原來金屬也會疲勞。這是我唸小學五年班時，讀到一本科幻小說時發現的。很驚訝，因為我以為疲勞是一種感覺，不應該在死物上出現，原來我錯了，疲勞是普世性的。但之於我的疲勞，又是否等同之於你的呢？
關於疲勞有幾種
屈辱
屈辱，是特別難以忘記的，尤其是在眾人之前受的屈辱，久不久就會像幽靈般在你腦際浮現，即使不一定會令你再一次感受到當日受屈辱時的難受，也至少會令你有一點的不快。
昨天就想起中五時被一個老師在全班同學前侮辱的
昨天就想起中五時被一個老師在全班同學前侮辱的
An API mistake Unix has made several times
Unix has generally had decent APIs, but every so often Unix people havebeen a bit too concerned with minimalism and storing data as efficientlyas possible. Several times this has invited in string-related APIs thatpractically beg for code to make mistakes, because of how they specifystring termination.
Here is an abstracted example. Consider an API where you use thefollowing structure:
struct dirent { uint16_t ino; char name[14];}You will notice that there is nothing explicit to tell
A thought (well, a speculation) on Oh! Edo Rocket's quality
I watched Oh! Edo Rocket several years ago (before I started writing Roving Thoughts )and enjoyed it quite a lot; ever since then I've felt that it was anunderappreciated gem, and I am glad to see people like Author discoverit .
(Yes, yes, technically Author 'discovered' it ages ago, back when itoriginally aired, and merely watched it recently. You all know what Imean. Ironically I think one of Author's old side comments about a bitin the first
An aside on the timing of my previous entry
It is mostly a coincidence that I wrote my previousentry on Panty & Stocking right after Author posted his roll call of the sleeping and dead .I watched the episode last night (after reading Aroduc's summary ,which pushed it up the 'I want to see this for myself' list) andimmediately wound up thinking about how to write up my reaction to it,since it's one of the few anime lately that I have had a distinctreaction to.
However, I can't deny that
My reaction to Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt #1
It is not often that the first episode of an anime series leaves meboggled as my major reaction.
The best way I can think of to describe P&S is that it feelslike Gainax decided that they wanted to make a modern Americancartoon and then turn the age limit up (without turning up thematurity level, which appears to be set firmly at the Ren & Stimpyor Beavis & Butthead level). The result is extremely unlike almostall of the other anime I've seen, including Gainax'
Why you might need to change the story when adapting it to anime
(For some context, see the previous entry , inwhich this was originally a sidebar before it got too long.)
To put it one way, anime almost always gives you an external view ofcharacters and events, not an internal one (one where the character'sinternal feelings and motivations are clear to the reader). Manga andgames let you give the reader a somewhat more internal view, and writtentext lets you give them a fully internal view if you want to.
(You don't