2014, day after day

[Piling]

Why are you being thrown out?

Because TV team make a movie in the Library. Something about Yilmaz Güney.

I don't care I am at home now with an INTERNET connexion

[Piling]

Today, no work : thanks to Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin.

[Anthea]

Today, no work : thanks to Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin.

did they all speak to you from beyond the grave telling you not to work today

[Piling]

Today, no work : thanks to Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin.

did they all speak to you from beyond the grave telling you not to work today

France and De Gaulle's ghost, full of desire to make forget that IIIrd Republic lost the war in 1940 ordered me to NOT work today.

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"The Muslim world, from what he can tell, is at a crossroads, where several competing tendencies meet. One path is a burgeoning ‘umma’, a community of the faithful as conceived in the mind of Islamists who see themselves in deadly rivalry with both moderate or secularist Muslims and people of other faiths. The way Malik sees it, Somali religionists of radical persuasion are provoking a confrontation with the Ethiopian empire in hopes of pitting the Muslim world against Christian-led Ethiopia, even though Ethiopia, being military stronger and an ally of the United States, is very likely to gain the upper hand in the face-off. Elsewhere in Southeast Asia, Indian and Pakistan, two nations with nuclear potential, are locking horns. With Afghanistan turned into a theater and Chechnya haplessly caught in the fray, several countries’ political and territorial concerns converge at oblique angles. And of course there is the never-ending conflict between the Arabs and the Israelis, which puts a large segment of the Muslim world in opposition to the Jewish state and the United States. Empires are no longer won by the musket, as that old imperialist Kipling argued Britain had done. An empire is won by those with the wherewithal to hold it, to subjugate it. Malik doubt very much that Shabaab can win a war, let alone, having won it, hold on to the conquered territories."
— Crossbones, Nuruddin Farah.

I appreciate all Nuruddin Farah's novels. I love this one, it makes me remember these pics of babies wrapped in their hijab or aba :

Jeebleh inquires whether BigBeard or one of his minions has bothered to explain what they have done to the computer, and if by any chance they deleted files or found material of a pornographic nature and removed it. Dajaal says, ‘He has deleted several files that were not complimentary about the Courts and the photo of a nude girl serving as a screen saver,’

It rankles Jeebleh that BigBeard has deemed the photograph of his one-year old granddaughter, soaped and naked as she stands in a bathtub, ‘pornographic’. It goes to show how much energy religionists of the parochial variety squander on matters of little or no significance.

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At LAST : a good French series that even Stephen King praise :

https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/ ... 9036158976

[Anthea]

http://youtu.be/5bv_5IBPVuo


At LAST : a good French series that even Stephen King praise :

https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/ ... 9036158976

My my that looks like fun

Of course I will need a handsome young man to hold my hand while I watch it

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Rain, rain, rain, in short : il pleut comme vache qui pisse.

[Anthea]

Rain, rain, rain, in short : il pleut comme vache qui pisse.

English equivalent "It's raining cat and dogs"

Literal translation "It rains as a cow pisses"

I prefer the French version

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Seems that all Twitter tweetes about Eurovision. I need to look for another planet or another world…

[Anthea]

Seems that all Twitter tweetes about Eurovision. I need to look for another planet or another world…

HA HA HA

Glad I am not the only sane person in Europe

[Piling]

I add a pedometer app on my smartphone, so I could check how many steps I do per day. I know already that only for to from from home to train station and from train station to the institute, it takes 30 mn, so with the return, every day, I make at least 6500 steps. I just have to keep my smart all the time in my pocket when I walk in the institute, and I will add all the steps.

I read that the least we would do is 10 000 steps per day.

I decide to change my habits and to make a copious lunch and a light dinner (usually I have no lunch).

and to practice Yoga every morning

Breakfast :
3 mugs of coffee, 3 sugars, toasted bread (40 g), butter (10 g).

Lunch :

salad of pasta (100 g), 1 tomato, 1 piece of cheese goat (30 g), 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon of oil, 1 tablespoon of vinegar, a few lemon juice.

Dinner :

1 filet of panga, ratatouille (250g), 40 g of Morbier.

No wine, during the working week. And sleep soon, etc. A monk's life !

[Anthea]

I add a pedometer app on my smartphone, so I could check how many steps I do per day. I know already that only for to from from home to train station and from train station to the institute, it takes 30 mn, so with the return, every day, I make at least 6500 steps. I just have to keep my smart all the time in my pocket when I walk in the institute, and I will add all the steps.

I read that the least we would do is 10 000 steps per day.

I decide to change my habits and to make a copious lunch and a light dinner (usually I have no lunch).

and to practice Yoga every morning

Breakfast :
3 mugs of coffee, 3 sugars, toasted bread (40 g), butter (10 g).

Lunch :

salad of pasta (100 g), 1 tomato, 1 piece of cheese goat (30 g), 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon of oil, 1 tablespoon of vinegar, a few lemon juice.

Dinner :

1 filet of panga, ratatouille (250g), 40 g of Morbier.

No wine, during the working week. And sleep soon, etc. A monk's life !

I dread to think how little I walk BUT when if warms up again I will be out there in the fresh air and sunshine for a few hours every day - working on my freckles - I had so many last year that from a distance it looked as though I had a tan

I always have a fairly large breakfast with lots of salad and oily fish - so whatever the day brings I will survive even if I do not have anymore decent food during the day

When I am working on a project I work very odd hours - might sleep 2 hours then way up inspired - I also tend to snack so a good breakfast is important

What happened to the film about Yilmaz Güney? When is it coming out?

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What happened to the film about Yilmaz Güney? When is it coming out?

I don't know. I don't even know for which Kurdish TV it was shot. Undoubtedly I am not a TV- watcher

[Anthea]

What happened to the film about Yilmaz Güney? When is it coming out?

I don't know. I don't even know for which Kurdish TV it was shot. Undoubtedly I am not a TV- watcher

As they pushed opu out of YOUR domain they should have had the decency to tell you when and where the film was to be shown