Lance Hahn R.I.P.
It’s strange the way things work out. Recently I moved to France and I have been trying to contact people from my past. I started with the people who helped influence and shape me from my Syracuse Punk Rock days. It has been wonderful getting in touch with some people and seeing what has happened [...]
Funny Ikea Ads
Don’t watch these at work if you don’t want people to know you are wasting time. You will laugh out loud and blow your cover. These are real Ikea ads that run on regular television in Europe. A bit too racy for the US. I thought they were spoofs, but no they are the real [...]
10 votes in this last poll
I guess Al Gore didn’t excite you enough to vote in my poll. We were without the internet for 4 days and during that time it was announced that he had won the Nobel Prize. I had planned to write about it but by the time we had access to the internet the buzz had [...]
Wine of the week under 5 Euros
I have been meaning to write a few ________ of the week posts and try to include them each week. One of the things I’d like to write about is wine. I am by no means a wine afficionado, but a great thing about being in France is that you have a wide variety of [...]
Cheap ways to call internationally
Our friends Alessandro and Stefano told us about callingcards.com. You can purchase a calling card online. You don’t actually get a card but you get an email that gives you the access number to call and the pin number so you can call internationally. The rates are excellent. We had a card to [...]
Bad translation of the month
We were at a restaurant in Sarlat last weekend. The Southwest of France has many British people here so menus often have the English translations below the French descriptions of the food. The descriptions tend to be long, but this one was not.
Coq au vin
Cock with wine
There are so many ways to interpret this, where [...]
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