An article on her work with McDonald’s to make slaughterhouses more humane let me to the website of Temple Grandin. Read the second article on the egg industry, it’s very interesting too.
Category: Culture
Everything cultural that interests me: music, reading, science, arts in general, news, photography…
Dead Battery and Cold Snow [en]
When you wander around with a device which allows you to take photographs of everything you see, it gives you the opportunity to write posts about events such as this:
First time I have broken down with this car. Nothing serious, don’t worry Grandma 😉 — it stalled and wouldn’t start again. I just had to wait 30 minutes in the cold for the TCS to arrive.
(Let’s say that I posted this here on purpose just to show you all how lame it could become, OK?)
Orage sur le Léman [en]
De nouvelles photos balancées en vrac dans un répertoire. Vevey-Lausanne quand on s’arrête toutes les dix minutes pour prendre des photos, c’est long. La plupart d’entre elles ont été prises à l’aveugle (lumière d’orage + vent + cheveux trop longs), ce qui explique les lignes d’horizon parfois bien éloignées de l’horizontale.
Je vous garantis qu’elles ne sont pas toutes aussi bien que celle-ci.
More Dumped Photos [en]
More photos, with an Index of Dumped Photos for the galleries which are publicly available. Enjoy.
Épiphanie [en]
Images [en]
During this last couple of weeks, I have added to the photographs in the dump, and also to “offsite” photographs:
- my blogging spot
- Homeward Bound and Teambuilding for The Mirror Project (my contributions up to now were Dojo and Fat Ladies). Note also a special guest appearance in Two Stephs at Palais-Royal.
Liste e-mail francophone au sujet des troubles musculo-squelettiques (TMS/RSI) [en]
La liste de discussion francophone TMS-RSI vient de voir le jour. Si vous souffrez de TMS ou craignez que ce soit le cas, inscrivez-vous.
Pensez à diffuser cette information autour de vous, afin que les personnes susceptibles de bénéficier de cette liste aient une chance de la trouver. Merci d’avance. Merci pour elles.
The Lord of the Rings [en]
I have just finished reading The Lord of the Rings. If I remember correctly, this must be my fourth or fifth attempt to read the books. The furthest I have reached seems to be the very first pages of the third book, if my bookmark does not lie. My memory of those pages read many years ago has dimmed to near to nothingness.
I am one of the many people for whom the film saved the books. I had given up on reading them.
I am coming to the conclusion that The Lord of the Rings is not a book most enjoyed when first read. On the first reading, one is swamped with strange names and places, riddles and comments on the unfamiliar lore and history of Middle-earth. (Information overload, anyone?) The story unfolds slowly, too slowly, and one loses track of the complex plot and dozes off to sleep amidst poetic descriptions of beautiful land or fair deeds.
The Lord of the Rings seems written for those already familiar with a marvellously complex world Tolkien created. In any case, some familiarity with the world in question seems required to thoroughly enjoy the epic.
The film did not put me to sleep. They gave me a reasonably clear view of the plot, allowing me to dive into the books and enjoy the tale being told without feeling too lost. I am looking forward to reading the books again. But counting my previous attempts, it really took me hundreds of pages to learn to enjoy Tolkien.
Neige 2003 [en]
Ce matin, une fine couche de neige a recouvert le monde, du moins dans mon quartier. Elle décore les toits, les jardins, et aussi les voitures. Le soleil brille dessus et la fera bientôt fondre. Mais il fait froid, elle tiendra peut-être quelques heures.
C’est la première neige de l’année, et comme chaque année, j’ai envie de vous en parler. Je cherche des mots pour la dire, mais toutes les métaphores neigeuses ont été épuisées par des générations d’écrivains. Est-il encore possible d’en trouver une qui chante, au lieu de sentir le renfermé ?
Dumping Photographs [en]
Putting photographs online has always been a source of never-ending frustration for me. I therefore tend to be a little bit sluggish with my updates.
To help you wait for updates (and to help myself) I have conjured up a quick and dirty PHP script which allows me to dump photographs in a directory and present them to you on reasonably clean pages.
You can now admire dumped photographs of the cat, the dog, some Swiss mountains, a weekend in Paris, and a pretty random collection of other pictures taken with the SPV. If you want to try and touch them up in PhotoShop, you are most welcome to play with them!