I think Baton Rouge, Louisiana has got a nice name, hasn't it?

Americans are inherently much against statism. However, are the bureaucrats in its government naturally apt to be wanting to be more of statists deep inside their hearts?

English became the lingua franca of the world. In essence, it's a phonetic language. By contrast, Chinese is a symbolic language. So the translation of some Chinese words into English can be funny.

A real-life example happened in a Montreal office with a Chinese whose last name is 缪 (spelled commonly as "Miao" in English and pronounced as /'miau/, according to the pronunciation of the original Chinese word). So when one vocal Western colleague of hers learned that her family name is such, the female co-worker uttered "oh my God, her name is Meow" (In English, "meow" means the crying sound made by a cat).

:-)

J said to the store clerk, "I've been kept being asked what my postal code is, for your company's customer locations survey, since last year. Has any new store been opened during the interval?"

As a matter of fact, the historically new layer of human rights, in the organization of human societies, removes most people further from villainy.

I for one am a fly on the wall when RIM's fate has been unfolding.

What a spectacular fall that has been. I guess it has revealed a probable classic flaw that the Canadian biz mentality possesses, which is a biz needs not to participate in or even be posted from innovation frontiers.

It's said that Dell's historically continuous choice of not doing any real R&D and instead focusing on excelling at supply chain management can be its own undoing, especially after it has missed the first years of opportunities of jumping on the bandwagon of smart phones and tablets.

Being lofty and esoteric is different than being haughty.

With Montreal's air being actually dusty, I wonder if dining alfresco, e.g. on a patio, is really good.

Anyways, that shouldn't bother.

Well, I never really knew "rainbow" also stands for "homo" in slang terms.

No offense towards LGBT with the "h..." word, though.

J has a knack of sensing people's abnormal feelings, or emotions, so to speak.

"Benet" is now an obscure word. But it's a good word, with its meaning straightforwardly hinted by its structure.

See http://www.thefreedictionary.com/benet.

It's as good as "begone" and "besiege".

How many baristas can you feel celebrate coffee while they are making it?

Mr. Earl Jones was a knave, a rogue and he fleeced his clients dozens of millions of dollars.

He betrayed other people's trust of him. I wonder how that is explained theoretically in Moral Philosophy.

No one can bate the ever accelerating paces of the changes of the business world, especially in the software technology industry. It's a collective phenomenon.

Apparently, Quebec celebrates equality in some or many ways.

Speech impediments include stammer, lisp, and so on.

Yes, when I see that word "lisp", I always am curious about whether it has something to do with the Lisp programming language, though I always knew that's highly unlikely. :-)

In Canada's political system, the position of the Leader of the Official Opposition is marvelous, I think.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leader_of_the_Official_Opposition_(Canada).
Quote:

The Leader of the Opposition is entitled to the same levels of pay and protection as a Cabinet minister. He or she is entitled to reside at the official residence of Stornoway and ranks fourteenth on the Order of Precedence, after Cabinet ministers and before lieutenant governors of the provinces.

What a figure David Ogilvy is! And how he looks like an old-era English gentleman.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ogilvy_(businessman).

By the way, Mr. Ogilvy (pronunciation: /'oɡəlvi/) is not to be confused with the Ogilvy's department store in Montreal. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogilvy_(department_store).

Typing on the computer keyboard gives my daily computing a tactile quality.