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"any questions?"
“I had a question", but when I tried to ask my question, he scowled.
‘My question was rhetorical! I’m not interested in questions. I want answers! People who ask a lot of questions slow things down. If there is anything I cannot tolerate it’s people who slow things down. In fact, the greatest experience I have ever known is speeding up, speeding up, speeding up, at
the relentless rate of 9.8 meters per second squared."

-from book KR

A prima donna is a person who cannot accept criticism, who feels that his or her work is beyond reproach. A sniper is a person who disrupts team unity with thinly veiled sarcastic remarks. A tyrant is a person who tries to dominate the entire team, imposing his or her wilI upon everyone else.

Software psychologists classify programmers into three broad personality types:
interaction-oriented,
task oriented,
and self-oriented.

1400 B.C.
The Babylonian develop the clepydra (water clock). Using a syphon principle, it automatically recycled itself, and thus ws one of the earliest ancestors of industrial robot devices.
270 B.C.
An ancient Greek engineer named Ctesibus made organs and water clocks with movable figures.
8 A.D.
Pygmalion myth first published by Ovid (b.43 BC). When Pygmalion falls in love with the beautiful statu he has created, it comes to life in answer to his prayers to Venus.
1525 A.D.
Hans Bullmann of Nuremberg creates the first autiomation that fully reproduces a human form.
1580 A.D.
Rabbi Judah Low ben Bezulel of Prague inspires the best-known version of the Jewish folktale of the Golem, a creature brought to life from clay.
1617 A.D.
Scotland's John Napier introduces a system of multiplying by adding numbers and dividing by subtracting. The system, which is called "Napier's Bones," was mechanical numbering device made of horn, bone, or ivory.
1623 A.D.
Germany's Wilhelm chickard invents the first workable mechanical calculating machine. It's able to add and subtract automatically and multiply and divide semi-automatically.
1727 A.D.
First appearance of the word "android" in English, in reference to the German philosopher and alchemist Albertus Magnus'(c.1200-1280) attempts to create an artificial man.
1737 A.D.
French inventor Jacques Vaucanson creates several automation, including a life-size musician android that played 11 flute melodies, and hs famous "duck".
1760 A.D.
Cerman inventor Friedrich von Knauss builds an automation figurine that holds a pen and can write a passage of 17 words.
1772-75 A.D.
In Geneva Pierre Jacquet-Droz creates lifelike automations modeled as writers, artists, and musicians.
1780 A.D.
American Benjamin Franklin discovers lightening is electricity.
1804 A.D.
Frenchman Joseph-Marie Jacquared completeds his fully automated loom, which is programmed by punched cards.
acknowledgement

Heart of a Lioness

A documentary film on a lioness in Samburu:

Kamunyak is her name, means the blessed one
She adopted a baby oryx.
They stayed together for more than 16 days,
without food for both of them.
She didn't let oryx out of her sight,
but the little one couldn't live without mom's milk.
But once, Kamunyak had a rest and let oryx wander around.
The male lion ate the oryx,
sadly Kamunyak could only watch them,
and smell the blood on the grass afterward.
Kamunyak had her first meal after oryx's death,
and soon after she adopted other one, five all together.
But never like the first one.
She disappeared ...
Someone said she will appear as a sun
when the world is born again.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1746828.stm
http://www.lewa.org/oryx-lioness.php

BBC NEWS | Being bilingual 'protects brain': "They found that those who were fluent in two languages rather than just one were sharper mentally.
Writing in the journal of Psychology and Ageing, they said being bilingual may protect against mental decline in old age.
Previous studies have shown that keeping the brain active can protect against senile dementia. "

AskOxford: for Word Origins/terms/special meanings

Take Me To Your Heart - Michael Learns To Rock:
Standing on a mountain high
Looking at the moon through a clear blue sky
I should go and see some friends
But they don't really comprehend

Don't need too much talking without saying anything
All I need is someone who makes me wanna sing

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At the cross, God demonstrates His love for us,
While we were sinners Jesus came to die,
So by his blood we could be justified.
At the cross, God demonstrates that he is just,
Unpunished sins could not be overlooked,
So Jesus took them on Himself,

So be not ashamed of the cross,
it brings salvation to all who believe
God is revealed
Guilt is removed
Forgiveness can now be received

So be not ashamed of the cross
Tell of its power to all who will hear
Great is our joy
Glory is ours
From death we can now be set free

At the cross
God demonstrates hs endless grace
He chose to send His precious only Son,
To punish Him for sins we've done

words:bryson smith

The quality of the blog,
fast-food alike.
fast-food is not necessary junk food.
self satisfaction vs irresponsible

人, 用感官行先, 以感覺把關.
繁華與寂寞. 交叉而行.

Million of people suffer from the winter blues, triggered when fewer hours of daylight throw off our natural body rhythm...but isn't Australia a sunshine country? We don't need a palette of remedies that but just the common sense. :)
And there are seasons of the heart. There are season in our lives, just as there are seasons to all of nature. These seasons cannot be forced any more than one can force the coming of the Spring by pulling at tender blades of grass to make them grow. It took me long time to understand.

If I were a book, I would hate the pleasure that other forms of art provide. The pleasure that distracts men, women, and children from the pleasure that I , a book, could give. But would I really have all that much to worry about? After all, going to the theater is a little complicated. Seeing a film involves a lot of running around. And watching TV requires that one stay home, and keep zapping. But I , a book, can go anywhere - in my reader's pocket, when he goes on a bus, takes a train, waits in line for a haircut. In fact, my only real competition is the Walkman, which can also be taken anywhere and provides a one-to-one relationship.

For the sake of this blog, I try to produce less beautiful rubbish.

Lost in vague interspace between dreams and this real world.
That tiny catch in my friend's voice dissolved whatever stood between me and my sorrow. My torrents of grief were unleashed.

The Day After Tomorrow
yahoo film:
This movie takes a big-budget, special-effects-filled look at what the world would look like if the greenhouse effect and global warming continued at such levels that they resulted in worldwide catastrophe and disaster, including multiple hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of the next Ice Age. At the center of the story is a paleoclimatologist (a scientist who studies the ways weather patterns changed in the past), Professor Adrian Hall (Quaid), who tries to save the world from the effects of global warming while also trying to get to his son, Sam (Gyllenhaal), who was in New York City as part of a scholastic competition, when the city was overwhelmed by the chilling beginnings of the new Ice Age. In addition to all of the other challenges Dr. Hall faces, he's also going against the flow as humanity races south to warmer climes, and he's nearly the only one going north.

Dreiser (sister Carrie) believed that people are "chemicals". We suffer for our temperaments, which are not part of our willing or doing.
All of us crave affection and power; some men are innately powerful, but are the exceptions: the vast majority is those who succumb to life's snares.

文化:
The way of life and its manifestation s that are peculiar to one speech community.

Bright red costumes, with hats, shoes, and stockings to match, are to be all the craze in the Spring. Smart women will have to be careful not to yawn in the streets in case some shortsighted person is on his way to post a letter.... haha..

Some contemporary Christians who are conscious of a long - and lengthening - period church history rather tan of their days being numbered may feel that the framework of Paul's theology with its stress on the future coming of the Lord and above all on the sense of its nearness, with all the implications that this has for Christian living, is unrealistic. Yet Christian today may too easily assume the permanence and independence of their own collective existence in a secure universe and fail to realize tat at every moment they depend upon the Lord's mercy and live in the light of his coming. if God shattered the time-space framework of the universe by coming into it in the person of his incarnate Son, surely he can and will bring human history to a consummation by a future intervention to establish his everlasting reign in justice, peace and love. Paul also makes it plain that Christians are not meant to spend their time doing nothing and waiting for the Lord to come. Rather, they must prepare for his coming by showing the qualities of Christian living, faith, love and hope.

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