I enjoyed the bracing winter air today.

The English combining form 'nano-' is slightly larger than 'pico-'.

Now I know where the little text editor Nano stands in UNIX-like systems. Anyway, the somewhat venerable and light Pico text editor has ceased development long time ago.

I'm about to comb through a text tutorial on the Nano editor.

Do you miss the demure ways by which women used to act, in the good old days?

Both smartphones and feature phones are mobile phones.

Snazzy OS X, formidably penetrating Windows, and deeply powerful Linux.

I choose the latter two for serious desktop computing. Which ones do you pick?

In Canada, the Trudeaus are luminaries, inherently.

I have no idea about why native Westerners seem to like the word 'serendipity' so much.

"Deuteronomy" and "2 Thessalonians" are the two chapters in the Bible that I recently touched.

There seem to be many more busybodies in China than in Canada.

Are "hidebound minds" and "fundamentalists" often synonymous in the real world?

Personally I don't like the information deluge exacerbated by Facebook.

Unfortunately, Facebook has become the bridgehead for many businesses and people.

So many women waste much of their time on frivolities.

Out of proportion seems to be the percentage of Chinese people who have got aspiration for wealth.

How did unhealthy candies get to become festive treats?

Let me forget the whole shebang of the word 'brocade'.

J wants to be his family's keeper.

Personally I like cutting-edge software. But not the bleeding edge stuff.

Apple afficionados, Windows diehards, along with Linux enthusiasts.

Which camp do you belong to?

Sporadic acknowledgement of my English fluency provides extra incentive for me to acquire the particular language.

Withstanding is even better than resisting.

Command-line utilities automate GUI operations done by mouse clicks.

Lovable.

What, if anything, can withstand the secular capitalism?

"Anything, Anything, Anything for money".

What has Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. done to the children and the young adults?

Doesn't the name say it all, "Blizzard Entertainment", and "Inc."?

You don't want to be overtaken or overwhelmed by the particular Blizzard.

As I understand them, 'cookery' is more advanced than 'cooking'.

And 'gastronomy' more than 'cookery'.

Industrious Amelia and good-time Charlie.

Information Technology terms are typically not lucidily coined at all.

Examples include "buffer", "cache", and "boot", I reckon.

Sometimes, this earthly life needs to be ameliorated by religions.

Maybe the part "smart" should be expunged from the name "smartphone".

Most phones have got a mobile OS running on them nowadays, after all.

We're now Christmas bound. Surely flurries will come.

The tacit knowledge is that a potential biz partner must at least be reasonable and gracious, I think.

Welcome, winter mittens and leather gloves.

F. G. is not even close to being gracious enough. Sigh.

And, he wants to go head-to-head with entrenched competitors. Sigh.

It seems that many people consider Donald Trump to be bombastic.

See:
http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/20150915-editorial-behind-trumps-bombast-a-man-without-a-plan.ece

Well, algorithmic problems.

The model for the Gerber baby.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Turner_Cook

"You shall not bow down to them or worship them; ..." - Deuteronomy 5:9

"Calypso Trail Mix" is a good nuts food by Lalumière.

What a colourful and fancy food name coined by the Canadian company.

By contrast, "Mountain Trail Mix" seems to be a name widely adopted in the industry.

Well, these days of persistent warm weather in Winter. So abnormal.

I don't know how to precisely describe it. The Americans seem to be fervently selfish.

Not necessarily self-centered, but really fervently selfish.

Well, Capitalism has run a long course.

The meaning of 'justice system' seems quite different than that of 'judicial system'.

And 'adjudicate' differs much from 'judge'.

“唱戏的腔、厨师的汤。”

It's almost a hoax that people are led to think they can profit from speculating in financial markets, except real Finance professionals.

And that tragedy is deemed to be exacerbated if the individual speculator is in the later half of his life.

Will life eventually become hard for Apple aficionados, post Steve Jobs?

"But I have nothing to wear," modern Cinderellas usually sniff in their hearts.

And they follow fashion trendsetters blindly, with their eyes wide open.

Yes, through thick and thin...

Oh, magnanimousness.

Well, have Christians been forced into the counterculture in today's American society?

The latter has become so hedonic.

A North American foible is the overloading omnipresence of foods of wickedly high colories sold in splendid little packages.

We've been coaxed into a typical life style of do more, consume more.

But, enough is enough, huh?

Swill your beer, swell your belly.

To be frank, most people who grew up in China still tremendously underestimate the amounts of time and practices which to REALLY acquire English requires.

Schism seems inevitable in every single organization or alliance.

Yes, extenuating circumstances, as well as excuses.

"Raffle" tickets, not "ruffle" tickets.

I'm an inveterate learner of the English language.

It's noteworthy that the dominant Apple computing devices are consumer gizmos.

On the other hand, we owe the gratitude for the democratization of personal computing to Microsoft, at least in China.

J knows how much and long it takes to overcome the disadvantages of one's lineage and surrounding.

Naan and pretzel are among my new favorite foods.

J's dad has got insomnia lately.

Mostly in Montreal there are only coffee houses, but I prefer Eastern Asian tea brews.

Beer is not healthy, but it's nurturing. :-)

Just fattening, actually.

My running shoes have got 10 eyelets on each.

They strangled my shoe laces to death. :-)

Who defines the treason crime?

The Pretz biscuit sticks are a type of pretzel. It's made by Glico, a Japanese company.

You want to ascertain if your employer are good people.

Chamber pot used to be a staple in people's bedrooms.

We humans love porcelain for dinning ware, don't we?

Accountability, which seems to be omnipresent in real democratic societies, should be able to effectively impede nepotism and cronyism.

I seldom see impetuous women, at least until now.

However Stephen Harper's election team had lampooned Justin Trudeau, the latter one, a green national politican, has won the recent Canadian election.

There is a prodigious void, which yet is crucially unsatisfying for human beings, left out by capitalism.

Privacy hedges very much information. It's a necessary evil.

Hippo is a domesticated male from Thailand. His daughter is currently attending a kindergarten.

There seems to be so many keeners in Canada.

Sigh. The bruising demands of the modern life, in both Canada and China.

Maybe many people carry a lot of emotional baggage.

Cubicle farms seem to represent the productivity of yesterday.

Personally I like the tastes of the Primo brand spaghettini and vermicelle.

One shouldn't look for camaraderie in today's rampantly capitalist societies, I guess.

Sigh. How much extra time and efforts do individuals have to put in just for the sake of up-to-dateness, which in turn they have to do?

Erudite journals such as New York Times, New Yorker, and The Economist are still too painstaking for me to read.

夏逝：落英缤纷，灼灼其华。

秋临：落叶遍地，红黄间绿。

I wish that the desktop Windows ecosystem gets along harmoniously with its desktop Linux counterpart.

Sigh. In order to accompany cheese, nowadays I replenish my beer belly nearly every single day.

At the very least, the American way of life has got three bad encroachments: that of gun violence, that of obesity, as well as that of workaholism.

Welcome to the new world.

So many recent changes are so breathtaking and bad.

I commiserate with my fellow men.

Many of them did or will lose their households.

Obviously, capitalism encourages hedonism.

From secular eyes, religions demand credulity from each believer.

Reclaim orientation, recover time, reintegrate knowledge sources.

Unfortunately, some Chinese who graduated from universities in Montreal are not as erudite as they should be, it seems.

Once upon a time, I liked those typical flamboyant sports T-shirts.

Watch out for bad postures when you are using a computer.

They will do you bad.

It seems that many Chinese immigrants in Montreal are not ready for the oftentimes challenging Canadian job market.

Some of them tried, and then capitulated to depaneurs and restaurants.

Well, those conscientious females.

The cartoon figure Big Bird looks amiable. It appears in Sesame Street and must be very well known in the U.S.

It seems that I repetitively look up the exact meanings of "get ahead" and "taint".

It's lucky that I still haven't lost my mind during the very long journey of beefing up my English vocabulary. I'm a sanctimonious learner of the English language. :-)

Hold your horses, cowgirls.

Sometime I'm terrified by the complexities of the contemporary world, be it religious, geopolitical, economical, or technological.

It seems that the backdrop of the ongoing military conflicts in the Middle East is the conflict between Sunni Islam and Shia Islam.