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Just saw these photos online. I am a big fan of nature photography. Really impressed by these photographs. I wonder how long all these photographers had been waiting before taking such amazing shots.

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My friend, Ken Lee, gave us a voucher for SF Helicopter Tour last year. We almost forgot about that and we finally took the tour in August. The whole tour last for 2 hours. We took the helicopter from Sausalito to San Francisco Airport. It was such a fun ride and really nice to see San Francisco from air.

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In its brief lifespan of only 13 days, Hurricane Ike wreaked great deal of havoc. Affecting several countries including Cuba, Haiti, and the United States, Ike is blamed for approximately 114 deaths (74 in Haiti alone), and damages that are still being tallied, with estimates topping $10 billion. Many shoreline communities of Galveston, Texas were wiped from the map by the winds, storm surge and the walls of debris pushed along by Ike - though Galveston was spared the level of disaster it suffered in 1900.

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I just finished reading a great book "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch and I highly recommend the book to everyone.

Randy Pausch was a Computer Science Professor at Carnegie Mellon with terminal pancreatic cancer. He gave a great lecture "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" on Sept 18, 2007,   which has attracted almost 7 million viewers on YouTube.

Quote from the book:

「這面牆，總是為了某個目的才在那邊的。」
「它逼我們證明，我們有多麼渴望，牆後面的寶藏！」
「這座牆其實不是拿來阻擋我們的，而是幫我們阻擋其他人的！」
「如果你用正確的方式過你的人生，你的夢想，自己會來找你。