How Many Amps, Moped Battery

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It's not going at all at the Stuttgart Opera ... The first Lohengrin, which takes place tonight and that I will not go, will take place in the absence of the director. Worse, the poster states that the setting is " according Stanislas Nordey," and not " of Stanislas Nordey. "(Because this is Mr. Stanislas Nordey it matter, a French apparently known.)

The World even made an article . The journalist does not mince words: " at the Stuttgart Opera, there is consternation. The director who participated in the first few days, you can imagine the drama. What did it really happen?

It's pretty simple, and a classic opera, I think. Conflict, as I say, thank you without a war between the director and conductor Manfred Honeck. Who were both incompatible visions of the Wagner opera. Visions are so different that we came to clash. Stanislas Nordey says: "This gentleman [conductor] wanted the choir sings and gets up when he sits down when not singing. Artistically speaking, this is nonsense. "C'mon! One measure of the seriousness of the thing, and one can imagine the director returning home at night, explaining to his friends on the phone, "No but you can imagine, the choir sings and when he gets up then sits ! "One can imagine the same Mr. Honeck explaining his relatives:" The choir should sing sit, or stay the whole time standing, but this is ridiculous! And one can imagine the reaction of friends, shared the desire to tell the artist that sometimes he just kidding when and even the desire to stay even a little solidarity with the artist in question.


Nordey After leaving, I do not know what was finally chosen for the choir. Besides, if you look at the picture presented on the site of the opera, it is not known torp if people are sitting or standing, you can not even see their legs ... It was well worth it to make a drama.

Everything else, small desktop personal story that I do not hesitate to tell you. For two weeks, I tutor. Co-tutor to be exact. But this week, the other guardian was gone and I found myself alone with the intern. Who had the job for two weeks, so nothing too serious (it's not like I really needed to look after him, find him something useful to do). But still. I wanted to look serious and pretend to be interested in the evolution of the course (well here I add, the subject really interests me). Wednesday, I'll find the intern (who has one or two years older than me, but whatever) in his office and asks if everything goes well, it has something to do, if they have questions if he needs help. Are discussed for five minutes or ten I do not know. And in the end, it is that I said: " If you still need help, feel free to ask me. "It was a tad annoying. I do not know if I have to participate in the evaluation of the course, but if that is the case, I can already tell you that this unfortunate trainee more qualified than me will not receive full credit. And we'll see who's the leader , to paraphrase our President.

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Words pea ...

My Peas valéricelle and relies on his puzzle of France, the number of apartments that are in each region ...

Doubling On Birth Control

A child at a time

Today I received a very nice message, commenting on this little phrase that closes each of my emails: "Changing the world one child at a time":

I am a mother of two girls , then I will do my best, one child at a time. Not to mention the child buried in the mother that I am.

For the sudden awareness of the child there, buried deep within me in those few words that I post every day though, because no one never recovers from his childhood, thank you ...

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CeBIT

Cuckoo

Thursday I was at CeBIT . I was sure everyone knew the biggest exhibition devoted to information technology and communication in the world, but apparently not, so I am obliged to say what it is. Oh hey, I just do ... It is a show that takes place once a year, the first week of March at Hanover in the huge exhibition of the city (which hosted the World Expo in 2000, and which can still be a few remains).

What was I doing at CeBIT, you ask? But I worked, obviously. I have a job very interesting ...

Hanover is not right next to Stuttgart, and to be able to travel in the day, no choice but to fly. And it must be taken early enough to go if you want to get somewhere near the exhibition opens at 9am ... Takeoff at 7:25 of Stuttgart, that means around 6:45 am at the airport, that means rising to 5:15 if you want to be quiet. Hey ben it's very early, I assure you. So early as 7-10 of France Inter has not started yet ... Logic. Fortunately for me, at 5am, Europe is still a listenable ... (Someday I'll explain how radio listen to any time between 5am and 10am.)

But French radio, it's nice, it must not forget that I am in Germany. Besides, we can not forget too long ... I take the S-Bahn 6:25, and bam, checking tickets! You've seen controllers in transit at 6:25 am in France, you? I already checked on Sunday evening at 22h, in Stuttgart, one more thing that would not happen on the other side of the Rhine ...

Arrive at the airport of Hanover, first finding is a major airport. Two tracks, full of terminals ... terminals? Second finding in amount in the S-Bahn: trains are prettier in Hanover, the acoudoirs are wooden even in second class, the light panels indicate the time and date in addition to the station Next, there are toilets and ... Exciting, I know. Add to this the fact that the journey between the airport and the fairground, it misses a Straßburgerplatz , you will understand qu'Hanovre is a city that has left me a good impression.

And here is that we arrive at CeBIT, this thing which I was told it was great. I had lied, it's not very big, it énooorme. So great that there are bus routes within the exhibition, to go from one end to another ... It is also not very practical if you want to see a side of conférencde the north entrance of 15h to 15h30 and then be at 15:45 at the southern entrance ... bah you can not, you have more like 25 or 30 minutes to cross ...

Yes well, it's great, it was understood. But there does what, at CeBIT?

We see lots of funny stuff! We give business cards left to right (even if it is useless). We attended lectures on topics terrible as the Introduction of technologies related to Internet business in participatory or how to make money with free software? (speaker's response: we can not do), and tested lots of products more or less new but still amazing.

The big fashion of the moment, is all that is touch. No matter what you have as a screen, whether on a phone portbale on a desktop with Windows 7 at Microsoft booth television giant Hyundai, or elsewhere, you must have a touch screen, or you're a big void that has understood nothing. And not touch any creature like terminals SNCF tickets, eh ... Multipoint Touch to be able to resize pictures with two fingers or zooming in Google Maps (95% demonstrations are done with mapping applications is pretty funny).

We hear a lot about French in the aisles ... Obviously the main languages are English and German, but I feel like French visitors (or French) are particularly numerous. By cons, listed exhibitors, it's less the case ... Even if one finds here and there a small company that presents Auvergne unknown something. The advantage is that the exhibitors are happy to speak French, and then let you pass into Reseller area, which has the air of nothing, and is actually not much, but it's a lounge area in theory reserved for dealers and journalists and in which I could not go like that. It allowed me to play with touch screen giant Hyundai.

But what was most fun was probably a screen with a system of eye tracking . The demonstration was quite striking: a text is displayed, you read it, and when you get to the bottom of the screen, bang, it scrolls automatically stack at the right speed ... Because the monitor detects the position of your eyes and then adapts the scrolling text to your speed electure. It also works to navigate its CD covers with Cover Flow so ... Watching a slightly to the left, and pocjettes march to the left, you look to the right, they pass to the right. What for? Primary research (analyze user behavior against a GUI, for example) and to make computers accessible to people who can not use keyboard or mouse (you can write a text with nothing but his eyes, Looking for the right buttons on a keyboard displayed on the screen). It works surprisingly well ... and it cost, oh, almost nothing ... approximately EUR 22 000 .

Another funny thing, the Microsoft booth this time: a video projection that is controlled ... Finger! But not to the eye. You're standing in front of a wall on which is projected ... a map, like so. You stretch your arm, point the finger to the left: the map slides to the left. Point to the right, the map shifts to the right. To click should close the tender point and then the thumb is a bit more complicated ... But one begins easily enough for Tom Cruise in Minority Report , enough to make me happy.

If we find it quite easily interesting demonstrations, it is a little harder to find a mirror. There are food stalls everywhere, and even full of real restaurants (not that expensive), and when you do Look no ice (morning), you see everywhere. When you are looking for (the afternoon), you have a hard time finding a stand, and when you find it closed. I put more than an hour to find my ice was terrible. In searching I was able to fall on fun things, such as Deutsche Telekom very big stand, or hall reserved for gamers , where they delivered the award for best player I do not know what a collection young people probably nice, but terribly caricatures. All this in a warm black and blue, sponsored by Intel.

The search for ice is also an opportunity visit the remains of Expo 2000 including a very nice wooden roof, which recrouvre several small halls today, and under which was at that time a Portuguese restaurant (Madeira for êgtre exact) very good I must say .

If I saw this wooden roof, however I have not seen the Governator, er pardon Governor Schwarzenegger, who came to inaugurate the show earlier this week (and ended his speech by saying " I'll be back! "), there were only pictures and banners including one that said" Haste schon vista, baby? "(I translate for my ignorant public by a" you already have Vista, baby? ") Which is a comedy special.

I was sure to bring plenty of memory sticks and pen ... But no, it's a crisis! Result I had only allowed sweets (including Gummihandys Samsung mobile phones finally small blue gelatin, quite funny) and the papers piled on my desk now.

The return trip was fun. Already because we nearly missed our S-Bahn and then at the same time our plane, all because:
- we forgot that the S-Bahn station is "beside" the exhibition is actually AA 30 minutes foot
- Maxou (yes that's me) wanted to see the Microsoft booth that had eluded him so far, and suddenly instead of having the margin we did not have too (playing Tom Cruise it takes time).

The Landing in Stuttgart was fun too ... It was snowing outside, and if you have never tested, I can tell you that the plane in the snow is super fun. The flakes in the night and the lights of lighthouses form a kind of white streaks all around the plane, it feels like Star Wars charging headlong at two or three times the speed of light.


Back on campus, was calm and white (of snow in March! is crazy!), I was pretty tired. I am always elsewhere, so I'll leave you, but I promise to tell you other exciting things soon. Yes, yes, I promise.