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Posted on 5 May '12 by S.C., under Travels. No Comments.
Reading Pirate Latitude
The reading of Mr. Crichton’s work is always a pleasant journey filled with intensity and surprise along the way, and it is the same as always for the reading of PL, the work based on recovery of scripts post Mr. Crichton’s mortality in Nov. 2008.
One of the best part of Mr. Crichton’s works, unanimously since the very beginning of his published work with the “Case of Need”, was the use and selection of vocabularies. Always ample with conversation and physical movement, Michael’s works had always presented his peculiar sense towards the word usages in particularly with verb. This tradition had been carried on within PL, in which Captain Hunter, his crew on board of the Cassandra and fellow protagonists continued their adventures in the colonized territory of Jamaica back in the 17th century.
Frankly, the story line could barely be called novelty as PL is the story developed in the New World 400 years before, which no doubt reminds the readers with Jack Sparrow and his related crews. Convincible, Mister Crichton must been aware of the this coincidence while he worked on PL, and therefore, there is a captain totally different than Sparrow surfaced in our minds. Well educated but brave, crafty but never lose his sense of justice, Charles Hunter gave the reader another type of choice for a English Captain living the New World in the mid 17th century.
One other feature that commonly notice by readers is the ending of PL, which wrap-up in a state of haste. Unlike many of his previous stories, which always had the incidents developed gradually and background information fully interpreted, PL and some of her passages came to an end in almost unexpected way. Like in the final part when Commander Scott was unhorsed and suffocate to death, the entire movement took only about 10 lines, which was way oversimplified for a common reader.
Overall speaking, if you are a fan of MC, PL is not the one to disappoint you. As a work MC has planned and anticipated to work on for over 15 years, PL is another splendid story with his hallmark printed on.
Posted on 3 May '12 by S.C., under 观影、读书. No Comments.
The Rise of the Planet Apes
传统的故事情节：反抗与斗争。不同的是主人公不是人，不是外星人，是人的祖先。
故事情节让我想起了Michael Crichton的NEXT。而中间特效、特写则是King Kong，侏罗纪公园以及阿凡达的整合。
演员方面，James Franco不容易，当年挑战蜘蛛人，如今又要和小金刚演对手戏。
最后一点，去影院看任何电影，远离成对儿的中老年妇女！
晚安~
Posted on 8 November '11 by S.C., under 观影、读书. No Comments.
Living in the “Age of Interruption”
If you use a CMCC Go tone number, if you hook your email account with third party email client soft such as MS Outlook or Thunderbird, or if you working a white collar job and sitting in a cubicle on a one corner in the office and have one extension line assigned, then you cannot agree for more with Linda Stone and Tom Friedman about the fact that we all living in the “Age of Interruptions”. (more…)
Posted on 3 November '11 by S.C., under 那些不相关的Essays. No Comments.
关于工作这件事
昨日@查小倩又来咨询申请的事情，说起了毕业后找工作的问题。起初小查还准备申请下芬兰的一个学校，考虑到毕业就业的因素，最后还是放弃了。
现在的很多学生，还是和20年前一样，到了毕业的时候，期望着大公司的HR到学校来参加招聘会，能够进到大公司一步步爬梯子。但是， (more…)
Posted on 12 October '11 by S.C., under 职业发展与规划. No Comments.