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前言﹕這是一個叫「兩周一聚」的活動。是網友米雪兒發起。每月十五日﹑三十日﹐一班住在世界不同角落的香港人都會一起寫同一個題目。今天是第十五次相聚，由Readandeat… [...]
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我從開始修讀哲學以來﹐一直也想學習中國哲學﹐可是大學沒有開中國哲學的課﹐想看書自修又感到無從入手。內地學者于丹在電視台講論言很出名﹐不過在書店看見她的《論語心得》厚厚一大本﹐又有點擔心自己初看吃不消。正在躊躇不知該從那裏開始時﹐剛好在獨媒看見《孔子無雙》的廣告﹐便不其然被這本書的名字吸引。廣告中標榜新派歷史小說﹐有很多名字熟悉的文化界名人推廌﹐加上平常也有看作者何故寫的日本文化評論﹐我想這本書應該會很有趣便買了下來。… [...] After 3 weeks of interview, we have narrowed down to two candidates for a new grad position. Both of them have good enough, but not superb, technical skills. Both of them have good evaluation from previous co-op work term with my company. Both… [...] Every verification engineer should remember this list by heart so that they can educate their managers. The list is so true that I print a copy and pin it to my cube… [...] My friend is an elementary school teacher. Her grade 7 class is having career day to understand different kinds of jobs and she asked me as a guest speaker. I am a toastmaster, so I thought how hard can it be to speak in front of 20 kids. I was wrong.… [...] 
Sumo Paint is a free image editing software that gives you the opportunity to create, edit and comment images online with powerful tools and layer support.… [...] After the layoff last year, the size of my company has shrink quite a bit. The current office space seems to be too spacious with empty cubicles here and there. The management decide to lower the rental cost by terminating the lease of the 4th floor.… [...] Building Wolfram alpha as a giant number cruncher seems like a good idea, but I am disappointed at its knowledge. It can’t even tell me how many people has died in the Tiananmen Square massacre, a.k.a. 64.… [...] Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Goldilocks. She went for a walk in the Silicon Valley. Pretty soon, she came upon a start-up company. She knocked and, when no one answered, she walked right in. Inside the office, there are three… [...] I went to an Air Canada focus group after work today. I was selected to participate in the focus group probably because I flew too much last year. I went back go Hong Kong in the beginning of the year, traveled went to India three times and went to… [...] 
. 我喜歡看漫畫﹐但那僅限於日本漫畫。我很少看以英雄故事為主的美國漫畫。我對漫畫英雄的認識﹐均來自荷里活改篇漫畫的電影。年初《保衛奇俠》電影版上映時﹐我才知道這套漫畫的來頭。第一套奪取科幻小說最高榮譽雨果獎的漫畫﹐被時代雜誌選為百大最佳小說。嚴格來說《保衛奇俠》不只是一部漫畫﹐應該稱之為圖畫小說才對。它把漫畫從少年和宅男間流行讀物﹐提升到文學經典的地位﹐讓圖畫成為表達作品主旨的媒介。我身邊不少朋友是這部漫畫的狂迷﹐他們告訴我在看電影版前﹐一定要先讀漫畫﹐否則欣賞程度必定大打折扣。… [...] This weekend I am organizing my study room and Pat was merging our books. We have so many books that they fill up three Ikea bookcases. I used to have a list of my books but that list is very out of date. I decided to spend some time to categorize our… [...] This could be a pretty neat interview question. It can tests how well the candidate knows about logics.… [...] 
每一代也有他們的文化標記﹐《公主新娘》應該是八十年代在北美成長的集體回憶。幾個月前同事間閒談說笑﹐一位同事引用這套電影的經典對白﹐聽得懂弦外之音的人哈哈大笑。我和一位長大後才移民過來的同事﹐和另一個剛出來做事不久的新畢業生﹐沒有其經歷過其他人共同擁有的八十年代童年生活﹐聽得一頭霧水不明所意。其他人奇怪居然有人不知道這套經典電影﹐有個同事甚至說要帶影碟回公司﹐在會議室播放教育我們﹐後來這件事當然不了了之。早前回多倫多旅行時﹐飛機上的電影庫竟然有這齣電影。我放棄不看其他最新電影﹐決定開這套電影來看看它到底如何經典。… [...] 
I and Pat went to Garden Works to have breakfast in the garden cafe. After the breakfast, we went to the nursery section for a walk among the green plants. Pat said I am not compassionate to animals and plants. It is true that I never own any pets or… [...] Contrary to the hiring freeze, my department is hiring new people, both new graduate and engineer position. I have been spending lots of my time doing interview in the past two weeks. I haven’t went to any interview for many years. This… [...] 
相信很少電影擁有跨越三個世代的觀眾層﹐長青科幻劇集《星空奇遇記》大慨是很特殊的例外。去年聽到會重拍初代電影﹐講述卻克艦和洗樸初遇的經過﹐我己決定一定要入場觀看。當年是家父帶領我進入星空奇遇的世界﹐今天身邊有不少朋友帶同兒子一同觀看新的初代電影版。算起來我應該看齊了十一套電影和超過半數的電視劇集﹐只是年代太久印象已經有點模糊。雖有我不是標準的trekkie﹐主要是我同時也十分喜歡《星球大戰》﹐但還是可以如數家珍地講述關於星空奇遇的世界。… [...] Human first, animal second. It is acceptable to regulate animal experiment for better efficiency, but we should not stop animal experiment because animal suffers, as long as it brings benefits to mankind.… [...] 
第一次接觸譚劍是讀中學的時候﹐那時我是個十足的科幻小說迷。雖有現在仍然是科幻迷﹐不過生活太忙沒有空餘時間看小說了。最初受衛斯理偽科幻小說的啟蒙﹐再接觸張系國等台灣科幻作家擴闊眼界﹐不論是中文原創還是翻譯作品﹐只要在圖書館能夠借到的也會看。最神奇是移民來到加拿大後,在公共圖書館竟然有譚劍的小說。香港土產的科幻小說作家寥寥可數﹐他的小說當然不能錯過了。印象中他的小說我全部看過﹐不過內容已忘記很一乾二淨。後來網誌興起﹐竟然給我遇到譚劍的網誌﹐發現他的工作﹐興趣和嗜好與我很相似﹐便訂閱他的網誌定期閱讀﹐間中留言與他交流意見。雖然我倆並不算認識﹐但我已視譚劍為我在網絡上神交的朋友。… [...] 
今年是高達三十週年紀念﹐監於上次命種高達劣評如潮﹐日昇社起用曾製作《無限的未知》的水島精二為監製﹐希望為擦亮高達這老店的招牌。為減低製作趕不上放映追度的風險﹐更把五十二集的故事砍為兩季播放﹐讓中間有半年空檔作檢討調整。這次高達00給人耳目一新的感覺﹐故事捨棄虛構的UC或CE紀元﹐直接用現實世界的AD年歷。故事發生在三百年後的未來﹐太陽能已取代石油作為地球的主要能源。在太空中建立太陽能發電站﹐電力隨軌道電梯輸送到地面。世界局勢三強分立﹐分為美洲﹐歐非洲和亞洲三大陣營﹐各陣營也坐擁一座軌道電梯﹐挾著能源的支配權﹐控制勢力圈內的小國。除了地區性的局部衡突外﹐世界政局大致表面和平﹐但內裏三大勢力暗地較量﹐世界大戰一觸即發。有個智力超人的光頭佬科學家﹐在二百年發明了無限動力的GN爐。他預言世界政局的變化﹐用二百年的時間﹐去建立一支擁有高科技的部隊﹐以武力制止戰爭﹐創造一個永久和平的世界。四台高達和運輸母艦﹐便是這個稱為天上人的組織﹐去推動世界改革的執行者。… [...] |
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