Today it was warm enough to work without wearing my jacket. It’s starting to get nicer here in Paris. Pretty soon it’ll be April.. Je crois que le vrai printemps va arriver bientôt.
Archive for March, 2007
大相撲熱戦！
今日栃煌山が負けて三敗目。だけど新幕内だったから未来に活躍なりそうだ。
そして、モンゴル人二人同士は優勝競争になった。大関の一敗の白鵬と横綱の二敗の朝青龍だ。どちらを応援しようかね。悩んでいる。
白鵬はカド番なんだが。先場所にカド番になってもその次の場所優勝になることだったらすごいけどね。初日から二連敗でも優勝になることもすごいけどね。
まぁ〜朝青龍が横綱になる前にずっと応援してきたのでね。
明日は対決だ！白鵬が勝ったら優勝に決めることだ。朝青龍が勝ったら千秋楽また会うだろう。ものすごい睨み合いだろうな。
。。。明日といえばルアンに友達を会いに行く予定があります。ちょうどう大相撲がやる時は電車の出発だ。しまった！
Linux Matlab complaint
Not another segmentation fault! Matlab often crashes. Like just right now. It usually happens when drawing or updating graphics, for example just now after I had drawn a graph and attempted to zoom. When I was running Matlab under Windows I don’t remember having this problem.
Il souvent se plante (?) quand on change les graphiques. Zut alors! Ce n’est pas très sympa.
en chaleur
On my way to work today I saw two dogs taking a keen interest in one another.
The owner of one of the dogs says to the other, “Elle est en chaleur.”
I think to myself: Sometimes direct translation doesn’t work. And sometimes it does.
* I will probably increase the hits per day my site gets with this post, especially if I add the words “jeune femme”…
どうするの？？
朝青龍がまた負けちゃったな。今度ちょうど見えた。つながった時、呼び出しが呼び出しっていた。そして数分後前頭３枚目の雅山に負けちゃった。あるいは二敗目の連敗です。横綱としては珍しい。だけどいったん二連敗したら横綱の鎧が破れちゃった。他の力士は弱みが見えて勇気を出しているだろう。じゃ、どうする朝青龍？いつも通りにこれから勝つしかないんだ！
確かにちょっと面白くなってきたじゃない？
座布団が跳んだだろうね
今日は三月場所の最初に日だった。場所の時間はパリの時間にして朝です。気づいたらもう終わったところだった。びっくりしたことに朝青龍が負けちゃった！もうちょっと早く気づいたらインターネットで見れてよかったのに。座布団が跳んだに違いない！
Le premier dimanche du mois!
Today was the first Sunday of the month. You all know what that means: Free entrance to a bunch of museums!
(For a good list of free things in Paris, I recommend to pick up the Paris 0 € book in a bookstore)
So, we went to La Conciergerie. It was one of the sites that are only free for the first Sunday of the month during the winter months.
The verdict? Overall, it wasn’t that impressive. There was an Armenian exhibition held inside that was more interesting than the Conciergerie itself. There were a few small rooms recreating life in the Conciergerie, complete with life-sized dummies and there was a small display of the history of the Concergiere up through the fall of Robespierre (during the middle of the French revolution). It certainly wouldn’t have been worth the full admission fare. Perhaps only with a combined Saint-Chapelle / Conciergerie fare and a genuine interest to visit such an historical site.
Still, there were two noteworthy items:
(1) The names of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette are there on the long list of people recorded as having been guillotined (click the picture below!).
and
(2) A guillotine blade used in actually head-choppings-off (i.e. “the best cure for a headache”). Alas, the French revolution was before it’s time, though this one possibly saw action against a notorious murderer, Lacenaire, in 1836 (according to the caption below the blade).
Go visit Sainte-Chapelle instead… But go on a sunny day to fully appreciate the beautiful stained glass windows (one side in the morning and the other in the afternoon).
After the Concergerie we headed over to Notre Dame with the intention of listening to some pipe organ music. I was hoping to get to go up to the tower, as that is also free. However we took our time on the way over and the time of the last entry (45 minutes before “closing”) had already passed by the time we reached the cathedral. Oh well. My wife had already gone up once for the spectacular view of the Paris skyline, so I’ll have to live with those pictures. The crêpe au chocolat masion (though I still prefer nutella) we stopped to eat was a good tradeoff.
Here’s a photo from one of the many side chapels in the Cathedral.
Candles in Notre Dame bearing the image of the virgin Mary are nicely arranged in a hexagonal lattice.
