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.