Category: Me Myself&I

I know there are tons of great TV shows out there but I feel like the real world has more drama and is more interesting than ever. Dramatic af. This place has everything: weird and failed festival in the Bahamas, elections with leaks at the last minute, a racist nut ass bitch VS a financial drone, a dying earth, Ferguson’s militants getting killed one by one, that absurd “healthcare” bill… You can’t beat that, Netflix!

So Macron I guess. Next important election: Germany.

Meanwhile climate is changing so fast, like 20°C down in one day and no wind to really windy. It’s brutal.

A little tiring.

I’m standing in the corner of that place that sells a lot of coffees. There’s some beverage based on a unicorn? I don’t know, I don’t care. I’m early for a job interview and I could use more caffeine. It is sunny and crowded. I can feel, really feel the The Office vibe. Groups of women, a lot. The kind of obnoxious one talking a lot and not caring about what’s going on around is standing next to me, waiting for her name too. Her coworker is totally’ing her so hard. The classic group of three black women + one, in this case a white woman. Patterns are funny.

I’m looking around differently now. I saw all of us humans, but one. a black man. I don’t know how many times I have been scanning a room in my life looking for that dude. But I’m pretty good at it now. I almost instantly spot the employee and count him out, it’s cheating. All entry level jobs have black dudes. I spot him right after, kind of in the middle there, sitting on a table, kind of leaning on it.

He’s wearing a black hoodie. The contrast is pretty strong, it’s beige and white around and there’s this intriguing dark spot right there. I kind of know. He’s homeless. Maybe? If we were in Hollywood he could be anything really but here…

So this brother kind of wakes up because of all that sudden noise and chatter and I’m staring at him and he scans the room too and sees me real quick and I can barely take his eyes looking straight into mine. I’m immediately overwhelmed and not in the mood of fucking crying fuck can I get my coffee now?

In less than 150ms everything clicks, everything adds up and everything is awful. I’m here for an entry-level job and I’m feeling fine and feeling in pain at the same time and it’s because I shouldn’t really be here but I am and it feels so damn lonely and hell, the others me are not doing so good and there’s only two of them in sight. All the time. I shift+delete those thoughts and they keep coming but I’m pouring some sugar in my latte, trying to keep it busy. Patterns are not funny.

Meanwhile he’s calmly moved away from the center of the room and tries to hide the fact that he doesn’t have much to do here. Me neither I guess. He slides through people like a ghost and settles in a calmer area, next to the bathroom. “Good spot” I think while going the other way, back to my car.

I didn’t get the job, the team who interviewed me didn’t seem happy –huge euphemism here- anyway so I guess… I don’t know. I hope he’s alright and will continue to do so even though I know… I hope I’ll be alright. I’m stranded, I do everything I can but brother wherever you are please, please, please don’t give up. Pour those screams into the rocket that will propel you to your destination. Be humble, channel. It’s going to be long, pace yourself but stay in the higher rpm, ready. Never forget why you’re doing it. Persist. Good luck, I love you my man.

I just read this headline:

The EU abolish roaming charges across Europe starting 15th June

That’s super cool, if you travelled you know how big of a deal that is. I recently had to get calls from France, about 3 calls of 3mn or less. 20 euros, bam.

That’s what’s cool when a bunch of countries agree on something and work together to make it easier for people to live, forcing private companies to STFU and let us have something. People still have a hard time in the US to understand that the government is the only barrier to company abuses. Mobile and internet services are so brutally expensive here, ugh.

But the EU is in trouble. I have no idea what’s going to happen.

It was a gorgeous weekend on the west coast though. Hopefully we don’t get nuked yet.

French people are salty all the time, by default. Even if the candidates were perfect, people would not believe them and they would resent their propaganda about earth needing our help, or how we should be dismantling the banking system etc.

It’s just how we are. We don’t trust and we like to not trust. It’s a sport. Which is also why nothing is going anywhere because well, there’s no goal besides being the smarter in the room. That leads nowhere though.

My dad lost his mom a couple weeks ago. 103 years old. It was time. She felt it, called her kids to say goodbye. They had a nice funeral, all the family but a few including me was there.

I still think about him telling me online, at 65, how he felt a little lost without his parents now. I saw the kid in him in that moment like never before.

We’re all kids forever, in a way. Sometimes we doubt it.

I’m all for the Spurs because:

– It’s the home of international folks and immigrants. In Texas. That’s weird and I like that.

– it’s my brother from Paris Tony Parker’s home.

– They put the D in Defense. Pretty much the only team that will come at every single shot taken, and try to block it. Watch them, it’s unreal. Every. Single. One. Danny Green is a nightmare, I wouldn’t like to play against him.

– They grind and out grind other teams. They can play a full game with a 1 point difference and you can be sure that they will stay focused and win. If they lose it’s because well sometimes, you have bad luck or a dumb ass referee.

– Kawhi. I remember watching him on the bench being shy and shit, I thought he had so much potential. He exploded. First, top notch defender. Then, he got good at 3s. Last year he had issues with dribbling, this year he’s BALLING. I’m noticing now that he’s working on his left hand a lot. The dude is updating his game faster than your apps and devices.

– The Spurs are the only team that will beat the shit out of Lebron’s without thinking about it. They lost in 2013 to him and it wasn’t because of him. He’s almost a non-factor to them, which is unreal.

I think Greg Popovich and Tony Parker played mind games all season, making everyone believe that Tony couldn’t score anymore so that during the playoffs, he would and that would be a disaster for other teams.

Professional teams know positions, techniques. To win, you need an extra factor. It can be an absurdly good 3pt shooting like the Warriors or Rockets or it can be something else, like a point guard scoring when he spent the entire year passing the ball. That’s why I like watching Kyle “Frame by Frame” Anderson at the Spurs. You never know what he’s going to do. Dude is random as fuck –in a good way- and that screws up other teams. J Simmons is the same. It’s so good to see. Pop is so damn good. 

That’s why the Cavs, defendant champions are in trouble: they are predictable as hell. We know who will shoot the ball three passes earlier. We know they can’t do well without Lebron. It’s going to be rough for them to get to the finals, the East is thirsty. The Warriors have become a lot more unpredictable this season and that’s scary for my Spurs but San Antonio is I think even more scarier, they have d e p t h (and no pressure like the Warriors have). The bench is dope and they have the best mix of veterans and young bloods IMO. Hopefully the WCF is those two teams going at it. It’s gonna be LIT.

Tony, you know it’s the last time you can maybe get a sixth title. I wish I could send you some muscles or a third lung because I feel like, it’s doable. It’s doable son. GO SPURS.

Architecture time, bitches!

So maybe you missed that stuff and a Russian company with American funds made that and these days Russia and the US… Anyway, it’s a 3D printed small house proof of concept (38m²/400 square feet) made in 24 hours. About $10K. They have a great post over there on specs etc.

It’s more magic than magic to me.

Some thoughts:

– Sci-Fi designers, get on this shit. Stop doing the same annoying huge ass towers since Blade Runner, be creative, fuck shit up, create cool looking neighborhoods with those. Create stories around the fact that we can print houses, I don’t know.  Make. It. Legit.

– The shape is weird you say? You’re right but the best shape insulation-wise are circles and curves. 2nd best is square. Then it’s downhill and bad. L-shape house? Awful. Rectangle? I guess that kind of works.

– The wall are empty and can be filled with whatever. I’d choose hemp. Actually if they could find a mix of concrete+hemp for the printer’s ink, that would be so dope.

– So let’s say we double the surface, which would make it around 80m². A tad small still but at 100m² you have everything you need for a small family. People trip all the time on having a big house but it sucks, in a lots of ways. A small house is where it’s at.

I can’t wait to print mine. Pretty sure regulations, zoning and laws will slow the hell out of that amazing progress though.

Dude is the quintessence of Most Valuable Player.

Drags his OKC team to a 5th seed in the playoffs. Beats the unbreakable triple double record with a game at 50 points, 16 rebounds and 10 assists which is stupid. His team won on a buzzer beater three Russell shot from almost half court, that’s the quintessence of What The Fuck. He was rated worst 3-point shooter of the league not so long ago.

It’s nuts. He deserves 2 MVP trophies just cause.