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Sunday, January 31st, 2016

Les micro-humains

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Categories: [ Books ]

ISBN: 9782253017349

© Amazon.fr

Deuxième tome de la trilogie Troisième humanité par Bernard Werber.

Un groupe de scientifiques a créé une espèce d'humains ovipares de 17cm de haut, modelée sur les fourmis ; la plupart sont femelles. Ces créatures sont louées pour des tâches difficiles ou dangereuses, mais ne sont pas condidérées comme humaines par la plupart des gens. Lorsqu'une partie d'entre elles décide de s'échapper par la violence et de vivre indépendamment, elles sont pourchassées et recapturées. Les scientifiques forcent alors l'ONU à reconnaître leur humanité et à leur donner une île quasi-inhabitée de l'océan Atlantique pour pays. Avec l'aide de certaines micro-humaines, les scientifiques partent alors explorer une fosse sous-marine où ils trouvent les traces de l'Atlantide, qui était peuplée d'humains de 17m de haut, les créateurs des humains actuels.

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Wychwood Hobgoblin (Cask Strength)

Categories: [ Beer/Wychwood ]

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“roasted malts”

Quite sweet and fruity, maybe with a hint of raspberry. Contains barley malt.

This is the cask strength version of Hobgoblin.

Wychwood Brewery Co. Witney, Oxfordshire, England. 4.5% alcohol.

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Sunday, January 24th, 2016

Fourpure Session IPA

Categories: [ Beer/Fourpure ]

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Very fruity and flowery, quite bitter but surprisingly good. Contains barley and wheat.

Fourpure Limited, London, England. 4.2% alcohol.

[ Posted on January 24th, 2016 at 19:15 | no comment | ]

Sunday, January 17th, 2016

Vue du bureau

Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]

Categories: [ Grumbling ]

Il faisait beau vendredi, alors j'ai pris des photos depuis les fenêtres du bureau.

Vue_du_bureau_201601_1 Coté lac.

Vue_du_bureau_201601_2 Coté lac aussi. On peut voir la piste de patin à glace sur le lac.

Vue_du_bureau_201601_3 Coté gare.

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Ils savent tout de vous

Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]

Categories: [ Books ]

ISBN: 9782867467929

© Amazon.fr

Denny est un condamné à mort. Terry, membre d'une agence mystérieuse du gouvernement américain, le fait sortir de prison pour utiliser son don secret de télépathie dans une affaire diplomatique aux Nations Unies. Lisant dans l'esprit de son gardien que Terry compte l'éliminer une fois sa tâche accomplie, Denny s'échappe. Terry envoie à ses trousses Snowe, un flic qui s'est récemment découvert un don de télépathie et qui a immédiatement été repéré par les énormes moyens de surveillance de l'agence. Snowe retrouve Denny plus rapidement qu'escompté par Terry et les deux hommes s'enfuient ensemble. Lisant dans les pensées l'un de l'autre, ils ne peuvent rien se cacher; ils se découvrent une expérience passée commune (entraînés à se saoûler sur une base militaire en Alaska et se réveillant sans se souvenir de ce qui s'est passé), et en déduisent qu'elle a à voir avec leur don de télépathie. Partant du seul indice qu'ils ont de cette expérience, ils retrouvent le frère de celui qui les a saoûlés qui leur révèle que son frère est mort et qu'à sa connaissance une centaine de personnes ont été transformées en télépathes. Peu après, ils sont retrouvés par Terry; Denny est tué mais Snowe tue Terry avant de disparaître en s'engageant sur un cargo.

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Ridgeway Insanely Bad Elf

Categories: [ Beer/Ridgeway ]

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“2015 Vintage ale”

Very sweet, very strong, and not that interesting. Contains barley.

Ridgeway Brewing, South Stoke, Oxfordshire, England. 11.2% alcohol.

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Sunday, January 10th, 2016

Brewdog Hello My Name Is Holy Moose

Categories: [ Beer/Brewdog ]

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“cloudberries, lingonberries, blueberries, sea buckthorn”

Very fruity smell, maybe a bit of litchi. Quite sour taste, uncommon in a beer. Contains barley.

BrewDog plc, Ellon, Scotland. 5.5% alcohol

[ Posted on January 10th, 2016 at 23:19 | no comment | ]

Wednesday, January 6th, 2016

Ridgeway Black Elf

Categories: [ Beer/Ridgeway ]

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“Black pale ale”

Just another ale.

Ridgeway Brewing, Oxfordshire, England. 4.5% alcohol.

[ Posted on January 6th, 2016 at 23:40 | no comment | ]

Saturday, January 2nd, 2016

Ethan of Athos

Categories: [ Books/Barrayar ]

Ethan of Athos has been published in 1986 by Lois McMaster Bujold.

Athos is a planet inhabited exclusively by human males, where children are bred in uterine replicators from ovarian cultures brought by the founders of the society. Since the ovarian cultures are reaching the end of their life, new cultures have been bought from Jackson's Whole. But when the shipment arrives full of dead meat, Ethan is sent to Kline Station to buy new cultures from more reliable sources. He meets Elli Quinn, and is soon after kidnapped and interrogated by a Cetagandan spy who assumes he knows where the cultures are and that he's in league with some Terrence Cee. Elli saves Ethan from the Cetagandan, because she's also somehow involed. Ethan is eventually contacted by Terrence, who explains that he is the result of a genetic experiment conducted by the Cetagandans on telepathy. After his telepath girlfriend (and the only other individual of their species) was killed, he went to Jackson's Whole with all the lab's ovarian culture to get her reconstructed from a cellular sample. Since this was not possible, Terrence got the cultures sent to Athos, where his species would be able to live quietly; the laboratory was soon after destroyed by Cetagandan agents. Elli and Ethan don't understand who replace he shipment with worhthless material. On Kline Station, Elli, Ethan and Terrence are trying to debunk the Cetagandans; they eventually succeed by accusing them to carry a deadly virus and get them caught by the Biocontrol services. Mentioning Athos during the arrest, they understand that one of the Biocontrol agents who hates Athos replaced the shipment during its transit on Kline staion. The Cetagandans are eventually killed by agents from Jackson's Whole. The original ovarian cultures are found again and taken to Athos along with newly purchased ones. Terrence emigrates to Athos as well.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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Categories: [ TV/Cinema/Star Wars ]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars%3A_The_Force_Awakens

Wikipedia

Finn has deserted the Stormtroopers and arrives on Jakku, where he meets Rey, a scavenger waiting for her parents to return, and the droid BB-8, both chased by the First Order who wants to recovert the map, hidden in BB-8, indicatig the location of Skywalker. They escape the planet aboard the now abandonned Millenium Falcon and are caught by Han Solo, who barely escapes his creditors aboard the Falcon. Attempting to join the Resistance, they seek Maz Kanata's help. There, Rey finds in a basement Skywalker's lightsaber and discovers the Force is in her. At the same time, the First Order use their new weapon to destroy the Republic's capital. Han, Rey and Finn are attacked by the First Order and saved by the Resistance, but Rey is taken by Kylo Ren to the Order's base. Solo and Finn go to her rescue, and Solo is killed by Kylo Ren (his and Leia's son, turned to the dark side). Finn and Rey manage to sabotage the weapon; Rey then fights Kylo Ren on the surface of the planet, but are eventually separated. In the end, Rey finds Skywalker thanks to the map and returns his lightsaber.

[ Posted on January 2nd, 2016 at 16:21 | 1 comment | ]

Le papyrus de César

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Categories: [ Books/Comics/Asterix ]

ISBN: 9782864972716

© Amazon.fr

César publie sa Guerre des Gaules. Promoplus lui conseille de supprimer le chapitre concernant sa défaite face au village des irréductibles Gaulois. Le chapitre est cependant volé et se retrouve entre les mains des Gaulois. Poursuivis par Promoplus et les romains, Astérix, Obélix et Panoramix se rendent dans la forêt des Carnutes pour faire mémoriser ledit chapitre par le druide qui sert de mémoire à la tradition orale des Gaulois. Le papyrus est finalement rendu à César qui vient arrêter Promoplus.

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