Florent Thoumie » TV http://blog.xbsd.org Geek stuff follows Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:22:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Californication http://blog.xbsd.org/2007/10/19/californication http://blog.xbsd.org/2007/10/19/californication#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:27:46 +0000 Florent Thoumie http://blog.thoumie.net/2007/10/19/californication/ Read more »

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Those are two good reasons I should hate it, but no, it’s cool. Watch it.

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]]> http://blog.xbsd.org/2007/10/19/californication/feed 0 The Office (UK) http://blog.xbsd.org/2007/09/02/the-office-uk http://blog.xbsd.org/2007/09/02/the-office-uk#comments Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:14:03 +0000 Florent Thoumie http://blog.thoumie.net/2007/09/02/the-office-uk/ Read more »

No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Ok, I’ve been here like… a year and a half. I’ve been hearing people talking about The Office on a regular basis, saying it was brilliant. I’m following a lot of TV series, so I’ve been meaning to see it for months but it got delayed… Some days ago, I read a blog post by Damien Mulley with a video showing John O’Donoghue trying to get some respect from different Dail (accent missing, need to get those on the powerbook) deputies (that’s what I understood). Nothing really special, I felt like I’d seen such scenes in the french embassy so many times… Anyway, I followed a link in the comments which in turn lead to another comment saying “John O’Donoghue is the David Brent of the Dail”.

Who’s that David Brent. Google search lead to Wikipedia. Apparently he’s the main character of the english version of The Office. Ok, that’s enough. I’ve had those DVDs for such a long time, now is the time. So I’ve spent my whole saturday (well, a good part of it) watching The Office and I have to say it’s brilliant alright.

So, if you haven’t seen it yet, go get the DVDs, there’s no chance you’ll be disappointed. I’ve yet to watch the US version with Steve Carrell (and maybe the french one) cause everybody’s saying it’s crap and I want to make my own opinion about it.

Edit: I’m completely in love with Dawn. So Lucy Davis, I know you’re married but if you read this, and consider coming to Dublin, send me an email (and don’t look at the previous post). Btw, I’m adding Dawn to my list of favorite names, next to Caitlin and Ciara.

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]]> http://blog.xbsd.org/2007/09/02/the-office-uk/feed 0 How my life changed since 9/11 http://blog.xbsd.org/2007/07/25/how-my-life-changed-since-911 http://blog.xbsd.org/2007/07/25/how-my-life-changed-since-911#comments Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:22:12 +0000 Florent Thoumie http://blog.thoumie.net/2007/07/25/how-my-life-changed-since-911/ Read more »

No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Ok, so I was a bit depressed on monday and I went straight to the pub after work, to clear my mind with a couple of drinks.

I don’t think I spent so much time watching TV since I left France, which in itself is a good thing. There were news then this documentary about the football game between Ireland (ROI) and England in Lansdowne Road on the 15th of February 1995. Great documentary, most of the interviewees were speaking Irish, which was unexpected but cool.

Anyway, commercial break, there come some images of people in a tower, then the screen reads “9/11, the day the world changed”. WTF! The world didn’t change for me on that day. Maybe it did for a lot of people in the US, but not for me and probably not for most people in the EU (or outside US I should say).

What has changed lately is the whole passport with RFID thing, the new rules at the airport. If you haven’t been in an airplane lately, it sounds like that: “Yeah, you can take your toothpaste in a plastic bag we’ll give you, but omg wtf is that thing? deodorant? Is that more than 100ml? Yes? OMGLOLWTF you can’t take that with you in the cabin, who knows what’s in there? Yeah, you can buy some at the duty free, and don’t miss our promotions on Whiskey bottles.”

Some weeks ago, I’ve been refused to take some dumbbell weights in the cabin. Ok, that may seem a bit weird, but I didn’t want to pay for luggage, so I decided to take them with me in the cabin (ryanair policy: “we’ll charge you 12 euros if you need to have luggage”). Security check told me that I couldn’t take them with me as they could be used like a weapon. Yeah right, those 2kgs weapons I was trying to smuggle were no good, but nobody cared about that 4kgs laptop. Morons.

My life didn’t change because of 9/11, it changed because of stupid morons in the US administration.

From Philip’s blog Airplane security from a Pilot PoV

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