introduce you to my blogging and life 
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Here’s the result of two most enjoyable spring Sunday bike rides.
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10
2006
Soirée cinéma, ce soir, et je me suis bien marré... Citons pour le plaisir deux de mes tirades favorites du cinéma comique français, impliquant toutes deux l’éternel De Funès:
- - Ça alors, c’était Farès? C’est effarant!
- - Y a pas d’hélice, hélas.
- C’est là qu’est l’os.
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2006
A smile is an arrow straight to the heart. It’s a window opened into a soul. It is a strong display of weakness, a guard lowered, a step into the fire.
Is that why smiles are so hard to come by, why an unexpected smile pours sunshine into a rainy day?
Must we always be knights on a crusade? The stronger our defenses, the fewer smiles we can afford to give or receive.
But why would a knight ever take off his armor, or lower his guard? I can see only one reason. To experience weakness. Hence to be weak on the outside is to be strong inside.
... So I’m in pre-production of a button that will read:
“I’m about to smile, will you beat me to it?”
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06
2006
Before I trigger an avalanche of bemused comments, yes, I’ve changed the blog’s title. And no, I haven’t gone – completely – insane. I wanted something that would sound odd and yet compelling. So I used two of my favorite words, twisted them a little and… Voilà!
Ok, here’s the rationale behind it:
- Anachronism: a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place (me).
- Coriolis effect: the apparent deflection of a moving object that is a result of the earth’s rotation (to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere, as we all know).
- Synthesis: a person that is chronologically out of place and apparently deflected off an initial trajectory. Or by extension, any blog entry posted by said person and thus exhibiting the same inherent characteristics.
Note: the Coriolis effect, as theories of Quantum physics do, supposes the presence of an observer. It is not an actual force and the object itself never deviates from its path through space. But the observer is standing on earth and gets fooled by the planet’s rotation. In other words, observers arrive with their own baggage and introduce their own flaw in the equation by believing what they see.
Blog readers ye be warned! All who wander are not lost. All who seem to deviate do not.
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2006
The calendar might not agree, but spring has already sneaked up on us! I had planned a bike excursion to Horseshoe Bay for today, hoping that it wouldn’t rain too much. But on my way to Stanley Park I came upon a street gloriously lined with cherry blossoms. And then the sun came out. I just couldn’t leave the city behind me, that’s how much I love it…
Instead I took a long ride along the waterfront, followed the seawall, cruised through the park’s forest, climbed to Prospect Point, zoomed down to the beaches, left the water for a while to venture into the West End, then back to English Bay, crossed the Burrard Street bridge, headed west for a while, came back and explored False Creek, passed the three bridges, went up the hill to 14th Avenue and headed to Commercial Drive where I had a War at Belgian Fries, before going back home…
Vancouverites were out celebrating a beautiful Saturday and the coming of spring. Cherry blossoms were everywhere, pink and white. Harmony blanketed the city. It always does. Here are a few snapshots.
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Here’s a funny commercial for the new Citroën C4, using urban Vancouver scenery. It is filmed from the top of the post office building and clearly visible in the background are the north shore mountains, the BC Hydro building, the Holy Rosary Cathedral and... the Harbour Centre tower.
Citroën is a FRENCH company. Througout their history they’ve made some of the most innovative cars in ther world. They were world leaders in aerodynamics decades before that became fashionable, world leaders in front-wheel drive decades before THAT became fashionable, and world leaders in active suspension (which is only now becoming fashionable). Sadly, none of that saved them from financial problems which led to their being bought by Peugeot, so there’s little reason to hope for anything special from them again. But in their day they were marvellous. They made cars with self-levelling hydropneumatic suspensions (that could lift up one tire for changing without needing a jack), and headlights that steered into curves, in the nineteen-sixties.
[Quoted from a comment to
the original Urban Vancouver post]
