I finally went to see the 3D adventures of Tintin, Spielberg version, "The Secret of the Unicorn ( Read more... )

Je ne pensais jamais qu'un jour je verrais un des bosquets de mes aegopodium en train de s'étendre et de fleurir en plein soleil. Tous les textes disent que c'est une plante qui vit à l'ombre. Ce qu'ils ne disent pas c'est qu'elle a besoin d'ombre pendant une partie de la journée seulement. Ce bosquet en particulier est au bord d'un véritable mur d ( Read more... )

I thought that the Beartrap was the only way to get a helicopter to land safely on any naval vessel smaller than a carrier, in rough seas ( Read more... )

Lundi j'ai été voir des toilettes dans la grande salle de montre d'un plombier et vendeur de plomberie, proche de L'aéroport. Non, je n'ai pas été AUX toilettes ( Read more... )

It's too bad that they didn't manage to catch Bin Laden alive. The trial would have been great fun. It would have made for some magnificent Doonesbury comic strips.

I think that people should pay less attention to Ayn Rand and more attention to the Neutra house she bought and lived in, the Von Sternberg house ( Read more... )

In a few months my main computer, a Dell Dimension 4100 will be 10 years old. I don't mind that too much, but the problem is that the companion screen, a Dell-Trinitron with UXGA resolution (1600 by 1200 pixels) has faded to a point where my eyes hurt when I'm reading text. It was great as long as it was "fresh". When I bought it back in 2001 I ( Read more... )

While looking up all the reasons (hint: asimos cost a fortune and they are rather weak while the strong industrial robots can't move at all) why the Japanese don't have their numerous robots working away at the disaster at Fukushima (instead of exposing humans to severe radiation dangers) it suddenly dawned on me that the Japanese are really ( Read more... )

Nosss tahll djee ah, as they say in English:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHKh2QQrHYY

Note that I don't find Claudia Cardianle attractive and that I've never seen "Mad Men". So, it's the other stuff.

I never watch horror films but I enjoyed "Show The Monster: Guillermo del Toro’s quest to get amazing creatures onscreen." by Daniel Zalewski in the Web pages of the February 7, 2011 New Yorker ( Read more... )