Sunday, December 3rd, 2023
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

Wikpiedia
In a totalitarian London, Evey is harassed by members of the political police
because she's walking outside after curfew. She is saved by a man wearing a
Guy Fawkes mask who introducing himself as “V”. V takes Evey to the roof of
a building to admire his work: destroying the Old Bailey. The next morning, by
hijacking the public television network, V invites the citizens to join him in
exactly on year from now, on November 5th, outside the House of Parliament.
Evey helps V escape and he takes her to his lair. V kills three members of the
ruling political party, the last one with Evey's help, but she betrays him and
flees. Finch, a policeman assigned to capture V, discovers that twenty years
earlier the murder victims were all working at a secret facility doing
research on human beings to create a new virus. Only one human guinea pig
developed a natural immunity, allowing to produce a cure, but he escaped the
facility during a fire. The virus killed hundred of thousands in what was
presumed to be a terrorist attack. The political situation then allowed
Sutler, the head of the now ruling party, to seize power and install a
dictatorship. Simultaneously, selling the cure enriched some members of the
party. Evey takes shelter with her former boss, but his house is attacked
because his latest TV show makes fun of Sutler. Evey hides, but is eventually
caught, imprisoned and tortured. She refuses to submit to her captors and is
then released and discovers she was actually being manipulated by V who was
teaching her (the hard way) how not to be afraid anymore. Realizing that V is
avenging the death of human guinea pigs, she promises to see him again before
November 5th. V then convinces Creedy, head of the secret police, to betray
Sutler and replace him in exchange of V's surrender. As November 5th
approaches, V distributes hundreds of thousand of Guy Fawkes masks across the
country leading to a rise of anonymous chaos and eventually riots. V takes
Evey to the restored London underground where a train full of explosives is
programmed to go under the House of Parliament and gives her the choice to
start the train or not. V then meets Creed who delivers Sutler to him and he
kills them both, getting mortally wounded in the process before going and
lying down in the train. Finch finds Evey and V's body at that moment, but he
allows to start the train. With Sutler and Creedy dead, the soldiers deployed
on the street have no order to stop the countless citizens dressed as V as the
converge towards Parliament House and witness its destruction.
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Translation: [ Google ]
Categories: [ Beer/Hiisi ]
Aika makea. Siellä on just se maku josta en tykkä, mutta se ei ole niin paha.
Sisältää ohramallasta.
Panimoyhtiö Hiisi, Jyväskylä, Suomi. 4.4% alkoholia.
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Friday, November 24th, 2023
Categories: [ Books ]
Penric's Demon
Penric is the youngest son of a minor noble in the Weald. One the morning of
his arranged wedding, he crosses path with an old woman just as she dies of a heart
attack. The woman is a sorceress hosting a demon and the latter jumps to
Penric. As demons are normally given only to people who have been prepared for
many years to receive one and dominate it, Penric is considered as potentially
dangerous. The wedding is cancelled and Penric is taken by the local religious
authority to the house of the Bastard's Order in Martensbridge where the
scholars should know what to do. On the way there, Penric discovers little by
little that the demon can talk through his mouth and decides to name it
Desdemona. Desdemona is 200 years old and contains the knowledge of the twelve
women who have previously hosted her. Over time, her knowledge of different
languages percolate into Penric's mind, allowing him to read many books in the
library of the Bastard's Order's house. Desdemona also teaches Penric
rudiments of sorcery like killing fleas or lighting a candle at a distance. In
Martensbridge, Penric bunks with the younger brother of the local lord. One
evening, the latter invites him to dinner in his castle. The two brothers want
to kill Penric in order to force Desdemona to jump to one of them, but the
demon detects the drugged wine and gives Penric enough extra power so that he
can fight them, escape and walk back to the house. He is then presented to a
Saint who has the power to extract demons, but the Saint declares that his god
does not want the demon. He apparently has plans for Penric.
Penric and the Shaman
Working for the princess-archdivine of Martensbridge, Penric is associated to
Locator Oswyl, an investigator of the Father's Order in Easthome. Their task
is to find Inglis, a shaman suspected of having murdered his teacher, Tollin
and who recently fled from the city. After a chase through the countryside,
they arrive in a mountain region where they learn about shamanism, which
consists in “breeding” the soul of an animal through the lives of many
animals in order to produce a Great Beast whose soul can be received by a
human, becoming a shaman. Penric and Oswyl learn that a recent landslide has
killed Scuolla, the local shaman, and that they urgently need to find another
shaman to help Scuolla's soul moving forward and prevent it from becoming a
ghost. They finally find Inglis, but the latter has lost his shamanic
abilities due to what he has done. Oswyl also explains that Tollin had an
accident during training and was dying, so Oswyl used the knife to anchor his
soul until it can be given to a new shaman. Penric spends some time restoring
Oswyl's confidence. Eventually the shaman is able to perform the rites on
Scuolla's soul. Some time after being back in Martensbridge, Penric receives a
letter from Inglis explaining that he was not found guilty of murder and only
put on probation and fined.
Penric's Fox
Penric accompanies the princess-archdivine on a journey to Easthome. There he
spends some time with Inglis. One day, Oswyl asks Inglis and Penric to help
him investigate the murder of a sorceress and if possible recover her demon.
The demon seems to have jumped to a passing fox. The investigation leads them
to Wegae kin Pikepool, the local baron, more of a bookworm than a warrior, and
who has inherited the estate after his uncle escaped trial for having murdered
his wife. With the help of local shamans they manage to detect the missing
demons and find the fox (actually a female with cubs). They also discover that
Baron Wegae's gardener has been trapping foxes without killing them, and that
a mysterious man seems to hide nearby. The man happens to be Wegaes's uncle
who has come back to take revenge on the demon, whom he blames for having told
the authorities, throuhg the sorceress who hosted it, that he killed his
wife. The culprit is finally brought to justice, the vixen and her cubs are
taken in the shamans' menagerie until the cubs can become independent and the
demon can be extracted from the fox by a Saint of the Bastard. Penric
negotiates with his employer a year of leave so that he can study with the
shamans before being sent elsewhere to study medicine.
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Sunday, November 19th, 2023
Translation: [ Google ]
Categories: [ Beer/Hiisi ]
“habanero… hedelmäinen humalointi”
Hedelmäinen ja tulinen jälkimaku. Sisältää ohramallasta.
Panimoyhtiö Hiisi, Jyväskylä, Suomi. 5.5% alkoholia.
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Monday, November 13th, 2023
Categories: [ Beer/Little Valley ]
“chocolat malt flavours… hints of coconut”
Sweet and very coconutty. Contains mated barley, malted wheat and oats.
Little Valley Brewery, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England. 4.5% alcohol.
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2023
Categories: [ Books ]

© Amazon.fr
The village of Wall marks the border of the land of the Faeries. Seventeen
years earlier, Tristran Thorn is born from a human father and a faerie mother,
Una, slave of Semele, a witch who sells glass flowers at the Faerie market
that takes place once every nine years. In love with Victoria, Tristran
witnesses the fall of a star into the faerie land and promises to bring to
her. At the beginning of his journey he meets a strange little man who, after
being saved by Tristran's unexpected sense of direction, gives him the stub of
a magical candle that takes him very quickly to the star. Instead of a rock,
he finds a young woman with a broken leg, Yvaine. She is the star, who has
been knocked out of the sky by the dying lord of Stronghold. The latter has
thrown the pendant representing the power of his family out though the window
and told his three remaining sons, Primus, Tertius and Septimus, that the one
who finds it would be his heir. At the same time, a witch-queen, oldest of
three sisters, is also searching for the star, as her heart would restore
their youth. Upon fining Yvaine, Tristran has first chained her to him, but as
he unchains her out of compassion, she flees on the unicorn she is riding. She
ends up in an inn conjured by the witch-queen at about the same time as
Tristran arrives in the company of Primus. The man is killed by the
witch-queen, but Tristran and Yvaine manage to escape thanks to the leftover
of the candle and are stranded on a cloud in the sky. Septimus, who has
previously killed Tertius, is eventually killed by the witch-queen in an
attempt to avenge Primus' death. Tristran and Yvaine are rescued by a flying
ship which takes them closer to Wall. They eventually reach their destination
by traveling with Semele (Tristran being turned into a dormouse, and Yvaine
being invisible to the witch), a few days before the opening of the market.
Tristran meets Victoria alone, and she tells him she is going to get married
soon. Tristran gives her his blessing, having fallen in love with Yvaine.
Victoria's wedding is the event that ends the convoluted curse that kept Una a
slave to Semele. Una reveals herself as Tristran's mother and also daughter of
the Lord of Stronghold. Yvaine then presents Tristran the pendant, which she
has been carrying. The witch-queen dies of old age, as Yvaine already gave her
heart to Tristran. Una returns to Stronghold and rule in her son's stead. Many
years later, Tristran and Yvaine return to Stronghold and rule together.
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Sunday, October 29th, 2023
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

Wikipedia
The Protagonist, a CIA agent who retrieved an artefact during an operation in
Kyiv is hired by Tenet. The organization briefs him on objects (such as
bullets) who move backwards through time. With his handler Neil, he traces the
source of those objects to an arms dealer, Priya Singh, in Mumbai. Priya is
also a member of Tenet and obtains the inverted bullets from Russian oligarch
Andrei Sator who can communicate with the future. Sator's estranged wife Kat is
an art appraiser who authenticated a forged Goya by her friend Arepo. Sator
uses the painting to blackmail his wife. The Protagonist buys Kat's help by
trying to recover the Goya from a freeport facility at Oslo airport, but the
attempt is thwarted by two masked men who emerge from either side of a
machine. Priya later explains the machine is a turnstile, used for inverting:
the two people were the same person traveling in opposite directions in time.
She also explains that Sator sabotaged the CIA operation in Kyiv and that the
police got the artifact, which is Pu-241. Kat introduces the Protagonist to
her husband and both agree to cooperate to recover the artefact in Tallinn
while it is transported by road, but an inverted Sator holding Kat hostage
attempts steals it from them. The Protagonist hides the artefact and is
captured with Neil by Sator who interrogates them at a freeport facility and
shoots Kat with an inverted bullet. Tenet troops arrive but Sator escapes via
a turnstile. They all invert themselves to save Kat's life, and the inverted
Protagonist drives back to the ambush to retrieve the artefact, but encounters
Sator who takes it. The Protagonist and his gang then travels back in time to
the freeport in Oslo, fights his past self, enter the turnstile with Neil and
Kat and all get de-inverted. He then meets Priya who reveals that Sator know
has all nine pieces of the Algorithm, a device designed by antagonists from
the future to invert the world and destroy its past. The Protagonist remembers
a past conversation and realizes that Sator will detonate the Algorithm in his
hometown of Stalsk-12 on a past day, in order to deliver it to the antagonists
of the future. On a Tenet ship traveling back to the day of the detonation,
Kat reveals that Sator is sick and dying. He will go back to a happy moment in
his life, on the same day, on his yacht in Vietnam, and commit suicide, his
death triggering the detonation. Kat poses as her former self and prevents
Sator from killing himself long enough for two Tenet commandos, one going
forward in time and one backwards, to make a diversion, allowing the
Protagonist to steal the Algorithm. He is trapped by Sator's man who puts him
in contact with Sator from Vietnam. Sator reveals the antagonists want to
escape the effects of climate change. An inverted Neil then sacrifices
himself, allowing the Protagonist to recover the Algorithm. Not-yet-dead Neil
reveals he was hired by the future Protagonist and then goes and gets inverted
to help recover the Algorithm. Later Priya plans to kill Kat, because she
knows too much. The Protagonist realizes he created Tenet and kills Priya
first.
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Saturday, October 28th, 2023
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Cooking/Ice Cream ]
Une glace au caramel, version améliorée de la
précédente.
Ingrédients
- 150 g sucre
- 1 c. à soupe d'eau
- 50 mL crème fluide
- 35 g beurre doux
- 600 g base de crème glacée
préparée sans le sucre
Préparation
Préparer le caramel en mettant l'eau et le sucre dans une casserole et en le
faisant cuire jusqu'à ce qu'il soit caramélisé, à l'apparition d'une odeur
un peu âcre. Ajouter la crème et mélanger, puis ajouter le beurre et mélanger
à nouveau. Délayer 135 g de ce caramel avec la base de crème glacée. Laisser
reposer au réfrigérateur une nuit, puis passer à la sorbetière. Manger les
50 g restant sur des crèpes (ou juste comme ça).
Commentaires
Ça rentre maintenant dans la boite de 700 mL.
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Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Cooking/Ice Cream ]
Nouvelle variante de cocotella
respectant la proportion de sucre de la recette de base, pour 650 g de préparation.
Ingrédients
- 67 g sucre
- 62 g lait en poudre
- 55 g sirop de glucose
- 2 g glucose
- 1 œufs (100 g)
- 415 g lait de coco (400 mL)
- 2 g Super Neutrose
- 30 g chocolat noir
Préparation
Mélanger les ingrédients secs. Battre un peu l'œuf dans une casserole,
ajoute les ingrédients secs et suffisamment de lait de coco pour les
dissoudre et fouetter. Ajouter le sirop de glucose et fouetter encore. Ajouter
le reste du lait de coco, mélanger. Faire chauffer en remuant continuellement
jusqu'à atteindre 80 °C. Laisse refroidir et reposer 24h au réfrigérateur.
Passer à la sorbetière, verser peu à peu le chocolat fondu avant que la glace
ne prenne (après 5 à 10 min dans la sorbetière).
Commentaires
Le goût est bon, à peine moins sucré que la version précédente, la texture est bonne.
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Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Cooking ]
Adaptée de la recette Serious Eats.
Pour 6 petits pains de 12 cm de diamètre.
Ingrédients
- 113 g lait tiède
- 170 g eau tiède
- 2 c. café levure sèche (5g)
- 1,5 c. soupe sucre en poudre (5g)
- 550 g farine
- 2 c. café sel (10g)
- 3 œufs
- 60 g beurre
- 2 plaqueis à four et papier cuisson
- pinceau
Préparation
- Délayer la levure dans le lait, l'eau et le sucre et attentre 5 min que ça
mousse..
- Placer la farine et le sel lans le mixeur, ajouter le liquide et mélanger.
- Ajouter 2 œufs, un par un, en mélangeant.
- Ajouter le beurre en deux fois. Mixer 2 – 3 min.
- Ajouter de la farine au besoin, la pâte doit coller au fond, pas aux bords
du bol. Mixer 5 – 6 min de plus.
- Couvrir le bol et laisser pousser 2 h.
- Former 6 boules (de 160 – 170 g chacune), les placer sur deux plaques avec du
papier de cuisson. Brosser avec de l'huile et couvrire. Laisser reposer 2 h.
- Préchauffer le four à 200 °C en chaleur tournante. Appuyer sur les boules
pour réduire leur épaisseur à 3 cm. Passer les boules à l'œuf battu avec 1 c. à
soupe d'eau.
- Cuire 7 min. Repasser à l'œuf et cuire 13 min de plus.
Commentaires
- Les petits pains se conservent plusieurs jours dans une boite hermétique
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Monday, October 23rd, 2023
Categories: [ Books ]

© Amazon.fr
Dorothy is the CEO of A Charitable Earth, a philanthropic organisation. When
she learns in the news that an alien spaceship is in orbit around the Moon,
she goes to her friend Will, an astronaut at the Space Defence Centre,
bringing with her a device that she had salvaged years ago from a crashed
alien spacecraft. That device, once attached the SDC's rocket, allows them to
fly to the Moon much faster than with a conventional rocket and board the
spaceship before the crews sent by other countries. On the ship they meet the
Doctor, Yaz, Graham and Ryan, and the Doctor recognizes Dorothy as Ace, with
whom he she had travelled thirty years earlier. Once back on Earth, Dorothy
and the Doctor investigate rumors of homeless people being abducted and
sighting of Ratts, humanoid aliens able shapeshift into rats reported by
Dorothy's friend Chantelle. The Doctor equips Yaz and Ryan with beacons and
try them to get abducted, assuming that they will be transported first to the
ship around the Moon before being forwarded to their destination. While the
Doctor and Graham are on the ship trying to trace the transporter's signal,
the others are attacked by Ratts who abduct instead Dorothy and Chantelle. At
the same time, the spaceship is boarded by a party of Astingir soldiers,
centaur-like beings who are in perpetual war with the Wraiths, creatures who
have tried to invade every weak empire on their path. The Astingir recognize
the Doctor as one who, in the past, has interfered with the Quantum Anvil, the
prison where the Astingir keep the Wraiths captive, by putting Ace in contact
with it in order to make her a future emissary between the Wraiths and the
other inhabitants of the Universe. The Doctor and Graham manage to escape the
Astingirs as the latter destroy the spaceship. The Doctor has however had the
time to discover that the spaceship is only the first in a chain of relays
hiding the final destination of the abductees. Chantelle and Dorothy arrive on
an arid planet where they are, separately, herded by Ratts, towards a
processing centre. The centre is managed by Halogi-Kari who explains that in
order to go around the laws of the Shadow Proclamation, they work as a
charity, collecting what is useless or unwanted — homeless people — and giving
it away to the Wraiths who need a body to be able to function inside the
Universe. Thanks to a special baseball bat Dorothy had with her when
transported, The Doctor manages to find the planet she is on and travels there
with her gang. They are soon followed by the Astingir who storm the building,
intent on killing everyone inside. The order however arrives from the Astingir
High Command that their actions are illegal and that they must stand down.
In the meanwhile Halogi-Kari explains Dorothy that he needs her for building a
bridge between the Quantum Anvil and the Universe to let the Wraiths out,
planning to use them to wipe out the Shadow Proclamation; he then throws her
into the Anvil. The Wraiths have however seen many futures while in the Anvil
and have decided to change their way of life. They accept to go back into the
Anvil, having seen in the future that it would not be forever. Ace stays
behind to force Halogi-Kari to clean up the mess he created.
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Wikipedia
Harlan Thrombey, a rich mystery novelist dies on the evening of his 85th
birthday. Despite the slit throat, the police concludes to a suicide. Private
investigator Benoit Blanc is anonymously hired to investigate and discovers
that each member of the family has motives for murder. Harlan's nurse Marta
know what happens: she confused two bottles of medicine and accidentally
injected him an overdose of morphine. To protect her and her illegal immigrant
mother, Harlan tells her that he is going to commit suicide while she executes
his plan: leave the house normally, come back in secret, disguise herself as
him to be seen by a witness so as to create the illusion that he ist still
alive after she has left, and leave again in secret. Marta cannot lie without
vomiting, so she gives accurate but incomplete answers when questioned by
Blanc, whom she assists in her investigation while concealing evidence that
would incriminate her. Marta is then bequeathed Harlan's entire fortune, which
enrages the family. Harlan's grandson Ransom pretends to help her, but
manipulates her into confessing to him, blackmailing her for a share of the
inheritance. Marta then receives a blackmail note indicating that the
toxicology report of Harlan's death will reveal she killed him. She and Ransom
drive to the medical examiner's office and discover it has burnt. She then
receives an e-mail to meet the blackmailer. At the rendezvous, she discovers
the Fran, the cook, drugged and tied to a chair. While Marta calls for help,
Fran reveals where in the house a copy of the toxicology report is hidden.
Caught up by Blanc, she confesses to him (although Ransom had already told him
the story); as she caused Harlan's death, she cannot anymore inherit. Back at
the house, the report shows that Harlan only had traces of morphine in his
blood. Blanc reveals his deductions to the family: Ransom had swapped the
contents of the medicine bottles to ensure that Marta would kill Harlan. But
Marta still gave the correct medication because out of habit she identified
the drugs by their viscosity and only later noticed the labels were wrong.
Ransom then anonymously hired Blanc to expose Marta. As Fran saw Ransom
tampering with the medication, she blackmailed him, and when he learned that
Marta had not killed Harlan, he forwarded the blackmail note to her and burnt
the medical examiner's office to destroy the evidence before overdosing Fran.
Blanc and Marta manage to get Ransom to confess by pretending that Fran
survived the overdose. He is then arrested for murder, Marta inherits Harlan's
fortune, with no intend to share it with Harlan's children who were all more
or less nasty to her.
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Sunday, October 22nd, 2023
Translation: [ Google ]
Categories: [ Beer/Hiisi ]
“tumma ja paahteinen mailtaisuus…”
Tosi paahteinen maku. Sisältää ohramallasta.
Panimoyhtiö Hiisi, Jyväskylä, Suomi. 6.0% alkoholia.
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Sunday, October 15th, 2023
Categories: [ Beer/Little Valley ]
“Citra, Mosaic and Cascade hops… floral, citrus and juicy fruit”
Floral and citrus, as advertised. Contains malted barley, malted wheat and
oats.
Little Valley Brewery, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England. 4.5% alcohol.
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Monday, October 9th, 2023
Categories: [ Cooking/Ice Cream ]
Base Preparation
The following recipes are designed for producing 500, 600 or 700 g of ice
cream, each using only a single egg. The proportions are therefore slightly
different from one to the next. Most ingredients are available from Finnish
supermarkets (glucose is found as “panimosokeri” next to other beer
brewing ingredients).
An empty, cleaned tub of Oivariini can hold 700 g of ice cream. It's square,
stacks well and I find it just perfect for storing the ice cream in the
freezer.
For 500 g
- 42 g white sugar
- 6 g glucose
- 42 g skimmed powdered milk
- 42 g glucose sirup
- 1 egg
- 318 g fresh milk ()
For 600 g
- 51 g white sugar
- 7 g glucose
- 51 g skimmed powdered milk
- 51 g glucose sirup
- 1 œuf
- 390 g fresh milk (whole or semi-skimmed)
For 700 g
- 59 g white sugar
- 8 g glucose
- 59 g skimmed powdered milk
- 59 g glucose sirup
- 1 egg
- 465 g fresh milk (whole or semi-skimmed)
Preparation
With an egg beater, beat slightly the egg in a saucepan. Add the dry
ingredients and about 50 g of milk, and beat a bit. Add the glucose sirup and
beat some more. Add the remainder of the milk and beat again. Heat to 80 °C
while stirring continuously with a spatula.
Vanilla Ice Cream
- 500 to 700 g of ice cream base
- 1/2 to 1 tsp of liquid vanilla extract, to taste.
Note: Without a stabilizer, this ice cream will become hard and somewhat
crunchy when kept in the freezer. I have used a 9:1 mix of sodium alginate and
kappa-carraghenan (1 g for 500 g of preparation) that somewhat improved this
situation. I now use Louis François's Super Neutrose (3 g for 700 g of
preparation). If you use it, mix it into the dry ingredients.
Preparation
Add the vanilla extract before heating the preparation. After heating the
mixture, let it rest in the refrigerator for 12 – 24 h before putting it in the
ice cream machine.
Caramel Ice Cream
- 150 g white sugar
- 1 tbsp water
- 50 mL double cream
- 35 g butter (salted or unsalted, depending on your taste)
- 600 g ice cream base
Place the sugar and the water in a pan and heat until the sugar turns to
caramel (this part is a bit tricky as not enough browning gives too little
flavour, and too much browning makes it quickly bitter). Add the cream and
mix, then add the butter and mix again. Measure 135 g of caramel and pour the
ice cream base little by little, mixing at at each step to ensure the
preparation is smooth. Let it rest in the refrigerator for 12 – 24 h before
putting it in the ice cream machine.
Coconut Ice Cream
This recipe is developped around using exactly one can of coconut milk and a
single egg.
- 78 g white sugar
- 78 g skimmed powdered milk
- 78 g glucose sirup
- 1 egg
- 400 mL (1 can) coconut milk
Preparation
Beat the egg slightly, add the dry ingredients and a bit of the coconut milk.
Mix, add the glucose sirup and beat. Add the coconut milk and beat some more.
Heat to 80 °C while stirring continuously with a spatula. Let the preparation
rest in the refrigerator 12 to 24 hours before putting it in the ice cream
machine.
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Sunday, October 8th, 2023
Categories: [ Beer/Little Valley ]
“lightly toast aroma, peppery… fruity taste”
Surprising, somehow reminds me of wine. Contains malted barley, malted wheat
and oats.
Little Valley Brewery, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England. 5.0% alcohol.
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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023
Categories: [ TV/Cinema/Buster Keaton ]

Wikipedia
Jimmie is in love with Mary but does not dare telling here. The brokerage firm
where he's a junior partner is in financial difficulties. When a lawyer visits
him to tell him he's going to inherit money, he and his partner Meekin first
run away believing he is summoning them to a trial. They finally sit together
and read the will, that would give Jimmie seven million dollars if he gets
married before 7 PM on the day of his 27th birthday, which is today. Jimmie
immediately asks Mary in marriage, but clumsy wording about his motivations
causes her to immediately break up with him. She however changes her mind and
sends a hired hand to deliver a note to Jimmie. Meanwhile, Meekin convinces
Jimmie to propose to any of the seven women he knows at the country club
restaurant, to save the firm. One by one, they refuse and mock him. Meekin
then publishes Jimmie's predicament and potential inheritance in the evening
newspaper, announcing that Jimmie would marry any woman who presents herself
at the church at 5 PM. A crowd of veiled woman gathers at the church, but the
priest refuses to perform any ceremony, announcing it was a bad prank.
Escaping the angry women, Jimmie finally receives Mary's note. Followed by the
mob of women, Jimmie runs first through the city then through the countryside
(escaping an avalanche of rocks) to reach Mary's house where Meekin is also
waiting. Alas, Meekin's clock show he's a few minutes too late. Mary still
wants to marry him, money or not, but Jimmie refuses to let her share his
impeding disgrace. As he leaves, he sees from the church's clock that Meekin's
watch was fast. He and Mary wed just in time.
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Elton John enters an addiction rehabilitation session and starts talking about
his life. Born Reginald Dwight in the 1950s, he shows an talent for playing
the piano by ear. He is not loved by his father (who leaves when his mother
has an affair) and little by his mother. Fond of rock'n roll, he starts
playing at local pub. As an adult he first plays backup for touring American
bands, before he is given advice to write his own songs and become someone. He
changes his name to Elton John. His producer at DJM Records introduces him to
Bernie Taupin who writes lyrics, for which Elton composes the music. Your Song
becomes famous and Elton goes to play in Los Angeles where Crocodile Rock
becomes a success. There Elton meets John Reid, a music manager who becomes
his lover. As his success increases, Elton starts a life of debauchery. Reid
convinces him to tell his parents that he's gay, but they don't care, his
mother telling him that he will never be properly loved. Elton falls into
depression where he is emotionally abused by Reid and becomes an addict to
alcohol and other drugs. After a suicide attempt during a party he is rushed
to the hospital, then thrust on stage by Reid. Elton has a brief marriage
with sound engineer Renate, after which he falls out with his mother and
Bernie. After suffering a heart attack, he leaves a concert without warning
and decides to go into rehabilitation. He realizes he does not need approval
from his parents, rekindles his friendship with Bernie and eventually returns
to a successful career without the support of drugs. He eventually gets
married to David.
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2023
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Cooking/Ice Cream ]
Nouvelle variante de cocotella
n'utilisant qu'un seul œuf pour 700 g de préparation.
Ingrédients
- 78 g sucre
- 78 g lait en poudre
- 78 g sirop de glucose
- 1 œufs (100 g)
- 415 g lait de coco (400 mL)
- 30 g chocolat noir
Préparation
Mélanger les ingrédients secs. Battre un peu l'œuf dans une casserole,
ajoute les ingrédients secs et suffisamment de lait de coco pour les
dissoudre et fouetter. Ajouter le sirop de glucose et fouetter encore. Ajouter
le reste du lait de coco, mélanger. Faire chauffer en remuant continuellement
jusqu'à atteindre 80 °C. Laisse refroidir et reposer 24h au réfrigérateur.
Passer à la sorbetière, verser peu à peu le chocolat fondu avant que la glace
ne prenne (après 5 à 10 min dans la sorbetière).
Commentaires
Le goût est bon (parce qu'il y a davantage de sucre que dans la recette
précédente ?), la texture est bonne.
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Sunday, September 24th, 2023
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In 1970, after listening to a gig by Smile, Farrokh Bulsara meets and is
attracted to Mary Austin. He then offers himself as Smile's new singer.
Together they play across Britain and Farrokh soon convinces the band to
record an album. They attract EMI's attention. Farrokh then changes his name
to Freddy Mercury and renames the band Queen. The band is managed by Paul
Prenter, who is attracted to Freddy. They go on an American tour, after which
Freddy proposes to Mary, but starts questioning his sexuality. In 1975,
EMI refuses to release a single of Bohemian Rhapsody, so they quit, and the
song becomes a hit. Freddy has an affair with Paul, and when Mary learns his
homosexuality, she breaks the engagement but they remain close friends. Paul
has a strong influence on Freddy who drinks, takes drugs, organizes wild
parties and slowly drifts away from his friends. Paul eventually convinces
Freddy to record a solo album in 1984 in Munich. Mary manages to convince
Freddy that Paul is a bad influence and he fires him before coming back to
England to play in the Live Aid benefit concert (Queen was invited, but Paul
hid that fact from Freddy). Freddy reconciles with the band, learns he's got
AIDS, tells the band, they play in Live Aid which is a big success. Freddie
reconnects with Jim Hutton, whom he had hit on during a party many years
earlier and who had told Freddy to find him when he learns self-acceptance.
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“A collab brew between Wicklow Wolf and Brique House… Talus ands Idaho 7
hops… stone fruit and citrus flavours”
Strong and sweet. Orange yes, stone fruits I don't know. Contains malted
barley, wheat and oats.
Wicklow Wolf Brewing Co., Newtownmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow, Ireland. 8.0%
alcohol.
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Monday, September 18th, 2023
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Cooking/Chocolats ]
Erithaj, Ben Tre 2018 70% 2 brassages : doux
Erithaj, Ben Tre 2018 70% 4 brassages : doux
Erithaj, Ben Tre 2018 70% séchage sous abri : speculoos
Erithaj, Ben Tre 2018 70% séchage au soleil : fleurs ?
Erithaj, Dông Nai 70% : doux, candi ?
Callebaut, 70-30-38 70,5% : amer, sucré, trop grillé ?
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Sunday, September 17th, 2023
Categories: [ Beer/Duration ]
“local dessert and cider apples… tannic dry note… fruit filled dry hop of
Azacca, Cashmere, Huell Melon, Loral, Mosaic Cryo, Vic Secret. Reminiscent of
a sweeter style cider.”
Fruity, a bit bitter, quite good. Contains malted barley and oats.
Abbey Farm, West Acre, Norfolk, England. 6.2% alcohol.
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Monday, September 11th, 2023
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Books/Le Paris des merveilles ]
Affaire à suivre : Rouletabille raconte à son ami l'avocat Sainclair son
entretien avec les Artilleuses, ainsi que son enquête sur leur cambriolage de la
Banque de Paris et Brocéliande, dont le but était cacher le vol d'un bijou. Il
termine l'histoire par la bataille entre les voleuses et un mystérieux homme
en noir.
L'affaire Montrancy : Léon est un détective privé chargé de prouver
l'innocence du directeur de prison qui a fait évader un de ses prisonniers,
Enzo. Léon découvre rapidement que les deux hommes ont été hypnotisés et n'ont
pas agi le leur plein gré. L'enquête mène Léon à Solférino, un chat ailé,
ancien associé du mage noir Nogrim. Nogrim, jaloux des capacités de Solférino
a tenté de tuer ce dernier et a kidnappé sa femme Nola. Le chat ailé a tenté
d'utiliser Enzo pour libérer Nola, sans succès. Solférino révèle que Nogrim
prépare un spectacle de magie à la foire. Léon s'y rend et, se portant
volontaire pour un numéro du spectacle, parvient à voler le pendule de Nogrim
et après une brève poursuite, à l'arrêter.
Chats, crimes et botanique : Rita, jeune détective, accepte de retrouver le
frère de deux chats ailés, Ligny. En visitant la planque des frères Wattel
avec qui Ligny avait été vu, Rita rencontre Raphaël, un jeune mage à qui Ligny
a volé des plantes rares d'Ambremer. Enquêtant ensemble, ils découvrent que
le pollen des plantes permet de fabriquer une drogue très puissante chez les
ambremériens qui leur permet de revivre leurs souvenirs. Ils finissent par
trouver le laboratoire où une enchanteresse et les Wattel fabriquent la drogue
et à les mettre hors de nuire.
L'affaire du cirque de la Lune : Cécile de Brescieux dirige une école pour
les êtres magiques échoués sur Terre. Lyké, jeune femme-serpent est attirée
hors de l'école et kidnappée. Cécile part à sa recherche et finit à Paris où
elle retrouve son élève dans un cirque. Rancy, le propiétaire, est un mage
en train de perdre ses pouvoirs et il veut donner Lyké à la femme serpent qui
garde une source magique sous les catacombes afin d'en faire sa successeure et
ainsi obtenir la permission d'en boire l'eau. Avec l'aide de S'kiron, un
dragon crépusculaire qui lui a sauvé la vie, Cécile parvient à sauver Lyké et
à faire changer Rancy d'avis, grâce à l'appui de la troupe du cirque.
L'absinthe pourpre : Anthelme Bertillon, fils du célèbre policier, peine
sure une série d'empoisonnements liés à une nouvelle boisson, l'absinthe
pourpre. Son dossier d'enquête lui est volé lors de l'attaque de son taxi par
une bande d'apaches. Hortense, la chauffeure du taxi est blessée par un tesson
de bouteille d'absinthe pourpre et Anthelme est recueilli par sa bande, les
Canailles de l'Île. Hortense tombe malade et une ami d'Anthelme diagostique un
empoisonnement au veni de basilic. Anthelme va chercher un remède à Ambremer
avant de repartir avec Hortense à la recherche de son dossier. Ils tombent par
hasard sur la bande qui prépare l'absinthe pourpre et déjouent leur plan de
voler le basilic naturalisé offert par Ambremer au museum d'histoire
naturelle. Les bandits sont arrêtés et bien qu'étant policier, Anthelme est
adopté par les Canailles.
Pirouettes et fausses moustaches : Dominique est journaliste et amie d'Eva
une danseuse. Eva est un sirène à qui le mage Venceslas a donné des jambes. Ce
dernier exige d'Eva qu'elle récupère un bijou dans l'écrin de cristal, objet
magique qui empêche certaines personnes d'entrer dans le cabaret éponyme, en
à plaçant un objet qui les identifie. Dominique décide d'aider son amie en
cambriolant le cabaret. Elle reconnait le bijou comme ayant été récemment volé
et soupçonne le mage d'être lié au vol de bijoux. Dominique est prise sur le
fait par Venceslas qui a pris Eva en otage et la force à rendre le bijou, mais
parvient à utiliser l'écrin pour le repousser hors du cabaret en y plaçant une
carte de visite du mage.
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La plantète Solaris semble se comporter comme un unique organisme, une sorte
de cerveau. Depuis une station spatiale en orbite, des scientifiques tentent
depuis des décennies d'en percer les mystères, sans succès. Kris Kelvin est
envoyé dans la station pour décider si elle doit être abandonnée. Il découvre
la présence de personnes que les deux scientifiques restants tentent de
cacher. Au lendemain de sa première nuit, il trouve dans sa chambre sa femme
Hari, pourtant décédée dix ans plus tôt. On lui apprend que depuis qu'on a
envoyé un faisceau de rayons X vers l'océan de Solaris, ces êtres sont
apparus. Ils sont immortels et peuvent se régénérer (non sans souffrir). Les
scientifiques décident alors d'envoyer un faisceau de rayons X modulés par les
ondes cérébrales de Kelvin. Hari sait qu'elle n'est pas humaine et en souffre
beaucoup, d'autant plus qu'elle est tombée amoureuse de Kris. Elle tente de se
suicider, mais ressuscite peu après. Kelvin finit par tomber malade et à son
réveil on lui donne une lettre de Hari expliquant qu'elle à demandé aux deux
autres de la faire disparaître. On lui explique aussi que depuis que le
faisceau modulé a été envoyé, plus aucun nouvel être n'est apparu, et des îles
ont commencé à se former dans l'océan de Solaris. Kelvin décide alors de
rester vivre sur une de ces îles, où se trouve reproduite la maison de ses
parents.
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Friday, September 1st, 2023
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Books ]

© Amazon.fr
La galaxie est divisée en deux secteurs, Epsilon et Beta. Epsilon est
tellement vaste que la Flotte spatiale ne parvient pas à assurer la sécurité
de toutes les colonies, et plutôt que de s'occuper du bien-être de ses
citoyens est perpétuellement en guerre contre Beta qui attaque régulièrement.
Sur la planète Delas où les glaciers sont exploités pour fournir en eau
d'autres planètes, Fey et Bliss prospectent le cryel, une formation de glace
ayant des propriétés de refroidissement remarquables et devenues primordiales
pour les moteurs des vaisseaux spatiaux et leur armement. Bien que
théoriquement libles, la plupart des habitants de Delas n'ont aucune chance
d'en partir un jour et sont exploités par leur employeur, Cladrus. Jennah, une
scientifique, hackeuse et révolutionnaire, a découvert l'existence théorique
du cryel parfait, mais ayant refusé de partager ses travaux avec la Flotte,
elle a été disgraciée ; Tellet, un haut-placé du gouvernement d'Epsilon, l'a
cependant envoyée sur Delas à la recherche du cryel parfait. Bliss, toujours
rebelle, tombe avec Fey et leur collègue Nox dans un piège de ce dernier et
pour échapper à la prison accepte d'accompagner Jennah dans une mission
secrète pour trouver (et prouver l'existence) d'un cryel parfait qui donnerait
à Epsilon un avantage technique sur Beta, en échange de la promesse de pouvoir
quitter Delas. Ils acceptent, trouvent le cryel parfait et sont attaqués par
des soldats de Beta qui se sont posés sur Delas grâce à la complicité de
Cladrus. Les soldats ont aussi apporté deux vaisseaux prototypes volés à
Epsilon en faisant croire qu'ils avaient été détruits. Le quatuor parvient à
leur échapper pour un temps, mais Cladrus finit par leur voler le cryel
parfait et à s'échapper dans un des prototypes, poursuivis par Fey et ses amis
(Nox se révélant être un capitaine de la Flotte infiltré pour s'assurer que le
cryel parfait serait rapporté à la commandante de la Flotte). De son coté,
Tellet vole le troisième prototype à bord du vaisseau amiral de la Flotte et
s'enfuit vers Beta au moment de l'attaque de Delas par la flotte de ce
dernier. Cladrus et Tellet s'échappent, ce qui est sans importance puisque
Bliss avaint caché le vrai cryel et laissé Cladrus voler un faux.
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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2023
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Books/Le Paris des merveilles ]
Un gnome pour un autre : Les Artilleuses rentrent d'Amérique. Peu de temps
après, leur ami Barillet part en pleine nuit et ne rentre pas. Il a été
kidnappé par des gangsters à qui il doit de l'argent. Les Artilleuses
acceptent alors de l'argent de Crisofaros pour libérer leur ami, en échange de
quoi elles devront prochainement simuler le cambriolage d'une banque pour
voler discrètement un bijou conservé dans ses coffres.
Alice au Paris des merveilles : Alice, détective, se déguise en Albert pour
enquêter. Elle est engagée par Madic pour récupérer un grimoire dans un hôtel
particulier. Elle découvre un laboratoire secret à la cave, occupé par le mage
Edison. Madic se révèle être le mage Tesla dont Edison a volé les recherches.
Accusé publiquement de vol, Edison a provoqué Tesla en duel, mais ce dernier
ne sait pas se battre. Alice se déguise alors et prend sa place. Edison,
malgré sa tricherie, perd. Tesla récupère son grimoire.
Le gang du Chat noir : Gérôme est un peintre-mage qui parvient à ajouter des
émotions à ses œuvres. Un soir il suit sa talentueuse apprentie Elenor jusqu'à une
réunion à Montmartre où il rencontre Rodolphe Salis. Ce dernier veut créer un
nouveau spectacle d'Ombres. En même temps, l'inspecteur Farroux demande l'aide
de Gérôme pour élucider un nombre de meurtres commis à l'aide de peintures
effrayantes sur des personnes liées à Ambremer, problème inquiétant car le
peintre Mucha doit bientôt présenter un triptyque à la reine Méliane. Lors de
la présentation, des Ombres sortent des tableaux et attaquent la reine. Gérôme
parvient à sauver la reine et découvre que l'autrice de la tentative de
meurtre est la chanteuse de cabaret Thaïs qui est aussi la sœur d'Elenor.
Gris souris : Lors d'une visite chez Néon del Vacardi pour ajuster sa
prothèse, Clémentine est fascinée par une paire d'ailes mécanique permettant
de voler. Elle obtient de son sévère oncle la permission d'aider Néon à tester
les ailes ; ce dernier lui permet de les emporter chez elle. Un soir, elle
s'échappe par la fenêtre pour explorer Paris et fait la rencontre d'orphelines
qui sont entraînées à voler par Dame Élie, la directrice de leur orphelinat.
Clémentine devient petit à petit une voleuse à son tour, et la peur que Dame
Éliee raconte ses aventures à son oncle la contraint à continuer. Quand elle
découvre que la directrice n'est pas vraiment la Robin des Bois moderne
qu'elle prétend être, Clémentine la dénonce à la police. Mais la directrice
est une fée déchue, très puissante ; Grâce à l'aide de Néon (qui est en fait
Léonard de Vinci)
elle parvient à distraire Dame Élie suffisamment longtemps pour permettre son
arrestation par la police.
Savant larcin : Émile fait partie d'une bande d'apaches et est un des rares
membres à savoir que leur chef André est en fait une femme, Andrée. Émile vole
un carnet dans un laboratoire scientifique pour le compte d'un commanditaire
qui prétend que le carnet lui appartient. Émile est cependant accosté par
Marie Curie qui lui explique que le commanditaire compte utiliser ses
recherches pour faire des armes au lieu de traitements médicaux (le père
d'Émile souffre justement d'un cancer et est trop pauvre pour aller à
l'hôpital). Marie envoie un médecin au père d'Émile, ce qui convainc celui-ci
de s'allier à Marie pour l'aider à reprendre le carnet. Émile est chassée de
sa bande par leur cheffe, Andrée, dont il est amoureux. Mais Andrée accepte
tout de même son invitation à aller danser.
Le Myosotis : Le Myosotis est un changelin, chanteur de cabaret. Lorsque sa
relation avec un homme de la haute société est éventée, il est arrêté et
emprisonné. Une bande inconnue le fait cependant évader et le cache dans leur
repaire ; ils deviennent amis. Leurs membres sont commandités pour voler une
carte magique, la Ségoula, à Jocelyn, un mage qui a été abandonné par son
amant Armand. Le Myosotis se fait passer pour Armand afin d'approcher Jocelyn
et voler la carte. Refusant d'aussi donner Jocelyn à leur commanditaire, il
s'enfuit avec Jocelyn et va demander conseil à son frère Étienne Tiflaux, le
détective. Ce dernier conclue qu'Armand travaillait pour un mage noir qui
cherche à utiliser le pouvoir de la Ségoula. Le Myosotis et Jocelyn se rendent
au repaire et découvrent que ses amis ont été tués par le mage noir, sauf leur
chef Tortosa la chatte-ailée. Cette dernière témoigne que le mage, Tristan de
Roussel, ancien ami d'études de Jocelyn, veut créer un golem géant pour semer
le chaos. Avec l'aide de Cécile de Brescieux avec qui Jocelyn a étudié, ils
trouvent le golem dans une carrière d'argile et parviennent à arrêter le
monstre. Tristan réussit cependant à leur échapper et rejoint la Reine Noire
en compagnie de golems animés par les âmes des membres de la bande de Tortosa.
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Categories: [ TV/Cinema/James Bond ]

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The real James Bond is retired, while another man continues le legend under
his name. But as many secret agents of all countries are eliminated by SMERSH,
Bond is coerced into coming out of retirement by the explosion of his mansion,
in which M is killed. Bond returns M's toupee to his widow in Scotland. She
really is Mimi, a SMERSH agent tasked with destroying Bond's celibate image,
which fails. Bond then goes back to London and becomes the new M, where he
learns the agents are eliminated because they cannot resist sex. Bond orders
all remaining agents to be called James Bond to confuse SMERSH. He then hires
millionaire and former agent Vesper Lynd to hire baccarat expert Evelyn
Tremble. The goal is to prevent SMERSH agent Le Chiffre from recovering the
money he embezzled from his organization by winning at the Casino Royale.
Based on a tip from Mimi, Bond sends his daughter Mata to West Berlin to
infiltrate a SMERSH training centre. There she foils Le Chiffre's other
money-making scheme, selling compromising photographs of world military
leaders. Tremble and Lynd then arrives at Casino Royale and foil an attempt to
disable Tremble. The latter then observes Le Chiffre and discovers he cheats
using infrared glasses. Lynd steals the glasses and Tremble wins the game.
Le Chiffre then captures and tortures Tremble with hallucinogens. The latter is
saved but then killed by Lynd. Le Chiffre is then eliminated by SMERSH. In
London, Mata is kidnapped by SMERSH in a giant flying saucer. Bond and
Moneypenny travel to Casino Royale to rescue her and discover there an
underground lair belonging to the evil Dr. Noah, in reality Jimmy Bond, James'
nephew. Jimmy's plan is to release a bacteriological agent that will make all
women beautiful and kill all men taller than 4"6', leaving him as the big man
who gets all the girls. Another, female James Bond whom Jimmy had kidnapped
earlier poisoned Jimmy with a miniature atom bomb. Bond, Moneypenny and Mata
escape from the lair back to the casino where Bond establishes that Lynd is a
double agent. The casino is overrun by secret agents and a battle ensues, with
American and French support, adding to the chaos. Jimmy finally explodes,
destroying the Casino and killing all people in it.
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John Kruger's job at the US Marshals is to give witnesses a new identity to
protect them from criminals against which they are going to testify. He
therefore erases the past life of Lee Cullen who alerted the FBI that her
company Cyrez is selling secret military weapons to other countries. But
Kruger learns that several of his protected witnesses have been kidnapped or
killed, indicating there is a mole in his service. With his old mentor
DeGuerin and a few colleagues, they attempt to rescue a kidnapped witness, who
is murdered by one of the Marshals. During the flight back, the three rogue
Marshals try to kill Kruger, who escapes by jumping with a parachute. Having
signalled Cullen that she is not safe anymore, they meet at the planned
rendezvous point in the New York zoo. They are attacked by DeGuerin's men but
manage to escape. Kruger and Cullen return to Cyrez to decrypt a data disc
Cullen had copied with the help of the FBI. They discover that a shipment of
weapons is for the Russian mafia is going to leave the Baltimore docks. Cullen
is then kidnapped by DeGuerin who takes her aboard the ship. Kruger gets help
from Johnny, a witness he recently “erased”, who contacts his cousin, a
mobster at the docks. They plan an assault on the dock and manage to free
Cullen. After a fight, Kruger exposes DeGuerin's scheme to their boss. Weeks
later, the rogue Marshals are indicted but there is not enough evidence for a
conviction. Kruger fakes his and Cullen's death. After the rogue Marshals have
been liberated, Kruger poses as their limousine driver, then leaves the car on
a railway track where it is hit by an oncoming train.
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Sunday, August 20th, 2023
Translation: [ Google ]
Categories: [ Beer/Hiisi ]
Väkevä, makea, vähän karvasta. Sisältää ohramallasta.
Panimoyhtiö Hiisi, Jyväskylä, Suomi. 8.0% alkoholia.
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Monday, August 14th, 2023
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Books ]

© Amazon.fr
Japon, 1467. Hikari est une yokaï, tantôt femme tantôt renarde vivant dans la
forêt avec ses sœurs. Elle tombe amoureuse de Jun, un bûcheron, avec qui elle
a des jumeaux. L'aînée de Hikari, Ino la cheffe du clan, est jalouse de sa
sœur et lui ordonne de tuer Jun, ce qu'Hikari ne fait pas. Ino fait alors tuer
Hikari et Jun, mais l'esprit de Hikari lui survit à travers ses enfant, que
son autre sœur Akane est envoyée les tuer, ce qu'elle fait à contrecœur. Cette
dernière met plusieurs siècles à retrouver et tuer les descendants d'Hikari. À
Tokyo en 2016, Mina, une lycéenne, a le pouvoir de voir les fantômes et les
yokaï. Elle découvre que son père, qui est mort quand elle était petite, avait
aussi ce pouvoir et semble avoir été tué par un yokaï. Natsume, une camarade
de classe de Mina, est la descendante d'une famille de chasseurs de fantômes
mais n'a pas le pouvoir de voir ces derniers. Elle entraîne donc Mina sur les
traces d'un tueurs de yokaïs. Mina fait la rencontre de nombre d'entre eux
dans un bar invisible aux mortels (et donc à Natsume), ainsi que d'Eri, une
étudiante du folklore japonais qui semble elle aussi disposer de pouvoirs.
Voulant prouver à son père qu'elle est digne de lui succéder, Natsume se
laisse posséder par un esprit, justement celui du tueurs de yokaïs. Mina finit
par découvrir que cet esprit est celui d'Ino qui cherche à accroître son
pouvoir en absorbant celui d'autres yokaïs, afin que les yokaïs reprennent sur
les humains le pouvoir qu'ils ont perdu au fil des siècles. Eri combat Ino
afin d'exorciser Natsume et de protéger Mina. Cette dernière lui donne le
pouvoir hérité d'Hikari, ce qui permet à l'étudiante de vaincre Ino et de
recouvrer son identité, Akane, et à Mina d'être enfin soulagée.
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Sunday, August 13th, 2023
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

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Sue Charlton, an American journalist, goes into the Australian bush to meet
Mick “Crocodile” Dundee who is said to have survived an attack by a
crocodile and crawled back home minus one leg. In Walkabout Creek she
discovers the story is exaggerated, despite Mick having a bite wound in his
calf. They travel together for two days in the wild, retracing Mick's steps
on his trip back home. Sue discovers a beautiful country, some of the customs
of the aboriginals, and not-quiet falls in love with Mick. She invites him
to come back with her in New York. There Mick discovers a world very
different from what he knows and commits several social blunders. Sue's
fiancé Richard looks down on Mick because they obviously do not have the
same upbringing. After one evening in town, Sue and Mick kiss. On the next
day, Sue, Richard and Mick are invited to dinner at Sue's father's mansion,
where Richard proposes to Sue; she does not reject him, so he assumes she
agrees. Mick spends the rest of the night getting drunk and is attacked by a
pimp (who he had punched a few days before when he was chatting with
prostitutes, unaware of their trade) and saved by Sue's family's driver. The
next morning he leaves the hotel and plans to walkabout around America. Sue
arrives just after he left, and she runs after him to the subway station. From
one end the platform, packed with people, she tells Mick, who is on the other
end, that she loves him. As they are too far away, their dialog is relayed by
a few people in the crowd.
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Categories: [ Beer/Belhaven ]
‘Scottish Optic and Crystal malts… nutty, biscuit… Challenger and Goldings
hops… spicyness’
Just another ale, but quite sweet. Contains malted barley.
Belhaven Brewery Company Ltd., Dunbar, Scotland. 5.2% alcohol.
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Tuesday, August 8th, 2023
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

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Mr. Peabody is a talking, very intelligent dog who has adopted a boy, Sherman.
Together they travel in time for fun in a machine invented by Peabody
named WABAC. When Sherman starts school, he is soon bullied by Penny because
his father is a dog. A fight ensues, after which social services, in the
person of Mrs. Grunion threaten to take Sherman away from his father. Peabody
invites Penny's parents in an attempt to convince them to withdraw their
complaint, but Sherman is teased by Penny about George Washington and the
cherry tree, reveals the existence of WABAC and takes her to ancient Egypt.
Sherman comes back alone and asks Peabody for help, as Penny has stayed behind
and wants to marry Tutankhamun. Father and son travel back to Egypt and
convince Penny to come back with them. As they are out of fuel, they stop in
Florence to visit Leonardo da Vinci who helps them build a device that will
jump-start WABAC. During their stay, Sherman and Penny bond. On their way back,
Sherman learns that he risks being taken away from his father, they argue, and
accidentally arrive during the Trojan war. They have an accident with the
horse, Peabody is presumed dead and the two children go back to the present, a
few minutes before they have left, to ask help from the earlier Peabody.
Grunion arrives soon after and wants to take Sherman away and the Peabody that
was thought dead suddenly appears (having built another WABAC in Troy). This
causes a confusion in which Sherman touches his earlier self, the tow boys
merge which creates a cosmic shockwave that causes the various pasts they have
visited to pour into the present. More confusion ensues, at the end of which
Grunion's attempt to take Sherman is opposed by Washington and all the other
historical characters. Peabody and Sherman then travel a few minutes in the
future to repair the rip in spacetime and all historical characters return to
their time, Agamemnon taking Grunion with him. Sherman returns to school and is
now friends with Penny. In Troy, Agamemnon marries Grunion.
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Sunday, August 6th, 2023
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

Wikipedia
New York, end of 1959. Bud Baxter works for an insurance company and regularly
lends his apartment to four of his superiors when they need a few hours alone
with their lovers. In exchange, he gets glowing reviews, which attract the
attention of the director of personnel Sheldrake. The latter also wants access
to the apartment. Baxter is secretly in love with elevator operator Fran
Kubelik, but he does not know that she is also Sheldrake's current lover.
Sheldrake promises her to divorce his wife but always has excuses to delay
doing it. During an office party on Christmas Eve, Fran learns that she's only
the latest in a long string of Sheldrake's girlfriends to whom he had made the
same promises. Later that evening at the apartment, Sheldrake leaves Fran
alone in it to go celebrate Christmas with his family. When Bud comes back to
his place, he find that Fran has attempted to commit suicide; he asks help
from his neighbour, a doctor, who saves her life. Following the doctor's
advice, Bud convinces Fran to stay with him for two days until she is
recovered. They start playing gin rummy, but Fran is too tired to concentrate
on the game. Later, as they prepare an informal romantic dinner, Fran she is
retrieved by her sister's violent husband who punches Bud because he believes
he is the reason for Fran's attempted suicide. Sheldrake fires his secretary
and former lover for having told Fran about his girlfriends, and for revenge
she tells his wife about them. Being kicked out of his home by his wife,
Sheldrake believes he can finally marry Fran and on New Year's Eve he asks Bud
for the key of his apartment. Bud refuses and quits his new, prestigious job
as Sheldrake's executive assistant. He then goes home and starts packing.
Sheldrake takes Fran to a New Year party, but she leaves him, runs back to
Bud's apartment and asks him to finish their game of gin rummy.
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Books ]

© Amazon.fr
Le Blend est une communauté d'espèces à l'échelle de la galaxie. La Terre
vient de le rejoindre et en contrepartie de cadeaux technologiques, les
humains fournissent un savoir-faire perdu dans le Blend: la guerre. La Terre
fournitl les hommes et le Blend l'équipement, le transport et une
programmation cognitive qui permet d'apprendre temporairement des informations
utiles sur les planètes où se déroulent les opérations. Le narrateur souffre
d'une psychopathie qui le protège de la mélancolie qui découle de la
déprogrammation au retour d'opération. En contrepartie, il a peu d'empathie et
la déprogrammation fonctionne de moins en moins bien sur lui. La conséquence
est qu'il finit par être capable de profiter d'une opération sur une planète
accueillante pour s'enfuir définitivement loin des humains.
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Sunday, July 30th, 2023
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Books ]

© Amazon.fr
En 1907, dix ans après la Guerre des mondes, la Grande Bretagne est envahie
par une deuxième vague d'envahisseurs venus de Mars qui on pris le pouvoir. Un
de leurs ambassadeurs invite Sherlock Holmes et le docteur Watson à aller sur
Mars pour enquêter sur le meurtre d'un célèbre philosophe martien. Les détectives
acceptent, malgré le fait de n'avoir trouvé aucun écrit ou mention de cette
personne. Sur Mars, ils sont contactés par Freya Hadfield-Bell, une humaine
qui fait partie de la résistance martienne, laquelle tente de contrecarrer les
plans d'invasion de la Terre et de l'annihilation des humains dans le but de
fuir Mars qui devient peu à peu inhabitable en s'éloignant du soleil. Elle leur
révèle que les martiens enlèvent des personnalités terriennes sous prétexte
d'un voyage sur Mars et les remplacent par des simulacres, des robots
contenant une copie de l'esprit de la personne, qui prennent sur Terre des
décisions en faveur des martiens. Holmes et Watson sont ainsi scannés et
emprisonnés. Hadfield-Bell les délivre et tente de leur faire prendre la place
de leurs simulacres, mais l'opération échoue et elle est tuée sous les yeux de
Watson. Le plan de secours, risqué, consiste à envoyer les deux détectives sur
Terre dans un vieux vaisseau rebelle. Ils arrivent sains et saufs sur Terre,
rentrent déguisés à Baker Street, éliminent leur simulacres et prennent leur
place. Quelque temps après, ils apprennent que les rebelles aussi savent
fabriquer des simulacres, et que la Freya tuée sur Mars en était un,
l'originale étant saine et sauve à Londres.
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Saturday, July 29th, 2023
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Books/Comics/Troy ]

© Amazon.fr
Des prospecteurs d'or s'installent à proximité du village des trolls et
obtiennent la promesse de Waha qu'on les laissera tranquilles. Mais la
nouvelle se répand, et c'est la ruée vers l'or. La parfumeuse Shaneelle a
perdu tous ses ouvriers, mais elle décide de vendre sa protection aux
prospecteurs (qui ne sont pas, pourla plupart, protégés par la promesse de
Waha) sous la forme de son parfum qui fait fuir les trolls. Grace au vieux
sorcier troll, les trolls découvrent le trésor d'un dragon, qu'ils utilisent
pour arroser Eckmül d'or, en faire baisser les cours et rendre la prospection
non rentable. Le sage Fuquatou passe alors un accord avec les trolls pour
qu'ils arrêtent leurs opérations. Shanelle est faite prisonnière et la
prospection rendue illégale près de chez les trolls.
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2023
Categories: [ Beer/St Austell ]
Just another, quite good, ale. Contains malted barley.
St Austell brewery, St Austell, Cornwall, England. 7.2% alcohol.
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2023
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Cooking/Ice Cream ]
Une glace au caramel, version améliorée de la
précédente.
Ingrédients
Préparation
Préparer le caramel en mettant l'eau et le sucre dans une casserole et en le
faisant cuire jusqu'à ce qu'il soit caramélisé, à l'apparition d'une odeur
un peu âcre. Ajouter la crème et mélanger, puis ajouter le beurre et mélanger
à nouveau. Délayer 135 g de ce caramel avec la base de crème glacée. Laisser
reposer au réfrigérateur une nuit, puis passer à la sorbetière. Manger les
50 g restant sur des crèpes (ou juste comme ça).
Commentaires
Il y avait toujours trop de préparation, ça ne rentrait pas dans la boite de 700 mL.
La glace est moins molle que la version précédente, et a un peu moins de goût
de caramel (ce qui au final n'est pas si mal).
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