Sunday, March 10th, 2013
Categories: [ Beer/Sambrook ]
“brewed using only English malts and hops”
Just another ale. Contains malted barley.
Sambrook's Brewery, Battersea, London, England. 4.2% alcohol.
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Tuesday, March 5th, 2013
Categories: [ Science ]
I recently discussed with a friend how to read with a computer the 3-digit
numbers from a device using seven-segment displays. One solution we came up
with was to put a phototransistor in front of each segment, read the seven
on/off signals and recognize the digits. I then wondered if it's possible to
use less than seven phototransistors per digit.
A minimum of four segments is obviously required, but after a bit of
computer-aided experimentation, I found out that only 5 segments are enough:
if you remove the lower and the lower-right segments, you can still identify
all ten digits.
So with only 15 inputs instead of 21, you can read the 3 digits, using a 16
bit I/O expander (e.g., a MCP23017; this one even has internal 100 kΩ
pull-up resistors, so it may be that nothing else than the phototransistors is
needed).
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Sunday, March 3rd, 2013
Categories: [ TV/Cinema/Fantomas ]

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Fantomas décide d'imposer les très riches (nobles et gangsters) d'un impôt sur
le droit de vivre. Lord Edward Mac Rashley, richissime écossais victime de
Fantômas, décide de faire appel à Fandor et à Juve pour attirer le gangster et
l'arrêter. Fantômas est déjà sur les lieux, fait passer Juve pour fou en lui
faisant voir des « fantômes », et prend rapidement la place de Lord Edward,
qu'il a éliminé. Les nobles ayant fait cause commune avec les gangsters qui
refusent de payer, Fantômas veut profiter d'une chasse à courre pour en
enlever quelques uns pour convaincre les autres de payer. Hélène et Fandor
découvrent par accident que Lord Edward est en fait Fantômas, et décident de
se faire passer pour morts. Pendant ce temps, le faux Lord Edward convainc ses
victimes de rassembler une fortune en diamants afin d'attirer Fantômas, avec
pour but réel de disparaître avec le magot. Fandor et sa fiancée arrivent sur
ces entrefaits, mais Fantômas parvient tout de même à s'échapper avec les
diamants.
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Categories: [ Beer/Sambrook ]
“spicy, fruit taste”
Just another ale. Contains malted barley.
Sambrook's Brewery, Battersea, London, England. 4.5% alcohol.
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Friday, March 1st, 2013
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Books/Ji ]

© Amazon.fr
Troisième tome des Gardiens de Ji par Pierre Grimbert. Damián parvient enfin à
déchiffrer les carnets de son père, et apprend qu'à la disparition du Jal,
les âmes des dieux et des démons se sont eparpillées dans le monde, certains
se réincarnant dans des enfants nés au moment de la disparition, d'autres
étant réincarnés en adultes simples d'esprit. Ayant appris d'Usul que leurs
parents sont au Jal, les héritiers décident de partir à la recherche de la
dernière porte connue, dans la Tour Profonde de Romin. Ils y affrontent la
gardienne de la porte, qui leur propose de les laisser passer si en échangent
ils acceptent de tuer son frère, Nol l'Étrange. Les héritiers refusent,
passent en force et se retrouvent en Arkarie. Damián fait l'hypothèse que les
Éthèques, inventeurs du Jal qui vivaient dans les montagnes à l'est de
l'Arkarie, auraient placé le Jal au sommet d'une montagne visible depuis leurs
villages. Grâce aux pouvoirs de Lorilis qui peut voir les futurs où les
héritiers échouent dans leur quête, ils éliminent les endroits où le Jal ne
peut pas se trouver, et se rendent dans la région la plus probable. Ils
affrontent des démons réincarnés en humains simplets, et finissent par arriver
à Dara, où Nol s'étonne de les voir accompagnés de Sombre, qui s'était
réincarné en Guederic. On comprent alors pourquoi Maara avait pour mission
secrète de tuer ce dernier.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2013
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

Wikipedia
Seven years have passed since Batman has taken the blame for the death of
Harvey Dent. Bruce Wayne doesnt' want to see anyone, and Batman has
disappeared. Thanks to Wayne's fingerprints, stolen by Selina Kyle, Bane's
gang gambles and looses on purpose the billionaire's fortune in the stock
market. The purpose is for Dagget to take control of Wayne's Enpterprises, but
the plan fails since Miranda Tate is elected instead. Batman is caught by Bane
and sent to an underground prison in a faraway land, where Bane had been a
prisoner, with the goal the let Wayne watch, powerless, while Gotham is being
destroyed. With Dagget's support, Bane had placed explosives in the seweres of
whole Gotham City, and after having stolen the core of the fusion reactor that
Wayne had been building (but had given up because it could be turned into a
weapon), isolates Gotham City by destroying the bridges, traps the policemen
who had been looking for Bane in the sewers and frees all the prisoners from
the prison. Batman eventually manages to regain strenght and escapes the
prison, returns to Gotham and kicks the bad guys' butts. He discovers that
Bane was only a henchman to Miranda Tate (whose father, Ra's al Ghul, who
wanted to destroy Gotham City, had been killed by Batman years ago). Batman
disposes of the reactor's core, that was due to explode any minute and
disappears again.
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2013
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ TV/Cinema/Fantomas ]

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Fantomas enlève le professeur Marchand, et Fandor se doute qu'il enlèvera
bientôt le professeur Lefebvre, dont les recherches sont complémentaires de
celles de Marchand. Fandor se déguise en Lefebvre et prend sa place pour se
rendre au congrès scientifique à Rome où le professeur devait se rendre.
Fantomas, déguisé lui aussi en Lefebvre, tente d'enlever le faux Lefebvre,
mais finit par enlever le vrai, qui s'était rendu à Rome malgré tout, après
avoir entendu les âneries proférées par Fandor en son nom. Le petit frère
d'Hélène, qui faisait partie du voyage, est enlevé par Fantomas, et sa grande
soeur est contraite d'obéir à Fantomas, qui est amoureux d'elle. Il l'invite à
un bal masqué dans son chateau, et elle est suivie par Fandor, suspicieux et
jaloux, accompagné de Juve. Ils sont enlevés par Fantomas et emmenés dans son
repaire secret, duquel ils réussissent à échapper en compagnie des savants qui
avaient aussi été kidnappés. Ils poursuivent Fantomas en voiture, mais ce
dernier s'échappe en DS volante.
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Sunday, February 24th, 2013
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

Wikipedia
Scott Brody's dog is catnapped by a gang of cats. A replacement dog-agent is
quickly dispatched, but because of a mixup, young pup Lou arrives at the
house. The neighbouring dog agents are protecting Scott's father's research, a
vaccine againts dog allergy, that would give dogs an advantage over cats. But
the latter, lead by Mr. Tinkles, are repeatedly trying to destroy the
research. One day, by accident, the right formula is found. The cats then
kidnapp the whole family and ask Lou to deliver the research against the
human's lives. The dogs decide that the research is too important and the
humans must be sacrificed, but Lou decides otherwise. When the humans are not
freed, Lou and the other dog agents go to their rescue, in Mr. Tinkles' owner's
flocking factory. Mr. Tinkles' has reversed the formula and intends to spread
dog allergy to the whole world, using mice as carriers. The dogs arrive in the
nick of time to prevent it. In the end, Lou is awared the right to start
training as an agent, but prefers staying with Scott and his family.
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Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ TV/Cinema/Fantomas ]

Wikipedia
Fantomas est l'ennemi public N° 1, mais certains, comme le journaliste Fandor,
doutent de son existence. Il écrit alors un article bidon rapportant un entretien
avec Fantomas, ce qui énerve ce dernier (qui existe donc pour de vrai).
Fantomas enlève Fandor et s'emploi à salir son nom en commettant des vols tout
en se faisant passer pour le journaliste. Fantomas enlève aussi Hélène, la
fiancée de Fandor, qu'il compte séduire. Fandor et Hélène sont relachés par
une complice de Fantomas, jalouse. Le commissaire Juve arrête alors Fandor,
qu'on prend pour le véritable Fantomas. Ce dernier se fait alors passer pour
le commissaire et commet encore une fois des vols. Le commissaire est alors
arrêté et placé dans la même cellule que Fandor. Fantomas, déguisé en gardien,
les fait évader et les emmène en voiture on ne sait où. Ils sont poursuivis
par les policiers et par Hélène jusqu'à la mer, où Fantomas s'enfuit en
sous-marin.
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Categories: [ Beer/Sambrook ]
“Golden coloured pale ale… marmalade taste and spicy, slightly citrus
aroma”
Just another ale, quite bitter. Contains malted barley.
Sambrook's Brewery, Battersea, London, England. 4.2% alcohol.
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ DIY ]
Quand on bascule l'interrupteur, un doigt sort de la boite et le rebascule
dans l'autre sens. Strictement inutile, et donc parfaitement indispensable.
Vue de l'extérieur, c'est une boite en bois blanc, sans fioriture, à part
l'interrupteur sur le couvercle.
Quand on pousse l'interrupteur, voici ce qui se passe:
La vidéo de la boite en action est
également disponible.
Sous le capot, un moteur équipé d'une boite de vitesse 1:228, alimenté par 4
batteries rechargeables. Lorsqu'on bascule l'interrupteur, le « doigt »
se lève, bascule l'interrupteur dans l'autre sens, ce qui renverse la la
polarité et fait tourner le moteur dans le sens inverse. Le « doigt »
revient alors à sa position initiale et finit sa course sur un deuxième
interrupteur, qui coupe le courant. Le moteur s'arrête.
Mécaniquement et électriquement, il n'y a rien de compliqué, à part le fait de
positionner les pièces au bon endroit.
Pour finir, une vidéo de la machine en action couvercle
levé.
On remarque que le « doigt » sursaute en arrivant sur l'interrupteur, au
moment où le courant se coupe, et revient s'y poser une deuxième fois plus
doucement, et reste en place.
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Monday, February 18th, 2013
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Books/Oksa Pollock ]

© Amazon.fr
Cinquième volume des aventures d'Oksa Pollock.
De retour sur Terre, Oksa et ses amis retrouvent leurs parents et amis. Marie
et Gus sont soignés grâce aux élixirs rapportés d'Édéfia. Pendant ce temps,
Orthon organise sa conquète du Monde en embauchant des scientifiques fous, des
informaticiens malhonnêtes et des criminels de tous poil, et s'installe sur
une plateforme pétrolière abandonnée en mer du Nord. Bien qu'Oksa ait tué le
dernier Diaphan, Orthon recrée l'espèce apr génie génétique, et les envoie
voler les sentiments amoureux de la plupart des habitants d'une ville
française. Il déstabilise le commerce mondiale en achetant et vendant
brusquement des quantités énormes de matières premières, et rend visite aux
chefs d'états des principaux pays du monde pour leur montrer son pouvoir, dans
l'espoir d'obtenir de leur part la reconnaissance que son père lui a toujours
refusée. Tugdual devient le chanteur d'un groupe de rock qui, grâce au buzz
sur Internet et aux images subliminales du clip video, devient rapidement un
phénomène mondial. Orthon organise alors un concert aux chutes du Niagara et
drogue les spectateurs afin qu'ils se jettent tous dans l'eau. Grâce à son
Culbu-Gueulard, Oksa parvient à trouver l'emplacement du repaire d'Orthon. En
compagnie de Gus (dont elle reconnait enfin être amoureuse, après la trahison
de Tugdual) elle part espionner leur ennemi, et découvre qu'Orthon est bien
derrière la plupart des catastrophes mondiales récentes. Elle y retrouve aussi
Tugdual, qui est sous l'emprise magique d'Ortho, et utilise ses pouvoirs de
Gracieuse pour l'aider à s'en libérer. Tous deux s'échappent et rentrent chez
eux.
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Saturday, February 16th, 2013
Categories: [ Beer ]
“Kentish hops… fruity with spicy citrus hop aromas… dry hoppy finish”
Just another ale. Contains barley malt.
Hopdaemon Brewery, Newnham, Kent, England. 4.5% alcohol.
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2013
Categories: [ Books ]

© Amazon.fr
The area far above the galactic plane is called the Beyond, and the farther
the distance from the plane, the smarter the computers can be, allowing
much-faster-than-light travel and the existance of a galactic communication
network called the Net, where users exchange e-mails and newsgroup messages.
Sentient artificial intelligences, called Powers, also exist throug the Net.
From time to time, users find recipes on the Net that allow to create new AIs,
sometime creating a monster that disrupt the Net and cause the disappearance
of thousand of civilizations that were relying on the Net for every aspect of
their lives. Such a Power, named the Blight, has been created, and its
antidode is in a small ship, crashed in the Slow Zonw, on a world so near the
galactic plane that advanced software does not work. Only two children
survived the crash, a boy Jefri and his sister Johanna, who have been
separately abducted by two ennemy factions of a people called the Tines. The
Tines are creatures living in packs of four to six doggish-looking
individuals, being intelligent only when gathered in such packs. Johanna,
taken by Woodcarver's faction, travels North, while Jefri stays near the ship
with the Flenserists. The boy manages to send a help message over the Net,
which is received by Ravna, a human working at Relay, one of the cores of the
Net. With the help of another human, Pham, artificially put together by Old
One, a Power, she understand that the antidote to the Blight is on the Tines'
planet and together they hire a freighter's crew (two Skroderiders, plant-like
beings who have been placed on mechanized chariots by an unknown Power
billions of years ago, allowing them to spred through the galaxy) to go and
rescue Jefri. After discovering that Skroderiders have been made by the first
instance of the Blight, billions of years ago, and can be instantly turned
into ennemies, the two humans, wary of their travel companions but still
needing them to continue their journey, are chased by three fleets: one
controlled by the Blight, one by creatures who claim and the Blight is the
making of the Humans and take the opportunity to wipe out most Human worlds in
the Galaxy and one of what is left of the Humans. Meanwhile on the Tine's
world, both factions build cannons, Woodcarver's with the help of Johanna's
Dataset, and the Flenserists with Ravna's help over the Net. Ravna and her
companions land in the middle of a battle, not knowing which side to take.
They eventually take side with Woodcarver and end the war. Pham, guided by
what's left in him of the Old One, uses the mould-looking antidote. This
causes the Slow Zone the expand well to the top of the Beyond, Slowing the
Blight's fleet so much it will not reach the planet before thousand of years.
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Monday, February 11th, 2013
Categories: [ TV/Cinema/X-Men ]

Wikipedia
James Logan has a mutation that makes him immortal and gives him retractable
claws. With his half-brother, also a mutant, they fight in all the american
wars until the Vietnam war. James and Victor (and other mutants) are hired by
Stryker as commandos to steal a mysterious meteorite, but Logan quits at the
end of the operation, disgusted by the gratuitous killings. Six years later
(in 1979) Stryker meets Logan in Canada and warns him that someone is killing
the members of the mutant commando. Logan refuses to listen to Stryker and
soon after his girlfriend Kayla is killed by Victor. When Stryker offers him a
means to get his revenge on Victor, Logan accepts and becomes a subject in an
experiment: infusing adamantium (an alloy created from the meteorite) into his
skeleton to make it indestructible. The experiment is successful, but Loga
ecapes when he overhears that Stryker plans to erase his memory. Chased by
Stryker's men, Logan attempts to find “The Island” where Stryker's base of
operations is locate; this happens to be hidden in Three Mile Island, below
the nuclear powerplant. Logan discovers that his girlfriend is not dead, and
that it was a ploy to convince him to participate in the experiment. Stryker
then attempts to kill Logan through his last experiment, XI, a engineered
mutant who has superpowers from many different, now-dead mutants. While Kayla
helps all the mutants who are prisoner at the facility (and dies, for good, in
the attempt), Logan, with the help from Victor, fight XI and provoque the
famous catastrophe of Three Mile Island.
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2013
Categories: [ Beer ]
“nutty, woody flavours chocolatey finish and honeyed toffee nose”
Quite sweet, malty, chocolatey. Contains barley.
RCH Brewery, Weston-Super-Mare, Avon, England. 4.5% alcohol.
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

Wikipedia
In parallel Earth where peoples souls live outside of their body as daemons,
Lyra, the legend has it that a mystical “dust” that would allow to travel
between universes. In Oxford, Lors Asriel is leaving North in search for this
dust. His niece Lyra is sad to see him go, and she quickly accepts Mrs.
Coulter's offer to take her North with her as her assistant. But Lyra quickly
discovers that Mrs. Coulter is the head of an organization that abducts
children for unknown purposes. She escapes and joins a group of Gyptians,
whose childre have disappeared. On the Gyptian's ship, travelling North, Lyra
meets a witch who tells her that the children are in a place named Bolvangar.
At a Norwegian port, she meets an aeronaut who advise her to hire an armoured
(polar) bear. There happens to be one in town, Iorek, and Lyran convinces him
to join her quest. One night, Lyra find the son of one of the Gyptians who has
escaped from Bolvangar; his daemon has gone. Iorek happens to the lawful
prince of the amored bears of Svalbard, and Lyra tricks the usurper king into
fighting Iorek. Iorek wins the battle and their army joins Lyra. Iorek then
takes her to Bolvangar, where she secretely enters the facility. She discovers
that Mrs. Coulter's organization, under the supervision of the Magisterium,
are conducting experiments for separating a person from his daemon. Lyra
destroys the machine and lets the children out, while the armored bears arrive
to fight the Tartar mercenaries defending the facility. After winning the
battle, Lyra and her friends continue their travel to find Lord Asriel's
laboratory.
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Saturday, January 19th, 2013
Categories: [ Beer/Williams ]
“citrus aromas, slightly sweet and fruity”
Definitely fruity, with maybe a hint of thyme. Contains barley malt.
Williams Bros Brewing Co., Alloa, Scotland. 4.1% alcohol.
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Saturday, January 12th, 2013
Categories: [ Beer/Theakston ]
Just another ale, not too bitter and even a bit sweet, quite malty. Contains
barley and Wheat.
T&R Theakston Ltd., Masham, North Yorkshire, England. 4.5% alcohol.
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