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.