白玉蘿蔔第一章

正欣喜白玉蘿蔔幼苗已破殼而出，蟲蟲危機卻也開使蘊釀！

Pedal power 腳踏發電

Bicycle lights powered absolutely by pedals.
完全靠腳踏發電的腳踏車燈.

Lumotec IQ Cyo- street ride(2) 花鼓發電腳踏車燈街騎

平均車速約22km/h.
甚至比機車燈還要亮!
Average riding speed about 22km/h.
Even brighter than some motorcycles' light!

Lumotec IQ Cyo- street ride 花鼓發電腳踏車燈街騎

Due to exposure capability only the brightest area is exposed, actual visible area is larger and longer than this clip revealed. Speed is lower than 13km/h,achieves no more than 80% of its highest brightness.

由於曝光能力限制只有最亮區域感光,實際可視區域比短片顯示的來得寬且深;時速低於13公里,亮度最高只達80%.

腳踏車重量的迷思

英國一所醫院的麻醉顧問師Jeremy Groves自稱很喜歡騎腳踏車,也以腳踏車做為上下班的交通工具,他發現花大筆錢購買通勤用的腳踏車,未必能讓人更快抵達工作場所.


他花了一千英磅買了一部輕量碳纖維車架腳踏車,為了瞭解這部新腳踏車是不是比他原來以50英磅買來的二手鋼管車快,他做了為期六個月的實驗.

這六個月裡,他每天出門前會先丟擲銅板來決定騎哪一台車去醫院上班,並且記錄騎乘時間.

他發現在他往返共27英哩的通勤騎乘上,騎這二部車所花的時間並沒有明顯的差異,騎較重二手車平均花費1小時47分,騎較輕的新車是1小時48分.

他說車手減重比腳踏車減重更有益處而且成本更低,他對於買了這輛新車感到有些後悔,認為或許應該運用那些錢來填置較好的車衣,和較耐用的車燈!

他的實驗結果發表於英國醫學期刊.

~以上摘譯自2010/12 BBC新聞


難怪我越來越喜歡騎學生款登山車!物理定律是破不了的,重量輕起步快,重量高滑行遠,公平!

順暢就好!

To My Little Niece 致小甥女

You came to this world and then left without hesitate, like a comet thrashing past the night sky, drawing a sudden end to your many year's dramatic life story, dashing our hopes that one day you will find out what life really means and lead a responsible life as we all expect.

During the past two years, it seemed you have found the center of your life, concentrating on something that manifests good human nature.

We just began to feel released and hoped that would last long.

But, all of a sudden the magic curse that usually engulfed you haunted again, took away our temporarily gained relaxation.

In a swoop of that devil and an accompanying heart attack everything ground to a halt, crashing all our long hopeful expectations.

We have always believed that the path you experienced in search of your life value is irrelevant to our hopes of finally realized that you have found something valuable and stick to it.

Now those hopes has become hollow echoes in the air!

But, I would rather pretend that you are taking a long long trip to pursuit your personal goal, to find out what is really meaningful, to fulfill our expectations, than to bid farewell to you!

I still hope that would come true!

Farewell to My Father-in-Law

My father-in-law, Young Suei Sheng, passed away at midnight, Jan. 16, 2010, aged 88.

He is a typical Taiwanese farmer, sincere, kind, and hardworking. He leads a simple lifestyle all his life. The only luxury he has ever enjoyed is his own family.

After suffering a hip fracture his physical ability rapidly declined. Months later deteriorated health finally brought an end to his life. The hardest part is he was conscious of his gradually losing control over his fading physical functions.

To me, his common quality really showed what is uncommon!

January 24, 2010

I’m not a plumber 我不是水電工

Unpredictable showers fill the day, some pipe leakage also happened in my house.

I replaced two dripping faucets, fixed one broken hot water pipe joint, replaced one bathroom light tube, and attached two pieces of insect-preventing plastic straps to the bottom of door.

Besides, I also made a little bicycle brake adjustments, and wiped my car, those are my routine weekend jobs, although it’s still raining.

At night I opened my notebook computer, received email, read some news, and felt can not concentrate.

One of the precious weekend holidays has gone and I’m a little tired. I can’t help but to acknowledge I’m not a Taiwanese Plumber!

整天下著捉摸不定的陣雨,家裡也有些水管在漏水.

我更換了二個水龍頭,修理一個裂開的熱水管接頭,更換一支浴室的燈管,在門的底部貼了二條防蟲膠條.

此外,我也調整了一下腳踏車的煞車,把小汽車擦拭乾淨,雖然仍在下雨,這些週末例行工作還是得做.

晚上我打開筆記型電腦,接收電子郵件,看了幾則新聞,然後發現注意力無法集中.

寶貴週末假日的其中一天就此逝去,覺得有點疲倦,不得不承認我不是台灣水電工!