又錯過了

人在哪個圏子，便只接收到那個圏子的動靜。別的世界在做甚麼，這種消息要靠自己發揚，再努力也是難。早前報紙忽地幾塊角落都講崑曲，不為意這通常表示快有相關活動。到都明寫出來港大主辦《雅緻玲瓏–走進崑曲世界》，表演的入場券早派光了。類似的事情發生得太多，轉頭把它忘掉，然後等下次又錯過另一件事。

女神啊

晚上碰到我的女神！不單四目交投，更差點進同一部電梯！她和我都在等電梯，她就站在我身後，很近很近。只是她等了一會便轉到人羣的另一邊。鏡頭下見她總是包面，真人卻完全是瓜子臉。真人靚過上鏡！怎麼明星的頭都那麼小？

社會達爾文主義

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/28/us-education-election-obama-bush-mccain

From the beginning, Darwin's theory was mixed up in the US with the brutal philosophy - now known as social Darwinism

...suggested that millionaires stood at the top of a scala natura established by evolution. By preventing unfit people being weeded out, government intervention weakened the nation. Gross economic inequalities were both justifiable and necessary.

Darwinism, in other words, became indistinguishable from the most bestial form of laissez-faire economics. Many Christians responded with revulsion. It is profoundly ironic that the doctrine rejected a century ago by such prominent fundamentalists as William Jennings Bryan is now central to the economic thinking of the Christian right. Modern fundamentalists reject the science of Darwinian evolution and accept the pseudoscience of social Darwinism.

人在旅途如何收信？

讀人家的遊記，知道人家人在旅途，地址三兩天換一次，也有辦法收信。方法是叫人把信寄到他下個目的地的郵局，等他到達時取件。這服務要專講以年計算的長途旅行的書才有提及，叫「Poste Restante」，是法文。香港郵局也有提供。

量子電動力學

唸書時想唸而不敢報讀的課程，首推《量子電動力學》。《量子力學II》已經搞不通它在做甚麼，還要讀QED，不若送死。現在看來送不送死大概沒有甚麼關係，反正無論懂與不懂，如今都完全不懂了。如果有讀，至少一生中的某段時間曾經嘗試去了解某些事情啊。

剛讀完Feynman的《QED, The Strange Theory of Light and Matter》，得著是終於知道QED是關於甚麼東東的。