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Friday, 13 January 2012

  • C'est la vie

    La vie prend souvent plaisir a te rappeler que trop bon rime bien avec trop con.

    Elle t'enseigne aussi de ne jamais changer de valeurs à cause de 3/4 personnes.

    Vaut mieux en rire je pense :).



Wednesday, 11 January 2012

  • ....

    Vous pensez avoir tout connu? Guerre? Misere? Devastation? Catastrophe naturelle? Hiroshima?

    Avez vous deja fait les soldes avec une Femme?
    Non?
    Bonne chance mon frere, heureux de t'avoir connu, rares sont les braves qui s'en sortent.

    Ps: Mesdames, arretez de nous demander si on trouve ces chaussures / "petits hauts" / "Rooooobe!" / pantalons jolis. On s'en fout.
    On veut juste rentrer vivants.

Sunday, 08 January 2012

Sunday, 01 January 2012

  • 2012 New Year's Resolutions

    I usually don't bother with New Year's Resolutions, finding the entire concept a bit silly, but this year I have one: I want to be more like Captain Picard.

    That probably sounds rather silly at face value, so I'd best explain. As Steve and I have been watching Star Trek: The Next Generation, my admiration for Jean Luc Picard has crystallized, and I have gained a greater understanding for all the factors that led to it.

    I have many of the same attitudes about things, and, I believe, many of the same initial reactions to them as the character of Captain Picard. (This likely stems from the fact that he basically seems like a Humanities professor who was given command of a starship. Have I mentioned I love Starfleet?)

    But what I've come to admire about Picard isn't how he's so often right about things (objectively, and according to possibly shared prejudices about freedom and tolerance). What's trully great about the man is how he recognizes his limitations and doesn't allow himself to grow arrogant. He isn't afraid to make tough choices, but he puts real thought into them. He considers everyone's side of every argument, analyzes things from every possible angle, and has a great deal of respect for the opinions of others.

    This is the quality I want to strive to emulate. Although I'm clearly not in command of a Federation Starship, or anything nearly so consequential, I could benefit from a similar approach in my interpersonal relations with others, especially my partner. Though I never realized it before, impatience and an overly strong willingness to trust my immediate reactions to things is one of my greatest failings. And if someone like Jean Luc Picard can sit back and really analyze both personal and professional issues from every possible angle, I really have no excuse.

Monday, 12 December 2011

Thursday, 24 November 2011

  • Occupy Montpellier?

    There were about five students trying to start an Occupy movement in the Place de la Comedie today.

    They were all holding signs about the 99 percent. Nobody was paying them any mind, but it was still amusing to see.

    The problem with trying to start something like that here is that there are random protests in the Comedie pretty much every day, so it just becomes part of the scenery.

Sunday, 13 November 2011

  • It hit harks back to Ice Age rituals of female fertility worship

    It is Sunday in the flow of existence. When I write the word existence I can feel myself falling into a coma.

    I am not in the mood these days to write in my blogs. I want to fall asleep and not have to think these days. Also there is never anything to write about new. My life is always the same, so why write the same stuff over and over. I suppose I write because I am a post-modern man. If one is honest one's life is always the same.

    Yesterday I basically watched soccer all day. I read mainly yesterday when not watching soccer, "The Great Oom: The Mysterious Origins of America's First Yogi" by Robert Love.

    Last night I went to bed around 11:30 PM. This morning I got up around 6:15 AM because I was having head pounding dream activity. I got up made a pot of coffee. Then I went downtown this morning for breakfast. Went home by 9:30 AM from having breakfast.

    I was thinking of taking a walk someplace this morning, but I am too tired.

Thursday, 03 November 2011

  • Occupy - French style

    You know what the Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Wherever is like - it's like what happens in France four to five times a year.

    It is so similar it is striking - even the tear gas and water cannons thing is basically the same.

    The only difference is the implicit argument the French protestors have of "one time when we did this shit we beheaded people."

    Other than that, pretty much the same thing.

Tuesday, 01 November 2011

Monday, 31 October 2011

Sunday, 30 October 2011

  • Which planet just changed direction?

    When I got home from swimming my internet access was not working. The Airport was glowing orange instead of it's usual calming blue. I checked all the cables. I unplugged the cable modem and plugged it back in. Then I unplugged the airport and plugged it back in. 

    The Slow Download speed that has been plaguing me for weeks has disappeared! I can watch streaming video again!

    Sounds like my connectivity problems have cleared up. So, which planet changed direction yesterday?

Monday, 24 October 2011

  • Photographe

    Demain je vous parlerais des pratiques délictueuses d'un photographe qui s'appelle Olivier Gilbert... Il est important que vous sachiez les pièges dans lesquels ils ne faut pas tomber... :) Parfois j'ai honte de faire de la Photographie quand je vois ce genre de pratique... !

Thursday, 20 October 2011

Tuesday, 11 October 2011

  • Game Night

    Tonight is the third weekly Xbox night at my pad. This time people are bringing pizza and I bought some Bombay gin, some tonic water, rose wine and beer.

    The first week we did Mortal Kombat.

    The second week we did Guitar Hero.

    This week it's going to be DJ Hero which nobody coming has ever played yet.

    I'm interested to see how large quantities of gin and DJ Hero end up mixing together.

    (And also hoping I can remember how to get the Guitar controller to work with the thing in two player mode because it's been well over a year since I did that and even that time it was only once.)

Monday, 26 September 2011

  • The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

    Just saw the new trailer for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

    It looks like Fincher has got it right.

    But it does bring up a question I've had in my head for a while: Nothing on the back cover of any of the books or in any of the trailers indicates that the main subject of the books and films is really, really violent sexual assault. The ads for both the books and the movies make it look like it's just a regular thriller. 

    Now, I'm generally not a fan of "trigger warnings" but I will say that in this case, one might be in order. But I'm not sure. 

    Do you think a book or movie that has explicit rape and torture on this level as the central plot point should disclose that to people before they see or read it?

Saturday, 17 September 2011

Friday, 16 September 2011

  • Intensity

    I've hit another period of being overwhelmed. Too many things to keep myself from doing, places to keep from doing, things to keep from experiencing.

    Too little space at home. Nowhere that is truly "private" unless I'm the only one home, or up. Almost no time out with other adults except at church, and then usually in the background. No real time engagement with people who operate on my level, and want to talk about the things that I want to talk about.

    The silence is crushing me, rather. So, yeah, I get to be depressed for a while again. *sigh* At least I've got my School of Fish on the iPod.

Friday, 09 September 2011

  • Meow

    I don't know why my cat feels the need to wake me up every time it starts raining in the middle of the night.

    It seems like the rain scares her but that makes no sense because it's not like she's ever been rained on in her life.

    All she wants, though, is to sit in my lap for three minutes while I pet her, then she goes off to the couch and falls asleep.

    Still, it's fucking weird. It's like she's the rain alarm.

Thursday, 08 September 2011

  • Thoughts

    I don't know why, but every time I see an article about Burning Man it pisses me off.

    I know the nihilist/anarchist in me should love the idea but the more I read the more I think "what a bunch of rich white people acting like assholes."

    I have no explanation for this reaction.

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