White Collar_Season 2

The last scene of season 1 was the explosion of the jet. Neal was sent back to prison for his attempt of fleeing. Peter got him out again. In this season, Peter's attitude toward Neal was different. Considering Neal's pain of losing his beloved girlfriend, Peter and Mozzie together prevented Neal from doing something stupid. They seemed fully trust each other after EP208. However, in the last 5 minutes of season 2, the trust was broken and left audiences with great curiosity about the coming season 3.



Interesting episodes:
EP201: Neal and Peter worked together on a bank robbery. They proved again that they are a great team.
EP203: Neal got copycats. He went to meet them, a professor who taught crimes and his several students, and worked together with them in order to catch them.
EP207: Neal and Peter together ran a prisoner's dilemma on a "put your C.I. to work" day.
EP208: Neal and Peter went undercover in a high-tech company.
EP209: Neal found Fowler was innocent. Mozzie cracked the code inside of the music box but soon got shot and the code was stolen.
EP210: Peter was framed for a crime he did not commit, and was suspended from the FBI. They organized a con to catch the real criminal.
EP211: A flashback episode to disclose how Neal became a con and how he was caught by Peter.
EP213: Neal was approached by an old friend of June's and he made Neal to think carefully about his future, being a con or being a man.

White Collar_Season 1

The main theme of season 1 is that Neal was looking after his missing girlfriend, Kate. Although Neal and Peter worked well on solving cases, their attitudes toward Kate were different. Neal was eager finding Kate but Peter kept implying Neal that he should let her go. Peter knew Neal was doing something behind him, and he haven't fully trusted Neal. He was always keeping an eye on Neal. The tension between them was sometimes high. However, Neal confessed that Peter was the only person he trusted. In the final episode, Peter tried to stop Neal fleeing with Kate. When Neal was hesitating, the jet exploded and Kate was killed.



Episodes I think are good:
EP101: the pilot episode. The two main characters well showed their personal characteristics and you could tell they would definitely be good partners.
EP107: Neal was accused to be a thief. He handsomely escaped when going to court. He and Peter worked together to prove his innocence.
EP108: Neal and Peter went undercover investigating a corrupting Wall-Street brokerage firm. How good Neal was at convincing people is amazing.
EP113: Neal was forced to join a crime planned by an old 'friend'. Once again Neal showed his convincing and acting skills.
EP114: In order to save Kate, Neal cooperated with Mozzie and Alex to steal the music box. The process of stealing is exciting. Neal faced an important decision: to flee with Kate or stay in NY with a real life. Before he made a decision, the jet where Kate was exploded. Puzzles remained unanswered.

White Collar 妙警賊探

After finishing the three episodes of SHERLOCK, I finally found something worth watching--White Collar. I haven't watched American TV series for many years, recent hot series, such as CSI, Sex and the city, and LOST, are not my area. White Collar is about an FBI agent and an ex-con man working together to solve crime cases. Sound familiar, right? Indeed, the set up is very similar to the movie'catch me if you can'. However, unlike the movie is about hiding and chasing. The series focuses on what happened when they work together. It was humorous and interesting.

The two leading role: Neal Caffrey and Peter Burke.

Neal was a con man, forger and thief. He is young, smart, and charming(Matt Bomer looks hot in suits). After the three-year game of cat and mouse, he was caught by the FBI agent, Peter Burke, who is specialized in white collar crimes. Three months before being free, Neal escaped from the prison for his girlfriend, Kate. Peter, who knew Neal the best, caught him the second time. Neal proposed to help Peter as a consultant catching other criminals in exchange of some degree of freedom--2-mile radius walking range with an anklet monitoring his location 24/7. The unusual but successful partnership was formed.

Besides the two main characters, other supporting characters are good. Peter's wife, Elizabeth, is a clever and sweet woman. Mozzie, Neal's good friend and also a con man, is also a talented,knowledgeable, and interesting person. Diana, Lauren, and Jones are all capable FBI agents and they are also nice people. Alex, and Sara, two beautiful women who had affairs with Neal. Alex is a thief and a fence. Sara is an insurance investigator. NO stupid people, I like it.

I won't say every episode is good. But on average this series worth watching.
Especially for someone who like crime investigation but dislike cruel scenes and dead bodies.

Season 3 is coming back less than a month. Looking forward to it.

[Memo] 如何開啟多工緩衝處理器?

重新啟動列印多工緩衝處理器服務
以系統管理員身分登入，才能執行這些步驟。

1.開啟 [系統管理工具]，請依序按一下 [開始] 按鈕、[控制台]、[系統及維護] 及 [系統管理工具]。

2.按兩下 [服務]。 如果提示您輸入系統管理員密碼或確認，請輸入密碼或提供確認資訊。

3.在 [列印多工緩衝處理器] 服務上按一下滑鼠右鍵，再按 [內容]。

4.在 [一般] 索引標籤的 [啟動類型] 旁邊，確定已選取 [自動]。

Queen's Day

Today is Queen's birthday. It's an important holiday in Holland. People celebrate with parties and events. Wearing something orange is the way they show their passion.

However, I have to say that the festival is not that attractive in Rotterdam.
The street parade of their royal marine band may be the best program. Their performance is not bad.


They look good in uniform.





They look good in uniform.
Did you aware the small white bag? I doubt what it for.

The beginning of time, the beginning of the universe.

今天在網上看到Benedict Cumberbatch(就是咱們現代版的夏洛克)的粉絲PO了一張他飾演Stephen Hawking的劇照(這張是我截的)



讓我非常想看看他如何詮釋這位科學家
很幸運的 一部BBC六年前的電視電影 土豆上竟然有 再次體會對岸網友及字幕組的強大

這部戲所要闡述的一開始就宣告了:
This is a story of a research for the beginning of time.

劇情是兩條線
一條是1978年Nobel Prize頒獎典禮前 當年物理學獎得主Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson敘述他們1965年發現宇宙背景輻射的經過

另一條則是在大西洋另一端的英國 1964年 一個剛被診斷患有運動神經元疾病的年輕博士生Stephen Hawking 在劍橋大學研究宇宙學 在與病魔鬥爭和談戀愛的同時 思考宇宙的起源
學者好友Roger Penrose證明了singularities(奇異點)的存在給了他靈感
影片中說(Sorry, I am too far from physics. I do not completely understand it.I am not sure whether it is right or not)
愛因斯坦的廣義相對論預測了黑洞的存在 如果時間是倒退的 則塌陷就會變成-->爆炸, the big bang
質疑他的人說 如果大爆炸是對的 應該要能觀測到輻射殘留 That's why we have the other story line.

The beginning of time is the beginning of the universe.



因為我對這方面曾經有興趣 所以看起來復習一些已經忘了的知識 還挺不錯的
看著那些複雜的物裡算式 感嘆著這些已經離我很遙遠了

當Benedict說著一長串宇宙學的知識 我總會想到那號稱不知道地球繞太陽轉的Holmes
兩個角色在說到自己的本行時眉飛色舞 笑的時候都很燦爛 這應該是演員的個人特質
我不知道Benedict詮釋的Hawking和真人相似度有多高 不過我想 要演出患病的樣子還有含糊的說話應該挺辛苦的 當然Prof. Hawking本人和病魔對抗這麼多年 更是值得尊敬

看完這部片突然很想念口齒清晰的Sherlock了

SHERLOCK_EP3 The Great Game

Ep3 非常精彩的90分鐘
可以獨立當一部電影來看
個人認為比很多電影精彩



這集的內容靈感來自不只一個故事:
布魯斯_杭亭頓計畫(The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans)
五個橘核(The Five Orange Pips)

一開始 Holmes在家快要發霉 無聊只好拿牆壁來練槍
Holmes說他看了Watson的blog: A study in pink (ep1)
Watson期待著他的回應
Holmes對Watson讚揚他推理能力驚人的同時又說他在某方面極度無知感到不太爽快
Holmes慷慨激昂的指著自己的腦袋"This is my hard drive. I only put things useful. REALLY useful."
對Holmes而言 地球繞太陽轉或繞月亮轉是沒有差的 (這段對話脫胎自原著)
Watson覺得話不投機 出門找女友去了

知道對街爆炸後 Watson趕回來
Sherlock的老哥也在
交給他一個案子 調查國家機密文件的流向 保管者已被發現死亡
Sherlock興趣缺缺

這時警方從爆炸現場的保險箱找到一封給Holmes的信
裡頭有和"A study in pink"案件相同的手機
手機留言是5聲格林威治報時的響聲(Greenwich Pips,向5 Orange pips致敬)和一張照片
根據照片 找到要破解的謎 解開謎題 救出人質
前兩次都很順利
第三次 雖然破了案 但人質卻因為形容了兇手的模樣被殺 導致炸彈爆炸
兩人在討論凶手
Watson疑惑凶手的動機
Holmes認為兇手和他一樣 只是因為無聊
Watson很不能接受他們這種視生命如草介的價值觀
此時Holmes說的話 非常明白的闡述了他的想法: Don't make people into heroes, John. Heroes don't exist, and if they did, I wouldn't be one of them.

第四輪解的是踢爆Vermeer的偽畫 關鍵是一顆在Vermeer時代還不存在的新星 所以Holmes還是有天文知識的
四輪過後 老哥交代的案子也破了
無聊至極的Holmes邊看肥皂劇邊受不了無腦的劇情
Watson則在一旁用兩指神功寫他的blog
Watson出門約會之後
Holmes約凶手在泳池見面交換文件 這就是最後一輪

Holmes來到泳池赴約時
Watson的出現絕對在他的意料之外
而Watson也對不能去約會加身上綁炸藥不太爽
此時Big Boss--Moriarty現身
原來是之前見過的Gay

這個Moriarty讓我挺失望的
他就是一個瘋子 神經兮兮
但我從原著得到的印象是
他和Holmes本質是非常相像的
只是一個是光 另一個是黑暗 一個破解犯罪 另一個製造犯罪
他在19世紀是一個紳士
在21世紀應該也是一個舉止高雅的冷酷智慧型罪犯
而不是一個純粹是因為得不到"心上人"關注而發瘋的傢伙
我可以接受Moriarty對Holmes有異樣感情的設定
畢竟他們本質是如此的相似
但絕對不會是這麼外放的"求愛"
這是我對這個Series覺得失望的地方

忽略掉最後那幾分鐘的瘋子
整部片還是非常非常好看的
讓我熱血沸騰啊
I love Sherlock!