Dr. No[7]

23. "There's no place like home." Dorothy Gale         The Wizard of Oz

25. "Show me the money!" Rod Tidwell        Jerry Maguire

31. "After all, tomorrow is another day!" Scarlett O'Hara          Gone with the Wind

37. "I'll be back." The Terminator          The Terminator

40. "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." Forrest Gump Forrest Gump

41. "We rob banks." Clyde Barrow Bonnie and Clyde

49. "It's alive! It's alive!" Henry Frankenstein Frankenstein

50. "Houston, we have a problem." Jim Lovell           Apollo 13

55. "La-dee-da, la-dee-da." Annie Hall             Annie Hall

57. "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." Gordon Gekko Wall Street

58. "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." Michael Corleone The Godfather Part II

59. "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again." Scarlett O'Hara    Gone with the Wind

85. "My precious." Gollum The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

94. "I feel the need—the need for speed!" Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell and Lt. Nick "Goose" Bradshaw Top Gun

95. "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." John Keating Dead Poets Society

Salame

超市打折，半价买了Antica Macelleria Falorni的两条Salame：Salame di cinghiale（野公猪）和Salame di cinta senese brada（Cinta senese是Tuscany特有的一种猪品种）

折扣价后基本和本地售价一样。在我试过的salame当中，Falorni的算是非常不错的，不是像某些大批量生产的salame那样用咸味或者香料去麻痹你的味觉，而能感受到浓浓的肉味，加上脂肪，呈现出甘甜的味道，有嚼劲，回味十足。配上红酒，面包，以及一些酸黄瓜，足矣。

Amadeus

一部出色的影片，有一点歌剧风格，由Milos Forman执导 (也是飞越疯人院的导演)。

一部好电影总是综合了很多因素，但也会有一个让人印象最深刻的风格---让画面说话，比如Godfather，James Cameron，张艺谋；让情节说话，比如Chris Nolan，Hitchcock，Quentin Tarantino，黑泽明；让演员说话，比如Woody Allen，The Shawshank Redemption。而Amadeus就是一部用音乐说话的电影。

Benoît Mandelbrot, Novel Mathematician, Dies at 85

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/us/17mandelbrot.html

"Instead of rigorously proving his insights in each field, he said he preferred to 'stimulate the field by making bold and crazy conjectures' — and then move on before his claims had been verified."

Wall street: money never sleeps

Calcium in the brain, definitely calcium in the brain

Movies to watch

Try to find time to watch the following movies:


Inside Job
Wall Street: Money Never sleeps
Toy Story 3
Mission London
Animal Kingdom
Despicable Me
Shutter Island
The Town

Inception

Have watched it some time ago but haven't got time to write a review. So now I finish it before I forget. 

First of all, I like the movie. The story is catching, which reminds me of the works of Hitchcock. If we describe a movie as a building, then there is no structural problem. Every part is closely related and presented in an elegant way. 

But there is one thing I feel unsatisfied, probably just my personal taste. Like the dream it discusses, the movie lacks details. Not the plot details I am talking about, but some delicacy I feel missing. I refer to another two my favorite movies, Godfather and Seven Samurai. These are two movies I can appreciate every day. There are always some delicacies that I can amplify and enjoy. However, I do not have the feeling that I should watch Inception for a second time. Still using the building analog, Inception is like a modern skyscraper. Magnificent, fully functional, but not enjoyable. Maybe I shouldn't complain too much, and this is just Nolan style. 

A serious and nice movie, anyway. 

A nice article on virtual screening application to drug design

http://www.nature.com/nrd/journal/v9/n4/full/nrd3139.html

I am not an expert, but most of the points in this article do no require expertise to understand. As far as I know, the author does have a point. For example, the advancement of MD simulation is not just a matter of computation power. It requires a deeper understanding of the behind-the-scene mechanism.

Going a little deeper, I have been thinking the herbal medicines. Why can we find cures from those herbs? Can we find some intrinsic and more traceable connections other than philosophical and ecological explanations? I am not sure if there is an answer to this question, but if there is one, that may be the ultimate solution to drug design problem.

Chloe

A typical Egoyan movie. Not bad, but I feel there is sth lacked.

大水冲了龙王庙

来自武汉的一幅图片

Inception

还没有去看，不过听起来有点像一部日本动画品-红辣椒(Paprika)。联想Matrix和押井守的攻壳机动队的联系，看来美国下一部Sci-fi还有可能从日本动画片中提取灵感。

Avandia is in trouble

国内名字叫文迪雅，是常用的治疗2型糖尿病的药品。详情如下

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/health/policy/13avandia.html

二泉映月

作为二胡名曲，二泉映月版本众多，包括阿炳的原奏，以及随后众多的改良版本。

我所体会的二泉映月的精髓，在于其婉转中不乏抑扬顿挫，不拘泥于形式，虽缺乏像小提琴一样的变化和复杂性，但别有一番韵味。给人的感觉好像门德尔松小提琴协奏曲的华彩部分，抑或Itzahk Perlman演奏的辛德勒名单的主题曲。

然而youtube上面的诸多版本，有过分修饰的成分，虽然似乎技巧上有所提高，但却没有了其中的意境。二泉映月好比Ratatouille中Remy为Anton Ego做准备的家常菜，只有个中人能体会滋味，若只是片面追求外在形式，则有误入歧途之嫌。

黄安源的版本是我最喜欢的，不在于他使用的象牙二胡，而是其中的意味。

换帅如儿戏

毕某人的"豪言壮语"言犹在耳，只是计划赶不上变化，

山钢集团董事会决定，委派毕志超任济钢董事长，不再担任副总经理职务；蔡漳平兼任济钢董事、副董事长，推荐蔡漳平为总经理人选（兼）

蔡某人上任真是曲径通幽，而毕某人的李代桃僵也很配合，什么扭亏为盈，效益为先，挂羊头卖狗肉的本质在这种拙劣的政治伎俩面前再直白不过。

Dirty politics屡见不鲜，当年牛群冯巩的小偷公司里面的一副对联再合适不过：

上联： 说你行 你就行 不行也行
下联： 说不行 就不行 行也不行
横批： 不服不行

我改一下横批： 不查不行

石斛考

圆圆的给了两盒石斛，由此说开去。

石斛，属于兰科，英文名是Dendorbium，可以入药，在中医典籍中有所记载，也有不少引用梅先生当年引用石斛茶润嗓的典故，其有效成分可能为石斛多糖，石斛碱。

一般药房卖的不是鲜石斛，而是石斛干，这是把石斛的茎经过几道工序烘干而成，颜色金黄，而根据石斛品种的不同，价格差别也较大，按克论，从几元钱到几十元钱不等，最高的等级通常称作铁皮石斛，然而野生铁皮石斛据说基本已经绝迹，属于濒危物种，而近些年随着石斛热的兴起，有不少人开始尝试人工养殖，大部分集中于浙江，云南，广西等地。

培育石斛可能和培育兰花相似，不过细节或许略有差别，有研究表明石斛多糖的含量在嫩茎最多，叶次之，根与老茎最差。石斛产品化渠道众多，可以做成中成药，或者做成传统的干货，或者鲜卖，而除了茎部，石斛叶，石斛花也可以利用，做成类似石斛花茶这样的产品。

石斛现在的主要问题是缺乏标准化，传统的类似茶叶以及其他传统药材的分销体系难以保证品质，而其具体药效和其有效成分之间的联系也未知是否有严格的临床验证，整个市场鱼目混杂，将其宣传成奢侈品更是掩盖了石斛作为一种中草药的功效。

石斛完全可以两条腿走路，一方面是进行类似GNC这样的精萃，或者做成类似999这样的中成药，严格标注有效成分，添加其他营养成分，或者作为辅助成分，这样的方法易于工业化，也可以避免石斛品种，外观等引起的疑惑。

而另一条路则是继续进行简单加工后出售干货或者鲜货，这是由中国的中医以及传统食疗特点决定的，这个市场不会消亡，但涉及诸多其他环节，较为繁琐，但经过包装，有可能实现较高的附加值，可以一试。

现在不少大的集团已经开始注意类似石斛这样的中草药原材料的开发，比如上海光明集团在云南西双版纳勐海县投资了生产基地，而浙江一个个人铁皮石斛培育者李小香在成功后也得到了香港天厨集团注资成立了天厨莲花生物公司。

Inception is coming

Going to watch it at iSquare on Aug 3.

Organic fertilizer

可以利用苍蝇制造有机肥料，苍蝇繁殖迅速，活动范围大，可以很好的弥补现有有机肥料制造的缺点。

期待科特迪瓦

迄今为止亮相的非洲球队乏善可陈，没有战术，没有整体。科特迪瓦虽然之前的表现也不好，但球员基础很好，希望埃里克森能在短时间内给这支球队带来点东西，为非洲球队争光。

Charadium

http://charadium.com/

An amazing game for iPhone and iPod Touch. 不玩Charadium，不知道自己的词汇量小...

An espresso machine for tea

I got the same idea when I was checking the Nespresso series. It's a little bit weird but I think it gets its potential in China. However, it seems someone has already got the same idea. My feeling is there should be some big differences. Will think it over later.