Category Archives: Writings
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Still something to say
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No rainy writing A month with sad news I’ll just pour a cup
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They were looking for unicorns
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This title comes from an essay by Umberto Eco, the famous Italian writer (among many, many, many other things). In it, he argued that when two different cultures meet, there are 5 solutions: conquest (either to make them like us or to destroy them), cultural …
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Do Stormtroopers dream of good tea?
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No I didn’t fell for Star Wars, since that title came to my mind before finding this picture on the Internet. Snowtrooper drinking tea, photoshoot by Mike Stimpson (http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/) But who could blame a Snowtrooper from drinking something warm between patrols on cold worlds? Certainly …
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To my friend in tea
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I hope you will forgive me for this little piece I wrote dedicated to my Thermos Bottle during which I might have been overcome by a poetic enthusiasm and slightly I have exaggerated a little. But let’s get back to the poem. O you my …
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The best and most beautiful things
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Marcel Proust in Swann’s Way explains how a cup of tea and a madeleine allowed the narrator to get back to his childhood and to remember things long forgotten, the sensory experiences triggering all kinds of flashback. “No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with …
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Teamancer
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– Call me Mr.. P. He was standing in a big office at the top of a building, one of many owned by a big software corporation, one that is not known by many but that I know is providing so-called “defensive” software for most …
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Are robots more likely to have good shoes or to drink good tea?
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I will share a secret with you: I am doomed. I know in the end, we all are but in my case, I am doomed earlier than you. Why? Because a study said so. Now you are thinking that I am really out of my …
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To the unsung heroes
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Since our dear friend TheDevotea asked some of us to blog for Lady Devotea’s Birthday (something he called Lady Devotea’s Birthday Blog Bonanza whatever that might mean), I decided to postpone my usual blog posting and find a better topic that the one I had …
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The answer was not in the cup
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After seeing an article saying that a machine worth 40,000 $ was able to make the perfect pot of tea, I wondered what a perfect pot of tea. This question came back to haunt me while I was having a cup of tea with @Chakaiclub …
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Drink me I’m famous
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I must confess that for none of us it was a night party but when thinking about this nice event, those were the first words that came to my mind. But perhaps I must first get back in time so that this all story makes …