No Answer

茂陵劉郎秋風客　夜聞馬嘶曉無跡 

畫欄桂樹懸秋香　三十六宮土花碧 

魏官牽車走千里　東關酸風射眸子 

空將漢月出宮門　憶君情淚如鉛水 

衰蘭送客咸陽道　天若有情天亦老
攜盤獨出月荒涼　渭城已遠聲波小

Here's looking at you kid

Play it, Sam. Play "As Time Goes By."

I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

Here's looking at you kid.

Feel envy toward those who think they were happy

Italo Calvino 的寫作技法變化多端，在 If on a winter's night a traveler，尤其明顯。Calvino 炫技般地模擬不同作者的風格，書寫短篇小說，篇篇精彩，教人讚歎無已。在另一本書 Invisible Cities 裡，則用了奇妙的形式，把小說寫得像散文，又像詩，意境幽遠。

Leaving there and proceeding for three days toward the east, you reach Diomira, a city with sixty silver domes, bronze statues of all the gods, streets paved with lead, a crystal theater, a golden cock that crows each morning on a tower. All these beauties will already be familiar to the visitor, who has seen them also in other cities. But the special quality of this city for the man who arrives there on a September evening, when the days are growing shorter and the multicolored lamps are lighted all at once at the doors of the food stalls and from a terrace a woman's voice cries ooh!, is that he feels envy toward those who now believe they have once before lived an evening identical to this and who think they were happy, that time.

選自 Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities.

God, I wish you could've been there

《麥田補手》（The Catcher in the Rye）的倒數第二章的結尾。當我讀到這裡，真的也與書中的主角感同身受，驀然間聖靈充滿，彷彿獲得了救贖。

She ran and bought her ticket and got back on the goddam carrousel just in time. Then she walked all the way around it till she got her own horse back. Then she got on it. She waved to me and I waved back.

Boy, it began to rain like a bastard. In buckets, I swear to God. All the parents and mothers and everybody went over and stood right under the roof of the carrousel, so they wouldn't get soaked to the skin or anything, but I stuck around on the bench for quite a while. I got pretty soaking wet, especially my neck and my pants. My hunting hat really gave me quite a lot of protection, in a way, but I got soaked anyway. I didn't care, though. I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going aroud and around. I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth. I don't know why. It was just that she looked so damn nice, the way she kept going around and around, in her blue coat and all. God, I wish you could've been there.

Fallout 2 勝過 Fallout 3 的 11 項理由

有趣的文章：http://www.neoseeker.com/news/9147-commentary-11-ways-fallout-2-was-better-than-fallout-3/

11 項理由匯整如下：

1. Fallout 2 的 skill 系統比較意義
2. Fallout 2 的裝備比較寫實；Fallout 3 某些裝備設定好像奇幻遊戲。
3. Fallout 2 的武器比較寫實。
4. Fallout 2 的野外隨機事件比較豐富而多元。
5. Fallout 2 的難度調整比較有意義；Fallout 3 只是單純提高敵人的 HP 而已。
6. Fallout 2 的世界相對之下更為開放，可以隨意游蕩觸發事件。
7. Fallout 2 的 NPC 更為鮮明，更有存在感。
8. Fallout 2 裡的 ghoul （受輻射曝晒的變種人）也是一個種族，個體有獨立的個性，也能成為隊友；在 Fallout 3 裡一律都是怪物。
9. Fallout 2 的任務解法比較多元。
10. Fallout 2 更有幽默感。
11. Fallout 2 整體的世界設定較有真實感。

好想念 Black Isle 的時代。Black Isle 解散之後，對我來說彷彿 RPG 這個遊戲類型也死了。再也沒有足以深深打動我的 RPG，只能一遍又一遍的重玩 Fallout 1 與 Fallout 2。

沒家教

「家教」是個虛無飄渺的詞彙，因而非常好用，非常泛用。不必具備任何資格能耐，只要有足夠的傲慢，就可以罵人「沒家教」、「家教不好」。

要罵人笨，至少自己不能太笨；要罵人目光短淺，至少自己不能太沒見識。但要罵人沒家教，自己卻不需有多少家教，因為有無「家教」實是捉模不定，難以衡量。

所以不論是愚蠢無知、還是沒有見識、還是不講道理、或者乏缺品味的人，都可以輕易的罵人「沒家教」。「沒家教」正是一個這麼好用的詞彙，人身攻擊，損人父母，卻又不帶髒字，更充滿了無與倫比的傲慢、不容質疑的權威。

哭樹

松山菸廠一整片茂密森森的大樹，砍光了。圓山北美館旁一大片漂亮綠地，砍光了。我好想念這些從小伴著我長大的樹。