He couldn't break out of that vicious circle.

Who can prognosticate the future of the knowledge economy job market?

It would take a lot of constant sleuthing.

But anyways, hack it, individuals.

Italic fonts look prettier than their Roman counterparts.

Labor market is risky in nature.

We should get used to two themes in James Bond movies, especially in its Skyfall episode: 007 hits the ground running, and 'agent down'.

The long-standing Ebony magazine, an American one, may be experiencing cash flow problems.

Owls are a bird of deciduous forests.

The Pantheon in Rome corresponds to the Parthenon in Athens, so to speak.

The winds blow the rains onto my windows and the rains stream down on them.

It's evocative.

A raffle sale is not a rubbish sale.

And, a 'garage' sale is not a 'garbage' sale.

In Canada, family doctors perform the general treatment and the triage upon patients.

A chipmunk is not a squirrel, but the two are related.

Bunnies normally refer to young rabbits.

A gnome is a troll. But a GNOME is a desktop environment. :-)

'Scotch tape' is like 'Kleenex'. The name came from the brand.

Constantly plagued by information overload and overflow.

To contest the putative good life...

The overflowing lava of modern Linux desktop OSes appears to be unstoppable.

In the future, I wanna try the following: resist the siren call of the putatively sleek desktop environment of Mac OS X, and Bash it instead. :-)

Joe Boxer and American Eagle Outfitters seem to be interesting brand names.

Living in the mother of all modern Linux distros.

The waxwork figures are excellent, which are presented in Musée Grévin Montréal.

Uzbekistan has got a population whose amount is nearly the same as that of Canada.

And, Uzbeks, as well as Tatars (鞑靼人), are included in the Turkic peoples (a.k.a. Turks (突厥人)).

In their hearts, nearly every youngster wants to impersonate some super stars, I guess.

And, for good measure, they want themselves to become a super star in some way one day.

Interestingly, "Armenia has a relatively large diaspora (8 million by some estimates, greatly exceeding the 3 million population of Armenia itself), with communities existing across the globe."

-Excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia#Diaspora

Would-be hackers and wannabe nerds.

Well, the Banshee media player is good. Is there a music player named as 'Siren' in the world?

'Asunder' is such a good name for a CD ripper.

Love the caret character, don't I?

Earning money is never a cinch.

Well, the "emancipation and empowerment of women."

It seems that Cuba, a country in Latin America, has got a very influential culture out of proportion, for instances, Salsa and Cha-cha, as known worldwide.

Interestinly, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, Panama, Venezuela, and Mexico all belong to Latin America.

The topical solution Hydrogen Peroxide disinfects minor cuts and scratches.

Man, it's antiseptic. Well, I don't know Chemistry and Medicine well.

The prevalent capitalist model in North America encourages people to abandon life to money.

The ignorant toddler girl poked my daughter's eyes twice.

N. D. wants to compare notes with me.

"Got a frog in my throat," the old lady said to her friend.

It's said that Populism has contributed greatly to the great decline of the economies in Latin America.

星落鸟飞，弹指间青葱岁月已逝。

Interestingly, the actor Mike Myers played both the role Austin Powers and that of Dr. Evil.

And he's a Canadian.

Why do so many men only in their thirties and forties have frosty hair strands nowadays?

'Criticality'--there is such a word in English.

Simply keep your cool in front of of all that overflowing and constant hype of marketing and media.

That way, you can keep yourself out of the way of much frustrations and busyness.

Ah, the fleetingly changing suppliers landscape for personal computing needs.

Well, a Windows PC is a holdover from the fading Microsoft era, while a Windows OS is a blast from the past.

Where will bespoke IT systems go?

It's been reported that almost every parent in the Western societies is harried by time pressure day in and day out.

'Eight-Section Brocade' is an excellent English translation of the “八段锦” in Chinese.

Oh, my corny little gedit.

Well, the pedigreed Mr. Justin Trudeau.

Here and there, there seems to always be a man who mistakenly believes that to act violently makes him be a hell of a man.

Adoptive parents are not like blood parents.

Some of them rehomed their adopted children. But, that's a very complex issue with complicated reasons and motives. One cannot simply call that rehoming inhumane.

It seems that poppy petals often appear in Western ceremonies and movies.

The English verb 'administrate' has got exactly the same meaning as 'administer', where 'contest' hasn't as 'challenge'.

Laugh at me. I'm afraid that much of the pop culture stuff is just corn.

I've been keeping culling my RSS feeds, as well as my social media and email subscriptions. But they are still overflowing.

Many are observing the predicament which most Muslim countries are now in.

CBC's Rex Murphy publicly said that the lately allegedly scandalous Jian Gomeshi is "double-faced", who is another CBC host.

Did Jian Gomeshi fake out the public? On the other hand, did some of the claimers fake out?

L went from being bony to being just slim during his fifties or so.

It's usually more taxing to earn a living furnished with more than bare essentials.

Simple doesn't mean drab.

That's why I don't understand why the English word 'corny' has got a derogatory meaning, among others. Personally I always consider corn to be a delicious staple food.

It may be the reality in North America that many people abuse antidepresssants somehow.

J's been getting his act together for a long time.

It's sad to see people's body sizes becoming grosser and grosser in North America.

I normally don't cull the movies manufactured by Hollywood.

"And death is gaseous and gruesome".

That's what the role acted by Philip Seymour Hoffman said in the film The Savages.

Vocabulary, vocabulary, "how do I love thee?"

Duh, in a conversation with a friend of mine, I mistakenly invented a verb 'nutriate'. What I meant was actually 'nurture'. But certainly not 'neuter', :-)

It seems that homeopathic medicine has been steadily gaining popularity in the Western world.

It seems that yoga belongs to both Hinduism and Buddhism.

Historically, both Hinduism and Buddhism originated in India. But the latter has been nourishing China and flourishing in it for over a thousand years, at the same time dying out in India.

By the way, the reputedly vegetarian Sikh is a sect of Hinduism.

There is no shortage of changes happening in the world.

Oh, the old man's catheter makes me sad.

Busy students who live away from their parents had better be boarders.

White apparels are ravishing, but they are time-consuming to be taken care of.

Well, 'fecal matter' just means 'feces'.

"Froggy" is an English word that I've rarely come across.

Now the world has become increasingly wary of the potential economic fall of China.

China's annual GDP growth rates have been the envy of the world for so long.

Increasingly, university education has become a power-up, not the deciding factor.

The tower cranes deployed in construction projects are just so, ..., skyscraping.

The Pareto Principle is just a rule of thumb, not a scientific law.

There probably are more scarlet women than you think.

Who wants to have a life in which money always comes out on top?

Own your grooming. Own your diet.

Is there a market mechanism whereby every participant's needs get satisfied?

Will Canadians come to the conclusion that whether the pay scales for public servants are too high should be thrown open to debate?

Sigh. Strong-arm companies.

Well, there will be so many houses of cards among them.

That kind of behavior precludes the possibility of a business relationship with Client L.

And J is in no position to reveal the details of that behavior.

想要知道 Bob 这个名字在英文里多热门，看看山猫的英文单词就好了 -- "bobcat"。:-)

Costs are on one side, and man power is on the other side.

It appears that many young women today identify with feminism, a vogue bandwagon.

An amphitheatre is not amphibian.

Lovebirds, a specific type of parrots, got their name because when perched side by side, their bodies appear to form the shape of a heart.

Well, the self-styled fabulous ladies.

Please don't let on to anyone that you are only generous with others' money, ladies and gentlemen.

The potently freezing weather reminds me that Canada, all in all, is a cold country.

How many people in Canada despise its coldness?

Belarus' capital is Minsk, whose metropolitan population is about 2 million, according to Wikipedia, which is less than that of Montreal.

Children's modeling compound is best accompanied by an extruder and some extruder rails.

It's common knowledge that men have been being deballed.

Actually people have got a lot of haphazard self-defeating behaviors.

In J's heart of hearts, he doesn't think customers such as L are decent ones.

What's happened to the world's nationalities' categorization?

J for one is a Chinese by heredity, but he will be a Canadian by choice.