I'm a nerd, so what!

Please support Firefox 3 and the mozzila foundation if you want a better, cleaner, faster web. Also, more Firefox users means less web programmer developing some weird psycho split personality. Together we can spread the words of ethics and good use of the world wide web. So be part of the great download day and click on the foxy fox picture!! No seriously I'm already using the preview Release Candidate version of Firefox 3 and oh baby it rocks your mamma! It's lighter, faster and better that FFx2 which was already so much better than Internet Exploder. So please help firefox win the browsers war. Have your family download and use it, have your co workers do it, you friends, dates, your local grocery store and any person you might bump in. Go go Firefox!

-Paris Clem: a place where nerds find a warm welcome.

The Great Crow Incident

First there is a terrifying scream tearing the sky. Horror from above, the feeling of an evil presence. It's the ghost of my fears, haunting my dreams, the insufferable memory. I am referring to the great crow incident, of course. It all started back in December 2007. I was in Bozeman, Montana (USA). There I was, walking from the university campus to my apartment at the Peter Koch Tower. It was one of these cold, bitter and gloomy day. The silence of the empty block was only disturbed by the crunchiness of my footsteps in the snow. My cheeks blushing, whipped by a freezing northern wind that the Gallatin valley liked to blow on it inhabitants. Suddenly I heard what will always bring chaos in my soul. The Crow was flying, majestically, with an hypnotizing movement. Deploying all his feathers, assured, with what we could interpret as being proud. I was captivated. Then came the shit. My jacket got attacked and the casualty was definitely visible. The attack had collateral damages that I'd rather not describe because this memory is still aching me deeply. The Crow, victorious, was flying, shouting his pride. At this moment I sworn I would one day take my revenge. My honor wouldn't stay unavenged. A stream a fury went trough my body, and I admit I started running after the crow, cursing all I could in all the languages I know with a rare intensity. Dear lord, I hope no one saw me that day, in that street because that person would have been stained and shocked by the absurd scene (or could have died of laughter).

Livin' la vida parisienne

Oh yeah baby, three languages in a 4 words long sentence. Gotta be jealous! I'm in Paris these days, so the blog earns its righteous Paris Clem name. I'm staying at a hotel near "place de la république" because I was so not in the mood for squatting, plus it doesn't feel great when you call a friend and the first thing they say is "sorry man, I can't let you squatt...". Yep, I earned my squatter reputaion well, now I have a hard work ahead getting rid of it, but hey, I like challenges. So what's new? I've been interviewing a little bit with another finance company with Julien's push. I have a good feeling about them. They seemed open minded, dynamic and good at putting me at ease. Tomorrow I have another interview with them, I'll meet with the co-founder. That will be an interesting experience!
Today, I went to fedex to ship the computer I had from rightnow technologies, my previous job's hardware. Then I went to the movies because I want to use my unlimited movie card. So far I have already seen 3 movies this week. Indiana Jones 4, a bit disappointing, but well the other movies weren't really great anyway. Super Heroes Movie, well that was definitely stupid, I justa wanted to eat some popcorn in the dark, that movie suited well the popcorn craving. And today... an ultimate chick flick: Sex in the city - the movie. My goodness, that was long. I had already seen a few episodes on TV - it was ok - but I guess it was ok because they were about 40 minutes long, while the movie lasted 2 hours and a half!! Never ending series of "twists" in the story and true boredom in between. In the end, I found it boring but cheering as well. Weird.
Then I've been walking around "Les Halles", I brought a book so I read a bit in the sunlight. Yes the sun! It's been quite warm here since yesterday, the sun is finally here!
The sun was kinda blasting my eyes so I couldn't read for very long, creature of darkness I like caves, underground sewers and things like that. So I stopped in a music shop on Boulevard de Sébastopol (its name comes from a victorious battle of the Crimean Wars, yes France won some battles in it's history! Anyway how did you think this country in the crossroads of Europe manage to devellop its very own special culture during the last two milleniums? We had to protect our asses countless times), there I grabbed an acoustic guitar officilally to "test" it. You know the real reason is I can't spend a day without playing a bit of guitar or I just go nutty!
Tonight (20:30) Acolyt #4 is playing live as PALEM at Baroc a pub in the 10th district near Belleville metro station. I'll come to support! Also there might be some jamming (I'll be happy to grab a guitar) after the concert. So if you are ready for some craziness please come!
That's it for today dudes and dudettes.

-Paris Clem: Ze Blog