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Work hard, Play hard... et un peu de déconne!

Quand il n'est pas occupé par son herbier, le petit P sème des pierres blanches dans la forêt... Adepte de vieilles séries policères allemandes, il n'est pas peu commun de le trouver en train de manger la choucroûte devant la télé!


29 juin 2007

Done!

My parents live in a reserve...

A fine place to live indeed...

P

Let'em, Joe...

... They' re just nuts about Columbia!



Talking Haribos? I guess...
P

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27 juin 2007

Backlog: Madrid by night...

Un bien bel escalier pour notre soirée...











... et sinon les bars du quartier "Tribunal" et le Pacha!

Pacha: Pas mal, des femmes à perte de vue et moi qui avoue une "novia", lorsque l'on essaie de m'accoupler...

P

25 juin 2007

Madrid was fun...

As seen on the pictures below...











And that was only the day!
P

22 juin 2007

Where I was yesterday... Where I'm off to now...

Let's see if anyone can guess precisely where I was yesterday night...




And where I am off to now...



Ciao, P

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21 juin 2007

Where would you rather be?

Mardi, 19 heures


Mardi, 19.30 (en passant direction yacht)


Mercredi, 20.00 (en passant au rez direction l'appart...)


Well well,
P

20 juin 2007

The cryptology riddle...

This one for the nerds (Hi D.N. v/o C.!)

While trying to figure out whether would split up a long sms to a beautiful girl that I am blessed to be able to call girlfriend, I stumbled across a non trivial problem:

How can I best count the characters in an sms in a text? Is there a system where I can easily find out which numbers the last characters are without counting for a long time? Say just looking at the last ten characters of any given sms, like the length of the last line of text on my mobile...

1) The most intuitive versions count alphabets while removing z and replacing y with a number. One sequence is 25 and the number says how many times you multiply 25 to find the overall length...

Example: "0abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx1abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx2abcdefgh..."

This system is easy but not very elegant (even worse if you use the full alphabet and make it a 27 or 28 sequence chain) and it doesn't satisfy the need to be looking only at the ten last chars to know how far I am at any given end of an sms...

2) Another quite intuitive way of putting it is the power of 2 scale, but it's a pain to type in and you have to quickly find a way of splitting or you end up with many 0's. Needless to say, it doesn't solve the problem of the last en chars either...

Example: "0102000300000004..."

3) The x multiple (space - zeros - the amount of times you have to multiply)

Example for the five multiple: " 0001 0002 0003 0004 0005 0006 0007 0008 0009 0010 0011 0012 0013 0014 0015 0016 0017 0018 0019 0020..."

I think I found another solution that is less intensive to type and that can go to a thousand... Do you see what I am talking about? Can you find the optimal way of solving the problem?

Ciao, P

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19 juin 2007

Off to Nice!

And feeling fine!
P

Just a rigolo...

... and everywhere I go people know the stuff I'm eating...



Ce week-end: Amicitia Ball am See im Bad Horn close to Rohrschach (some pictures will follow, but the most beautiful girl refused to be immortalized in her beautiful and slightly kinky dress. Thank god for photographic memory!!!)

And yes, we passed the test of Rohrschach...

Really sorry for the pun...

Hence bringing me to another point: I promised that in two weeks she'd hear more bad puns than in a lifetime. Of course given that we were stuck in traffic on Sunday for a couple hours near Bern (stupid concert), it's already mission accomplished...

Well what can I do?

I guess I'm just a...



After all, maybe I am what I eat

Have a nice day!
P

Now turn away whole I display a bit of affection:

Mademoiselle... Je t'embrasse très fort, P

18 juin 2007

La la la la...

... Je suis (très) amoureux...

Voilà, comme ça c'est dit...

P

15 juin 2007

Week-End?

Gummi beer?

Enjoy your Friday! I'll be in the office...

P

PS: "video pervers entre filles 100 gratuit sans carte ni abonnement tres hard" --> googlez cela et arrivez sur mon blog

14 juin 2007

La video que tout le monde regarde right now...



Bref, P

13 juin 2007

My favorite celebrity look-alike...

On connait tous mon narcissisme galopant...

Des photos de chiens en string léopard, de paquets de chips, de demoiselles photogéniques, de Vincent, de coups de soleil et de moi en train de prendre un coup de soleil

Bonne journée, P

12 juin 2007

My celebrity look-alikes...

Puisque tout le monde le fait, je suis bien obligé de reconnaître que je suis assez bonne en Hélène de Troie...
Et une vieille détective...
Et une jumelle mais pas l'autre...
Et l'agent Clarence Sterling (bonus points for recognizing without wiki, imdb or google)
Et Mademoiselle Cécile de Volange...



This celebrity look-alike game |= |_| [ |< $ the clown right out of me...




Bref, P

11 juin 2007

Introduction to americanism

This week-end was cool to no end...

It contained...
Some TGIF with some lebanese game thrown in
Some boating with some wakeboarding for good measure
Some partying by the pool with some voluntary and involuntary swimming
Some showing off at the RED with just the right amount of dancing to justify being there
Some recovering by the pool with a surprising introduction to americanism

While due pictures have been taken throughout the week-end and will be showing up on various blogs in the coming days (& I strongly advise visiting Mick's Blog for all wakeboarding pictures for example), I have to point out something funny...

The following picture is normal or at least as normal as an austro-american bodybuilder by the pool with a Swiss german guy from Thun



This picture though is not normal...



Go figure...

Ciao, P

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10 juin 2007

Ten Little Bears... Day two...

Dedicated to Agatha Christie... My favorite books in a great part of my childhood!



I'll get back for a debrief of the week-end...

Just know it started really well with a fun TGIF! And it ends with Federer-Nadal... (right now, a catastrophy)

Cheers,
P

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08 juin 2007

TGIFF

Pour ceux qui ont aimé Qui veut gagner de l'argent en masse de Gad


Que veux dire le second F du titre?

a) C'est une erreur typographique
b) Friggin'
c) Techniquement, Friday... Mais le premier F doit vouloir dire friggin'
d) La réponse D

Bon week-end!
P

07 juin 2007

Is it love?

A general topic today based loosely on BMW AG's Mini advertisement series including the smash hit "follow that car"




Then there is Victo & Youm


Then some infatuations of mine, that I'd like to dedicate to friends
To all SKK members, Chuebel especially*, and all HSG oldies


To all of you guys and gals who were there to party through the summer of 2005, Luciano and the FYCB... And special thought to Ken, who didn't mix his bio alp tea!


To all the Nespresso addicts and those who enjoy a bit too much of a nightlife: That just screams Adrien...

Or even the article I read after finding out about Ana Ivanovic: How Anna K revolutionized tennis
Is she hot or is she hot?

Well, my answer to BMW is a quite certain and affirmed...

Maybe not, but it's still really worth the ride, isn't it?

So now... Follow that car!

As things stand, I'll just let go and enjoy... And on that very topic: If you're in Geneva on Friday night, just drop by at "La Bohème" at 7 p.m. and let's just down a few pints and see where the night leads us...

Take care!
P

* since the tie is his

06 juin 2007

Je revois la ville en fête et en délire...

... suffoquant sous le soleil et sous la joie
Et j'entends dans la musique les cris, les rires
Qui éclatent et rebondissent autour de moi
Et perdue parmi ces gens qui me bousculent
Etourdi, désemparé je reste là...
Quand soudain, je me retourne, elle se recule,
Et la foule vient la jeter entre mes bras...

... La la la ...

Et la joie éclaboussée par son sourire
Me transperce et rejaillit au fond de moi
Mais soudain je pousse un cri parmi les rires
Quand la foule vient l'arracher d'entre mes bras...

... Not happy ...

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Couldn't give a rat's damn*...

Un jour, j'étais drôle et amusant, where is this fun guy?
J'avais des anecdotes, synecdoques et autres antidotes à un ennui galopant, mais aujourd'hui...

Oh god, I hate this...

Ma coloc' dit toujours que notre vie est un musical: Et bien demain double dose de "tête qui éclate"

Bonne nuitée les petiots,
P


*Wouldn't touch this with a ten foot long clown pole? Thx Dude for the Valencia mail...

03 juin 2007

La la la la laaaaaaaaaaa

Happy
P

01 juin 2007

The tipping point...

That is whenever things start being considered somewhat differently...

The classical example of a tipping point is - think about it - the moment in a romcom* where
- she sees him doing cute
- without any hope of return
- without him knowing that she watches

Usually that involves playing with children and/or something artsy and/or something ecological... Or something really anonymous and generous!

Well just like another example that I like: Le Livigroub...

For those who haven't read it and/or those who don't remember, let me tell you this example of young Marcel Pagnol:
Small town whiz boy, barely a teenager, falls for big city girl of his age while both are on holidays in Provence. At her place, everything he experiences seems to be reeling with exotism.
In this part, Pagnol expresses the emotions insecure love and deferent novelty cause in every one of us, a torturing yet wonderful feeling to be sure...

One year later, he visits her house with the eyes of someone who has seen it all
Here Pagnol describes the tipping point of having grown and experienced things


My tipping point lately has been on the professionnal side. Always have I had this kind of respect of the rookie towards older professionals... The respect of the young looking guy towards the old looking guys... The respect towards guys with a lower voice...
And so on...
And on...
...

My sudden realization of a tipping point was in a meeting lately, where a guy who was the fear of our project team turned out to be a guy with some grey hair, older looking hands and most importantely for a brief lapse in the discussion complete cluelessness!

Now don't get me wrong, I still do respect the guy! It's just that my weariness at the time caused a contrasted feeling in me:
- While at the time I wanted to shout and go Michael Douglas in "Falling Down"...
- ... it felt quite pointless and unnecessarily tiring to do so.

After that, I felt really professional. I had a feeling that I was like everyone else. The client side monster looked old at once, instead of powerful. Hair progressively lacking, married, some grey hair, old looking hands and just as insecure as any of the guys. And in this very regard: Just like me...

A sad sad story indeed...

That was my turning point this week!

But I'm tired, so I talk crap... If you see me, remind me to smile. After all, life is great! as seen here... A video I love labelled "le grand content"... How motivating! Is it not?

Bonne soirée à tous et bon week-end!
P

* romantic comedy

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