Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Categories: [ Books/Discworld ]
© Amazon.fr
A copy of the Scone of Stone, an import dwarf relic, has been stolen from the
dwarf bread museum at Ankh-Morpork. Soon after, a maker of rubber goods is
found dead. Then Vetinari sends Vimes as an ambassador to Uberwald to
represent the city at the coronation of the Low King. Vimes soon discovers
that the situation in Uberwald is quite tense, where traditionalist dwarfs try
to prevent the more liberal king to become the king. The plot involves
werewolves (from Angua's family, who are nothing like her), vampires and of
course the two factions of dwarfs. Although nobody would admit it to Vimes at
first, the original Scone of Stone has been stolen, even though it was
physically impossible. The Scone is of course an essential item in the
coronation ceremony. While Vimes slowly finds elements of answer to the
mysterious theft, he is imprisonned by the dwarfs for an alleged attempt
against the life of the future Low King, escapes thanks to a vampire, ambushed
by Wolfgang, Angua's brother, and saved in the nick of time by Angua and
Carrot who came to Uberwald on their own. Vimes then forces Angua's mother to
give him the copy of the Scone and brings it back to the dwarves, where it is
authenticated as the real Scone, to Vimes' amazement. The future king explains
that the relic had been destroyed an re-baked sevaral times over the past
centuries (it would not have resisted the passage of time anyway), and that
this copy is as good as the original (which had been reduced to dust in order
to make make dwarves believe it had been stolen).
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Cooking/Chocolats ]
Michel Cluizel, Plantation « Los Anconès », Saint Domingue,
67% :
légèrement amer
Michel Cluizel, Plantation « Concepcion », Venezuela,
66% : vaguement
truffé
Michel Cluizel, Plantation « Mangaro », Madagascar,
65% : olive noire
Michel Cluizel, Plantation « Maralumi », Papouasie,
64% :
légèrement acide, fruité
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Categories: [ DIY ]
I bought a pack of 25/8 x 35/8 card sleeves to protect
my Citadels character cards, but they
are of course too wide (they are meant for Magic The Gathering cards). The
guy at the shop suggested I could melt the side with a lighter, but he meant
it as a joke (I hope). But what actually works (I just tried) is a soldering
iron.
The sleeves are made of polypropylene, which melts at about 170 °C, but
doesn't burn before 570 °C, so it's quite safe if you have an adjustable
temperature soldering iron. I tried to tracing a line slowly on the sleeve
along a piece of PCB board (because it's a heat insulator, I wouldn't have
tried this with a plastic or aluminium ruler), and it made a nice seal. I
suppose that cutting along the seam with a hobby knife would remove the excess
plastic without destroying the sleeve.
Next step, mass production (that is, 9 sleeves for the basic characters, and
10 more for the extended characters).
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Categories: [ Books/Discworld ]
© Amazon.fr
The newly born princess of Lancre is going to be baptised soon, but Granny
Weatherwax's invitation got stolen by a magpie and the old witch, believing
she is not invited, decides to leave Lancre forever, since Nanny, Magrat and
Agnes make a perfect trio of witches. Meanwhile, Verence trying to be a
modern king has invited vampires to Lancre, and the vampires have decided to
stay and take over the kingdom. And to make it harder, the old recipes againts
the vampires (garlic, daylight and so on) don't work on these modern vampires.
The three witches manage to find Granny and convince her to help them, but she
got bitten by one vampire and is going to turn into one herself. Or is she?
Granny knows how to conceal part of her mind in anything living. Nanny
believes she hid in the baby, Agnes believes she did in her own mind… Since
even a good old fashioned mob doesn't succeed in getting rid of the vampires,
the witches must flee from Lancre and, with the help of Igor, the vampires'
servant who doesn't like his too-modern masters, arrive in Uberwald, in the
vampires' family castle. The witches fight the vampires in the every corridor
until Granny finally arrives at the castle and explains that she hid part of
her mind in the vampire Count's blood, effectively Weatherwaxing him, instead
of her being vampirised. A phoenix (natural predator of vampires), found by
Granny in Lancre gets rid of the modernist count, and finally everything is
well that ends well.
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Grumbling ]
Mais jusqu'où vont-ils aller trop loin ?
La « pub après la pub » bouffe le tiers du bas de l'image pour annoncer les
programmes à venir après une séquence de pub (SciFi) ou le coin en haut à
gauche (MTV3).
La « pub dans la pub » annonce les programmes à venir pendant le générique
de la pub (MTV3).
À quand des programmes dans les programmes, pour changer ?
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Cooking/Chocolats ]
Michel Daniel, Tanzanie 75% : légèrement amer
Michel Daniel, Cuba 70% : doux
Michel Daniel, Saint Domingue 70% : doux, biscuit
Michel Daniel, bio équitable « Ecuador » 70% : crémeux, acidulé
Thierry Mulhaupt, Ghana 68% : amer, caoutchouc EDIT (2016) : noix de coco
Michel Daniel, Mexique 66% : doux, bonbon
Thierry Mulhaupt, Équateur 66% : piparkakku
Michel Daniel, « Alto el Sol » 2006, Pérou 65%: doux, fruit rouge, vanille
Thierry Mulhaupt, Madagascar 64% : acidulé, ?
Thierry Mulhaupt, République Dominicaine 64% : praliné
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Categories: [ Books ]
© Amazon.fr
Third volume of the Manifold trilogy, Origin has been published in 2002 by
Stephen Baxter.
The moon has been mysteriously replaced with another one, much larger, red and
covered with water, land and a breathable atmosphere. At the same time, a
blue ring has appeared in the sky in front of Malenfant and Emma's jet plane.
Emma is sucked into the ring just after ejecting and is transported to the
surface of the Red Moon. She encounters strange hominids, Homo Erectus
called the Runners, and Homo Neanderthal called the Hams who both speak some
English, if only single words for the Runners (there are also other, more
primitive hominids called the Elves and the Nutcracker). Life is hard but she
manages to survive. Meanwhile on Earth, Malenfant manages to convince NASA to
send him and Nemoto to the Red Moon in a rocket. After landing, they meet an
Englishman from a parallel Earth who has been there for years, living with
some of his friends and Hams. All hope of going back to the Earth disappears
when the Red Moon shifts again from one parallel universe to another. But from
this new Earth comes a group of Homo Superior (later nicknamed Deamons) who
want to understant who is behind the Red Moon's travel, and what is its
purpose. Nemoto meets them first, after splitting with Malenfant who wanted
to find his wife. In the meantime, Malenfant has met another group of Homo
Sapiens called the Zealots who have organized around a religious fanatic who
wants to expand and conquer the whole Moon and use Hams and Runners as slaves.
Malenfant is prisoner of the Zealots and has been tortured to death when Emma
finally goes to his rescue with the help of her Ham friends, but he dies soon
after. With Nemoto and the Deamons they enter the crater of the giant volcano,
obviously artificial, and they learn that the Red Moon has been made by humans
from the future who have forced the creation of mutiple universes. In every
universe where there was no intelligent species, they have used the
moon to take samples of homonids from one universe and move them to another
one.
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
Categories: [ Beer ]
Slightly bitter, tastes fainlty of chocolate. Contains malted barley, roasted barley, chocolate malt.
Inbev UK Limited, Luton, England. 4.0% alcohol.
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Categories: [ TV/Cinema/James Bond ]
Source Wikipedia
James Bond is getting old, and MI6 doesn't need 00 agents any more. After
failing a combat test, Bond is sent to a specialized clinic in order to get
back in shape. He discovers something fishy there, and almost gets killed.
Soon after, two nuclear bombs are stolen from the US Air Force by SPECTRE, and
00 agents are sent back to the field in order to say the world once more. Bond
investigates Maximilain Largo, in relation with an Air Force officer, now
dead, who is suspected to have been involved in the the theft of the bombs,
and whom Bond has met at the clinic. Largo lives on a yacht in the Bahamas,
and Bond meets him there once. Largo then leaves to Nice where he owns a
casino and where he holds a charity event. Bond meets him a second time, and
manages to escape death again. He later gets invited on Largo's boat for
lunch, and is made (politely) prisonner, and taken to North Africa, where
Largo owns an antique fortress. Bond manages to escape, find out where the
bomb is located, fight Largo, disarm the bomb and save the day. At the end, he
quits MI6 and moves to Bahamas with Largo's ex-girlfriend.
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Categories: [ Beer/Highgate ]
“This rich, dark beer is brewed using a blend of pale, crystal and black
malts complemented with the purest honey. English grown Fuggle and Progress
hops provide the bitterness. […] complex palate of malt, chocolate, citrus
fruits and hops…”
Quite sweet, very slightly bitter. I didn't notice any chocolate or citrus
fruits, but rather something fruity-ish, maybe cherry-ish, but definitively
just “-ish”. Contains malted barley.
Highgate Brewery, Walsall, England. 6.5% alcohol.
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Categories: [ Beer/FAVOURITES | Beer/Highgate ]
“A strong rich dark ale. Brewed since 1896 to the original Victorian
recipe.”
Very sweet. Just another ale, but a sweet and good one. Contains malted barley.
Highgate Brewery, Walsall, England. 5.1% alcohol.
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Cooking ]
Hier, j'ai acheté une poêle en fonte (de la série Hackman Brasserie, qui a eu
la meilleure note dans le test effectué par Kuningaskuluttaja. Le fait que la
poêle en question soit la seule qui soit d'une marque finlandaise n'a
probablement rien à voir avec ça).
J'y ai fait cuire des oeufs sur le plat, qui ont attaché au fond malgré une
dose respectable d'huile, mais ils étaient bons. Ce soir j'y ai fait cuire des
crêpes, et le résultat était au moins aussi bon qu'avec la poêle anti-adhésive
(les crêpes n'ont pas attaché, même lorsque je n'ai pas rajouté d'huile pour
voir ce que ça donnerait).
Par contre, une bonne utilisation de la poêle nécéssite d'une part un bras
gauche musclé (ce qui n'est pas mon cas, mais ça ne saurait tarder si je
continue à utiliser cette poêle), et d'autre part une clé de 19 pour reserrer
le manche qui a tendance à se dévisser.
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Categories: [ Books ]
© Amazon.fr
Second volume of the Manifold trilogy, Time has been published in 2001 by
Stephen Baxter.
2020. Reid Malenfant, a former NASA astronaut discovers with the help of
Nemoto, a Japanase astronomer living in a lunar colony, the presence of aliens
in the asteroid belt. A probe sent there proves their presence, and Malenfant
conjectures that they must have arrived into the solar system through a
gateway, which is most probably located at the focal point of the Sun's
gravity field. He launches a solo mission to this point, where he actually
finds a gateway, goes through it, and meets the aliens called the Gaijin. They
take him for a long journey across a large portion of the galaxy, using the
network of gateways to show him many worlds, most of which have either a
rudimentary form of life, or have been sterilized by an unknown cause. A
gateway jump is no faster than lightspeep, and Malenfant therefore spends
hundreds of years travelling. Meanwhile, on Earth, Nemoto charges Madeleine
Meacher, a weapon smuggler, to be the next star traveller with the Gaijin. The
Gaijin again take her to many worlds, without her really understanding what
they want to show her. Most of the story decribes the evolution of the solar
system, first the lunar colony finding oxygen and other vital elements by
digging to the core of the moon, the Earth regressing and eating up most of
its resources while the Gaijin fiddle with DNA to re-create extinct species.
Some time later, the Earth suffers from a new ice age, while the moon colony
is dying. Meacher takes australian aboriginals to colonize Triton. Malenfant
comes back to Earth where he discovers that Nemoto is still alive and
manipulating him again. Malenfant ends up on Io with a colony of Neanderthal
before disappearing again. Finally, Meacher is contacted by Nemoto (now 1700
years old) to warn the inhabitants of the solar system that another alien
specie called the Crackers are on their way to turn the Sun into a supernova,
their way to get enough energy to expand and fly to the next star, where they
will do the same and so on. Now the remnants of human descendants (and
Nemoto) are on Mercury, the last human colony, and manage to defeat the
Crackers before they distroy the Sun. Meacher leaves to Io and finally finds
Malendant. They are both (along with Neanderthals) dematerialized and stored
on a 10 cm long ship heading for the center of the galaxy. The Gaijin have
discovered that binary star systems turning into neutron stars explode at more
or less regular intervals, delivering a huge amount of gamma and cosmic rays,
sterilizing all life in a radius of thousands of lightyears, preventing any
life form to evolve enough to actually become able to colonize the galaxy.
Before a previous sterilization took place, an unknown species had started to
build a device that would prevent one specific binary star to sterilize this
quadrant of the galaxy. A coalition of current species is working on the
device, but internal dissensions prevent them to complete it. The Gaijin need
human's sense of self and therefore of self sacrifice for a greater good in
order to unite the coalition long enough to complete the task.
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Cooking/Chocolate cream ]
Ingrédients
- 6dL lait
- 200g chocolat noir fondu
- 60g sucre
- 3,5g k-carraghénanes
Préparation
Faire fondre le chocolat.
Mélanger à sec les k-carraghénanes avec le sucre, les mélanger au lait et
faire chauffer en remuant constament au delà de 70 °C. Verser le chocolat
fondu dans le lait et mixer (par exemple avec un mixeur plongeant). Verser
rapidement dans des ramequins et laisser refroidir.
Remarques
- 3 minutes au micro-ondes à 900 W c'est trop (le chocolat brûle sur les
parois).
- Essayer de faire chauffer le lait avant de verser le mélange
sucre-carraghénanes.
- La consistance est trés épaisse, trop compacte pour un flan. Ça ressemble
davantage à un gateau contenant peu ou pas de farine. Essayer avec par exemple
3 g de carraghénanes.
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]
© Imdb.com
Craig Schwartz, an unemplyed puppeteer, discovers at his new job place a door
leading to John Malkovich's head. With Maxine, his new colleague with whom he
just fell in love, he starts a business for people who want to be someone else
for 15 minutes. His wife Lottie also tries the door and becomes immediately
addicted to being a man. This happened while Maxine was dating Malkovich, and
the two women fall in love in a strange fashion, leavin Craig out. But Craig
sequestrates his wife at home and forces her to invite Maxine to meet
Malkovich more often, while himself being John Malkovich and pretending to be
Maxine. Craig soon discovers how not to get expelled out of Malkovich's mind
after only 15 minutes, and becomes a permanent resident. Meanwhile, Lottie is
adopted by Craig's former boss, who knows about the door, being himself a
mind living in someone else's body. Malkovich changes his career from acting
to puppeteering, but Maxine, pregnant, drifts away from home. Eventually,
Maxine and Lottie meet again, Craig leaves Malkovich's head so that his former
boss can continue his quest for immortality through renewed bodies. Craig
wants to go back into Malkovich, but it is too late, and his mind goes into
Maxine's baby instead, trapped forever.
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Categories: [ Tea ]
Le pinceau était le dernier accessoire plus ou moins irremplaçable qui me
manquait. Voilà qui est réparé. Les poils viennent d'un yak et ils sont
extrêmement doux. Le manche est en corne et décoré d'un morceau d'os. Je dois
bien avouer que l'os c'est pas ma tasse de thé, mais comme c'était le dernier
au magasin, je me suis laissé tenter. Il a encore un peu tendance à muer, mais
je suppose que ça se calmera avec le temps.
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]
© Imdb.com
Le manchot empereur migre tous les automnes vers l'intériieur des terres pour
y retrouver sa compagne et pondre un oeuf. La femelle, épuisée, retourne alors
pêcher pendant le le mâle couvre l'oeuf, puis elle revient nourrir le petit
tandis que le mâle part à son tour se nourrir en mer. Enfin, les petits qui ne
sont déjà plus si petits vont à la mer à leur tour pour se nourrir et
commencer un nouveau cycle.
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Categories: [ Beer/Daleside | Beer/FAVOURITES ]
“A rich, dark and mysterious ale brewed to the ancient recipe held secret at
Levens Hall for over 300 years.
The recipe for Morocco Ale is believed to date from Elizabethan times. Every
May-time until 1877 the uniqye, dark, spiced Morocco Ale, matured for 21
years, was served at a great feast held in Levens Gardens, Cumbria. The guests
were requred to stand on one leg and empty in a draught a tall Constable glass
filled with ‘Morocco’
whilst pledging to the ancient house – ‘`Luck to Levens
whilst t’Kent flows.” ''
Quite sweet, with a slight metallic smell, and a slightly bitter after taste.
The taste reminds me of some kinds of ginger breads, of cinnamon. After a
while, I noticed that the smell reminds me a bit of Cola. Contains malted
barley and wheat.
Daleside Brewery Ltd, Harrogate, Yorkshire, England. 5.5% alcohol.
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ DIY ]
Pas de format standard, j'ai trouvé des cartes en largeur 55-57 mm et d'autres
en largeur 63 mm. La hauteur est 84-89 mm.
En formats ISO approchants, on a:
- A8 = 52 x 74 mm
- C8 = 57 x 81 mm
- B8 = 62 x 88 mm
Le B8 à l'air sympathique, mais d'ici à trouver une imprimante qui accepte du
format B…
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Categories: [ Books/Barrayar ]
Diplomatic Immunity was published in 2002 by Lois McMaster-Bujold.
While on their way back home from their honey moon, Miles, accompanied by
Ekaterin, is sent to Graf Station in Quaddie-space to diplomatically solve an
incident involving soldiers from a Barrayaran ship escorting a Komarran
transport. On the station, Miles meets his old friend Bel Thorne, who is
working as an official there as well as an ImpSec agent under cover. Bel helps
Miles in his attempt to solve the mystery of the disappearance of the
Barrayaran ship's security officer, which is the source of the whole mess.
Miles' attention is soon attracted by a mysterious Betan hermaphrodite, using
the Komarran transport to carry a thousand foetuses in uterine replicators.
Just after meeting it, Miles, Bel and the herm barely escape an attack by a
mysterious person. The perpetrator is found later, and happens to be a
smuggler who helped the herm to transport the uterine replicators from one
ship onto the Komarran transport. The herm poisoned his crewmates, and the
smuggler seeks revenge. Miles then discovers that the Betan herm is actually
a Cetagandan Ba who has stolen a part of the yearly production of Cetagandan
made by the Star Creche. His goal was to create his own empire with him as an
emperor. Miles manages to prevent a war between Cetaganda and Barrayar, where
the Ba had planted fake evidence of Barrayar's involvment in the plot.
Eventually, Miles and Ekaterin go back home, just in time to witness the birth
of their children.
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
Categories: [ Beer/Fuller's ]
“…the finest Fuggles and Super Styrian hops, floor malted Optic malt and
our unique yeast…
Individually packed and numbered, this bottle is one of only one hundred
thousand produced.
…will improve with age for many more years.”
Very sweet and very strong, but I can't describe its taste any further. Made
of malted barley.
Bottle N° 48712. Fuller, Smith & Turner, London, England. 8.5% alcohol.
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Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]
© Wikipedia
Dennis Cooper is a cooper's apprentice who, after being disowned by his dying
father, seeks a new trade in the city. Since the kingdom is threatened by a
terrible monster, the king organises a tournament to find a champion
who will go and kill the monster. After many misfortunes, Dennis ends up as
the knight's squire and goes with hime after the beast. The knight is killed
by another knight, sent in secret by the burgers of the city who considerer
the monster as a asset to their business, but the second knight is in turn
killed by the monster, and the latter is then killed by Cooper and by
accident. Cooper gets half of the kingdom and the princess as his wife,
although he'd wanted to marry a peasant girl who didn't even like him.
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Categories: [ TV/Cinema/Monty Python ]
© Wikipedia
From Wikipedia:
King Arthur is recruiting his Knights of the Round Table throughout England.
He is frustrated at every turn by anarcho-syndicalist peasants, a Black Knight
that refuses to give up despite losing both his arms and legs, and guards that
are more concerned with the flight patterns of swallows than their lord and
master. Finally he meets up with Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the
Brave, Sir Galahad the Pure (also called "the Chaste"), Sir Robin the
Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot, and "the aptly named Sir
Not-Appearing-In-This-Film", and declares them the Knights of the Round Table.
They are given a quest by God to find the Holy Grail.
After they split up, Sir Robin encounters a Three-Headed Giant, Galahad runs
across the perils of Castle Anthrax, Sir Lancelot massacres a wedding at Swamp
Castle, and Arthur and Bedevere encounter the dreaded Knights who say Ni. They
each overcome their individual perils and reunite to face a bleak and terrible
winter. Surviving the winter by eating Sir Robin's minstrels, they venture
further to a pyromaniac enchanter named “Tim”, who takes them to a cave
guarded by a killer rabbit.
After killing the vicious Rabbit of Caerbannog with the Holy Hand Grenade of
Antioch, the knights face The Legendary Black Beast of Aaargh, and cross the
Bridge of Death that is guarded by “the old man from Scene 24”. Arthur and
Bedevere survive to arrive at Castle Aaargh, and face the French Taunter once
more. The film ends abruptly when a group of police from the 1970s interrupt
the climactic battle scene to arrest Bedevere and King Arthur for the murder
of Frank, the “famous historian”.
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
Translation: [ Google ]
Categories: [ Cooking ]
Seppälän Citymarketista löysin Pirkan Parmankinkkua ja Snellmanin
Parmankinkkua. Snellmanin on melkein kaksi kertaa kalliimpi kuin Pirkan, mutta
se on parempimakuinen, pehmeampi ja hedelmäinen. Pirkan tuote maistuu
metalliseltä ja se on sitkeä. Se sisältää myös vähän enemmän suolaa ja
rasvaa.
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]
© Imdb.com
Fernand Naudin est un ex-truand reconverti dans le négoce de
machines agricoles à Montauban. Sa petite vie tranquille va basculer lorsque
son ami d'enfance, le Mexicain, un gangster notoire, de retour à Paris,
l'appelle à son chevet. Celui-ci, mourant, confie à Fernand, avant de
s'éteindre, la gestion de ses « affaires » ainsi que l'éducation de sa petite
Patricia, au mécontentement de ses troupes et sous la neutralité bienveillante
de maître Folace (Francis Blanche) son notaire, qui ne s'émeut pas trop de la
querelle de succession à venir. Fernand Naudin doit affronter les frères
Volfoni Raoul et Paul qui ont des visées sur les affaires du Mexicain : un
tripot clandestin, une distillerie tout aussi clandestine, une maison close,
etc. Fernand tente de faire rentrer les Volfono dans le rang, mais les
attentats contre sa vie se multiplient malgré la paix signée entre les Volfoni
et lui. On découvre rapidement que c'est le responsable de la distillerie
clandestine qui tire les ficelles, et Fernand finit par s'en débarasser, en
même temps qu'il marie Patricia et confie la gestion des « affaires » au
père du marié, vice-président du Fonds Monétaire International.
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Books ]
© Amazon.fr
Un roman historique de Bernard Fischbach publié en 2002.
Gutenberg rentre à Strasbourg après avoir passé près d'un an à Avignon où il a
rencontré un maître du poiçon, dans l'espoir de résoudre ses problèmes liés à
la mise au point de l'imprimerie. À son retour, il apprend que son associé,
Lorentz Beildeck a disparu sans laisser de traces, son logement a été saccagé
et un menuisier avec lequel il avait travaillé est mystérieusement assassiné
juste avant que Gutenberg ne puisse le rencontrer. Gutenberg reçoit des fioles
contenant du sang humain, probablement celui de son associé en guise
d'avertissement. Il finit par apprendre que Beildeck est un hussite (de Jean
Hus, réformateur d'avant la Réforme), dont la communeauté ne cesse de grandir
à Strasbourg et dont les membres sont pourchassés par l'Inquisition. Cette
dernière s'est associée avec la corporation des enlumineurs et copistes pour
tenter d'empêcher l'avênement de l'impression, dont la plupart des acteurs
sont justement des hussites. Parmi les inquisiteurs se trouvent un espion du
roi de France qui parvient à les convaincres de ne pas exécuter sommairement
Beildeck, mais ce dernier est finalement retrouvé mort par Gutenberg,
probablement assassiné par la corporation des copistes. Dépité, Gutenberg
quitte Strasbourg et retourne à Mayence pour continuer son travail et
finalement imprimer sa première Bible.
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Categories: [ Books/Barrayar ]
A Civil Campaign has been published in 1999 by Lois McMaster Bujold.
Gregor's wedding is coming soon. Mark comes back from Beta through Escobar
with a new friend, a mad scientist who has invented butter bugs, eating any
kind of organic waste and producing both human-edible food and compost.
Meanwhile Miles tries to court Ekaterin without her knowledge (because she is
still in mourning) and invites her to a family dinner. The dinner turns into a
nightmare when the guests are told they are eating bug butter based food,
while the mad scientist tells the Koudlekas about their daughter's
relationship with Mark, followed by Illyan asking loudly to Miles how long he
has been courting Ekaterin, and ends with Miles proposing accidentally
to Ekaterin. Ekaterin storms out just when Miles' parents are coming back from
Sergyar earlier than expected. Meanwhile, two political schemes are going on
within the counts for the control of two Districts, and one faction starts
rumors about Miles' role in the death of Ekaterin's husband on Komarr. Some
amount of scheming and one deceased count's sister changing gender surgically
in order to become a legal male heir later, Ekaterin proposes to Miles during
a session of the Counts' assembly in order to disprove Miles' responsibility in
the Komarr incident, and Gregor finally gets married.
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Categories: [ Books/Wheel of Time ]
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Eleventh book of the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, published in 2005. In
this book, Mat Cauthon gets married to Tuon, daughter of the nine moons and
probably future Empress of the Seanchan. Perrin rescues Faile and others from
the Shaido, who, after losing Sevanna to the Seanchan, decide to go back the
the Three-Fold Land and never leave it again. Rand and others get attacked by
thousands of trollocs and myrdraals; soon after Rand falls into a trap set by
one of the Forsaken and looses a hand (but the Forsaken is made prisonner).
Elayne manages to end the siege of Caemlyn, rally enough Houses to her in
order to become the new queen, and to arrest several black ajah aes sedai.
Finally, Egwene, who had been kidnapped by Elaida's followers is back in the
White Tower as a novice, but slowly plants seeds of discord between aes sedai
and Elaida.
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Books/Comics/Troy ]
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Septième volume de Lanfeust des étoiles, publié en 2007. Thanos tente de
corrompre Glin, le fils de Lanfeust et Cixi, en le rendant accroc à la toxine.
En même temps, Lanfeust, Qam, Hébus et l'orgnobi sont sauvés de la destruction
de leur vaisseau par les mystérieux Dolphantes, controlleurs des portes du
subespace, qui ne sont autres que les Ghomos que Lanfeust avait sauvés 4000
ans dans le passé. Avec leur aide et celle de Cixi, nos héros se lancent à
l'assaut de la planète qui sert de repaire à Thanos dans le but de sauver
Glin. Ils y parviennent, mais la flotte des alliés est complètement détruite
et ils n'ont plus aucun refuge.
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