Wisdom I Pondered This Week
- “Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.” — Rabindranath Tagore
- “I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.” — Virginia Woolf
- “Soon is not as good as now.” — Seth Godin
- “If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.” — Muhammad Ali
- “Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works.” — Morgan Housel
Things I Learned This Week
- Skinny-dip
refers to the act of swimming without clothing, commonly known as nude swimming. - A “French exit” is the act of leaving a social gathering, like a party, without telling anyone or saying goodbye.
- 三角凡爾（Angle/Stop Valve）
，又稱「角閥」或「止水閥」，是一種安裝在牆面或櫃體內、用來控制水流與調整水壓的小型水路閥門。它的「三角」名稱來自結構中呈 90 度角的三個方向：牆面出水口（進水端）、向上或向外的出水口（出水端）、以及中間的控制閥芯（旋鈕或螺絲），形成穩定的三角形水路。三角凡爾能在維修或更換設備時「局部」關閉水源，避免關掉整棟建築的總水閥。它通常位於洗手台、馬桶或洗衣機等進水口的下方，安裝時建議纏上生料帶（PTFE Tape）以確保密封與耐用性。 - 無獨有偶：意思是萬事萬物皆有道理存在，而相似或相同的事物出現是順應自然發展的，並非事先有所安排。例句：「他發現了一個罕見的化石，無獨有偶，另一位科學家也在同一時期找到了同樣的化石。」
- 鳥居（とりい / Torii Gate） 是日本神社入口的傳統門型建築，象徵「人間世界」與「神聖領域」的界線。鳥居由兩根直立柱和兩根橫木組成，上橫木略彎，常見朱紅色搭配黑色。著名例子包括伏見稻荷大社的 千鳥居隧道
和嚴島神社的 海中鳥居 。