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    April 28

    A Few More Dollars

    电影A Few More Dollars的改编剧本。艾玛空间原创。
     
    小镇的酒馆生意欣荣,喝酒的,赌牌的,人声噪杂。里屋的牌桌旁坐了一圈人,其中一大汉背对着门口坐着,腰上别着明晃晃的左轮手枪。
    在这个剑拔弩张的地方,他显得非常的自信。
    他没有理由不自信,这个小镇上只有两种人--见他绕道走的人和死人。如果有人想在他背后捅刀子,那人一定是活得不耐烦了。
    也许还真有活得不耐烦的人。
    不知什么时候,酒馆的门口多了一个人。
    没有人看见他是什么时候出现的,只是忽然大家都感到了一股杀气。
    陌生人个子修长,披着件墨西哥斗蓬。左手露在外面,没有人看见他的右手。
    不知为什么酒馆里的人顿时安静了下来。就连里屋的大汉也似乎感到了什么。
    陌生人缓缓走到牌桌旁,用左手开始分牌。
    大汉慢慢搓开手里的牌,他笑了。三个king和一对,这的确是一副好牌:。
    大汉的笑容突然僵硬,他看到了陌生人摊开的牌,三个ace和对子。他输了。
    大汉似乎有点紧张,干咳一声道“不知道赌注是什么?”。
    陌生人道,“你的命”。
    大汉猛地站起身,就要作难。
    陌生人左手快似闪电,一拳将他打倒。
    大汉从地上爬起来。脸色发青。他发誓陌生人会死得很难看。
    他的同伙也出来了。三个人站成一排。
    酒馆里的人都笑了。大汉有一个外号叫快枪老五。而且现在他们是三只手,三把枪。
    只是大家还是没有看见陌生人的右手。
    但是,再快还能快的过三把枪?想到这,大家都很放心。
    酒馆里鸦雀无声。
    那三只手已经做好时刻拔枪的准备,手上的青筋微微抖动着。
    陌生人左手还是露在斗蓬外,异常的平静。
    是时候了,三只手同时去够腰上的枪。
    三声枪响,几乎同时发出。
    不用问,这响声一定来自大汉和他同伙的枪。陌生人果然死的很难看。大家都往地上找。
    他们错了,地上躺下了三位,站着的是陌生人。
    大家终于看见了他的右手,手里是一把左轮手枪。枪口还在冒着烟。
    陌生人熟练的把枪收进腰间的枪套。
    没有人看清他是什么时候出的右手,没有人可以形容他拔枪的速度。眼神好的只看到三人同时倒了下去。
    陌生人背着大汉的尸首缓缓的走出酒馆,扔上一辆马车,轻喝一声,马车一路尘烟的消失在小镇拐角。
    直到这时,酒馆里的人这才长出一口气。

    April 19

    Leo's Sansa MP3 Players Reviews

    Sansa e130 (e100 series): my first MP3 player, not in store any more, faily big (at that time) LCD screen with backlight, has a scrollbar and an expansion SD slot. I liked it a lot except a notorious bug where it only shows the first charater of the genre for .wma files. Unfortunately, this is not likely going to be fixed by Sandisk, as e100 series is becoming an obsolete model.

    Sansa m230 (m200 series): looks like e130, but does not have any scrollbars or expansion SD slots. The good thing about it is the big font size especially for Chinese characters.
     
    Sansa c140 (c100 series): the first color screen series of Sansa. Personally, I think it is a failure. Its output volume is limited, and cannot drive large headsets loudly enough. The worst part is the annoying high-pitch click sound that makes you jump. Yes, it is ridiculously loud and makes you feel getting electric shock sometimes. You hear the click sound when you turn the player on; you also get that sound in the recorded soundtracks. I guess somehow the mechanical noise gets into the built-in microphone and gets amplified.
     
    Sansa c240 (c200 series): best (in my opinion) series of Sansa audio-only player. Sleek design, and very usable. It gets rid of most annoying bugs of previous series. See my other post.
     
    Sansa e250 (e200 series): entry level Sansa video/audio player series. It has an interesting design of thumbwheel. I liked that. But the raised thumbwheel makes it harder to press the buttons around it at the same time. What annoyed me was that I had to use Sansa media converter to convert media files in order to be played on it. To make it worse, the player only supports portrait orientation of video. I could not fully use the already-limited screen size. I tried to rotate my video before going through the Sansa media converter, and the converter still could not manage to utilize the screen space. If you want a video player, you'd better go for Zune which has a large screen and rotate video automatically to fit the screen.
    April 12

    How to display Chinese on Sansa c240

    Sandisk Sansa C240 Portable MP3 PlayerI just bought a Sansa c240 mp3 player (one of the c200 series). It has slim outlook, color LCD screen, and easy navigation -- everything I like. The only problem I had with it was that it could not display Chinese. This is a big problem to me, as Chinese popular music is one of the two major genres that I listen to (the other genre is classical music). I almost thought of returning c240 and getting Sansa m200 series instead (which I know support Chinese characters). But I said to myself, wait, we are all gadget geeks, let's try to solve this problem first. I googled and did not find anything specific on this topic. There were only some discussions on how to solve similar problem on Sansa e200 series. It is all about the annoying region settings. Sansa mp3 players come with different region versions which support different languages. Why not just one version that supports all the languages? Anyway, my c240's version is 01.01.00P where "p" stands for pacific rims/asian. So, how come an asian version does not support Chinese? That's obviously a bug. I downloaded Sansa Firmware Upgrader hoping to find a upgrade that can solve this problem. Unfortunately, 01.01.00P was already the newest version of asian version. I attempted to upgrade to Japanese version, and was not allowed. Finally, just for luck, I upgraded the firmware to America version, and you know what? It has all the language support including Chinese, Japanese, and much more. That's weird. It looks a bug to me. But as long as it works, who cares if it is a bug? I am writing this down so that you know the drill.
    April 01

    唱卡拉OK是一种奢侈的幸福

    某旅美青年小提琴家说,听音乐是为了寻找鸡皮疙瘩,说白了就是寻找共鸣。鸡皮疙瘩,这看似一个夸张的吸引眼球的说法,但我对此很理解。被一首歌或是乐曲感动时,我会感到从脊背到脖子传来的凉意,一个冷战,然后从头顶散去。说不定仔细摸摸,还真起了鸡皮疙瘩。
     
    我喜欢唱歌,目的是要把自己感动。我常对老婆说,要想感动别人,先要打动自己。但不是所有的歌都可以,对我的杀伤力最大的是齐秦,黄品源和王杰的歌。现在的歌曲(比如周杰伦小朋友)很取巧,很小资,但是都不够纯情,打动不了我。对我来说,情歌是属于上一个年代的,时下没有情歌。在卡拉OK厅唱老歌,把自己打动,让自己身上泛起凉意,是一种奢侈的幸福。说它是奢侈,一是因为好歌太少,二是因为老歌不能天天唱,唱多了感觉就淡了。所以一年去两次卡拉OK为佳。
     
    弹吉他也行,和弦变换处,往往是鸡皮疙瘩泛起之时。可惜俺好久不弹了...