Saint Patrick, Saint Patrick Cathedral of NYC, and Saint Patrick's Day

1. Saint Patrick, "is the most generally recognized patron saint of Ireland". He was said to be associated with visions of Purgatory.

2. The Saint Patrick's Cathedral is "located on the east side of Fifth Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets in midtown Manhattan, New York City, New York, directly across the street from Rockefeller Center."

3. On Saint Patrick's Day, parades are typically held internationally. But it is not made a public holiday in Canada.

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Here goes a gnome by Beethoven -- "Music is the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life." So insightful.

The medley of American citizens has backgrounds from all over the world. And that makes the overseas operations of American governmental and military agencies not encumbered by lack of local knowledge.

I can see our baby daughter's physical blossoming, at the same time, I can sense her mental flowering.

Babies bud very fast.

"Rain heralds the arrival of spring." is such a very well written sentence.

Apple can elicit rabid fandom among people all over the world nowadays. Few people care about that it was in quite difficult and painful situations once or several times before.

Well, when Microsoft bought up Skype, was it merely buying out a competitor? After all, Microsoft had an excellent free video chat product up and running for years already, which was the Windows Live Messenger.

In China, so profound are the effects of the proliferation of internet access, which greatly facilitates the diffusion of information.

For instance, the young people cannot be easily fooled any more. No more.

I don't really get why Google makes Android versions so ephemeral. Such an ephemeral fashion. Gee.

Have TOO many web companies mastered the $0 price point? :-)

The antic Disney cartoon figures such as Mickey Mouse have lived well for generations of children.

Is UNIX the ultimate Rambo OS?

The keystrokes on my new white HP laptop feel crisper than those on the older black one.

Pleasant industrial design, isn't it?

The excruciating tardiness of improving one's English level is something that he must endure.

China's economy has been in full bloom for around two decades. How long will it be before the deep-running social problems surface in its society? And how much derailment will that do to its economy?

To my untrained eyes, moles, beavers, and groundhogs look quite similar.

(A mole / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Close-up_of_mole.jpg)

Image references:

http://www.google.com/search?q=mole&hl=en&qscrl=1&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=vbvYTZ2NOILL0AGXx838Aw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CB4Q_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=675

http://www.google.com/search?q=beaver&hl=en&qscrl=1&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=y7vYTbvoHYXd0QHwmpT8Aw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=675

http://www.google.com/search?q=groundhog&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS250&qscrl=1&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=5r3YTbibIee70QHd25j8Aw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBUQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=675

I enjoy the chancy NONLINEARITY of meaningful discussions with people. In addition, and a little worse, I enjoy the chancy linearity in discussions with some people.

My relatively unsophisticated English has remained my pain point, more or less, personally.

Shifting one's ground is a bad habit.

我猜想，也許應該定義兩個新的 quotients：Raw intelligence quotient (RIQ) 和 Raw creativity quotient (RCQ)。

RIQ 和 RCQ 高的人，可以在自己掌握相關知識不多的知識領域裡，產生好的 ideas，並且執行出好的結果。

另外，近幾年出現了一個新的 quotient -- Spiritual quotient (a.k.a. SQ, 靈商)，貌似比較火熱。