🚶♂️ I don’t go to Starbucks much. But at occasions when I take long walks in Paris, I love having a Mocha Venti in my hands and sip through it along the walk.
🚶♂️ I don’t go to Starbucks much. But at occasions when I take long walks in Paris, I love having a Mocha Venti in my hands and sip through it along the walk.
🎧 Every month or so, I go to the “Crawled - currently not indexed” of deadrooster.org’s Google Search Console and checks the links of the 1st page. It is a good reminder of what pages need maintenance. It gives me a chance to read random older posts. This time, reading my eulogy for R.E.M. — written in French and that I have forgotten about — was particularly fun.
🎸 I fell in some intense Interpol nostalgia these last weeks. And i learnt how to play Say Hello to the Angels on the guitar. I also tried to understand how “it works” in terms of music theory.
Most of the guitar resources online lack interactivity and visual cues (even videos, which mostly show narrators speaking).
I wonder if there is an unexplored way to write nice interactive blog posts about learning how songs are constructed.
👨💻 Yesterday, I pulled out my Sortmash iOS app code off dusty shelves as I needed to sort a large amount of data by order of preference — namely my Sorare cards 🤦♂️ — and it was a very fun experience. Exploring a pre-ARC Objective-C with embedded dependencies — TouchJSON and ASIHTTPRequest — felt like traveling in time, and made me so grateful of where we stand now. Making the code run again was surprisingly easy but visually very buggy since the code was from an era where iPhone and iPad had each a unique screen size.
🍿 I just finished watching the first three seasons of Schitt’s Creek and, while it took me while to get into it — hello xkcd — I am now on board to complete the three remaining seasons. From what I heard from the show, I was expecting many lough-out-loud moments, it turns out it is a much warmer show with great characters that you grow attached to.
🍿 I am inspired by the ability of young children to watch the same movie over and over again during a short period of time. These days, it’s Robin Hood and Beauty and the Beast. I now tend to watch movies that I have watched already. I like how a movie you watched 2 or 3 times can become familiar, the same way you can get very familiar with a music album.
🏀 Mac McClung’s performance at the All Star Game Dunk Contest is quite phenomenal. His head can reach the rim and he is just 3cm taller than me. I could hardly touch the rim at the height of my jumping skills.
🏀 I watched the Doc Rivers episode of The Playbook on Netflix. I already had a soft spot for the guy since his Celtics time. Now I like him even more. Powerful and heartwarming stuff in there.
👾 I have been playing Moncage on my iPad. Recommended. It is a beautiful game and it has a beautiful soundtrack. I liked the hints too cause advancing can take time every now and then. And I love games with the old-fashioned business model of pay-once-enjoy-infinitely.
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L’affiche du week-end : Rennes - Lille samedi 4 février à 21h.
🎧 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, via his excellent newsletter, made me discover At Seventeen by Janis Ian. I knew the tune because it was adapted in French (quite poorly I now realize) but the original lyrics are much more powerful and Janis is such a great singer that I now see the song through a much more flattering light.
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L’affiche du week-end : Montpellier - Paris SG mercredi 1er février à 21h.
🏀 Sorare NBA GW29 was very frustrating. Many injuries (Anunoby, Williams) and disappointing performances from players or coaches (Aldama, Batum, Lue). After a 9 GW streak of rewards, this is my 2nd GW of what is now a losing streak. This being said, reviewing my lineup with the optimization tool I wrote confirmed that I didn’t have a set of cards that could have done amazingly this time.
🎧 RIP Tom Verlaine. Every time I listen to Television I realize I should listen to them way more often than I do. Inevitably I then shift to Feelies, Gang of Four and finish with Pixies.
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L’affiche du week-end : Marseille - Monaco samedi 28 à 21h.
👾 My 5yo son really got into Sokoban lately. He’s surprisingly good for his age. Now I’m into it as well and I am discovering amazing resources about the game. For instance, this very detailed website: sokoban.dk/.
This is why the Internet can be so rewarding sometimes.