So cool, thanks for sharing! I believe it was sufficiently long ago that you shouldn't risk this or that body part over it: what did you bring? Nagra? Condenser mikes? i tried this once (it was otherwise my everyday carry) and it was shit. Top of the line at the time. Still shit recording.
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One thing in "my" time was bootleg concert tapes ; I guess that hasn't changed, concerts are unique and fanatics would just buy it.
Quality was horrible.
My (58yo) VHS cinéphile collection was freaking extensive. Back then, as today, we didn't watch TV but I bought, and scrutinised to no end, the program & set the VCR to record. I always had blanks, 3h for long movies and 4h for 2 "normal" ones. When we moved countries, at a time when DVDs where a thing, a friend of mine asked to keep the tapes because it was so good. Every Hitchcock, every Bogart, every Kubrick, every... You name it. Series even.
Yeah quality was shit, but "tomb of the fireflies" and "princess bride" totally made to the deepest of my heart, until today and forever. At work I had "Singing in the rain" as a testing tape - each time I used it, you had everyone passing in front of the beamer stop, and watch.
Emotion trumps quality.
Yeah, let's go classic : Casablanca, Singing in the rain, Vertigo
Hey Skunk, how's stuff flying? I was working in Grottes last March/April and gosh what's wrong with people... That's what they call a bad neighbourhood??? Lol (with a subtle hint of racism 🤢).
Come have a drink on me at "the office" this summer!
Disclaimer: I'm familiar with the French-speaking part, not the German one.
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Work: you can't live there long-term without a working contract, which comes with a residency permit if the employer goes the extra mile of justifying why they are hiring foreigners and certifying they can't find a Swiss candidate. Many foreigners work in Switzerland, but some employers won't bother with the extra paperwork (may not apply to every type of job but applies to me)
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Admin: Switzerland is a highly organised, highly functional country. When you are in, it's freaking good (I don't know Germany). The level of services, from public infrastructure to social support is excellent most everywhere.
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It's safe. May be "boring" but frak it, not having to worry about crime most everywhere is just cool.
It can be funny when you are in what Swiss people consider a "ghetto" or a "high crime area", you'll be like wtf, it's just some kids smoking weed is all. Our daughters going out at night in Geneva didn't have a curfew or any limitations.
- People. People may not be the warmest in big cities but privacy is highly respected - people won't bother you... as long as you follow the rules. Making friends may take time, but as everywhere else, insert yourself in like-minded communities and you'll meet excellent people.
And disclaimer again, I live in France right next to Geneva, I work there from time to time, I have friends there but I never lived in Switzerland.
Wanna go Indian, but different? Try Freddy - either believe a stranger on the internet and watch it without any context or spoiler (the Recommended Method^tm^) or click on the provided lbx link and learn about Freddy,
Tap for spoiler
the introvert dentist.
Wrangle out of the clutching, greedy hands of marketing departements the names "Abarth" and "Cooper", then give them to actual performance workshops working on bettering affordable cars.
Avions Voisin - monocoque chassis as soon as 1923. The man behind (other) revolutionary cars as the Traction, The 2cv and the DS, Lefebvre, started there. For engineering marvels that the Voisin cars where, never forget that Monsieur Voisin graduated in ...Fine Arts. Explains the bankruptcy I guess.
Vu depuis tout en bas bien sûr, un certain crapahutage disons-le.
...Et c'est pourquoi sur certaines vieilles photos prises de la montagne en face on voit une superbe traînée noire sous celles-ci.
Maintenant ce fut rénové et c'est tout propre (et c'est une salle d'expo, c'est plus les chiottes)
Bon appétit jlailutines et jlailutins :)
'pis il fait un poil glacial, là. En plus d'en plus, la machine à café était débranchée, rhaaa.
Gla.
Un peu d'agit-prop poétique et féministe à Casablanca
Mon collègue là-bas me rappelle que je n'ai pas mis mes pneus d'hiver sur ma bagnole avant de partir bosser sous d'autres latitudes.
Ben oui. Je sais que les petites photos de mon bureau étaient appréciées ici (je n'en poste pas ailleurs du reste), et donc je vous présente mes excuses pour ne pas vous en avoir partagé cet été, ces petits moments de vieilles pierres et parfois d'incongruités au sein d'icelles.
J'ai pensé souvent à vous, ai fréquemment dégainé mon lamentable téléphone bas-de-gamme, mais si les photos n'étaient pas bof, mon humeur souvent l'était : beaucoup de problèmes techniques cet été, un surcroît de boulot pas drôle où l'on poursuit des fournisseurs chafouins tout en essayant de ne pas les braquer complètement.
Bref, bof. Des trucs humains aussi.
Mais c'est bô quand même, et reste un plaisir matin, midi et soir.
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A companion read to this article, where the blogger went to the same conference, "google I/O", and then went on the one dedicated to advertisers (same place, just de day after), "Marketing Live". Hang on to something solid, it's bad. Like, really.
https://matthiasott.com/notes/ad-infinitum