As you probably know, protests have erupted over changes to French labor law. My friend Jayson has an interestingly circumspect take on the matter here.
Monthly Archives: March 2006
Things I Have Learned Recently
Today we walked from our apartment to the Pullman Bar, which is on Parc just north of Sherbrooke. Took about an hour, which by extrapolation means that it would take about an hour an 20 minutes door to door to walk from the apartment to my office. At least if we go through Parc Lafontaine. …
Freesound
On Friday night, I discovered the Freesound Archive while looking for various sound effects to include in a recording Carrie and I were making (which will eventually become part of the first installment of the podcast). It’s a pretty awesome resource, so I thought I’d post a link here. There has always been a small …
and the winner is. . .
. . . Radio Super Bon for the podcast. By far the most popular by email and in the comments column. The first real installments will be up soon.
and while I’m linking to things
Here’s a description of what it actually takes for a speaker from another country to come to a campus in the U.S. and deliver a lecture for which he or she receives an honorarium. I avoid these inconveniences since I’m a U.S. citizen, but I have stories from colleagues. Just another way that the American …
Sent by One of My TAs
T.A. Spotted At Bar
B for Vendetta
V for Vendetta was a very entertaining movie. In its hit-you-over-the-head-with-message Hollywood way. It’s like the Wachowski Brothers knew they really screwed the pooch on the Matrix sequels and they were sorry. They wanted to show us they were really sorry. So they made a good movie. It has the basic same theme as the …