Archives - August 2009

Citizen fail

LAX Immigration and Customs, first time: “Have a nice stay, enjoy California!” Second time: “Are you on vacation here? Allright” Third time: “What are you doing here? Where’s the plane ticket to get back to your country? What are you doing here? Why staying for so long? Let me see your card. So why are...

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Love it or quit it.

It was the french president Sarkozy talking to suburbs and saying that about France. Well I’d rather do both. I’m stupid: I started working with this idea that it always seems to be greener there while it seems shit where you actually are, but that is on average (well in the western world) the same wherever...

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Sunset Submarine

Après un mois et des poussières sans nuages, ça fait bizarre quand même. Juste après le Groenland, mer de nuage. A 10 km c’est magnifique, j’ai même vu un château dans le ciel. A 3 km sur Paris, on plonge doucement dedans. C’est doux, c’est...

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Open terminal

“For 2009, sales are expected to jump to 35 million, rising to an estimated 139 million in 2013.” About netbooks . I think it could be the case. For me the netbook is the beginning of the computer becoming something like a fridge, really useful, really efficient, cheap, with the brand that says nothing...

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unDust the funk

The Dust Brothers . I was reading this interview of brother E.Z. Mike in Waxpoetic and couldn’t stop but think that Funk is so central and yet so not understood. E.Z. Mike did with King Gizmo the insanely funky and acclaimed Beastie Boys Paul’s Boutique, Beck’s Odelay and Fight Club soundtrack among...

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US Me

What to say? That I have never been that happy in life? That it’s the best summer ever? Or that it’s gonna be the best autumn of the galaxy at least for me? I don’t want to make you more jealous that you already are. Seriously though, there is still some unsolved and important stuff to deal with but...

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