From the latest Google newsletter:

Folks who visit the Googleplex in Mountain View, California often compare it to a college campus - there are people engaged in group meetings, in solitary work, and when they can, they make time to eat, play or exercise. One of the most campus-like elements is a thriving program called "Tech Talks" - regularly scheduled presentations offered by Googlers or our guests on a wide variety of subjects. AnyGoogler can attend a talk on, say, "Collecting Meteorites in Antarctica" or "High End Computing and Scientific Visualization at NASA." Now you can also watch these talks, just by searching GoogleVideo for [techtalks]. We obtain clearance from all speakers so TechTalks can be posted publicly, and will continue to add them to GoogleVideo. We hope you enjoy these sometimes obscure, always informative, insights into current events, research and ideas as much as we do.

http://video.google.com

Slap Your Co-Worker Day is Coming!!

Tomorrow is the official Slap Your Irritating Co-workers Holiday :Do you have a co-worker who talks nonstop about nothing, working your last nerve with tedious and boring details that you don't give a damn about? Do you have a co-worker who ALWAYS screws up stuff creating MORE work for you? Do you have a co-worker who kisses so much booty, you can look in their mouth and see what your boss had for lunch? Do you have a co-worker who is SOOO obnoxious,when he/she enters a room, everyone else clears it? Well, on behalf of IkeTurner, I am so very very glad to officially announce tomorrow as SLAP YOUR IRRITATING CO-WORKER DAY! There are the rules you must follow:

You can only slap one person per hour - no more

You can slap the same person again if they irritate you again in the same day

You are allowed to hold someone down as other co-workers take their turns slapping the irritant

No weapons are allowed...other than going upside somebody's head with a stapler or a hole-puncher

CURSING IS MANDATORY! After you have slapped the recipient, your "assault" must be followed with something like "Cause I'm sick of your stupid-a$$ always messing up stuff!"

If questioned by a supervisor or police, (if the supervisor is the irritant), you are allowed to LIE, LIE, LIE! Now, study the rules, break out your list of folks that you want to slap the living day lights out of and get to slapping.....and have a GREAT DAY!

Spring arrived today at 10:26am!!

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10:26am?!?!

What is the point of having such precise spring?!?

十二月的台北，一月的汉城，再次二月的台北，三月的上海。。。
本都应该是冬雨不断，春雨绵绵的死样子，却都以艳阳天来欢迎我的访问。
难道我真的那么“阳光”吗？！？！
嘿嘿！！

Despite the fact that I am in Shanghai,
despite all the partying and fine food,

I want nothing other than go home, kiss my baby, squeeze my cats, and sleep on my own bed...

I miss home, glad this is the last trip I have to make in a while...

Back in Shanghai...
This is a familiar yet remote place to me these days...