To bludgeon, to slight, to belittle, ...

There are so many similar words in English.

It seems that "prana" in yoga is analogous to "chi" (气) in traditional Chinese medicine and Taichi.

Being psychotic is different than being neurotic.

For the time being, the Canadian job market is cramp.

Well, it's sad to see the United States, the pinnacle nation of the 20th century, has been in great decline.

Ben Carson wrote lately that Americans, as a nation, are "losing" their "moral compass and are caught up in elitism and bigotry."

For customers who are not so good, J can only shrug and hope for better ones.

A man of stature.

There is a Punjab State in India, and there is a Punjab Province in Pakistan.

And they have got the same main language, Punjabi.

The greater Punjab region is the historic homeland of the Sikhs. Unsuprisinly, Sikhs' main language is Punjabi. Take note that the Sikh people have a total population of 27 million globally.

For starters, the Sikh people have the following characterics which interest me particularly:

1. Kesh

In Sikhism, Kesh (sometimes Kes) is the practice of allowing one's hair to grow naturally as a symbol of respect for the perfection of God's creation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesh_%28Sikhism%29

And that naturally involves head hair, as well as body hair.

However,

In modern times the trend of short hair has encroached upon this tradition; in some parts of Punjab, it is estimated that 80% of Sikh youths have cut their hair. Reasons include simple convenience — avoiding the daily combing and tying — as well as social pressures from the mainstream culture to look like everyone else.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesh_%28Sikhism%29

Nonetheless, you can take a look at the following old news (no oxymoron intended, :-) :
The Sikh woman who stood up to online abuse about her facial hair


2. Kacchera

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kacchera .


3. Kirpan

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirpan .


4.

The Punjab is the wealthiest Indian state per capita, with the average Punjabi income three times the national average.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikh#Representation

Can you see a way for Microsoft to claw back its desktop market share?

With laying off employees in large chunks, is it on the right track?

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.

Nowadays so many women are so busy and can't make themselves well groomed.

Or they don't know how to give a damn?

Misogyny galore. Misandry galore.

Patriarchy denied. Matriarchy denied. The society has become so out of order.

Whoa. Mercurial.

September, the sniffle season.

Will Ukraine be at war with Russia, and at risk?

All those cat ladies in the world's cities.

Sorry. Bed..., made..., lie. Sigh.

You shouldn't be too courtly. And you shouldn't be rude.

People will yearn for more physicality down the road, surrounded by all these virtual things in their life.

Microsoft Windows still has got a mammoth advantage over Linux. And it's that Windows is preinstalled and turnkey on almost all personal computers sold to the mass market, beside Mac computers.

Linux command-line makes you feel it's really ready to do your bidding.

That's one of the reasons why I'm fond of the little operating system (if you will).

The difference is a little confusing between open house and guided tour.

Nothing important

"What is it?"
"Oh, a stomach cramp or something. Nothing important."

Harmony doesn't mean unanimity.

A harmonious society doesn't equal to a unanimous society.

Everyone once was a whippersnapper who didn't know beans.

The inscription of a child into schools is an endless household project.

"Adorable", "lovable", "lovely" and so on. I don't know where the differences lie between them.

I feel that flutes sound nicer than recorders.

Young girls naturally like press-on nails and nail polish.

"Pedagogical director on site" is a selling point for a daycare facility.

Will the alleged dearth of good men lead to abundance of spinsters down the road?

How will China's progeny stand in the future?

To take on too much work is to flake out.

I've got a friend who's deeply into mnemonics.

Ferguson, MO. has made such a headline.

Personally I don't like songs with long-winded lyrics very much.

Singers with mortormouths typically lose me.

Have the society, the economy, and the job market gone to the dogs, in the U.S. and Canada?

One dilemma in life is that some people are thought by many others as downtrodden but they are protected all in all.

If they are "liberated", lo and behold, a Pandora's box gets opened, from the circumstances.

How I wish I can power through life's difficulties and dilemmas.

Some Chinese people are apt to shortchange life for earning money.

Who doesn't want to be chipper?

But oftentimes individuals are too unapologetically caught up in the rat race for that.

To cull one's workload in life must be one key of time management.

Strapped for time? Then save more.

"Living with intention" means "living with purpose".

Almost everyone is overtired and superbusy nowadays.

The term "acrobatic park" reminds me "Acrobat Reader", the old name of Adobe Reader.

You garment-dye a piece of shirting, you get a typically more attractive piece of clothes.

An Ubuntu PPA is a repository of software programs, usually maintained by third parties.

Why use the word "repository", not "depository" or "depot"?

Some unilateral decisions made by others are somewhat scathing to one. In that sense, it's "Hell is other people", if you will.

Well, it appears that Alberta's former premier, Ms. Alison Redford, is a jetsetting politician.

Time is cut up by household chores.

So far as judgement is concerned, American and Canadian individuals usually with insatiable desire go for money.

Wall-to-wall prettied up women.

Full of gold diggers.

"NICU" stands for "Neonatal Intensive Care Unit".

Toffee and taffy seem to be very similar things.

Have a good one.

If you are vain enough to want to appear clean-cut, ...

Almost everyone is whiplashed by information overload.

J spent that afternoon in a public library, fittingly, skimming and reading books.