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  • Cool

    BIG props to Apple for their front page today; links to this page if you’re reading after October 27. And BIGGER props to Rosa Parks for being the person she was.

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  • I have..

    …been singing this song in my head for the past two weeks while doing the plonge. I need something with a faster beat to make me work quicker, but this is such a beautiful song.

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  • Très bonne journée

    Journée excellente à l’école aujourd’hui; Filets de Rouget, sauce bonne femme avec légumes glacés à blanc. And you know what, I’ve just realised I thought and typed all that in French. I see Wendy once every week or so and chat with my mother every couple of weeks, but normally I just don’t speak English…

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  • Buy This

    Mondovino and you’ll never buy any wine except what you can find up the road ever again (like Alex – see right – does already). Very highly recommended, although it’s only in French. Worth three years studying the language to appreciate it. Apart from that a waiter cut the end off my finger the other…

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  • 51 (cryptic title)

    More to follow to explain this gibberish: Just finished the first day; disappointed we’re NOT allowed to eat or even taste what we cook, they flog it off in the college brasserie the next day; also not much technique today – “slice those apples,” he said; I knew how to slice them nice and fine,…

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  • Lend us a fiver, will you?

    Blimey, this is the list of stuff I need for school – starting next Monday. Bonus points for anyone who knows what a canneleur, douille cannelée and a spatule en exoglass are. Trousseau professionnel Tenue vestimentaire * Pantalon * Veste * Tablier * Calot * Tour de cou * 2 Torchons * Chaussures de sécurité…

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  • Splutter, laugh

    http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/15/pf/training_pay/index.htm – $32,000 starting salary! That’s TWICE what I earn! I’m moving to the USA!

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  • New stuff

    So I’ve been doing a fair bit of Computational Adjustments myself recently, with some results that may or may not be interesting. This all began a few months ago when I finally gave up on Norton AV which was point-blank refusing to allow me to pay for another year’s service, so I installed AVG from…

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