國際鬧鐘協會 ※ 台長 YV 努力為眾會員製造「其實你還沒畢業」的感覺 ※ 協會成立緣起:有一天,台長發現她的好朋友幾乎都是外硬內軟的超級大ㄋㄠ種（甚至外軟內軟的ㄋㄠ柿子）! 國際鬧鐘協會(International Coward Association) 於焉誕生!

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YV是YV認識的人裡頭最坐沒坐相、讀沒讀相的傢伙。而且也是全家唯一一個會躺在床上寫信、寫札記的人。簡單說，就是一個寫功高強的人物。尤其到了暑假，不管什麼書都是躺著比較好看：Anthony Storr 的《孤獨》、 William Blake 的詩選、妹尾河童的《窺看舞台》、《榮格傳》漫畫版、卡夫卡的《日記》、紀伯倫的《先知》……

聽說這是壞榜樣，媽媽不可以這樣當，可是我覺得壞榜樣也是一種教育，因為我們家都是小孩在「說」媽媽：「瑪媽又躺著保養眼睛啦？」他們可坐得很正呢！

今天去了一趟好市多，目的是吃『北海道超濃牛奶冰淇淋』。可是我怕陰中暑不敢吃。等小朋友吃冰淇淋多無聊！那就隨便逛逛吧！

走到樓上辦公室用品區。「咦！『床上型書桌』！」老椰子發現了以後就直接放進推車。

「這會兒妳有新玩具了！」

真的太棒了！可以調整閱讀角度，總共三段；兩邊還有書架；實心木頭，860
NT。不過放床上有點兒過份，病人還是老太婆才這麼用吧！放沙發上和地上就很棒啦！回到家趕緊把圍棋盤收起來，因為我有 portable desk，以後再也不必蜷著身子捧著圍棋盤寫字了！

打開箱子就先試一試！先來讀《接觸未來》好了。

She was working on the ruby maser. A ruby is made mainly of
alumina, which is almost perfectly transparent. The red color
derives from a small chromium impurity distributed through the
alumina crystal. When a strong magnetic field is impressed on the
ruby, the chromium atoms increase their energy or, as physicists
like to say, are raised to an excited state. She loved the image of
all the little chromium atoms called to feverish activity in each
amplifier, frenzied in a good practical cause—amplifying a weak
radio signal. The stronger the magnetic field, the more excited the
chromium atoms became. Thus the maser could be tuned so that it was
particularly sensitive to a selected radio frequency. She found a
way to make rubies with lanthanide impurities in addition to the
chromium atoms, so a maser could be tuned to a narrower frequency
range and could detect a much weaker signal than previous masers.
Her detector had to be immersed in liquid helium. She then
installed her new instrument on one of Cal Tech’s radio telescopes
in Owens Valley and detected, at entirely new frequencies, what
astronomers call the three-degree black-body background radiation--
the remnant in the radio spectrum of the immense explosion that
began this universe, the Big Bang. (Contact, p. 31)

「Maser 是什麼？」
「紅寶石為什麼適合發射？」
「為什麼要放在液態氮裡面？」
「為什麼是鉻原子？」
「黑體輻射是什麼？」
「怎麼推算當時是三度？」

聽完老椰子解釋，覺得讀書真好！
有隨身書桌更好！
有暑假可放果然棒得不得了！