Busy day / Journée bien remplie
Izys' birthday party this friday was a very successful event with over twenty high-quality people present, most of them geeks of some sort, and over half of them computer geeks. Among other people, I was particularly happy to meet again our own local wonder-geek David Madore. The female/male ratio was low, but the women were all quite desirable - however, they were also quite unavailable, too, and I lack talent to achieve anything in these conditions at this time.
Oui bon, je dois retourner vers l'est, alors pas le temps de traduire pour l'instant. De toute façon, vous lisez tous l'anglais, non?
The event got on and on through the night and the next day, with people slowly parting one after the other. Late on saturday morning, there was discussion about watching movies, but a vote didn't yield conclusive result, and I took the initiative to start playing God of Cookery while other people focused away discussing various unrelated things. Once again, I don't believe in democracy, but in voluntocracy. God of Cookery is a hilarious movie by Stephen Chow -- and I'm saying that without even being able to understand any chinese pun, and much any of the seemingly many references to asian culture (literature, movies, etc.). You can never guess what I'll do next, says the hero -- and yes, he's right. That's quite the contrary of Chow's later (and otherwise very good) Shao Lin Soccer that I saw recently, and that goes without much any surprise at all. I left as the remaining attendants were preparing to watch Wonder boys. I dunno if more movies were shown, but I'm told that the party went on until 10pm on saturday evening.
So I went early in the afternoon, got a little sleep, went shopping some special batteries for my aunt, and by chance (but with the decisive help of my trusted black GNU T-shirt) met WhyGee of F-CPU on my way back, while he was going to play music in the quartier latin. We dined together and discussed. I was sorry to see how his talent was underused in the french society, and once again, I got thinking about the immense waste of talent that is the french public education and research systems and the french mostly public industry complex. All the geeks I met in that 24 hour period - what great things they could have been doing, and what sorry useless studies, researches and businesses they were condemned to do! Makes me feel sick. My, there is quite some revolution to achieve in people's minds, so that mankind learns to unleash its potential, which but if and when it ever does, I have no doubt we'll conquer the universe, the energetic challenge nonetheless.
In other news, I've been contacted by Addison's mistress who seems to appreciate my libertarian pages. Cool! During our email discussion, she wondered whether I had read some David Icke. I never heard of that author, but asking my pineal gland, I went on to suppose she meant this David Icke.