The festive white snows have brought with them extreme coldness.

Some Canadian journalist writers are somewhat flippant or simplitistically ignorant.

Social media exacerbates our severe problem of information overload.

How come some American businessmen seem to be overly competitive and not magnanimous at all to their competitors?

Yes, livelihood or to become well off can be competition at times. But life is NOT.

Excuses include real extenuating circumstances.

In the future, the choice of my system Python's version has to be chewed on.

Otherwise, a lot of small headaches would be awaiting me down the road.

Chinese is my first language.

But English is my Swiss army knife.

GUI interface is just an appendage in Linux distros.

Almost everything larger-than-life is done in command line.

Spirituality can make one unflappable.

Tattletales get lampooned in school.

I like the sound of the word "acquiescing."

Good wasabi is zesty, but hard to come by in average Montreal restaurants.

Businesses seem to be zealous about AI.

Competition has forced them to.

Confusing are the meanings of the word "contemporary."

"Ascertain" means very differently than "verify."

It seems that in China, nepotism is less in force than before.

Nexus phones are exemplary of Google's products.

They got discontinued before long by Google.

Prodigious amounts of information are calling for our attention.

But I want to refuse most of them. Less is more.

We've long acquiesced to the market economy.

Almost everybody is scrambling for some sort of AI glitz.

Is the epitaph being written for traditional web application software?

It seems that in Montreal, some good elementary, secondary, and post-secondary schools keep churning out assiduous pupils with formal academic literacy skills.

The problem is, those skills are sort of too narrow in today's and tomorrow's world, given the sacrifices of such massive amounts of time and efforts paid in order to gain the aforementioned skills.

"Tuck in your undershirt," J said.

For early childhood education, I think that the Reggio Emilia approach is better than the Montessori one.

I'll get my feet wet and continue to learn a little French.

Oui, monsieur.

Many young dudes like to rock out and chill out.

Tethered pets look lovable outside stores.

Shimmying can be done with the shoulders. Or with the hips, as the below video shows:

By the way, compared with those dances with body movements that are so provocative that they stretch credulity, belly dance just looks greatly cleaner.

Yeah, it's agreed that the magazine The Economist is an erudite one.

And its English is kind of difficult.

The English word "marionette" is very different than "marinate."

The former means the sort of complex puppets that are controlled with strings.

Much posturing does no good.

Information regarding the all flourishing Artificial Intelligence has been overflowing in the media.

As people grow their ages, more and more of them capitulate to the societal pressures.

I had been vacillating between PythonAnywhere and Heroku as my current PaaS choice.

Sanctimonious people are apt to be hypocritical.

And certainly they are not very amiable.

Sassy celebrities wear store-bought clothing but they have much more discerning tastes and eyes.

Religious disagreement, or disputes, can get people to become flustered, or even very angry.

There's a children books author named "Holly Hobbie."

It can be her true name, not her pen name.

The interesting thing for me is that her first name can be confused with "holy," and, her last name can be confused with "hobby." For that matter, her parents' family, as a whole, are referred to by others as "the Hobbies," which exactly is the plural form of the English word "hobby." Swoon...

"Candor" is different than "honesty."

All this hurtling of Android apps' updating is off-putting for me.

Almost every week, there are more than a dozen apps waiting for me to give permissions for updates which are going to occupy more phone storage and RAM space.

Christianity defines that covetousness is not a virtue.

Instead, it is a sin.

The process of setting up a new Android phone with apps almost full of advertisements and bloatware feels almost like rigmarole, compared to that of setting up a Linux Mint computer.

Academic textbooks published in North America are apt to be overly didactic, as well as a little long-winded.

In most Western countries, many, if not most, husbands have become, are becoming, or will become unwitting victims under multiple collective forces which are not so benign to men, including the family court system.

The situation is actually bleak and going to bring severe consequences, for men, and women, as well as children.

Matrimony has been becoming an art, discipline, institution, and treasure to be massively lost.

Motor scooters are a sort of light motorcycles.

"On call" is very different than "on the phone."

I encountered a children's graph book that does not make sense, or even is outright stupid.

In the female authors' narration, the "very little red riding hood" emotionally manipulated a wolf and led him into the house of the teeny girl's grandma. And then she cried and cried, so the wolf tried very hard to please her. Then she fell asleep, thereafter the exhausted wolf, as well as grandma, fell asleep "happily ever after."

A wolf is a wolf, who eats humans and animals all the time.

What does the particular story book teach young girls to do in their future prime years during which they will pass by a"wolf" on the side of a road?

...

To recklessly and heedlessly lead a bad boy into her family's life while emotionally manipulating him?

The outdoor garbage chute looks intereting on those semi-constructed buildings, doesn't it?

North American mainstream media should publish more of men's diatribes, as well as gentler opinions, against the current family court system.

I was left with a deep impression by the excruciating inquisition near the end of the French film "The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc".

The word "platitude" is a little difficult for me to retain.

Google Inc., aka Alphabet Inc., has been swift to invest in technological trends.

Yippee! English has sooooo many words, and it will take me forever to learn them!

The word "fastidious" sounds interesting, eh?

Babbling springs are somewhat characteristic of many areas of China, I suppose?

Many people often wish to lead a sleek life.

However, that's only the appearance. A sleek life is not necessarily a fulfilling one.

Many Muslims come across as individuals who believe that his own destiny is already predetermined by Allah.

Destiny...

It seems that many people in the Chinese community, including some Hong Kong Chinese, don't know that Mr. Ka-shing Li (李嘉诚) is very philanthropic, who is a Hong Kong businessman and the long-time richest Chinese in the world.

Women tend to like "free-range" jobs more, so to speak.

Tech support people are required to be on call throughout day and night.

Why do the wild beasts such as lions and hyenas all have luminous eyes in the dark night, as shown in wild life documentaries?

It seems that Australian women and American ones are two of a kind.

"Scintillating" is a difficult English word for me to remember.

There's no respite in sight from all these torrents of technological shifts.

It seems that public manifestations of private grief were never a taboo in traditional Chinese culture.

In this day and age, being vivacious and curvacious does not guarantee a husband, or a partner, for a woman. Far from it.

Even though naturally, fine women in resplendent dresses still make young men be agog with impulsive curiosity.

In Africa, the sleek living bodies of buffalos often tragically become meals for lions and lionesses.

Nearby the elevator door, the woman's tension was so apparent and almost tangible.

The elusive Artificial Intelligence is being reported in almost every medium.

When will all this enthusiasm wear off?

I felt a frisson when I first saw, on YouTube, lions and lionesses kill buffalos and eat them alive.

Lions are extremely violent and powerful killing machines.

Tigers ditto.

When you write a software program, the niggling doubts don't really go away until you finally successfully run it with multiple testing inputs.

Sometimes it's joy, and sometimes it's pain. C'est la vie, to coin a phrase.

To augment one's body means a totally different thing than to enhance one's body.

In this day and age, more and more people have become so precipitate, or even impetuous, that they have taken the route of body augmentation.

It's interesting to know that hippos are also called "river horses" in English.

And, like horses, they are fond of eating grass. That's the opposite with crocs' dieting habits.

Oh, those giant bloody carcasses are disgusting in the video below.

Dictation is done every week in the classrooms of the lower grades of elementary schools.

We're not like-minded.

I'm small-minded. :-)

Some Chinese martial arts teachers cajoled their students somewhat.

The unceremoniousness of some typical North American women was a novelty to me, when I first arrived in Canada.

Now it's a huge turn-off for me. I'm not alone in that aspect.

So if they want to find their own Mr. Right, they'd better shape up before it will be all too late.

Software developers and developers-to-be mostly are dog-tired year by year.

But many of them are apt to be taciturn men.

Asia was the first and only continent that has been nuked in human history.

Will it be nuked again in the near future?

The rains have fallen.

And the sweltering has dwindled and then disappeared, for now.

I'm responsive to new English words which I encounter day in, day out.

That's a best way to go through with the massive English vocab.

The word "wildebeest" is pretty interesting.

The word's form is much like "wild beast".

At the same time, the particular animal is also called as "gnu." Remember the "GNU" part in "GNU/Linux?"

Today has been another unusually muggy September day.

However, July and August passed as abnormally cool.

The haphazard weather makes one wonder what's next down the road. Will some natural disasters strike?

The world now is all very bewildering.

Given these a few humid and very hot days, I guess that it's going to rain cats and dogs before long.

Well, I didn't know that slugs are nocturnal.

I rarely encountered the word "transmogrify", except in dictionaries.

The current leader of North Korea is such a handful for the world.

He's turned his country into an extremely dangerous pride of nuclear warheads.

Unfortunately, many American and Canadian women have reduced themselves almost to a piece of meat.

Their wrong thinking leads to that sad self-destruction.

My mind blurred the distinction between the words "analogous" and "monogamous."

Then I kind of invented a new word "anagamous" when I actually intended "analogous."

The Canadian populace generally don't eat well or drink well.

So, of course extraordinary obesity is a big problem here. And, reasonably that must be costing a hefty sum of money for the health care system every year.

Riding on the current trend, total chaos might be waiting ahead.

Biological nomenclature appears to be quite difficult.

It seems to entirely comprise of words rooted in Latin.

Blabbing to the media has long become a strategic weapon for female celebrities.

Meanwhile, that makes many of them almost no good, because blabbers are so.

A reform in the American family court system has been long overdue.

Otherwise, the institution of family will be further destroyed.

I think that haze of tobacco smoke is reasonably quite masculine.

Unfortunately, that also gets banned all over in Canada.

That can be sort of "oppressive," to men.

No wonder you see more and more Canadian young men dye their long flowing hair pink, truly pink.

In Western countries, women's suffrage, which began to be granted around 100 years ago, probably has made everybody suffer, including themselves.

In total contrast, over a thousand years ago, Muslim women already had suffrage. And did that make them suffer? Probably not.

In the past, wills (aka testaments) were rare for common Chinese people.

Typically, his estate would be apportioned among his sons and daughters after his death.

In this day and age, many women behave and think in ways that men intrinsically dislike, seriously.

For some of them, they've made their bed and they must lie in it.

The red hot demand is not factitious in China's real estate market.

It's real. But it results from distorted market mechanisms.

The effervescent Perrier water is produce of France.

In this day and age, Anglophone Western countries' mass media seem to be full of pugnacious female journalists.

No wonder they've been losing market shares, once people began to recover their senses.

Don't smother your man.

It can be dangerous to be fond of elaborate meals.

Simple yet delicious repasts should be enough.

The fad for men's earrings seems to have passed its peak.

A smidgen of Python can make life a lot more convenient.

A mature man must be able to discern whether a path, a relationship, or an endeavor to be embarked upon is going to be auspicious or ominous.

So a man needs truth as much as wisdom.

The technological landscape is so convoluted that it takes looong to navigate.

I dislike bland white sliced bread and buns, which however is wall-to-wall in Montreal, more than soggy ones.

Hillary Clinton was alleged to prevaricate a lot to the Amercian public.

"Staycation" and "metrosexual" are both portmanteau words.

In the future, there will seem to be fewer and fewer places left in the society for people who are diehard technophobes or "Englishphobes."

Under the guise of education, aside from the core learning, myriad things are going on.

The word "meadow" doesn't automatically mean water meadow.

Some people cultivate their benevolent appearances, but not benevolence.

It's been well known that Google/Alphabet can be an erratic provider of technologies at numerous times.

Just think about Google Reader and Google Wave, among others.

Occasional self-abnegation is indispensible for each human being individual.

It seems that for the past many decades, cultivating people might have taken too much time and energy for the people in China.

In general, women often deploy subterfuge.

Crisscross is an overall pattern, isn't it?

Actually, hearsay evidences are pivotal.

Google Search, once the pinnacle web search engine, now has to share the market with Bing, which is developed by the dogged Microsoft.

In China, tight-knit pairs of boyfriends and girlfriends seem to be gradually replacing close-knit families, to a greater or lesser degree.

"Please indulge me for a moment" sounds more British than American, doesn't it?

Illogical remarks expose the speaker's incompetence, or selfishness, or both.

Yeah, sometimes it's difficult to know what to make of the whole education system pipeline, course requirements, and stuff.

The elementary school years, then the high school ones, and then the university ones. All that long learning takes away such mammoth amounts of time as well as energy, day in and day out. Keeps you nearly fully occupied, hence you almost can't learn your own things and think for yourself. And then, alas, the so-called lifelong learning, which can be stressful at times, awaits you and will accompany you to the grave.

种种学校，责成学生耗时竭力达成各种任务。

学子舍己而随人，殆矣。

I'll be gazing at stars into the night sky.

A gazer is totally different from a gator.

The modern females have commited a long string of faux pas since at least the 1970s.

People generally like husky dogs more than husky men. :-)

I have to realign my time expenditures often.

The English language seems to be very democratic, whereas the French language seems to be just the opposite.

Between the two, which one of the models of development will be toppled?

Scenes of people absconding with funds are so common in Hong Kong movies.

A rather common mistake that native speakers of English make is that they use the word "legislate" as a transitive verb.

But it's only an intransitive one.

Hunks galore.

And, bitches galore.

Obedience is no longer in the modern ethos.

Should that be brought back?

I'm in deep with English learning.

Sort of obsessive, for better or for worse.

Judah is different than Judas.

J used to make some promises. But he didn't come through.

Etiquette is different than courtesy.

I'm curious as to how feminist countries such as Sweden will fare in the long run.

What's the first sense for some people?

The sense of entitlement.

We are justified in being almost always busy.

The ouster of the two co-founders of RIM/Blackberry signified a lot for wannabe Canadian entrepreneurs.

For those of us who are inundated with information overload, which is most of us, JOMO (Joy Of Missing Out) should be what we are content with.

Unfortunately, many people's strategies for becoming affluent end in speculating in the stock market.

A fuzz of straight black hair.

Hair sprouting from women skin battles sight from time to time.

Nowadays celebrities air their dirty laundry in public both at whim and intentionally.

And some are becoming wimpier and wimpier.

Sometime while dealing with my daughter's stuff and housework stuff at the same time, my mind spins like a top.

"Collocation" and "colocation" are two totally different words.

The myth of higher education seems to be going to be debunked by degrees.

Cyber eavesdropping is a real threat.

The recalcitrant ones...

Can you imagine "on oath" and "under oath" mean exactly the same thing?

"On" and "under."

I can't imagine "on the couch" and "under the couch" mean the same thing.

Leverage means power, but it also means risk.

Ah. All those fancy thingamabobs which were offered by Google/Alphabet Inc. and then got pulled the plug on.

Why invest your time and data in them?

"Fecundate" is an obscure word, whereas "inundate" is not.

Will Donald Trump be ousted as American president?

Despite the alleged scandal of Russians rigging the American election, the politically incorrect president has been seeming to make the American economy fruitful.

The Variable Hoisting thing in JavaScript is interesting.

Fashionistas are sophisticated in their dressing. That's for sure.

But the sad situation is, sophistication only exists in fashion for many of them. "What you see is what you get" is not a compliment. Especially for men. Even the young ones.

It's alleged that Western European countries obfuscate migrant rapes and crimes in their borders.

Certainly their native citizens are not immune to the rapes and crimes, allegedly.

Marketing blurbs purposefully make you unable to resist.

Provocatively dressed women should know what they are doing to the men, and especially the boys, in their physical and virtual presence.

Google, in their infinite wisdom, pulled the plug on Google Reader as well as Google Notebook.

That had significant consequences, for sure.

The sky is the limit for satnavs competition.

It must be hard for Westerners to wisely choose from the yummy thingammies in their favorite Chinese restaurants.

Sometime I for one am driven crazy by all those deets in information technology.

It seems that many phrases with "Irish" in them have got some negative connotation.

Examples include "Irish bull", "Irish confetti", and "Irish coffee".

It's "Little Red Riding Hood." Not "Little Red Hood."

Let's parse the function "parseInt", which appears in both Java and JavaScript.

>
> parseInt(12.5);
12
>

In the above little example, 12.5 is not an Int, but is a float. On the other hand, the return value 12 is an Int.

So, a more accurate name for the function would be "parseToInt."

The raging torrent of new technologies has successfully kept many people perpetually burning the midnight oil.

And that's not advantageous for their health.

If you are going to learn software development, learn the English language as well, for good measure.

Otherwise you're probably gonna wanna cry down the road, sooner or later.

When I want to take a look at what is contained in each of the files in a given directory, I just type "more *" on the Linux command line.

And presto, they appear all in front of my eyes.

Linux is anything but simple.

However, it provides creature comforts for me. :-)

"K9" stands for "canine."

It's police dogs.

It is to one's benefit to acquire proficiency in the langague(s) of his or her parents.

In Canada, many people would rather drench themselves in pouring rain than hold an umbrella above their heads.

That's not good for their bone joints as well as their overall health.

Nowadays Smurfs are everywhere.

Those lovely blue creatures are rebooting in people's memory.

I try to make a virtue of necessity and acquire true proficiency of the English language.

The vernal city was pleasant to look at in the rain.

Light precipitation was good for the air.

If adult teeth could regenerate themselves ...

In this day and age, it sometimes feels that academic knowledge goes down the drain.

And many, if not most, PhD degree holders are no longer regarded as the intelligentsia. Instead, they are viewed as just some losers who have wasted many precious potential money-earning years on some useless pursuits.

Isn't that so?

On the other hand, maybe the old notion of "the intelligentsia" was just a myth.

I for one dislike that nonrobust software programs get released to the public and how they blurt out error messages carelessly.

Actually, the Gmail webmail is a little too limited.

By comparison, traditional desktop email clients such as Mozilla Thunderbird is like webmail on steroids. They seem to offer many more functionalities.

Using Linux Mint has given me an appetite for trying out desktop Ubuntu, more or less.

The competition between Microsoft and Apple is still inconclusive in the consumer sphere, I guess.

For one thing, what about the peripherals driver backward compatibility which is allegedly poorly managed in Apple computers?

J. slurps his noodle soup.

Sadly, the moral fiber has been massively undermined and mangled in Western countries, over the past decades.

Especially in the department of the institution of family.

Reap what was sown.

My fondness for Debian has burgeoned.

And that for openSUSE has dimmed.

It feels safe to know the plain old Windows is there and churning out new versions of its desktop operating system.

Unfortunately, we're apt to flatter ourselves.

软件开发前沿持续延烧，不要 burn yourself out。

I've been sincere in acquiring English proficiency.

Been there, done that.

It's tough allocating time to that task.

The gargantuan 2l soda bottles, as well as the elegant looking 330ml soda glass bottles, are ubiquitous in Montreal.

All of them embody the ostensibly neatly packaged yet ignorantly unhealthy lifestyles of some individuals and families.

I always disliked the seemingly radiant smartphones marketed by Samsung, since around 2014, when I got unsastisfied with my Samsung Galaxy S3 phone.

It's the bloatware (software) tied up in the phone which made me unhappy. And there's no way for me to get rid of them safely.

Now factoring in that batteries caught fire in some Galaxy Note 7 phones, well, Samsung, it's not easy to favor your phones.

Some fortune-tellers are storytellers.

And all fortune-tellers are not fortune makers. They may tell one's fortune, but the person himself makes his own fortune or misfortune.

Quebec seems to offer many gastronomic beers which are relatively expensive.

There are barflies. And there are butterflies.

They consume, therefore they are.

Many people must have murmured against globalization.

Oftentimes people need solitude to create, or even better, to innovate.

"Greenhouse Gas emissions". The dreadful phrase as the culprit for more severe storms and heat waves in our living environments.

Wow. Linux has got soooo many animated distros. And many individual distros offer quite a few sprightly spins.

It can be dizzying sometime.

The ongoing European Refugee Crisis is a real one with profound consequences.

No wonder the ongoing hullabaloo in the mass media.

In Canada, we see soda guzzlers and drinkers everywhere.

Drinking soda is normal.

But one thing is normal does not mean it is good. Death is normal, that happens a lot everyday in this world. But death is not good, right?

In this day and age, the women population has to be dissected.

You want your web browser to be rententive of its browsing history in order to facilate search functionality, don't you?

For that matter, Firefox does better than Google Chrome.

Are Japanese animatronics as good as their American counterparts?

After all, those Hollywood blockbusters are there to prove the American supremacy, aren't they?

Well, Google wanted to give Android a makeover by releasing its own Google Nexus line of smartphones.

I have a Nexus 5 phone. But now its storage is not big enough to accommodate all those Google bloatware updates, and there's no way to add external storage.

Well, bye, Nexus phones. Moreover, are Google Pixel phones also covert guzzlers of storage?

Why can't democracy make the Western family law systems be impartial between men and women?

White clouds billowed in the Chinese sky.

In this day and age, boys frolicked too much in the world of computer/mobile games.

They themselves and their parents will have to bear the consequences.

The seminal PGP signatures are everywhere.

It is a revelation the long and perpetual learning path required of a career software developer.

His great efforts came to fruition many years later. And the fruition continued growing.

I mangled my openSUSE virtual machine.

That's my own fault, but that's the last straw. My interest in openSUSE dipped.

The days in which they are truncated by harsh Winter will come to an end quite soon.

The ambience of Spring is already in the air.

"It's complicated." is a subtle thing to say.

He was made pensive by his very own poignant reflection of the incident.

Ignorance-induced tragedies are everywhere.

And sentimentality-induced ones too.

The sprawling choices of Linux distros seem daunting to you at first, then they get mesmerizing once you gain some fluency.

It's not exhilarating to use Windows applications on Wine for Linux.

They are, actually, Wine is apt to cause the system to freeze.

The American company Amazon has been becoming an increasingly gripping player over the years, especially since the launch of AWS.

Now the Amazon Alexa seems quite interesting too.

J fell into the mood for pensive solitude.

It appears that the blogosphere has passed its peak of contents output volume a few years ago.

And I have been consuming less and less of their contents, too.

I much prefer a GUI Linux to a GUI Microsoft Windows, each of which has got its own pros and cons.

The real clincher for me is the little Terminal application possessed in Linux.

The houses roofs in Montreal must be emblazoned with marks of severe winter weather.

For me, JOMO seems to be inherently elusive.

Horticulture and agriculture produce goods which please human beings' eyes and stomachs.

Yet, their monetary values have been steadily diminishing.

For that matter, so in this day and age, young people are disproportionately into synthetic goods. Well...

The debacle of Yahoo's massive web mail hack makes me for one think twice about security.

I need to beef up my own security measures.

There's one problem about today's formal education.

It makes one be more apt to consider that many jobs are menial work.

Is Mr. Donald Trump exploiting any loopholes in the American system?

By the way, that guy seems to have skills to make more and more people vehemently protest against him.

For that matter, any kind of serious reforms are likely deemed to cause public stirs in a democracy, for better or for worse.

Women ask, "where did all the chivalrous men go?"

Duh.

What goes around comes around.

Now Evernote is back in full gear from the downtime hours ago.

Way to go, the Ops people at Evernote.

Many American female celebrities' publicity gimmicks know no boundaries.

T'is flu season in high gear.

And saliva is an omnipresent way by which diseases spread to more and more people.

The two words 'abjure' and 'conjure' are still hard for me.

I cut my teeth on Linux Mint 13, and now I'm eyeing Fedora and Ubuntu Desktop.

People like to call their pets names, such as "Michael" and "Elena."

And people like to call their Linux boxes names like "Euphoria" and "rob-notebook". Mine is named "Mint-17-*", and it sounds euphonious.

"Global variable." The name rhymes, doesn't it?

Software developers in the know endeavor to find advantageous Linux distros for dev.

However, the leading pack of distros seem to be always in a state of flux.

Since I came to Canada, I've been fond of document sheets with perforated lines.

The widespread unmitigated poverty in Kenya seems to be beyond comprehension.

Wish them prosperity.

In this day and age, a woman wants to be on his man's back, and vice versa.

Order, please.

People in different countries jostle for opportunities.

But what kinds of infrastructure are supporting them? And how much are the costs?

Chillax, folks.

I'm not asleep. Not by a long shot.

I've been nearly absent from Facebook for years. I went JOMO and avoided wasting my time on social media.

For a long time, I've been titivating my Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon, an OS that is efficient and elegant.

Meanwhile, the budding Elementary OS is a swankier distribution of Linux. But I'm concerned about its immaturity as well as possible security risks.

The free Sublime Text editor is such a nagware.

Try to empty vainglorious thoughts.

Nothing good comes out of it.

Today I've gotten to know that 'paladin' is a real word and it occupies its place in the formal dictionary.

Chez moi, c'est froid.

How should a woman who uttered the word "udder" be thought about?

I'm befuddled by the South Korean society reported in news media.

The commonplace North American cuisine is the opposite of the reputedly delectable French cuisine.

Vim, the terminal skill.

I've only dipped my toes in that jam.

As a man grows mature, he becomes circumspect.

It's alleged that Uber regularly flouts laws.

Now the bracing winter holidays are over. Back to business as usual. And the world is still chaotic.

It seems that the seemingly demure Fortran programming language is still well alive in the field of scientific computing.

Où est mon temps?

"Rien ne sert de courir, il faut partir à point."

Mammon almost rules the United States. And the United States almost rules the world.

Now what are the consequences?

Generally speaking, Italians look snazzier than the French, I guess?

We are used to that Canadian luminaries are overshadowed by their American counterparts south the border.

Let's just live our somewhat quieter Northern life, whilst watching the world come and go.