1016 There’s still no work for me
Our new hire from the university finally arrived at the head office.
I realized that Pikmin has wasted too much of my time, but I don’t know if I should uninstall it.
The boss always makes promises he can’t keep, which really frustrates me.
⚾ 10:50 Learned some facts about baseball
- BB（Base on Balls）: 四坏球保送，打者不挥棒直接上一垒。
- Bullpen（牛棚）: 1. 球场外野角落后援投手热身区；2. 引申为“整支后援投手军团”。
- CG（Complete Game）: 完投，同一名投手从第一局投到比赛结束。
- Chase%: 追打率，打者对坏球挥棒的比率，越低代表选球越稳。
- Closer（终结者）: 第 9 局负责守领先、抢“救援点”的投手。
- Designated Hitter（DH）: 指定打击，只打击不防守，目前国联与美联皆已采用。
- ERA（Earned Run Average）: 自责分率，投手每 9 局平均自责分，越低越佳。
- Hold（HLD）: 中继成功，后援投手在领先时上场、退场时仍领先且完成至少 1 出局。
- IBB（Intentional Base on Balls）: 故意四坏，捕手站立比手势直接送打者上一垒。
- K（Strikeout）: 三振，投手让打者累计 3 次好球出局。
- Long Relief: 长中继，吃 3-4 局、救火型后援投手。
- OPS+: 标准化攻击指数，100 为联盟平均，>100 优于平均。
- Perfect Game: 完全比赛，27 上 27 下无人上垒，比无安打更稀有。
- PH（Pinch Hitter）: 代打，比赛后半段换打者上场替换投手或弱棒。
- Roster: 大名单，MLB 现役 26 人（9 月可扩到 28 人）。
- Save（SV）: 救援点，终结者符合条件关门成功即获得。
- Setup Man: 布局投手，通常负责第 8 局把比赛交给终结者。
- Shutout（SHO）: 完封，单场 0 失分（自责与非自责都算）。
- Strike%: 好球率，投手投进好球带的比率。
- TJ（Tommy John）: 尺骨附属韧带重建手术，投手常见大伤。
- Walk（保送）: 同 BB，四坏球保送。
- Walk-off: 再见胜利，主队最后一击直接结束比赛。
- WAR（Wins Above Replacement）: 胜利贡献值，衡量球员比“替身级”球员多帮球队赢几场。
- WHIP: 每局上垒人数，（安打+保送）÷投球局数，越低越好。
- Win（胜投）: 投手退场时球队领先并保持到终场，即记 1 胜。
- Winning Percentage: 胜率，胜场 ÷（胜+败）。
📖 11:30 Started reading Four Thousand Weeks
Notes:
This is why boredom can feel so surprisingly, aggressively unpleasant: we tend to think of it merely as a matter of not being particularly interested in whatever it is we’re doing, but in fact it’s an intense reaction to the deeply uncomfortable experience of confronting your limited control.
It’s true that killing time on the internet often doesn’t feel especially fun, these days. But it doesn’t need to feel fun. In order to dull the pain of finitude, it just needs to make you feel unconstrained.
What we think of as ‘distractions’ aren’t the ultimate cause of our being distracted. They’re just the places we go to seek relief from the discomfort of confronting limitation.
Some Zen Buddhists hold that the entirety of human suffering can be boiled down to this effort to resist paying full attention to the way things are going, because we wish they were going differently (‘This shouldn’t be happening!’), or because we wish we felt more in control of the process.
👧 My junior colleague definitely made the day drag.
📖 15:50 Finished reading Part Ⅰ
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