10Am This Morning

I must have jinxed our weather. Look, it is only 15.3F outside:


Of course, inside it is warm and nice:
I love my Oregon Scientific alarm clock. It is atomic. I never have to worry about the accuracy of the time.

Puppy Radar, aka Roodi II

"What's That Big Thing Pointing at Me?"

Puppy Radar reported to work on Monday (President’s Day). He is exactly 9-weeks old. He spent much time sleeping in his kennel, but when he woke up, he instantly became the center of all attention. Words can't describe how adorable he is. He's got big grey/blue eyes, a wrinkly face, and two big ears. His tail is very short and he wags it all the time. He is very soft to touch: soft coat and soft body. Even his paws are soft. He played with his toys a lot, showing a great attention span on any single object (unlike his half-brother Strider). He is very brave, and is curious about everything: in fact, he attempted many times to check out the lab. Of course we wouldn't let him. He loves to play with people. He climbed on our laps, kissed us, rolled over for us, and enjoyed belly-rubs. He has very good instincts of a hunting dog: he knows shake-to-kill, and he almost pointed today!

In L's Arms

"My Puppy Belly"

I'm not sure whether a puppy so cute helps us pushing the frontier of Science or distracts us from doing that. I should limit my picture taking to some reasonable number.

Radar and Strider are really half-brothers. They have the same father, who is already 13-and-a-half years old. Radar's mother also happens to be his father's granddaughter. So you see, it's all complicated and very in-bred.

"I Can't Sit Quite Right Yet."

不能免俗

上个月看了两部国产大片，觉得其中一部实在是让我失望，于是写了这个破玩意。没想到99.9%的观众看完了和我有同感。以后是万万不能再上这种自吹自擂的宣传的当了。

原本以为事情就已过去了，没想到陈导要告胡戈和《馒头血案》。这下可让我笑坏了！以前我还不知道有这么一出《馒头》呢。上星期天在家当了半小时才看了一半《馒头》，就笑得我前仰后合。这《馒头》的娱乐功能可不能小看啊！我都不再去抱怨看大片而浪费的时间了，只是觉得这大导演这么会这么的心胸狭窄呢？莫非是江郎才尽了吧？

现在我忽然觉得我很可怜陈导了！因为舆论压根就在他的对立面。失了人心，难道这不是最可怜的吗？

Puppy Ruby

Ruby is a 9-week-old Shih Tzu. She weights about 4 pounds. She's a cute puffy ball.


Ruby is in the backyard with her toys.


Ruby with sister Pico, a 4-year-old border terrier.


Pico likes to sit on people's laps. She's a lap dog anyway. She weights 18 pounds.


Ruby looks out from behind H's leg.

今日晚餐

今天下了一天雪，出不了门就在家待了一天。发现我好像除了写博客就是做吃的。今天是元宵节，所以早上起来就煮了元宵吃。然后蒸了糯米做酒酿。中午做了水煮鱼。晚上就想包饺子。我给自己提了严要求，今个儿要自己杆皮儿！说干就干。我活了面，醒了两小时，杆成了薄薄的皮儿。我努力杆得比较圆，还向妈妈喜欢的“中间厚边上薄”的方向迈进。



馅儿呢，就做的是荠菜猪肉馅。我本着平均分配的原则，完成了48只饺子，皮和馅正好都用完。


我把饺子排成一圈，就像山东老家一样。


吃起来倍儿香！

从开始杆皮儿到吃完共花了一个半小时，还须努力提高效率！

好了，现在得去挖车了。

This Winter

This season has been quite mild since the beginning. The jet stream mainly stayed in Canada and the warm air from the south made the past January the 4^th warmest in New England since weather records were kept some 130 years ago. Of course this is nothing to complain, and I really enjoyed days with temperature in the 50s. I only hope that this post is not going to jinx our luck for a nice winter.

This is in my front yard on Jan. 21. Hyacinths and daffodils sensed spring. They couldn’t wait till April.

Inside, this plant bloomed for the first time (since I knew it).

Only two days later that Monday, I woke up to six inches of snow. It took me 30 minutes to shovel my car, and I barely got out my parking spot after the tires lost grip for a minute or two. It was 11am already and roads had not been plowed yet. The city was not prepared for the storm at all. It was really hard to drive. On my commute I saw one car accident (collision), two trucks got stuck on the low-clearance Storrow Drive (this happens a lot! Drivers just don’t pay attention to traffic signs). I only felt lucky when I arrived at my destination without any mishap.

After another stretch of warm days and a colder week, we are now in winter again. Last night all the roads were spayed with salt, and plows were mobilized. A foot of snow was predicted for today with blizzard conditions. It seems a perfect day to stay home.

This city emergency worker came around my neighborhood every 10 minutes to plow the road.

I am not looking forward to the shoveling I have to do tonight when the snow ends. One thing I am sure about is that I will have a good workout from that.

水煮鱼

今天大雪封门。待在家里终于有机会做了水煮鱼。味道还不错，只是不够辣，可麻味却正好，多谢萍从成都背回来的汉源花椒。这只大碗是我的最大的碗，是詹尼亲手做了送给我的礼物，直径一英尺吧。我是什么时候都做不了这么大的陶器，技术不对，纵使手臂再粗三圈也不成。

My Dashboard and Solved SuDoku

Useful widgets: Genetic Code, Amino Acid Table, Entrez Search, Translator, Calculator, Elements Table, Weather, Radar In Motion, Calendar, Word of the Day, World View, Green Thumbs, Gmail Notifier, and SuDoku.

I solved Daily SuDoku of 1/8/2006. It was a little hard. I did it in just under 16 minutes.

小花两朵

还被虫子咬了许多洞。

Old Silver Beach, May 2005

At a winter night like this, I remember a Spring day on Cape Cod.