The Boston Marathon is the oldest annual marathon in the world, also one of the best known ones. It's said it's the hardest one too.

Well, doesn't Boston host the two hardest universities too? Harvard and MIT; especially MIT.

Z cravenly or selfishly refused her husband's request to ask her to tell her relatives that they would not visit them because her husband felt tired.

It seems that too many teachers/staff at 7-dollar daycare facilities in Montreal are too authoritarian towards kids. The don't respect the children enough.

Apple has swept the world with its iPod, iPhone, and iPad, back to back.

Now, outside Apple, there are iRobot, iCoffee, iCar, and so on. Will there be iMat, iBed, iMattress, and iWall?

Gee. I just want to live in the world. I don't want to live in an iWorld.

Samuel de Champlain is called the "Father of New France", which means father of the French Canada.

For now, two aspects, or events, in his life intrigue me. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_de_Champlain#Murder_of_the_King
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_de_Champlain#Marriage .

I don't know if the depiction of "cosmopolitan Germans and mostly avaricious, bestial Czechs" is somewhat true as cited in the below NYT movie review.

See To the Victors, Vengeance.

Entrepreneurship exacts risk tolerance and patience.

Did the ancestors of black people get their hair frizzled under the African sun thousands of years ago? Maybe.

Sometime I'm driven crazy by our baby daughter's importunate whining and crying.

I can only hope she grows up quickly.

Much of the software technology is about the portage of information.

Some people can remember what happened when they were three years old. Compared with them, I just have oblivion.

All the cordless home phones sold at Jean Cotu are made in China. Even Siemens phones.

I've been making friends with Chinese cooking. Man, what a delicious world if you can do it properly.

Personally I think that the nouns/adjectives with an "ese" at the end feel pretty if we only consider their sounds. For instances, "Viennese", "Vietnamese", "Chinese", and "Lebanese".

Abraham Lincoln lives posthumously in people's minds.

People say he's a great man.

I'm currently reading the poem O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman, which was published in his Leaves of Grass.

When one's stressful, he sometimes has one or more abscesses on his gum or the skin area a trifle above his lip.

Apple's biggest enemy probably is its very own authoritarianism over outside software developers.

It's not quite good that the West garrison Iraq, Afghanistan, Lybia and so on, which are crucial oil countries on the Earth.

But it's not quite bad that the West eventually withdraw their military and establish the so-called "free trade" with those countries.

My wife and I have fatted our baby daughter. How much striving, coping, and devising it has taken.

I feel more simpatico with open software systems.