2014年8月26日 星期二

0827 2014 三




Music and Mathematics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b5MM4x-3aQ

羅文森學長取得博士學位之後，投身企業界。退休之後，寫了7本的回憶錄。第2本《當機會被我遇見》(台北：健行，2009)，榮獲中山學術文化基金會文藝創作獎。我有幸事先拜讀他的數本"後傳" (即將出版)。關於東海的回憶 ，讀了之後，讓我感覺又活了一次；此書年底前出版：羅文森著《令人懷念的東海歲月與良師益友》台北：至潔出版社，2014。他寫的是1962-66在東海的一些故事，書中記三位歐洲耶穌會神父來台的教育功績，可以感受是很了不起的貢獻。

還有些很奇特的巧合，羅學長服務過的美國公司，竟然是建築的勝地之一：A Corporate Paean to Frank Lloyd Wright /S.C.Johnson(庄臣)公司守護建築大師賴特傑作/A Corporate Paean to Frank Lloyd Wright /S.C.Johns。




Robert Reich
9 分鐘前 · 
DEPARTMENT OF DETERIORATING CIVILITY. United Airlines flight 1462 from Newark to Denver was diverted Sunday because of two passengers fighting over legroom. Both were sitting in United’s Economy Plus section, which has 4 more inches of legroom than the rest of coach. The man was using a Knee Defender (a $21.95 gadget, banned by United and many other airlines, that attaches to a passenger’s tray table and prevents the person in front of them from reclining) to stop the woman seated in front of him from putting her seat back while he was on his laptop. The woman complained. When a flight attendant asked him to remove the device, he refused. The woman then stood, turned around, and threw a cup of water at him. Soon thereafter, the pilot diverted the flight to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, where the two were removed from the plane, and then continued on to Denver, where it arrived 1 hour 38 minutes late.
Who’s most at fault here? The man who wouldn’t remove his Knee Defender, the woman who threw the water at him, the pilot who inconvenienced every other passenger by diverting the plane to Chicago, United Airlines, which crams people into tiny seats with inadequate legroom, or our entire society that’s becoming less civil every minute?


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