There is a 2 panel door between warehouse and engineers' office. It's been dysfunction-ed lately which cannot stay closed. I noticed the problem a while ago. I even fancied myself to find the solution for it. But I merely just looked at the latch bolt, strike, and lip. The latch bolt was very far away from both strike and lip. I kept looking at latch, strike, and lip without noticing other places. With that rate, I gave up easily. I can't think of a way to pull both doors closer so latch would touch strike.
Sofya asked me to ask Vic to fix the door a few weeks ago. I must have forgotten to tell Vic. Sofya asked me today again. So I bring Vic's attention to it since it's pretty light today. When Sofya was telling me about the door, she had an interesting observation, that the crack between two door panels were not even. It's closer on the top and further apart towards the bottom. Immediately I thought that must be because when I park the pallets along the wall, it's easy to push into the wall sometimes. And the door frame that attached to that side of the wall must moved by the impact. However, Sofya doubted it. Right now, I doubted it too. Because Vic and I dead bolted big wooden log along the wall to prevent the impact.
Anyway, Vic went and took a look as I was telling him Sofya's observation about the crack. He agreed with the observation. At the same time, kept looking at the door frame, and soon noticed a strike mark under one of the door panel. Something must have clicked in his head. He asked for the small piece of metal, which he found at a nearby table. Once he made sure it's a defected parts, he used that metal piece and put between one of the door panel near the bottom hinge against the frame, and jammed the door panel on the metal piece a few times. It's not a fast movement, more like a squeeze. After about three times, the doors latched on with each other. That was quite amazing to me. I even told Anne later.
A few things I noticed, one is that when I tried to find the problem, I did not notice the uneven crack. I merely looked at the most obvious problem, latch and strike. The other thing was that I also made a conclusion on why things what happened. Even now, I still don't know how this happened. But the problem was solved!
Most interesting. What can I learn from this? I like to gather a lot of data before I make a choice, especially when I buy things. But when facing a problem, I don't spend enough time to observe, or I just narrowed my attention to the most obvious problem, or the most shallow one. Then, finding a reason seemed to somehow satisfied me. It seemed that once I had a reason, I could ignore the problem?! lol!
Most interesting!
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Saturday, December 12, 2015
The Song of Wandering Aengus
The
Song of Wandering Aengus
William Butler Yeats
I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars were flickering out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
And caught a little silver trout.
When I had laid it on the floor
I went to blow the fire a-flame,
But something rustled on the floor,
And some one called me by my name:
It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.
Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.
William Butler Yeats
I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars were flickering out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
And caught a little silver trout.
When I had laid it on the floor
I went to blow the fire a-flame,
But something rustled on the floor,
And some one called me by my name:
It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.
Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.
Tuesday, December 01, 2015
CasinoRoyale
I rewatched Casino Royal.
I did not remember anything from that movie, until I saw a trailer showing the parkour chasing scene. I remembered that I liked it. So I decided to watched it again.
The chasing scene was still the best part of the movie. However, the dialogue was quite good too. But I really need to concentrate on it to get something out of it. Not only because of the accent, I think it's also because they way they speak. They seemed to always skip a step in the conversation. That's how smart people talk. That's how smart the screen writer was . Not a good thing to say, really, kind of reflected on me... lol
The story arch was kind too easy. I mean whenever the movies used secret organization story line, I felt cheated. That reminded me of 孫悟空和金角銀角的故事... Now, that story was funny as hell. But I thought 007 was quite serious, but by using that kind of scenario, and the series kept going on and on. It's just cheap.
As a stand alone movie though, Casino Royal was awesome. I like this actor better. I loved the scene where the agent woke up from the disaster, and was talking to the girl. When girl said something, the agent replied. Immediately, I could see him armored himself up with a smile. The girl pointed it out immediately. Then, the agent truly opened himself up. That was such a true moment. I think everything before was culminating towards that moment. Although the ending was messed up with secret society thing. That scene cannot be reduced by the ending.
I did not remember anything from that movie, until I saw a trailer showing the parkour chasing scene. I remembered that I liked it. So I decided to watched it again.
The chasing scene was still the best part of the movie. However, the dialogue was quite good too. But I really need to concentrate on it to get something out of it. Not only because of the accent, I think it's also because they way they speak. They seemed to always skip a step in the conversation. That's how smart people talk. That's how smart the screen writer was . Not a good thing to say, really, kind of reflected on me... lol
The story arch was kind too easy. I mean whenever the movies used secret organization story line, I felt cheated. That reminded me of 孫悟空和金角銀角的故事... Now, that story was funny as hell. But I thought 007 was quite serious, but by using that kind of scenario, and the series kept going on and on. It's just cheap.
As a stand alone movie though, Casino Royal was awesome. I like this actor better. I loved the scene where the agent woke up from the disaster, and was talking to the girl. When girl said something, the agent replied. Immediately, I could see him armored himself up with a smile. The girl pointed it out immediately. Then, the agent truly opened himself up. That was such a true moment. I think everything before was culminating towards that moment. Although the ending was messed up with secret society thing. That scene cannot be reduced by the ending.
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