It seems that Valentine's Day has got only some sentimental value, thanks to consumerism.

And, the particular modern Western secular tradition makes many people unnecessarily poignant. Isn't it so?

IMHO, the inherent human greed induced capitalism, and then the latter exacerbated the former.

I'm still a bit confused by the thing of duvet or comforter.

Tisane, aka herbal tea, seems to be a complicated sort of drink.

I like vermicelli.

It's a super-duper sort of pasta and noodle. Is it noodle?

The word 'lusty' is so easy to be confused with 'lustful'.

The world loads nearly everyone of us with a lot of information, almost compulsorily.

Besides, nearly everyone of us streams or downloads a lot of videos and audio clips.

That's a lot of traffic on the internet altogether.

It seems that many female pop singers take advantage of suggestive dancing movements to engage, stimulate, and mesmerize the audience.

Well, do you think that's sad or something?

Crypto with GnuPG is very popular.

What money can buy exhilarates people, normally.

'^' is called the caret symbol.

Linux is gripping.

But many Linux applications are not.

Chillax, slow is cool.

I for one hope that slow medicine, as well as slow parenting, will take over.

My LG Nexus 5 phone faceplanted on the floor the other week.

Thanks to the rugged Ballistic brand phone case, the phone screen remained intact. That's called hardware investment.

J has been pensive in his private moments.

Well, personally I wouldn't say that blogosphere is the most powerful, but I would say that the RSS sphere, so to speak, is.

My laptop's optical drive seems to be not capable to play the Blu-ray thingummy.

Well, I guess I'll shop around for a new one next year.

Stuffocation causes people stress from time to time, it seems.

Uncontrolled consumerism boosts greed among people's hearts. Isn't that right?

This website, stuffocation.org , urges you to de-stuffocate your life and your home.

That action made by the woman was the single clincher. Final. Period.

Short video - A Beach Bot creating sandscape

Do those omnipresent emblazoned baseball caps embezzle our attention away from the wearers' faces?

There's a 'tomcat'. And there's a 'bobcat'.

There's a 'tomboy'. But there's no such a word as 'bobboy'.

Organic agriculture and horticulture seem to be growing in importance in this particular era.

Workers and employers are often at odds with each other on their standpoints, obviously.

Let's all hope that China's humongous economy is not going to become a debacle, seriously.

I for one have grown increasingly concerned.

The root cause is its distorted capital allocation schemes system, I suppose.

Compared to desktop Linux skills, desktop Windows skills have become menial, or easy, if you like.

Will people grow a bit vehement against Google Inc.?

Security loopholes of popular open source software pieces get fixed more quickly than their closed source counterparts, supposedly.

The momentum of Linux Mint cannot be ignored.

Well, chivalrous behavior almost died out in Canada.

Who are the culprits?

I have to take my life on the chin.

Home is not only for downtime.

For instance, am I myself a home-grown English language geek?

The sales gimmick of offering free publications degrades printing material a lot.

Being rude to people won't get one anywhere.

Man, nowadays so many young people simply abjure computing devices that are not made by Apple Inc.

On the other hand, is Apple sheerly a consumer computing Goliath?

Garble passwords and foil potential crackers.

Personally I think 'segue' to be a euphonious word.

A yummy meal makes you feel satisfied and chilled-out.

"Global" "variable". It sounds nice, huh?

I endeavor to acquire knowledge and know-how.

That's my life.

Pinocchio is an Italian name, indeed.

I don't know how all those many young Canadian students, who are quite used to expending their time in designer coffee houses, will develop their own sense of parsimony.

Sometimes we have to abide ignorance.

Those forms used by Canadian governments are neat with perforated lines.

How I wish the computer peripherals companies act in concert with Linux, in place of Windows.

Let's hope that China's real estate segment won't be an unmitigated disaster.

You see dogs sniff here and there.

They are smart creatures.

Females clamor for glamor, on Facebook, Pinterest, and so on.

Chillax, I'm better off without watching or reading news about the latest various crises across the world.

Chromebook vs. Windows laptop may look like a David and Goliath comparison.

But the former has got significant potential to eventually win over the latter and dominate personal desktop computing for the mass, down the road.

The command-line in desktop Linux easily segues into its counterpart in server Linux.

Ah, the patience of Job.

Well, 'cosplay' is such a new word in English that it didn't appear in major English dictionaries published in 2004 which I own.

While many small restaurants are jostling for survival, they should go the handmade foodstuff route.

Cooperative individuals are valuable.

You, as a boy or man, build, adjust, and titivate your hair style in front of the mirror.

That's your necessary grain of vanity.

Many Girls merely use their swanky Macbooks to view pics and flicks mostly, it seems.

The last name part of Mr. Desmond Tutu, 'Tutu', has nothing to do with the tutu worn by ballerinas at all.

According to http://www.ourbabynamer.com/meaning-of-Tutu.html , the name Tutu is of African origin and its meaning is 'cliff dweller'.

"管弦燁煜"。

'Drunk', 'befuddled', 'intoxicated', ...

There are so many words to describe drunkenness in English.

Freedom comes with prices for individuals. So be circumspect.

Don't view pics and videos of glamor models and sexpots too much.

Stay out of harm's way.

Is there usually more altruism in puppy love than in adult love?

What's the point of clamoring for a newer Android phone every two years?

Ah, the toxic consumeristic culture in North America.

'Immutable' is such a commonplace word in software development.

Normally I feel more like coming in from the cold at a café than at a cafeteria.

Tim Horton's is a notable exception, though.

A 'smock' is a totally different thing than a 'smog'.

But it's not so much distinct from an 'apron'.

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