学签明天就要过期了，offer上周才拿到。工签的材料，周末刚刚开始弄。不知道这算不算是一次冒险。

记得有一些人曾经郑重地宣布：应该发明和能够发明的新东西我们都已经发明了。
那大概是在几十年前吧，是某个西方国家。
那时可能刚有的电灯，肯定没有电视机，至于“网络”更是遥远的仿佛宇宙。
好象我们，所有的星星都是和我们的国家大事息息相关的，至于需要谁相信，那是更深奥的事情了。
记得有个童话：天上的每一颗星星都是由地上的每一个人变成的，每一个人死去，天上就多一颗星星；每一个人降生，天生就少一颗星星......

资本主义的黄金时期随时都伴随着冒险精神。
我甚至相信，这种“全民”的冒险精神成就的他们。
无论是科学还是掠夺，
无疑都是需要冒险精神的。
并且也只有到外边去，
到没有到过的地方去，
才能看到不一样的东西。
无论是哲学和艺术，都需要新的东西。
当然，就像考古一样，可悲的是我们的地下拥有那么都我们不曾见过的东西。
当然，更多的原来我们自己的东西都丢失了，也许再也找不回来了。到也正常。

几十个日本人就可以占领一个中国的小城；
几百个西班牙人可以侵略并且统治一个国家。

曾经有人把我们耻辱的原因解释为我们的得天独厚，
我们的礼仪廉耻，到也说的通；
中国并不出产海盗，所以我们只有被掠夺和侵略；
那些曾经占领的海洋的国家，曾经是多么的辉煌和胜利；
而我们，放弃的海洋，是谁之过呢？明朝？还是康熙？没什么意义...

还记得那个“谁也不能相信”的小故事：
左手帮右手挠痒痒，右手想，挠得那么舒服，不知用心何在。
右手帮左手擦肥皂，左手想，搓得那么起劲，然后要干甚么？
两只手端一碗热汤，左手想，我得自己端住，别指望右手；右手也同样这么寻思。
结果，害得（他）多花了一倍的劲。

联想到自己三四岁时，爸爸给我上了一堂启蒙课：
我要喝水，爸爸给了一杯。我喝了一大口，结果烫得哭了起来。
爸爸说：谁让你不试试烫不烫，甚么都得自己试，谁也别信，爸爸也不能信。

记住，我们谁也不能相信，无论是关于外边的事情，还是我们自己的事情，妄图解放全人类或者乞求被解放，打倒帝国主义或者幻想清政廉明，等待房子降价或者憧憬婚姻制度的取消。

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深夜，好久没有在网上闲逛，很长的一段时间总是流连在有数的熟悉的网站，曾经度过了一个有一个温馨的夜晚。有时候我会觉得网络上有另一个我，似是而非、大相径庭；仿佛见到外边的世界。
当然，其中主要依靠的是图片。
我热爱图片，热爱那些和我们不一样的世界，还有那样的东西，还有人那样的生活。
我要感谢我的眼睛、感谢和网络相关的一切、感谢我的226BW显示器。

Canada Day (French: Fête du Canada) is Canada's national holiday, marking the establishment of Canada as a self-governing Dominion on July 1, 1867. It is a federal holiday generally celebrated on July 1, annually by all provincial governments and most businesses across the country.

A day off from work, Canada Day is often a time for outdoor activities in the early Canadian summer. It is also Canada's main patriotic holiday and often referred to as "Canada's birthday", particularly in the popular press.

Canada Day, often referred to as "Canada's birthday," particularly in the popular press, does not commemorate a clear-cut date of "independence" or "founding," but instead merely commemorates the begining of the establishment of the Canadian confederation through the 1867 British North America Act. The British Parliament still retained several political controls over Canada after 1867, and the country still lacked many of its modern provinces. July 1, 1867 represented the establishment of Canada as a kingdom in its own right, the begining of a new phase of Canadian self-soverignity and democracy, and was the beginning of the slow march towards full independence from Britain, attained with the proclamation of the Constitution Act by Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, in 1982.Canada Day marks the creation of Canada as a dominion through the British North America Act on July 1, 1867, uniting three British colonies—the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Canada. The three colonies united to form one country divided into four provinces. The Province of Canada became Ontario and Quebec.

A proclamation was issued by Governor General Lord Monck, on June 20, 1868, asking for "all Her Majesty's loving subjects throughout Canada to join in the celebration of the anniversary of the formation of the union of the British North America provinces in a federation under the name of Canada on July 1."

The holiday was formally established by statute in 1879, and was originally called Dominion Day, making reference to the term "dominion", which was first used to describe a political union within the British Empire for Canada as a former colony granted a large measure of self-government but still subject in some degree to British rule.

Dominion Day was not a particularly prominent holiday in its early inceptions; in the late 19th and early 20th many Canadians continued to think of themselves as primarily British, and were thus less interested in celebrating a distinctly "Canadian" form of patriotism. No official celebrations were held on July 1 from confederation until 1917, the golden anniversary of Confederation, and then none again until ten years later. This trend declined in the post-war era. Beginning in 1958, the Canadian government orchestrated Dominion Day celebrations, usually consisting of Trooping the Colours ceremonies on Parliament Hill in the afternoon and evening, followed by a mass band concert and fireworks display. Canada's centennial of July 1, 1967 is often seen as an important day in the history of Canadian patriotism, and Canada's maturity as a distinct, independent country. Post-1967, Dominion Day became far more popular with average Canadians. Into the late 1960s, nationally televised, multi-cultural concerts were added, and the fete became known as "Festival Canada." After 1980, the Canadian government began to promote the celebrating of Dominion Day beyond the national capital, giving grants and aid to cities across the country to help fund local activities.

The name was officially changed to Canada Day on October 27, 1982, largely harking back to the adoption of the earlier Canada Act 1982. However, many Canadians had already been informally referring to the holiday as "Canada Day" for a number of years before the official name change.

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