The Mist


雖然披上恐怖片的外衣,雖然是Stephen King 的小說改編,但我總覺得The Mist是一則政治寓言。

一場怪霧令小鎮內一班居民被困於超市內。離開超市,必死無疑,留在超市內的,有人想求救,有人想逃走,有人主張等待救兵出現,有人以上

Lady First專欄 (5-6)

分手的善後工作(二)

上回提要︰情侶分手時,總有一方先選擇開口,慣性理解為「飛人果個」,另一方則為「俾人飛果個」。除卻避免說盡令人傷心/憤怒的話,保持冷靜及在公眾傷所攤牌等等例牌忠告,其實分手的善後工作

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After the Nestle drivers and delivery workers ended a three-day-old strike, we heard a new story from another bank company in Hong Kong. To my amazement, they announced granting a day off for the employees on their very days of birthday. Like many "aha" ideas, it's so simple you wonder why nobody had thought of it before.

Why? You might ask. As Gordon Livingston has pointed out, life's two most important questions are "Why?" and "Why not

What is guaranteed in languages in practice

In theory, what is guaranteed in a language is the things that arein its (official) specification; if the specification is silent orsays that something is not guaranteed, it isn't, regardless of howimplementations behave.

More and more I have come to believe that this is mistaken, and that inpractice what is guaranteed in a language is what programmers code to,regardless of what the specification says. This is because of simplepragmatics: a new implementation that does not run most of the existingcode



讀龍應台在《目送》中寫的一段話,很難不想到自己的情況,她寫道 :“我慢慢地、慢慢地了解到,所謂父女母子一場,只不過意味著,你和他的緣分就是今生今世不斷地在目送他的背影漸行漸遠。你站立在小路的這一端,看著

粉絲的辛酸

陳丹青演講。 當日工作繁忙,到場時已開始,並滿座。姊妹大概見我實在太不上道,紛紛把我拋棄,我隻身。朗天坐在最後的角落,遙遙也看見思存,我則想方設法厚著臉皮坐到第一行最右邊去,台上台下距離依然不止三米。

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另一種充實


最近都在為自己洗腦,把不開心的事忘記,做些最簡單的事,令生活充實,至少,不用鑽牛角尖。

煮過若干次晚餐,簡單,享受過程,不好食也不難食,但感覺真是充實。 (圖中的沙律,完全唔需要烹調,洗淨就食,最適合我)

古典翻新《太空奇兵‧威E》(Wall-E)



一 年前看《五星級大鼠》(Ratatouille) , 電影的預告片是《太空奇兵‧威E》(Wall-E). 當時我對《Wall-E》沒有留下很好的印象, 如果像《露寶治的世界》(Robots) 或《反斗車王》(Cars) 的角色設定HE般過於擬人化, 那我沒有必要捧
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及吾無身

葉輝書展講座時,提到老子一句:「吾之大患,唯吾有身。及吾無身,吾有何患。」突然想起,這是中學時我極喜歡的句子,買來那種台灣水彩美女封面的筆記簿,內頁刷淡粉紅襯底憂鬱婉約俗氣,我在上面顛來倒去地寫吾之大

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