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Viva Espagna!

They said in average Germans were 10 cm taller and 10 kilos heaver than the Spanish! Spain was fast and accurate. I am so very happy that Spain won. It was a wonderful wonderful game. Felicitaciones …

Summer fever, part 1

I am talking on the phone with a guy in California, we are planning our weekend in New York City. While flirting with him, I smear the fessenjan on the stove. I have friends over for dinner and they can arrive at any time. I hung up the phone and finished the final touches on [...]

Cruising my life

“Catch me if you can?” seems to be what time is telling me. Days come and go in such a speed that I sometimes forget what the actual date is. We are already in summer. People are planning their vacations, or are already in vacation. The streets of Paris are getting empty and the flood [...]

Hats off to Benjamin

I confess, I am a big fan of TV music competition shows. This season we were lucky to have a bunch of very talented young and not-so-young singers in the French version of Pop Idol, called Nouvelle Star. I had actually few favorites, but one of them stole my heart quite soon in the show, [...]

A conference in Kish Island

I got my Physics Today copy of May in my mailbox today. I was in the bus coming home, when I decided to take a look at it. I came across an article about Iran, more precisely a conference that had taken place in Iran in September 2007. I read through it and my eyes [...]

I did it!

Prelude: A guy had a car accident and had a concussion. When he woke up, he asked the doctor whether he could drive or play tennis. The doctor replies: “Of course”. The gus says: “Good, because I couldn’t do these things before the accident”. I can’t believe it is already five months that I started [...]

Recycling my writings

One thing that is abundant in Paris is homeless people. I cross about 10-15 every day to and from work.This is something that I wrote to my friends last year about one special incident. I still remember that guy, that is why I digged into the emails and found this email. Today I was out [...]

Science is not for sale!

I am furious and I should write about it just now! Yesterday I found a nice MS thesis online that could be quite useful to my research. I downloaded it and to my surprise I found out that I could not print it because it was “protected”. Then of course, because I am from the [...]

Finito

About a month ago, I started watching Ally McBeal on DVD. Last week, I finally finished it. It is exactly the type of comedy series that I like, with lots of small details, smart sentences, funny characters and a bit of fiction. Law, as the law that we know, is the subject of joking and [...]

Smile

I am running right and left at my workplace, forgetting which printer I used for my print-outs when I bump into a co-worker, superior to me. He says: “It’s such a pleasure to see you smile, you have such a nice smile”. I say: ” Thank you! It’s a nice complement”. After few minutes, he [...]