我在上面三篇文章里，都吐槽了张大砖家，这里穿插个故事，当时有门课是去嘉道理農場，在很偏的山上，而且是封闭式，再者离港大很远。选课是先告诉砖家的，上课前也跟砖家讲，然后第一天上课了，人不在实验室，第二天砖家就来了下面这样的信：

Dear all,

I realize that I may have given you confusing signals, such as time spent at lab, progress report etc.

I have to admit that it is hard for me to phrase my words in response to your request for exemption. I may give you wrong signals at that moment. Yes, to emphasize that your significant work is more important, I may say “the total time spent at lab is flexible”. How flexible?

Here is the clarification for these issues:

  1.   Weekly lab meeting with reasonable progress is a mandatory for everyone, only extreme scenarios  can be exempted. Finish the assignment I mentioned if any.

  2.   Daily chat for your project progress is essential. I am not asking you to come lab before 9AM, but your presence at lab will be noticed, particularly before your first significant paper (IF>8, note: small papers not counted as they are not strong enough to justify).

I am not asking you to work at here from 10AM to 1AM, like what I did. But I do consider this factor when I write your bi-annual report to graduate school.

白天上课，晚上也要滚回去陪聊天！我当然第二天还是在上课，当我晚上看到邮件的时候，砖家已经等不及，连着两三封标题写着urgent的邮件向我扔来。

回到正题，假期如何假装自己在干活？当年砖家跟我说，他没事就挂个top命令，看CPU有没有被占满，服务器没被填满，就要找我。我必须时刻在跑程序。那我只能也时刻挂个top在看服务器了，假装自己很忙。这个时候我需要的是手机版的ssh client，随时随地可以远程控制服务器。比如像现在国庆这种日子，如果你需要假装在工作，神器必须握在手里。这张照片就是当年拍的，我已经换了四五部手机了。

这种神器现在偶尔还是会用到，有时候在外出的时候，想修改点代码，提交任务，或者想看程序进度，还是蛮方便的。