下沉

夜夜笙歌,

在舞池內忘形作樂,

一個又一個男人的靠近。

其實,

從來沒有讓我歡笑過。

工作以外的日子,

只懂得將烈酒灌下,

讓掌腳跳舞至發痛,

由不相識的人抱著我的腰,

天色魚肚白時才踱步回家。

你們會否相信我真的快樂嗎

pleasure in gesture(小劇場五則)

離截止遞表時間尚餘四分鐘,《字花》下年度的申請資助表格恰恰交上(其間遞表之人因其施施然,受到其餘同僚無以數計的冷嘲熱諷及焦慮催促)。詩詠可以睡一個覺,我應該可以打一晚機。——這樣寫的時候,我忘了星期一

Link: Warning Signs for Tomorrow

Warning Signs for Tomorrow is a collection of warning signs for tomorrow. Amusing and potentially usefulones (for me; your mileage may vary) include 'lack of internet connectivity','ubiquitous surveillance', and 'motivation hazard'.

(From James Nicoll .)


Why quoting in the Bourne shell makes me grumpy

Imagine for a moment that you have an almost arbitrary string(no nulls, newlines, or other funky control characters) thatyou want to quote so that it passes through the Bourne shellintact. How do you do it?

The Bourne shell offers you two quoting schemes, strings insingle quotes and strings in double quotes.

Strings in double quotes need special characters escaped withbackslashes. There are five of them (quick, do you know them all?), orsix in some situations in some versions of the


粉絲製的淚

我想這並不是我一個人的,而是經常面對意義龐大複雜的對象的,其中一種常見病態:當對象以崇高的巨大的力量引動你的心,你的主體性躍動如煮沸的水,爆發的結果就是,全文抄錄。是在抄錄的行為中,我們理解精神分析所

厭惡

我對天水圍這個地方,

是說不出的厭惡。

巴不得有人可以上演一齣木馬屠城記,

將這鬼地方一把火燒光。

我每一對高跟鞋,

都是被這片爛地弄得遍體鱗傷。

每一次有朋友主動送我回家,

除了感恩,

我只覺尷尬。

因為這是一座午夜

How stable my AMD 64-bit systems have been

In a comment on a recent entry , Ryan asked me howstable my 64-bit Linux installs have been. The answer is kind ofcomplicated, but the quick summary is that I am happy with themachines and they're stable.

Currently and in the recent past, I have dealt with three AMD 64-bitmachines, two using ASUS M2N4-SLI motherboards, and one with a TyanTomcat K8E S2865ANRF, and all with 2GB of


Getting nice looking TrueType fonts on Fedora Core

Some TrueType fonts look significantly worse on some Linux distributionsthan on Microsoft Windows or MacOS. This is due to the usual reasonthat things suck on Linux: patents. TrueTypefonts can have special hints for looking good at low resolution, butusing those hints is apparently covered by some Apple patents in (some)countries with software patents.

(For the gory details, see here .)

Pretty much everyone on Linux uses the FreeType library to renderTrueType fonts. FreeType has implementations of the patented stuff,but Fedora Core


A spectacular web spammer failure

In the spirit of earlier heroic failures , I justsaw someone attempt to put an entire POST form in the actual HTTPrequest. No, really. The incoming request looked something like this:

login=%5Burl%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.nextlevelnews.com%2F [.. elided..] %2F70.html%0D%0A+&view=login&page=blog%2Flinks%2FBestToolPOST/~cks/


快樂之全部

1. 欺凌事件具有永恆的普世性

2. 伍佰+陳昇版 〈愛你一萬年〉 (見右方column之playlist)

3. 剛到台灣的24小時,不時高聲傻笑,情況類同於6月3日交論文那天。
這就是背棄的快樂,與完成的快樂一模一樣。

4. 無論如何,遇見