Narrative momentum: what I learned from Naruto and One Piece

Once upon a time, I started watching both Naruto and One Piece ;since they were both well regarded shonen fighting shows, I expected toenjoy them more or less equally. Instead and rather to my surprise, Isoon lost interest in One Piece but kept watching Naruto for muchlonger. Afterwards, I spent some time thinking about why and what thedifference between the two shows was, because it was not as simple asdisliking one set of characters while liking the other.

I eventually decided that the crucial difference was


靜靜的生活


晨早起來去看醫生,因為是清明節,醫生休息了。我只有星期六可以看醫生,下星期六又是復活節期間,不知醫生會不會休息呢?

星期六日都會去掃墓,應該會有很多話會跟親戚說,因為平日有嘢都留番拜山先講,實情是我很少

銀絲卷


每次食銀絲卷都會想起兒時跟阿哥將D絲狂塞入鼻個窿,斗塞得多。

或者搓成波塞滿鼻個窿,然後噴番出嚟。

我以為每個細路都有咁玩過,但後來發現唔系。

泡菜意大利粉, 爽到痺!《風塵三俠決戰地獄門》(The Good The Bad The Weird)



如果只能用一個字形容《風塵三俠決戰地獄門》(The Good The Bad The Weird), 本人的答案是: 爽!

上屆的《日式牛仔一品鍋》(Sukiyaki Western Django) 以惡攪意大利西部片和日式英語作綽頭. 戲是有趣, 但看後沒有深刻印象. 南韓也不約而同泡製一味
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又來兩條viral,羊咩車車大堆頭大併圖。

不約而同找到兩個廣告,都是我經常在這裡講的所謂Viral 短片(放上互聯網靠口碑相傳的廣告片),水準各有千秋,我就覺得羊咩咩的那條因為有動物元素,多點好感印象分,贏兩三個馬鼻。

你又喜歡那一條?祝大家有個愉快週末


古惑小劇場

(北京交流回來,一片廢墟,稿交手忙腳亂,但還是先寫小劇場。)

《新宿事件》非常好看,處處極堪咀嚼,我終於首次深切認同爾冬陞是個才子。看的時候後面有一排古惑仔,熒幕外的重要風景。他們像集體看電視那樣大聲談

How to use Vixie cron to schedule at regular odd times

The traditional way of specifying that cron should run a command everyten minutes is to write out a list of every minute that the command isto run on:

0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /some/command

Vixie cron introduced a shorthand notation for this: ' */10 '. We useit quite a lot, since it is very convenient; it is both shorter andmore explicit about what is really going on, which means


The (or a) problem with Unix manpages

Unix has three sorts of manpages: excellent ones that clearly answeryour questions, good ones that answer your questions if you read themcarefully, and bad ones that aren't worth reading because they don'tanswer your questions (at least in a way that you can understand).

The first sort are rare and obvious when encountered, which means thatwhen you read a manpage you are generally trying to guess whether youare dealing with the second sort or the third sort. The problem is thatthere are significantly


System status announcements and where your users are

Commentators on my earlier entry brought up usingTwitter for system status announcements and the like. I think that thismakes sense for a lot of places, but I don't think it makes sense forus, and it has to do with where our users are; not in a geographicalsense, but in a network and Internet sense.

For many Internet companies, your users are outside, on the generalInternet, trying to get 'in' to you, and so using a status reportingsystem that is outside


大娛樂家-(第42集)

主持人: 蕭定一,袁彌明,愛明

驚爆毒案第三者

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