(translated from French)

TV talking head: Today is Valentine's Day, the day to tell your other half that you love her/him...
azrhey: *mutters under the covers*
pphaneuf: *about to do the same, then stops* The left half or the right half?
azrhey: I told the lower half!

From one of my co-workers, on internal IRC, after I once more exhibited my sketchy grasp of the French grammar:

curl --mirror http://www.leconjugueur.com/ | ssh pphaneuf 'cat >/dev/brain'

The American lifestyle frankly sucks. The media is generally shit. The food stinks. We spend too much time in traffic and too much time taking care of a badly built McHouse that has the ergonomics of a coach seat on a discount airline. Add to that the lack of health care (just listened to a Stanford lecture about the American Couple that cited a ( Read more... )

Heard on the French coverage of the World Cup:

"Il n'y a pas trente six mille... derrières!"

I've re-factored some rather nasty code today, and one can almost understand what it does. But not quite. More of that tomorrow, I suppose...

Some dropping by Hurley's tonight, with a bit of free Guinness, couldn't really turn that down, could I? I had some interesting discussion with wlach and apenwarr, among others, although I did get a bit too ( Read more... )

"What, do you have the whole collection?" - tygrbabe, after seeing I had my smaller Frida bag instead of my usual (because of my laptop) Fred Cocotte Equipment courier bag.

Yeah, I'm a yuppie bag-whore. And she hasn't seen my collection of Lowepro photo bags (I own no less than fourI like having the exact bag for the occasion and the equipment I'm ( Read more... )

"Les belle filles devant s'il vous plait... Oh, elle est belle! Ah non, c'est pas une elle, j'suis un peu myope..." - Jean LeloupWow, that guy puts out a heck of a show. I do regret not going now, I remember seeing the signs placated on a wood-covered window somewhere on St-Laurent, going to Schwartz's... Oh well, I'll see other amazing things, I'm ( Read more... )

pphaneuf: Oh well, not much TV for a little while, I guess!
azrhey: That's cuz you don't feel your ovaries shivering at the sight of Mister Gary Sinise!

No, I guess I don't... :-P

What's in a name? On the use and abuse of labels...

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I've heard the following, once upon a time: "Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."

What happens if I am the violent psychopath? I know where I live. Am I supposed to kill myself tonight?