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Sunday, Apr 2 2006

French bureaucracy

A funny article about French bureaucracy, check it out:

Get a job? Sometimes it doesn't seem to pay
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/03/31/yourmoney/mcents01.php

"The same week that the bus didn't run, that the electrician turned up three hours late, that the wine deliverer didn't turn up at all, that the mailman didn't bother to check if anybody was home and left a notice in the box requiring a slog to the post office for, of all things, a tax bill - the same week that all this happened, the people who insure against a canceled plane trip invoked Clause 2.7, Page 9 of their contract to say, alas, that they were not actually liable for a canceled plane trip..."


Formula 1

And I noticed Fernando Alonso got his second victory of the season in the Australian Grand Prix. You can read about it in this International Herald Tribune article:

Formula One: Skillful Alonso wins thriller
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/02/sports/prix.php

A snippet:

"There is a fine line in motor racing between excitement and disaster, and while it came dangerously close to the latter on several occasions, the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday finished as a festival of action, skill and thrill - and a significant dose of embarrassment."



Here is Le Monde's article on the race, the French are always very interested because the Spaniard Alonso races for Renault (which is French of course):

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3242,36-757140@51-749626,0.html

Sunday

Not much going on today, nice out, got up late, I was up until late assembling the new A/V rack and rearranging the living room furniture. Will try to post some pics later. Talked to my parents a while ago.


Saturday, Apr 1 2006

Suit

I bought a suit off the street today, for $20 (!)

It even fits. It's a summer suit. The guy was selling them on 42nd and Broadway. They were flying off his rack very quickly and people walking by snatched them.


TW

Finally got around to returning my secondary cable box today. Went to the Time Warner center on 23rd and Madison Park. It'd been sitting on my table for months, and I never had time to take it back. Initially I kept it as a backup hooked up to a Tivo, because I wasn't sure how TW's own HD DVR was going to perform. Over time I discovered it was almost just as good as Tivo, so I discontinued the Tivo subscription and unhooked the secondary cable box.

There was kind of a long line, to be expected on a Saturday, but fine. Funny how New Yorkers say "wait on line" instead of "wait in line."

I did the standard Outback and Best Buy after returning the box.

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