在我小時候，人們的麻煩是沒有信息，需要的是信息。現在，人們的麻煩是信息太多太多，需要的是 情報 和 比普通信息更有價值的重要信息。

Pigs squeal when they are in fear. Pigs are smart animals.

Driven by desire

The electric fan extorts artificial breezes from the summer air
The baby is gibber-jabbering and speaking "eye" and "hair"
You say life is too hard and most of times unfair
and why the biting flying mosquitoes always dare

Even the proverbial hand pointing to the moon is hard to see sometimes.

Against the backdrop of the lack of modern science, the ancient Roman people associated the sun with a god named "Phoebus" (a.k.a. "Apollo" in Greek mythology).

Well, science is a newly found layer of human beings' cognition of the universe, from the human society development perspective.

In addition, it's said that Phoebus drives around in his chariot. Well, why doesn't he fly about instead, like other gods? Because the sun is too heavy for a god to carry around?

Far things stand as beacons and metrics. Blended together with pragmatism, they also make the road underneath.

In many stores in Montreal, there are little packs of tamarind balls brand-named as "Chappie's Treats". The main customers of that product are women and girls, I suppose.

A quite smart brand name it is.

How many years had it taken for the Magna Carta, of the Great Britain, to develop?

教育，分成 学校教育 和 自我教育。对现代人来说，两者你中有我，我中有你。

Are there metrics for predictability / certainty?

Posies of enlightenment normally only come when your mind actively seeks them.

A lot of cash. A lot of liquid assets.

People demand. People diss. People ditch.

I don't really know why some penmen among Chinese immigrants write slightly poetic articles over the poor and run-down Verdun area in Montreal.

Intriguing is the development of Morality Plays, following that of Mystery Plays, in the Middle Ages' Europe. I'm not sure how the relationships between them and Shakespearean dramas are.

"Having grown out of the religiously based mystery plays of the Middle Ages, they (Morality Plays) represented a shift towards a more secular base for European theatre."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality_play

(By David Blackwell / http://www.flickr.com/photos/mobilestreetlife/4954319481/ /CC)

You know that man. You know he puts on a pious face. There are more people who know that than who don't.

(Continuum & spectrum) vs. (black and white)

"Good" and "bad" ... stand at opposite ends of a continuum instead of describing the two halves of a line
--Wayne Shumaker
--Excerpted from the item "continuum" in the Merriam-Webster 11th Collegiate Dictionary

RIM failed to escape its own echo chamber and missed the boat.

"May I have your name please?" J said to the assistant.

Well, the dilapidated state of Montreal's transportation infrastructure will cause tax hikes eventually, I suppose.