I’ve been and plan to remain a pious member of the Pedestrian Church, and driving will likely become no more than my occasional choice for farther excursions. Ultimately, it’s not the mastery of any particular means of transportation that matters but the mobility to navigate the world on one's own terms, however modestly. To that end, I appreciate driving as a long-overdue addition to my options, a distinct one that furnishes a precious space of mindfulness, whether accompanied or alone.

It would be fun to see how I, at some point in the future, would think of this specific iteration of my aesthetic and epistemology.

Bon voyage, and the rest is mystery.

Apple is a for-profit that is capable of and responsible for its own decisions of whether and how to comply. On the other hand, users can vote with their wallets. What’s more intriguing to me, though, is how Apple manages this growing set of regional feature restrictions.

Last month, I got interested in a textbook recommended by an online open course I happened to find. However, it’s quite old and not easily available for international shipping. Plus, since it’s a reader meant to be read non-sequentially and piecemeal, carrying it in its 600-page physical form seems to defeat the purpose. That was when I thought of the book scanning services I had heard about in the past and decided to try 1DollarScan.com, a service mentioned in multiple Hacker News threads.

往年苹果文案的翻译经常有一些「语出惊人」的地方，这两年似乎收敛了不少，但还是保留了每次看新品文案对比几版翻译的习惯。这里摘录美国官网原版和中、港、台版本翻译对此（方法见结尾），并就自己注意到、觉得值得一提的若干译法作出评论。观点仅供参考，欢迎批评。

What’s fascinating about Dinesen’s storytelling is the labyrinthine structure and fractal logic. Typically, you start with a narrator who encounters others telling stories-within-stories; the narration keeps branching out until, just as the mass is about to become a mess, a ray of revelation cuts through, shockingly and cruelly exposing the underlying interconnections. Concurrently, through the constant creation and piercing of personae, and the alternating misreading and projection by others, issues of identity and subjectivity surface.

我祝贺 Flip 作为一个品类站稳了脚跟，也遗憾于这份新奇能带来的惊喜毕竟有限。折叠屏就像从智能机波澜不惊的剧情中翻开的副本，经过短暂几轮迭代，终于还是要从分叉合并回主线。它的屏幕上现在说：感谢你的陪伴；it’s been a fun ride.

The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen is a short guide designed for foreign electronic shoppers to navigate Shenzhen’s mesmerizing Huaqiangbei district, and an update to Andrew “bunnie” Huang’s original edition. It turns out the book, full of humorous yet insightful tips, is also an interesting read for Chinese readers.

I was recently introduced to Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels and spent about three weeks to read through the quartet. These notes are an unorganized collection of what I have learned or thought of during and after reading the series.