My early impressions of the Spring 2011 anime season

Another season brings another set of snapshots, just like last time , except that this has been extended and slow enoughthat this a lot more than first episodes by now.

Shows I've seen, more or less in the order seen:

  • Dog Days : It's a refreshing change when the summoned hero is bothcompetent and enthusiastic about his new situation. Apart from that,this is lightweight but cheerful and fun. Honestly, there's a lot tobe said for that.

  • Sengoku Otome Momoiro Paradox :

論龍友

群眾對龍友的厭惡是可以理解的,一堆中年大叔拿著一支支長鏡,團團圍著兩三個中學都未畢業的所謂模特兒,閃呀閃,影呀影,又高抄又低抄,你行過旺角,心裏都不禁想問︰「搞咩呀你地?」

很精警的問題,因為我們對自己

Eternity and a Day


昨天心血來潮想看一齣有意義的電影,於是找來希臘導演 安哲羅普洛斯 的 Eternity and a Day( 台譯永遠的一天 / 港譯一生何求,其實叫永遠和一天可能更貼切呢 ) ,一如以往陷入電影的思考空間。

以前我看過導演的霧中風景、悲傷草原、
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On Writing Documentation

I've been slowly reading through "Coders at Work," an excellent book in which Peter Siebel interviews many different programmers on their work and craft, and I hit a great little snippet of advice from Peter Norvig:

"The overall design of what's going to do what, that's really important to lay out first. It's got to be something that everybody understands and it's also got to be the right choice."

Basically, before you start doing some huge project, have


林忌的神奇數字

林忌最近有一篇充滿嚇人數字的 文章 ,主要是支持陳雲「來港新移民很多是共產黨員」之說。他應該是指陳雲 這幾句說話 :「現在的新移民,很多是充當中共的平民間諜(我見過不少!),是港共的投票機器」,可是,以下兩點

夢遊天姥吟留”i”

午夜夢迴,遇上喬教主,見他手執蘋果,向我啟示。

「蘋果來,為要拯救宅人,叫一切信它的,不至電車,反成潮人。 」

教主背後的光環太刺眼,我頭也不敢抬起,只敢閉目合十,然後拱手接旨。

「香江一眾善信不怕風吹雨打日

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執行高於天份

皇馬對陣巴塞,又輸了,但無可否認,即使皇馬表現差,領隊摩連奴依然是一場球賽的焦點,例如越來越多人在看他的球隊比賽時,會用上「執行」兩個字。

以前看球賽,很多時要看個別球員或組合的發揮,例如獨到的傳球、刁

舊文重刊:賭博害人

(**今早心血來潮,打開久未下注的馬會網上投注戶口,將剩餘的錢,在皇馬對巴塞的比賽中,全押在巴塞身上,心想輸了便心安理得,告別賭博,豈料美斯2個漂亮的入球,令我贏了錢,把我留在賭海中。)

( 原刊 AV Magazine 15


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[ 報應 ]  //  羅永昌的《報應》,驟眼看來,竟然有韋家輝的風格,在探討「因果」及「救贖」等主題,和韋的《大隻佬》及《神探》有異曲同工之妙。「一念天堂,用之救贖,用之殺戮」關係微妙,世界上沒有絕對的好人和壞


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[ Water for Elephants / 情約奇藝坊 ]   //  幾時都話,同動物做朋友,好過同人,盞攪。未看電影時,以為Water for Elephants  的意思是給大象飲用,或者沖涼的水,但戲中的大象 Rosie 是飲whisky的。其實片名很浪漫,包含了在受傷 / 低潮時,朋友給予的撫慰,