2011年6月24日 星期五

SyntaxHighLight Testing


Ok, this is to test syntax high light!

using System;

public class Program
{
public static int Main(string[] args)
{

Ok, actually we don't need syntax highlight, we just need to use
 tag the force browser show spaces correctly.




2011年6月21日 星期二

lard

Julie grabbed a handful of lard out of the big can in the kitchen and rubbed it over blisters. "Now it won't burn so bad and probably won't even scar."

The blistered bottom gave me a good chance to lean forward at my desk that day and watch Clarence play with his little bugs, though.

We each had our own places at table, and we sat there for every meal. If one was absent, the chair was pushed up to the table.

Clarance splashed and sloshed the water in wash basin and came to the table with his red hair slick as clay mud and his round freckled face shining in the lamp light.



2011年6月14日 星期二

hide-and-seek

During recess, if we played hide-and-seek, Teddy let me get home free.

The pen didn't work, and the pencil was mashed on the end until lead wouldn't fit in it. But i flaunted the pen and pencil in front of the kids at school as if they were pure gold with a lifetime guarantee.

Winter came early in December and stayed. The first snow lay on the ground like a dirty white blanket and waited for fresh snow to fall and cover it.

One bitter cold day, Dad and Jesse butchered the hogs and our two pet lambs. I cried over my lamb, but mom said it has to be done. There wasn't enough feed for them.

The attic room never got warm. Dad didn't believe in wasting heat or using up stove wood to heat a bedroom. When Mom called us to get up for school, we'd grab our clothes in our arms and race downstairs to crowd around the roaring red-hot stove to get dressed. The heat didn't spread far from the stove, so we had to stand closer to any benefit from the fire.


One day, i was standing too near the stove when i bent over to pull on my underwear. I yelled, leaped away like a scalded cat, and fell over Robert, who was sitting on floor with a blanket around him. He became bawling and squalling, making more noise than i was.




2011年6月13日 星期一

pupil

harelip.

In the fall of the year, peers ripen and rot on the trees in Bishop's backyard because the kids are not allowed to pick up his pees.

The teacher doesn't want to be bothered with her, because of her lisp. She finally just sat in whichever grade she had books for.

I prayed a silent prayer that i wouldn't be a slow learner and still be in sixth grade when i was sixteen. Frieda hardly spoke in class because of her harelip, but on our way to and from Bishop's well that week, she spoke like a blue jay.

We will have to carry it when it's cold and snowing and wade through mud when it rains.

I didn't know which one is Teddy, but he must be the stupidest boy in school, i figured. Probably ugly, too, with big feet and overalls that struck him halfway to his knees like all the other boys; and a dirty shirttail flapping out.

He was a shy, slightly built boy with dark curls that fell over his forehead, nearly hiding his solemn brown eyes. Teddy rarely smiled, and when he did, his face and eyes lit up like a freshly trimmed coal-oil lamp.

I was a homely, rough-and-tumble, towheaded tomboy., but he chose me for his best girl, anyway.



2011年6月2日 星期四

virtual military operation


Snow clearance in Helsinki is a virtual military operation. Every 10 seconds, a trunk arrives, dumps the snow and leaves. Only with this sort of precision can they keep the city moving in the depths of winter.

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Vantaa Airport stayed operational throughout winter. It prides itself on having an infallible maintenance program. Thanks to the specialized fleet of machines, this slick operation can clear a runway in as little as four minutes.

Helsinki has barriers that have restricted its growth. On the one side, there are the existing buildings, but then you have the water. So, between the buildings and harbor, there really is only one place to go - down below.

That's exactly what they are doing to avoid urban sprawl and maintain the low-rise cityscape.