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Weekend home
I spent the weekend in Evreux with my parents, sister, brother-in-law and nephew. I saw the huge pond they built at their house, my nephew was all excited his goldfish got a new place to live in :)
On Saturday evening we went to the theater to watch Terminator Salvation (well, my mom stayed home with my nephew but still) and gah, not a good movie. ( Read more... ) -
Great tv shows interviews
If you don't know this already, check The Paley Center for Media on Youtube, I spent the whole morning at work (yay!) watching all the interviews from The Daily Show, House, Scrubs and The Office. I love all those people. They're funny.
Yes.
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Rugby stuff
Last night was the first of the french championship rugby semi-finales, my team was playing against Clermont. I went to Solenne and Nico's place to watch the game, wearing my red Toulouse jersey (and matching red shoes, I know fashion) but right from the start we knew we would lose. Tououse played pretty badly except during half ot the second half ( Read more... ) -
YAY!
I just watched the Ariane 5 launch, it was carrying the Herschel and Planck satellites and I had been waiting for years for this. I was pretty stressed out, if something went wrong it meant $2.5 billion dollars, decades of work and tons of potential scientific data lost.
Both satellites are now on their way to the L2 point, 1 million mile away from ( Read more... ) -
Plex
I had two days off this week and was woken up both days by calls from work... That's without even taking into account the fact my boss contacted me by MSN on Saturday night, complaining about a distribution list. What world does she live in to consider a distribution list is important enough to call somebody on a Saturday night? I didn't answer her ( Read more... ) -
We're not lazy! We just like to sleep and eat good things.
Their reputation for good living is legendary. But now the French may get a name for simply being lazy.
The leisure-lovers sleep as much as nine hours a night - more than any other nation in the world.
This is at least half-an-hour more than the average Briton, and more than an hour longer than the average Japanese and Korean.
And when they do ( Read more... )
