Thailand, and its Phuket Island (布吉岛), often appear in Hong Kong movies.

"Sleep like a lion" means "sleep like a baby", I suppose.

G, r, i, t.

Grit.

Are you a stickler?

Why is dilly-dallying from time to time considered to be a luxury?

Are vernissages commercial arts?

Runaway grandpas.

"Kindergarten" is an English word directly borrowed from German.

It's reported that commercial spaceships have got full manifest.

What an era.

Wafers and waffles are different foods.

J's kept his eyes peeled for so long.

Rarely seen nowadays are carnations for fashionable gentlemen.

Thoughtful amenities make comfort.

But don't make people have the impression that your life goal is to pursue thoughtful amenities.

Ever since I made an interim switch to Firefox the other week, I miss my clean-cut Chrome browser.

There are two phases of cognitive natuaralization for a Chinese immigrant in Canada.

Phase 1: Finally he's come to realize that there are some certain crucial elephants in the room in the U.S. and Canada.

Phase 2: He's then come to terms with those elephants in the room.

Deluded long time ago, and then disillusioned many years later.

I think that off the charts is Americans' seemingly indoctrinated disrespect to old men, a.k.a. "old geezers", in the especially globetrotting American pop culture.

Many of those "old geezers" are wizards who are of old age. Old wizards, not old geezers, so to speak.

Better late than never, deluded combative and "sturdy pioneer women".

Casting political correctness aside, only fools amid men would love a woman who almost solely loves spreading her wings.

It's very commonplace nowadays that people keep holding out for many things in life.

A storage tote is different than a storage bin.

The former is a tote bag, while the latter is an enclosed box or can, if you will.

The web is never an innocuous or innocent place.

All in all, I'm in support of multi-process web browsers.

So I'm waiting for Firefox' catching up on that particular front.

What an Indian summer day today.

Is society a cooked up notion? Is Capitalism the only real institution?

How one answers those questions largely defines who he is.

In the film "American Beauty", Fitts' catatonic wife is surreally hollow.

Ah, and the red rose petals present are so memorable in the movie's scenes.

Montage - 元曲《天净沙·秋思》

作者：马致远（元）


枯藤老树昏鸦，小桥流水人家。

古道西风瘦马，夕阳西下，断肠人在天涯。


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What a montage.

The overflowing American media hash out everything.

But that doesn't make Americans well informed, I'm afraid.

Life is tough. Share and share alike.

Pseudo code, and virtual machine.

Hold on to your hat! I've switched my default web browser from Google Chrome to Firefox.

Geekdom is necessary.

But nerdiness is not.

Hash, chop, chopper, chip, chipping.

The little worlds around Hashing and Chaining in computing used to make my head spin.

Nowadays so many women are accusing men as effeminate and not selfless and are describing other women as bimbos.

Well, tables have been turned, and beds have been made. There have got to be some people who will have to lie in them.

The perpetual theme of the lady and the unicorn stand-in. Godspeed.

哲夫成城。

哲妇倾城？

Cryptography and Obfuscation are two different cans of worms in Computer Science.

Corporate employees are increasingly fobbed off with unstable jobs.

Oh yes, Virginia, and John, you're by yourslf.

《长恨歌》：骊宫之骊歌。

J needs to revise his Linux installation doc.

I've been long muddled by the meanings of "hash", "hash function", "hash value", "message digest", and "hash table" in Compute Science.

Now finally I've made it clear to me that a hash function is simply a one-way encryption function which often is used to ensure a data file, or packet, transmitted over the internet has not been garbled.

Brouhaha. All that hodgepodge of different names and terms.

It's the same old hash of hash function over and over again, all in all.

By the way, a function is not a mapping.

"Data" is the plural form of the noun "datum" in the English language.