光与影 Light and Dark

[2008-12-10 23:08:12] * NekoYasha wonders why always the Anons doing the scanlations.
[2008-12-10 23:08:30] <Bakuryu> cuz its technically illegal

今天又是怎么回事,明明半夜12点有作业要交,可是整天空着。占课程10%的分数呐!也许和身体有关系,一天都没精神,晚上还在流鼻血……。

不交作业应该可以说是卡库尔的一个旧习惯了。这样的改不过来的坏习惯还是不少。奇怪的是和卡库尔心目中自己理想的形象相差甚远。理想中,卡库尔应该是勤劳、勇敢、机智、活泼的可爱少年。这好像说的有点太夸张……哈哈。不过实际的我呢?懒散,能拖则拖能逃则逃,做事没有主次,成天独自窝在家里不跟别人说话,喜爱偷懒,讨厌繁琐的问题,不甚整洁 (虽然最近有所改观),晚睡晚起,以及一些我还是不想说的事情。另外接近19.5的年龄对可爱形象也一点没有贡献。

10% of the course score, and I skipped it… nosebleeds doesn’t help either.

Not handing in homework is an old habit of Kakur. There are much bad habits like this that went uncorrected. What is strange is that it is miles away from the ideal image in myself. Ideally, Kakur should be a diligent, courageous, clever and active cute boy. Sounds like a bit too exaggerated… haha. But in reality? Lazy, takes everything to the last minute and avoids if all possible, no priorities, staying at home for all day without talking with someone, procrastinates a lot, doesn’t like complex problems, has not much emphasis in cleanness, sleeps and wakes late and other things I’d rather not talk about. And the age that approaches 19.5 contributes absolutely nothing towards the cute image.


早晨起来之后,觉得有很重的负罪感。嗨咻,该来的总是要面对的。如果没有及格,那只能重修了吧。不过无论怎样,还要为接下来的考试和下学期的科目早些做准备啊。接续昨天,还是鼻涕不止。感冒了么……。

Feels particularly sinned after waking up. Haichu, what will come must be faced. If no pass, then the only recourse is to re-take the course. But in any case, I still need to prepare for the coming exams and courses in the next semester. Sneezing just like yesterday. Did I caught a cold…

前些日子浏览英文维基®百科® (顺便说一下,卡库尔强烈反对维基®在台湾注册为商标),遇到一篇条目标题为“心理阴影”——心理阴影是荣格 (这是谁) 分析心理学中的,与人自我 (ego) 相对,人隐藏、憎恶的黑暗一面 (情结)。这黑暗并不是一定是邪恶的,而是与表人格相对的存在:好人的阴影是坏的,而坏人的阴影是好的。

Browsing the English Wikipedia® (by the way, I strongly object 维基 — a transliteration of wiki used in Wikimedia projects — to be registered as a trademark in Taiwan) and came across an article titled “psychological shadow” – a construct in Jungian psychology, which is an opposite of ego, the hidden, abominated dark side (complex). Such darkness does not need to be evil, but merely an existance contary to the surface persona : a good one’s shadow is bad while a bad one’s shadow is good.

懒散、脱逃、自闭,这就是……肮脏的……阴影的……我吗?

Is that… the polluted… the shadowed… me?

当然世界上没有完全的好人或是坏人,所以在阴影中,也能找到潜藏的闪光点。

Of course there’s no such thing on the world like a perfectly good or bad man, so you can also find hidden treasures in the shadow.

不过卡库尔总是分不清自我和人格面具 (persona)。Persona 是人对他人表现的性格。果然还是“独处的时候才能看出一个人的真正性格”么。戴上面具之后,就分不出自己是谁……无法了解自己。所以卡库尔没有兽设 (fursona,来自于 persona的英文一般含义,角色) 么?当然面具带久了,就会成为佩戴者真正的脸。我不希望自己对外的表现与实际相差太大,可以说面具是戴给自己看的;所以才会分不清楚吗?

But Kakur can’t tell apart ego and persona. Persona is what one displays to others. So “one’s true character shows when he’s alone” after all. Wearing the mask, one won’t be able to tell themselves apart… unable to know themselves. Is that why Kakur does not have a fursona (a word based on the common meaning of “role”)? Of course, when the mask has been worn too long, it becomes the wearer’s face. I don’t want my appearance to differ much from the “real me”, in a sense the mask is worn for myself; is that why I can’t understand?

要了解他人,先要了解自己。我问 Torley Wong, 如何了解自己?回答是,要询问自己问题,然后去世界中寻找答案。

To know others one must know thyself. I asked Torley Wong, how do you know yourself? The answer was, to ask yourself questions then embark on a quest for the answers in the world.

不过自我是随着时间推移而变化的。可是时间真的存在么?大部分物理的过程都是可逆的,除了熵,永远按照时间的增加而增加,像是时间的箭头。如果说大脑生成记忆的需要,也与熵相关,那么我们所说的未来,是否只是一种幻觉?我们究竟是否有自由意志?还是只像机器一样,一旦开动,宿命不可停止?或是像薛定谔的猫,每一个决定都是波形的崩溃,世界向双缝的左边或是右边发展……

But the self changes across time. But does time actually exist? Almost all physical progresses can be reversed, except for entropy, which always increases as the time increases, like an arrow of time. If the formation of memories in the brain, is also related to entrophy, does that mean the future we speak of, is only an illusion? Do we have free will? Or like machines, which after started, the destiny will never change? Or like Scherodinger’s cat, every decision is a collapse of the waveform, the word progresses towards the left silt or the right one…

……假如我的日志能看到未来……似乎除了陈词滥调,不会有什么内容吧。

… if my journal can see the future… it probably won’t have anything other than the party line.

扯远了。一家之言总是要就者一点盐服用的 (英文直译误)。相信自己是最重要的。扬帆起航向新世界出发。

That was too far away from the topic. It’s a single schools opinion, so it should be taken with a grain of salt. It’s most important to believe in oneself. Set sail to the new world.


如果说Anima是“心目中男性的形象”的话,那么+Anima 就是将心目中的形象投射出来?

荣格心理学另外有 Animus (女性形象), Puer Aeter (“永恒少年”), 以及 Senex (睿者)。那不是水火金雷中的少司命吗?

状态更新 Status Update

First an announcement. Because it’s harder to use Windows Live Spaces (especially in Firefox under GNOME), I’m thinking of writing blogs first to the mirror site, Nekotoba instead. This would mean if I ever decide to use Ubuntu again, updates to Kir’s Corner may get delayed for a while (read: days).

Well, since no one reads either blog, it’s not like anyone would see this announcement. But hopefully this would give me the incentive to update more often, which could boost the popularity of either side a little bit.

首先是一项通告。因为 (特别在 GNOME 下使用 Firefox 中) 使用 Windows Live Spaces 比较麻烦,我现在在考虑优先更新镜像站 Nekotoba. 这意味着如果我哪天打算再去用Ubuntu,对Kir’s Corner 的更新可能会延迟一会儿 (也就是:几天)。

那,既然哪个日志都没有人读,也不会有什么人看到这篇通告。不过希望这样做可以给我一些更经常更新的动力,也可以让两边的人气更高一些。

说是这么说,不过最近 Windows Live 最近发表第三波 (Wave 3),包括许多新功能,似乎相当有潜力。微软是个很奇怪的公司,除了主营业务以外都很受用户欢迎 (笑)。

That said, Windows Live just released Wave 3 recently, with many new features, seems to have a lot of potential. Microsoft is a weird company, all their businesses are highly welcomed by the users except for the main one. <g>

(前些日子在Slashdot上看到有人开玩笑地评论说,微软是个很好的鼠标厂商,只不过大家总记仇它操作系统的副业。)

(Days ago I saw a joking comment on Slashdot that said, Microsoft is a good mouse manufactor, just that everyone hates them for their side business of operating systems.) 

到这周三为止,这学期的课程就全部结束了。一学期下来好像没学到什么东西呢,连作业都做不出来。接下来就是考试!那么加油吧。快点把计算机工程课的作业做出来,占分数很多很要紧。估计了一下时间,大约需要十小时。

To this wendesday, all lessons of this term has ended. Doesn’t seem to have learned anything for all that I went through this term, can’t even complete the assignments. Exams are coming up! Let’s do this. Gotta start and finish the assignment for the computer engineering course, takes a big portion of the score so very important. Approximated the time, it’s about ten hours.

最近不是在忙,就是在懒。左边飞过来作业右边飞过来信件,没注意垃圾桶又满了。好不容易做完所有事情却在网上不知道在看什么。这就是注意力过于分散的结果吗?可是每天看的那么多东西,想舍弃一些,又不知道丢掉哪个好。

因此大部分从九月份就列出的未完成的项目,到现在都没有动静。兽装没有下一刀,有一个月没有写日志/画画了(实话说,写一次日志就要一小时),估计再去画的话,风格又要转变了。Second Life® 客户端的翻译确是完成了,不过质量就……。不过这么大的项目能完成也是不容易呢。

Either being busy, or being lazy lately. Assignments coming from the left and mails coming from the right, then the garbage bin fills without me noticing. Finally got everything done but then finds myself going around the web reading things that can’t even be remembered. Spreading the attention too thin? But with all that I read everyday, even when I want to give up some, I just don’t know what to throw away.

So most uncompleted stuff from September has not been touched even to now. Fursuit has not been cut once, one month without blogging / drawing (to be frank, writing a blog entry takes about one hour) and if I go on to draw again the style probably will change once more. The translation for Second Life® client has been completed, but the quality is…. It was quite a feat to complete such a big project though.

又读了几部漫画,引发了一场 meme, 投了一次票 (结果是输的那一方 -ω-). 那,今天就到这里吧。下次接着日志。

Read some comics, started a meme, went in a vote (and lost -ω-). So let this be all of today. See you soon.


目前项目状态 / Current project status

 

  • 兽装 – 0%……
    Fursuit – 0%…
  • 10 000th hit – 0%……

SVG 切割器已经完成但是制作一个字要一分钟太长所以 Nekotoba 字体项目暂时搁置。
SVG cutter has been completed but making a glyph takes one minute which is too long so Nekotoba font project is shelved.

Fail Neko is fail…

搞什么啊! 作业都没能按时交上, 别人在说什么话都听不清楚, 想做的事一点都没有动, 现在又带回家来一大堆绒毛? 卡库尔是不是脑子进水了?
What the heck?! Assignments missed the due date, can’t understand what other people are talking about, didn’t do any things I always wanted to do and now I take home a pile of furs? Is Kakur nuts or something?

A pile of grey and white faux fur on a bed...

看来卡库尔的计划是在万圣节之前把自己变成最可爱的猫受人猫兽人。不过,从7年级以后就从来没有碰过针线的卡库尔到底能不能在没有兽设的情况下在两个星期内完成一套完整的兽装呢? 更不用说还没有完成的事和下周的期中考试 (状态机? 那是什么? 好吃吗?)……
So it appears Kakur’s plan is to turn myself into the cutest nekouke kitten before Hallowe’en. But, can Kakur who never touched a thread or a needle since grade 7 complete a complete fursuit in two weeks without an existing fursona? Not to mention things not done and the mid-terms next week (State machine? What’s that? Does it taste good?)…

… just have to cutely do my best, then.
……总之今天也要很可爱的全力以赴吧。

今天也是很可愛地全力以赴!大井 昌和 (著), 一年生になっちゃったら

性转换确实很有趣。不过卡库尔喜欢的究竟是变性, 变身还是只是单纯萝莉控?
Transgender is quite an interesting topic, but what’s in it I like, TG, transformation or just lolicon?

总之是个读者服务很强烈的漫画……。
In all, it’s a very fanservice-y comic…


那么,全力以赴吧!(都拖了一个月了……)
Do my best then! (been ignored for a month at least…)

  • 贺图
    10000th hit
  • 切割器
    Cutter
  • SL翻译
    SL Translation
  • 兽装?再说吧~
    Fursuit? Laterz I guess~

秋雨连绵

这么快,开学已经一个月了。渥太华的天气很奇怪,这个星期一直在下大雨,淋湿了……。

成天总是在网上闲逛,似乎很着急,但是又不知道究竟是为了什么。拿得起放不下。总觉得缺少了什么。

做事都是只作到一半。

现在做到一半的有:

  • SVG切割器(用来切割格子纸制作字体)
  • SL界面翻译
  • 10000+1000hit 贺图

Google Chrome

昨天 Google 发布了 Google Chrome,一个网络浏览器。Google 会发布浏览器,是很奇怪。也很奇怪的是中文名称就叫作“谷歌浏览器”。同样奇怪的是一天内使用量竟然超过Opera……

Chrome 的意思,是指浏览器的界面。Google Chrome 的界面非常细致。它巧妙地使用了 Vista 的 DWM Aero 玻璃效果,给人轻快的感觉。似乎就是为 Aero 观感 度身定做的。同时标签栏放置于地址栏上方以及没有菜单栏也使得界面比其他浏览器都简洁。这样的界面挪到 Mac OS X 或者 GNU/Linux 的话怎么实现呢?特别是类似于 Compiz 的合成桌面管理器的情况下,Chrome 究竟是会利用系统的透明支持还是设法融入系统?另外 Chrome 的微妙的动画效果感觉也很有趣,人性化的色彩。特别是读取时的指示器,连接的时候是逆时针转,读取数据的时候是顺时针转。

Chrome 和 Safari 一样,基于 WebKit 渲染引擎。不过不像 Safari 使用自带的文字渲染,Chrome使用 Windows 本身的 ClearType. 一方面这避免了 Safari 经常搞不清楚应该用哪个字体的问题 (Safari 渲染中文经常一会儿黑体一会儿宋体),但另一方面ClearType 对字形的变形有时对字形设计师来说是个麻烦……

不过 Chrome 也有自己的字体问题:Chrome 默认无衬线字体是宋体(有衬线的),而衬线字体却是黑体(没衬线)!更夸张的是默认是中易宋体中易黑体——两个都是等宽字体,不适合显示拉丁文档。微软雅黑就在那里,难道没看到吗?

最后手工设置字体为 DejaVu Sans 和 DejaVu Serif。就算这样,Google Chrome 在英文的Windows下也能够显示中文界面,而Safari只有英文界面。既然 Chrome 同样基于 WebKit,应该可以把 Safari 请出去了——哦等等不行,Safari 的 JavaScript 引擎和Chrome 的不一样。T_T

Chrome 和 Internet Explorer 8 类似,都是使用多进程的架构,不像 Firefox 一个 JavaScript 可以把整个浏览器卡死。不过,和IE8 每个标签页一个进程不同,Chrome 是每个网站开一个进程。毕竟同一个网站有很多数据是通用的。……在Windows上启动进程要比创建线程慢,不过似乎感觉不出区别。

Chrome 对 SVG 的支持……和 Safari 一样。能够显示,但是 Chrome/Safari 不能滚动,较大的 SVG 图片就无法察看了。另外和 Safari 一样地不支持模糊滤镜。一般图片显示和 Safari 一样,靠左上显示,除了鼠标光标改变以外没有提示是缩小还是放大。这点上卡库尔比较喜欢 Opera 将小图片居中显示的做法。

Chrome 还有几个有趣的地方,例如新建标签页时会显示最常访问的网站和最近关闭的标签页 (事实上从图形界面没有其他办法恢复标签页),可以查看其他网络浏览器的内存使用情况(Firefox用了200MB, 不过主要是因为我书签很多——Places数据库用了100MB),还有在浏览器的角落里有一些字符串明显是繁体转简体的 (剩馀時间)……

Yesterday Google has released Google Chrome, a web browser. It’s strange for Google to release a web browser. It’s as strange that it’s Chinese name is simply “Google Browser”. It’s even stranger that its usage has peaked over Opera in one day…

Chrome means the interface of web browsers. Google Chrome has a polished interface, which uses Vista’s DWM Aero Glass effect to give a light, airy feeling. It’s as if it’s made to fit the Aero Aesthetics… (And it does this better than IE7+.) At the same time, putting the tabs above the address bar and a lack of menu bar makes Chrome have a cleaner interface than any other browser. How would such an interface be implemented if it’s ported to Mac OS X or GNU/Linux? Especially under composting window managers like Compiz, would Chrome take advantage of the system’s support of transparency, or would it try to merge in? And Chrome’s animation effects are also quite interesting, with a dash of humanistic. Especially the throbber which turns counter-clockwise when connecting and clockwise when loading. Cute!

Chrome, like Safari, is based on the WebKit rendering engine. But unlike Safari which renders its own text, Chrome uses Windows’ built-in ClearType rendering. On one hand this avoids how Safari can’t seem to be able to decide which font to use (Safari often mixes Ming type with Gothic type when rendering Chinese), but on the other hand the mangling of font outlines by ClearType could be a trouble to typeface designers…

But Chrome has its own font problems too: Chrome’s default Sans-serif font is a Song (a Chinese typeface type aka Ming… with serifs), and it’s default Serif font is a Black (aka Gothic, nope no serifs) one! What’s more it defaults to ZhongYi SimSun and ZhongYi SimHei – both monospace fonts, not fit for displaying Latin documents. And Microsoft YaHei is just over there… don’t tell me you didn’t see that…

So I had to set the fonts to DejaVu Sans and DejaVu Serif manually… But Google Chrome can display Chinese interfaces under an English Windows, and Safari only has a English one. If Chrome is also based on WebKit, why not shove Safari out – oh wait that doesn’t work, Safari has a different JavaScript engine than Chrome. T_T

Chrome, like Internet Explorer 8,  uses a multiple process architecture. Unlike Firefox, where one JavaScript could hang the whole browser. But unlike IE8, Chrome opens a thread for every website. A lot of common data across one site, after all. … starting a process is slower than creating a thread on Windows, but in web browsing, not much a difference.

Chrome’s support for SVG… same with Safari. Can display, but Chrome/Safari cannot scroll SVG so bigger graphics cannot be viewed. And just like Safari, it does not support blur filters. Display for raster images is identical to Safari too, aligned on top-left, and with no indication of being zoomed in or zoomed out sans the mouse cursor. For this one, Kakur likes how Opera centers small graphics better.

Chrome has a few more interesting places, like it displays the most frequently visited websites and recently closed tabs when creating a new tab (in fact this is the only way to restore tabs from the GUI), the ability to view other browsers’ memory usage (Firefox uses 200MB, but mainly because I got a lot of bookmarks – the Places database took 100MB), and a few strings that are obviously converted from Traditional Chinese lurking here and there…


好饿!好饿!好热!好热!先去吃午饭了。还是很需要窗帘和风扇。

So hungry! So hungry! So hot! So hot! Gotta have lunch. Still needs curtain and fans.