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Gah. I want a book, Jyuryoku Pierrot by Isaka Kotaro or Kotaro Isaka if you prefer the Western way of writing names. Of course it seems that the book hasn't been translated yet. Amazon fails in terms of Mr. Isaka's work, it really does. I want to read it because I loved the film even though the subtitles were wonky on the DVD, my laptop has slight problems with DVDs sometimes. I really think it's a great film, really. I absolutely adored it, I adored the whole nature vs. nurture debate and I will gladly watch it again.

It was advertised as a detective story but in the trailer (you can watch it here but it doesn't have subtitles) they gave away the end, well, you could guess it easily but it didn't take anything away from the story. I must say, I'm not a huge fan of family dramas but it was wonderful and I loved how the two brothers interact (photo of the two of them if you care)

Also, it seems that I keep on falling on films and series where Kairi from Love Shuffle plays (Yoshitaka Yuriko). In the film, she's in about three scenes but she's kind of awesome. The younger brother, Haru, I knew that I had seen the actor before but I really couldn't place him. He's actually the wonderful Otomen kid, I say "wonderful" and he really is, I suppose it's mainly because his character is awesome, I have a thing for guys who can do manual work. He also played the lead in Honokaa Boy, I started watching it on a plane going somewhere far away but the main girl annoyed me to no end. Apparently she disappears after the first ten minutes, I guess I never made it past the first ten minutes then.

This is Okada Masaki who plays Haru:


But back to the book, apparently Isaka's readers find that Pierrot is perhaps his best work yet and I, of course, cannot read it! I must learn Japanese, I must! I bet I'm missing out on so much great literature just because I cannot read the language. That actually can be said about a lot of languages out there. In any case, I must first finish all the books I have backed up in the languages I do know... like perhaps one day finish off Lukjanenko's Watch series, they have them all in Russian at the local libraries too! Whoo!

Baseball game after the reception dinner at the conference in San Diego. A lot of people left after the dinner so most of the seats in the section were empty.

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While looking at these photos I remembered what happened during the baseball game. I was talking to some guys behind me, we talked about conferences and California and other things. There were some players on the pitch and at one point there was some cheering. Just as part of the conversation I asked the guys if the game had started already and they told me that they had been playing for about twenty minutes. I was sure that the players on the pitch were practicing because it sure did look like practice!

I would go as far as saying that I'd rather watch a pro football in Finland than a baseball game where the teams were as bad as the match we watched. It opposed the San Diego something against the Washington something, if I recall correctly. Actually perhaps I'd go even further and say that I'd rather watch a game of Finnish baseball which I have yet to understand but I suppose, since after a certain age, all the participants are rather drunk when someone proposes to play the game it can be fun. I mean, you run in a zigzag and you throw the ball for you to hit yourself!

I'm not kidding about the whole Finnish baseball thing, it's really a sport.

Back to the baseball game though. We left after about an hour, it might have been less but it sure did look that long. The fourth photo clearly shows that I wasn't the only one thinking about leaving.

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Actually no, I stopped watching Numb3rs when they use the Lagrange Theorem in a completely impossible way after having presented it wrong. But this little presentation of IRC just takes the cake, it's like playing spot the 129847329742 errors.



I think everyone knows about my love for IRC, one of the greatest things ever provided by Finland to the rest of the world. The person who wrote that presentation of IRC for the show clearly has never been on an IRC channel... or he's only been on one called #teentalk but even there I bet they don't use "leet speak".

It's as much a hacker place as the playground on Lauttasaari is. No really! Actually lots of people chat with their co-workers on IRC here. The uni actually provides us with Unix machines with irssi installed on them so that we can use IRC through SSH. Oh wait, does it count as hacker stuff because you actually have to use command lines instead of clicking places? There are some awesome channels though, the #eurovision one is great when the ESC time comes. Then there are those where I talk with people I will see in the evening anyway. It makes life that bit just more interesting at work.

So end of the story: why can't those damned shows try to present less stuff but with greater accuracy? They thrive on the ignorance of people and that just irks me to no end. Like CSI and their DNA testing done in a blink of an eye (alright, so not really blink of an eye but six hours? come on!) and their magic databases where they have stored all the info about everything.

hi... we were at the arc de triomphe on october 7, and there was a ceremony going on at the tomb of the unknown soldier. my french is very bad, so i couldn't follow what was going on, but it seemed there was a wreath laying ceremony, and it involved veterans. does anyone know more about this? it looked official and half of the site was cordoned off.
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Hey all of you. I'm thinking of moving to the suburbs outside of western and north-western Paris to stay with a French family, and I have some questions regarding university courses and the area in general that I would really appreciate some help and suggestions with!

1. Where can I take an upper-level history course near the area? Which universities would be relatively easy for an American (who's pretty fluent en français) to still get into and take a course at this coming spring? I know l'Université Paris X Nanterre is there, but apparently their inscription date has already passed. I've already looked into the American University of Paris because I figure it'll be easy to take a course at that will count for credit if I can't find anything else, but I'd prefer to go to a French school if possible.

2. What is the western/northwestern suburbs region like? I've read fairly affluent and there seem to be a number of parks/forested areas on their western side. Is it still easy/inexpensive to get to the Paris city center on the RER if I want to visit and hang out in Paris a lot? Will I feel like Paris is accessible to me, or not, and that I definitely live outside of it? I want any info on Maisons-Laffitte, Sartrouville, Nanterre, Le Vésinet, Colombes, Houilles, Bezons, Saint Germain-en-Laye, Chatou, and the more northernly region (Saint-Leu-La-Forêt, Eaubonne, Épinay-sur-Seine) that you can give me! If there are fun things for young people to do, if there's a nightlife, etc. Or links to useful info...I can read all about them, but hearing information from people who've actually lived in or traveled there is so much more useful to me.

I've only spent a few days in Paris, so I know very little about the regions outside the densely packed center. I would really appreciate any help you guys can give me, and if you live near the region or go to a university in Paris, let me know if you'd be willing to add me as an lj-friend and provide some further advice!

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