Not only can I no longer find the directory where I stored it, but I’ve even forgotten the command I used to run it (Not only can I no longer find the directory where I stored it, but I’ve even forgotten the command I used to run it. I eventually found the solution in my ChatGPT history, but the experience made me reflect on the nature and fragility of memory. I remember doing it. I even wrote a blog post…
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冬夜在嘎嘎家， 3DMark 06 和罗马
今天在海弗利一家中餐馆吃饭时，突然想起了一幕场景。那是我高中时，大概是2009年或2010年左右，一个冬夜。那应该是寒假期间，我在外婆家——也就是我妈妈的妈妈家，我们用湖北方言叫她嘎嘎。
我当时正在用我爸爸在我奶奶的劝说下买的电脑玩（更准确地说，是“使用/运行”而非“玩”） 3DMark 06 演示版。
From 3DMark 06 to Rome: A Winter Night at Gaga’s House
Today, while dining at a Chinese restaurant in Heverlee, a scene suddenly came to mind. It was me in high school, probably around 2009 or 2010, on what I think might have been a winter night. It must have been a night during winter break at my grandma’s house, my mother’s mother, whom we call Gaga （嘎嘎） in the Hubei dialect.
I was on a computer that my dad had bought at the urging of my grandma, playing the 3DMark 06 demo.
Lunchtime Observations at Alma, KU Leuven: The Set Meal Rule
At the Alma 1 restaurant at KU Leuven, they clearly had chicken cutlets, but they absolutely refused to let you buy one separately, stipulating that you could only buy it as part of a set meal (5.6 euros for students).
If the set meal didn’t include the combination you wanted, and you just wanted to add something extra—for example, the set meal originally included a chicken cutlet, vegetables, and rice, but you only wanted the chicken cutlet—that was absolutely impossible there. You had to buy a whole set meal. But by then, I had already eaten lunch and couldn’t possibly eat a second one.