The fad for men's earrings seems to have passed its peak.

A smidgen of Python can make life a lot more convenient.

A mature man must be able to discern whether a path, a relationship, or an endeavor to be embarked upon is going to be auspicious or ominous.

So a man needs truth as much as wisdom.

The technological landscape is so convoluted that it takes looong to navigate.

I dislike bland white sliced bread and buns, which however is wall-to-wall in Montreal, more than soggy ones.

Hillary Clinton was alleged to prevaricate a lot to the Amercian public.

"Staycation" and "metrosexual" are both portmanteau words.

In the future, there will seem to be fewer and fewer places left in the society for people who are diehard technophobes or "Englishphobes."

Under the guise of education, aside from the core learning, myriad things are going on.

The word "meadow" doesn't automatically mean water meadow.

Some people cultivate their benevolent appearances, but not benevolence.

It's been well known that Google/Alphabet can be an erratic provider of technologies at numerous times.

Just think about Google Reader and Google Wave, among others.

Occasional self-abnegation is indispensible for each human being individual.

It seems that for the past many decades, cultivating people might have taken too much time and energy for the people in China.

In general, women often deploy subterfuge.

Crisscross is an overall pattern, isn't it?

Actually, hearsay evidences are pivotal.

Google Search, once the pinnacle web search engine, now has to share the market with Bing, which is developed by the dogged Microsoft.

In China, tight-knit pairs of boyfriends and girlfriends seem to be gradually replacing close-knit families, to a greater or lesser degree.

"Please indulge me for a moment" sounds more British than American, doesn't it?

Illogical remarks expose the speaker's incompetence, or selfishness, or both.

Yeah, sometimes it's difficult to know what to make of the whole education system pipeline, course requirements, and stuff.

The elementary school years, then the high school ones, and then the university ones. All that long learning takes away such mammoth amounts of time as well as energy, day in and day out. Keeps you nearly fully occupied, hence you almost can't learn your own things and think for yourself. And then, alas, the so-called lifelong learning, which can be stressful at times, awaits you and will accompany you to the grave.

种种学校，责成学生耗时竭力达成各种任务。

学子舍己而随人，殆矣。

I'll be gazing at stars into the night sky.

A gazer is totally different from a gator.

The modern females have commited a long string of faux pas since at least the 1970s.

People generally like husky dogs more than husky men. :-)

I have to realign my time expenditures often.

The English language seems to be very democratic, whereas the French language seems to be just the opposite.

Between the two, which one of the models of development will be toppled?

Scenes of people absconding with funds are so common in Hong Kong movies.

A rather common mistake that native speakers of English make is that they use the word "legislate" as a transitive verb.

But it's only an intransitive one.

Hunks galore.

And, bitches galore.

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.