黑翅細蟴 Conocephalus melas,

a type of katydid.

百二年六月桃園少輔院收容人數：四百九十人。
核准人數：三百八十七人。
超出：一百零三人，等于26.61%。
政府有沒有錢放燄火？當然有。
有沒有錢改善這些少年的生活？當然沒有。

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Actually, I admire 17).

為女兒訂蛋糕慶祝大學畢業，請師傅給她頭上畫一頂「畢業帽」，沒想到烘焙師聽成畫貓~~this takes the cake! ::click::

過幾分鐘，臉書上會有幾萬張立蛋的照片。
In a few moments, Facebook will be flooded
with photos of standing eggs.
我去裝端午水、吃糉子。
保糉。

前燕將才多，慕容霸十三歲時帥軍擊敵；後改名垂，淝水之戰後興燕。但前燕之敗，其咎多歸慕容評無量無能。評忌慕容垂之才：

通鑑、晉海西公太和四年(西元三六九年)：

十一月，辛亥朔，垂請畋於大陸，因微服出鄴，將趨龍城。至邯鄲，少子麟，素不為垂所愛，逃還告狀，垂左右多亡叛。太傅評白燕主暐，遣西平公強帥精騎追之，及於范陽。世子令斷後，強不敢逼。會日暮，令謂垂曰：「本欲保東都以自全，今事已洩，謀不及設。秦主方招延英傑，不如往歸之。」

垂曰：「今日之計，捨此安之！」乃散騎滅跡，傍南山復還鄴，隱於趙之顯原陵。俄有獵者數百騎四面而來，抗之則不能敵，逃之則無路，不知所為。會獵者鷹皆飛揚，眾騎散去。垂乃殺白馬以祭天。

北方民族習鷹獵，于漢文獻中，此記載似最早。

During the 4th century in northern China, the Mujung (Bayan, Murong) Sibers (Hsienpei, Xianbei) produced an astonishing number of brilliant generals. The greatest was Mujung Pa (Ba), who led troops to victory in battle at the age of 13. He later changed his name to Chui, but his brilliance attracted the envy and spite of the hapless Mujung Ping, a thorough good-for-nothing. In late 369AD, Chui slipped out of the capital to get back to his power base. His departure was discovered and crack cavalry troops were sent in pursuit. Chui scattered his cavalry and hid their tracks, doubling back on his trail. History records that "suddenly they were surrounded by hundreds of mounted hunters. If Chui fought he could not win, if he retreated he had no path. He didn't know what to do. Just then all the hunters' eagles rose into the air, and the hunters galloped off in pursuit of game. Chui sacrificed a white horse to the heavens."

References to hunting with eagles are rare in Chinese literature. This is the earliest record I know of.

周叔治作晉陵太守，周侯、仲智往別。叔治以將別，涕泗不止。仲智恚之曰：「斯人乃婦女，與人別唯啼泣！」便舍去。
世說新語、方正
前廷尉孔坦卒。坦疾篤，庾冰省之，流涕。坦慨然曰：「大丈夫將終，不問以濟國安民之術，乃為兒女子相泣邪！」冰深謝之。

通鑑晉成帝咸康二年

今尚有大丈夫歟？

When my father died, my sister gave me his desk calculator as a keepsake: Texas Instruments, Made in Taiwan. Today it stopped working.
My father died in 1987.

有個定理：燒火時，不管站哪裏、無論坐何處，煙一定吹到眼睛。但有個咒可以念，一念，煙一定轉向。怎麼念呢？這樣：「蚊子很多，還好有煙，不然蚊子都來咬我。」這個咒很靈！功力高的人，只要心想到這個咒，煙就吹到別的方向去。If you burn anything, the smoke blows right into your eyes; this is a rule of nature. However, there is a spell you can intone that will keep the smoke away from you. Would you like to know it? You bet! Okay, here we go, repeat after me: “There are a lot of mosquitoes, good thing there’s all this smoke to keep them away from me.” As soon as you say the magic words, the smoke will change directions and not blow your way. Try it, it works like a charm! or a spell, as the case may be.