what do I feel?
empty and cold
why am I not wailing with grief or choking back tears?
freak
About Me
- 雷雅穎
- I would rather go on wanting you and never have you.. than have you, and lose you... and spend the rest of my life wanting what I lost..
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Sunday, January 20, 2013
A story that deserves a second and third chance
What is beauty? Is it a measurable fact (Gottfried Leibniz), or
merely an opinion (David Hume), or is it a little of each, colored by
the immediate state of mind of the observer (Immanuel Kant)?
This is a real story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of an social experiment about perception, taste and priorities of people. The outlines were: in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context?
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/15/the-things-we-miss-a-viol_n_158188.html
This is a real story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of an social experiment about perception, taste and priorities of people. The outlines were: in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context?
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/15/the-things-we-miss-a-viol_n_158188.html
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
opportunities
It's better to face the facts now, though, rather than keep
holding out for something that will never happen and maybe miss something even
better because you weren't open to it.
Monday, November 28, 2011
7 Night Western Caribbean
Starting off from Miami, FL.
Next stop: Cozumel, Mexico
then off to Belize...
and then to visit Isla Roatan off the coast of Honduras
Last stop before home... Crand Cayman, Cayman Islands....
Monday, March 14, 2011
Me
My Personality
Neuroticism | 37 |
Extraversion | 25 |
Openness to Experience | 6 |
Agreeableness | 11 |
Conscientiousness | 22 |
| You rarely get angry and it takes a lot to make you angry, however you tend to lack energy and have difficult initiating activities. You tend to feel overwhelmed by, and therefore actively avoid, large crowds. You often need privacy and time for yourself. You tend not to express your emotions openly and are sometimes not even aware of your own feelings. You do not like to claim that you are better than other people, and generally shy from talking yourself up, however you believe that a certain amount of deception in social relationships is necessary. You are guarded in new relationships and less willing to openly reveal the whole truth about yourself. You are a reasonably organized person and like to have a certain amount of routine in your life. |
| Free Poll jewelry |
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Monday, August 9, 2010
What's My Money Error Worth?
A sheet of paper is fed into the press where it passes between the master plate cylinder and a hard, smooth impression cylinder under pressures reaching 15,000 psi (1,034 bar). The impression cylinder forces the paper into the fine, engraved lines of the printing plate to pick up the ink, leaving a raised image about 0.0008 in (0.02 mm) above the paper. This process is repeated at a rate of about 10,000 sheets per hour.
The printed sheets are then stacked on top of each other. The backs are printed with green ink first and are allowed to dry for 24-48 hours before the fronts are printed with black ink.
After the printing process, the stacks are cut into two stacks of 10,000 sheets and are visually examined for defects. Each sheet is fed into a letterpress which prints the colored Treasury seal and serial numbers on the face of the bills. Sixteen serial numbers are printed at the same time. The press then automatically advances the numbers before the next sheet of sixteen is printed. The numbers on any sheet are separated by 20,000 between adjacent bills. Thus, the bill in the upper left-hand corner of the first sheet would be serial number 0000001 and the one below it on the same sheet would be 0020001, and so on. On the second sheet, all the numbers would advance by one giving 0000002 in the upper left, 0020002 below it, etc. In this manner, when the sheets are cut into separate stacks, the bills within each stack will have sequential serial numbers.
The finished sheets are inspected with machine sensors, and any printing errors, folded paper, inclusion of foreign objects, or other defects are identified. Any bills which are found to be defective are marked for later removal. Such bills are replaced with star notes which are numbered in a different sequence and have a star printed after the serial number.
Collecting currency errors is one of the most interesting area of paper money collecting, a hobby that can be pursued as easily as looking in your wallet or receiving change from a transaction. Even a severe paper money error may sometimes circulate for years before a knowledgeable collector finds it.
Sources:
http://money.howstuffworks.com/question703.htm
http://www.coinsite.com/html/uscurrencyerrors.asp
The printed sheets are then stacked on top of each other. The backs are printed with green ink first and are allowed to dry for 24-48 hours before the fronts are printed with black ink.
After the printing process, the stacks are cut into two stacks of 10,000 sheets and are visually examined for defects. Each sheet is fed into a letterpress which prints the colored Treasury seal and serial numbers on the face of the bills. Sixteen serial numbers are printed at the same time. The press then automatically advances the numbers before the next sheet of sixteen is printed. The numbers on any sheet are separated by 20,000 between adjacent bills. Thus, the bill in the upper left-hand corner of the first sheet would be serial number 0000001 and the one below it on the same sheet would be 0020001, and so on. On the second sheet, all the numbers would advance by one giving 0000002 in the upper left, 0020002 below it, etc. In this manner, when the sheets are cut into separate stacks, the bills within each stack will have sequential serial numbers.
The finished sheets are inspected with machine sensors, and any printing errors, folded paper, inclusion of foreign objects, or other defects are identified. Any bills which are found to be defective are marked for later removal. Such bills are replaced with star notes which are numbered in a different sequence and have a star printed after the serial number.
Collecting currency errors is one of the most interesting area of paper money collecting, a hobby that can be pursued as easily as looking in your wallet or receiving change from a transaction. Even a severe paper money error may sometimes circulate for years before a knowledgeable collector finds it.
Sources:
http://money.howstuffworks.com/question703.htm
http://www.coinsite.com/html/uscurrencyerrors.asp
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