Make Shower Great Again

I could not refrain from posting my tech note of shower reconstruction on the SLAC meeting agenda with the title "Make shower great again."

My colleague Tracy Usher concluded my shower reconstruction and the following neutral pion mass reconstruction as follows,
"60 years after the neutral pion discovery, we now measured its mass!"
XDDD

My Next Job?!

I met a senior Asian guy while pumping my bike in front of the public library. (The pumping area becomes the only place I could talk to locals.)

"Do you speak Korean?" He asked.
"No, I'm from Taiwan." I replied.
(I guess I'm getting fat recently and having a Korean-style face... :S)
"Are you a student?"
"No, I'm a postdoc researcher."
(yay! that means I look young! :D)

We chatted a bit more, and finally he asked,
"Are you going to stay in this area after school?"
"It depends on where my next job is...."
"You have a female president; four years afterwards it will be your job!"

OK, I'm preparing my CV and reference letters.....XDDDD

Make Taiwan Great Again.

Make Filter Great Again

Conversations between my colleague Michael Mooney and me have become --

Me: Hey!
Me: you are not in your best office.
Me: nor the best meeting
Mooney: i'm in the best meeting
Mooney: making meetings best again
Me: Yes you can.
Mooney: yes *we* can, YTT.
....
Mooney: after this meeting we should talk
Mooney: about Big Plans
Me: yes!
Me: building a wall?
Mooney: listen, we are going to build a wall, so high
Mooney: that calorimetric measurements will pay for it themselves.
Me: between signals and noise?
Mooney: exactly
Mooney: the noise is getting into our country
Mooney: its bringing drugs,
Mooney: molesting signals,
Mooney: and we are just not gonna do that anymore
....
Mooney: let me get for you some amazing FHICL file parameters
Me: terrific
Me: make filter great again

Features in PUBS

What are the features in PUBS that people using PUBS really like?

On behalf of the scientific computing division, Kirby was polling us. PUBS stands for Python/php/PostgreSQL UBooNE Software; it is a data processing software framework designed by drinking Kazu, and each step of data processing is defined by a project.

Below is my reply,

The current PUBS, and it is really great PUBS, it really is. It relies on projects -- and we have the best projects, you know, we use the best projects in our PUBS.  It really is quite amazing just how great the project is, but I'm not really, in fact -- it is a project. A really good one and I've talked to people and, lots of people actually, and they all think what I said. It has a lot of appeal. It's really just all there and what it is. If people, you know, losers and whatever, if they don't get it, then what are you going to do? It's not like the idea isn't there and that, you know, it's what it is. I have to shake my head. Everyone is just shaking their heads. It really is.

Multi Faith Church

Our GPS card on the DAQ machine had been on the freewheel mode for a month. Today Eric Church swapped the spare card with a fix to the production machine.
Eric: thank jehova
Eric: well, we havent cut over to the run config that's actually using the GPS yet, but okay
Eric: Ra, Yahweh, ....
Me: are you religious today?
Eric: whatever it takes. add yer Eastern gods there. Sorry if I was ethnocentric
Me: not sure if your God would be offended since it’s his territory ;)
Eric: I am equally invested in all of ‘em
Me: 南無阿彌陀佛
Kazu: did someone die?
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When I told Gianluca the story tonight, he commented:
You have a multi faith church.

DAQ Audible Alarms for April 1st

I prepared special DAQ audible alarms for today --

1. when a run crashes without knowing what next run is:
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert DAQ



2. when there are three runs crashing in a row within 10 minutes:
Yeah, let it be, let it be
Let it be, yeah, let it be
There will be an error, let it be



...and surprised the day shifters, Leon and Mary, and the evening shifter, Ben Carls.

Thanks Michael Mooney, who will be the "executive committee member of 24-7-on-call Data Taking Trouble Shooting Task Force" of MooneyBooNE until his grave with our fully support, for suggestions, Matt Bass for skyping me so that I could see people's reaction, and Kazuhiro Terao for a great proposal and a lot of fun!

高陽的曹雪芹系列

高陽到底是在有名什麼啊？我快速翻完了「曹雪芹別傳」、「三春爭及初春景」及「大野龍蛇」，連同之前看完的「茂陵春」「秣陵秋」「五陵遊」「延陵劍」，算是把曹雪芹系列看完了，不過整個系列應該他喵的改名叫「繡春系列」，因為主角根本就是繡春嘛！

繡春是誰？她是震二奶奶（曹震之妻，也就是紅樓夢裡的鳳姐）的丫鬟，在本系列中主角威能大開花見花開人見人愛——
- 主子的老公曹震：有一腿不過最後墮胎，十多年後相見又繼續死纏爛打
- 主子的老公的表叔李鼎的遠房兄弟李紳：李紳最後被別人仙人跳所以沒在一起
- 哥哥的把兄弟馮大瑞：本來要提親了不過身在漕幫的馮大瑞此時捲入漕幫謀反案被充軍
- 曹雪芹本人，也是故主子的老公的堂弟：睡在一起上下其手不過緊急煞車
- 故主子的老公的表叔李鼎，也是故主子的......姘頭：疑似在一起不過沒有直接證實

除了異性愛慕者外，曹雪芹的媽馬夫人也處處關心，連繡春因情傷出家都一直拼命勸她還俗......更別說其他幾個本來就跟她有交情的大丫頭秋月、錦兒、夏雲了。

劇情根本是鄉土劇等級，我邊看邊吐槽，看完了之後差點砸螢幕。我覺得看高陽小說的樂趣是他的文筆還不錯，然後就是邏輯與批判力測驗了。我認為最大的問題有二：

一、人物的言行舉止和角色設定不合。我壓根不覺得曹家的大丫頭會如此舉足輕重。固然曹家的主子們會有倚仗的左右手，不過一朝天子一朝臣，服侍曹老太太（賈母）的秋月（鴛鴦）在曹老太太歸西之後仍舊在曹家有重要地位還滿不合理的。繡春則在出家前根本沒幫震二奶奶（鳳姐）處理什麼家務，出家後卻突然變成馬夫人（王夫人）不可或缺的左右手，一整個莫名其妙。身為全家地位最高的女主人，馬夫人似乎沒有自己的人馬，只能倚重秋月和繡春，二十幾年了還是只有秋月，根本不合理。書中還寫到馬夫人和家中女人們因為顧慮到曹雪芹的妾杏香，而沒有積極幫曹雪芹娶妻。這是啥邏輯啊啊啊？！！到了二十一世紀女性地位大大提升的今天，我自己都沒覺得受到這麼多關心了，怎麼可能在十八世紀大家族的女人會這麼體諒一個妾（在當時根本不算人）啊？！！

二、人物完全沒有吸引力可言。我覺得高陽根本是人物魅力殺手啊！紅樓夢中每個人都有每個人的優缺點，優點多的人總有幾個令人皺眉的缺點，缺點多的人也有可愛的地方，所以讀者不太會完全討厭或是喜歡一個角色，也因此每個角色都很立體很真實。高陽小說裡的震二奶奶、春雨、小蓮分別對應到紅樓夢中的鳳姐、襲人、晴雯，可是高陽的角色完全沒有原來的優點，而原來的缺點放大一百倍，以至於我覺得這三個角色都相當討厭。「主角」繡春根本是個瑪麗蘇，完全不知道其他角色是愛她哪一點，然後理論上的主角曹雪芹，是個膽小的色鬼，一天到晚色授魂與又不敢真的吃下去，婆婆媽媽的超煩的。賈寶玉雖然也是意淫，也是有點婆媽，但是相比之下寶玉有靈性多了，比高陽筆下的曹雪芹可愛一萬倍。然後高陽寫了這麼十本書，書中的曹雪芹根本還沒開始動筆寫紅樓夢啊啊啊！連準備取材都還沒開始是怎樣？！

傳說中看高陽小說可以學習很多人情世故，我真的完全無法認同。通篇我只看到每個角色絞盡腦汁把溝通弄得複雜無比，比賽誰可以把話講得比較漂亮，可是講出來的話完全不合自己的身份，而另一方的反應也不合角色設定。所以說，別再相信沒有根據的說法了！