Archive for October, 2007
Monday, October 15th, 2007
Lebanese Bzazel
Every country has its own regional reputation. And there is certainly one for Lebanese bzazel!
4 Comments » - Posted in Digressions by eric
Thursday, October 11th, 2007
The All American Asshole
A-S-S-H-O-L-E. Dennis Leary’s classic song from the 90s, and one of ReWrite’s favorites.
3 Comments » - Posted in Digressions by eric
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
One Semester of Spanish Love Song
Este video is muy pero muy funny. It is a love song with words learned after just one semester of Spanish.
1 Comment » - Posted in Digressions by eric
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Al-‘Ain az-zarga jana b-kul khir
Last night, I finished reading Fatema Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood about a girl growing up in a conservative 1940’s Fessi family at the time of the Moroccan nationalist movement and social change.
In one of the latter chapters, entitled “American Cigarrettes”, the girl describes the arrival of American troops with fascination. […]
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Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Before the PC Age: When We Were Truly Tasteless
At work, I happen to sit next to one of the funniest people on the WiFi Planet, a guy I sometimes refer to as Hysidro. Hysidro takes no prisoners and, for some reason, none of us can help from laughing even though we know we’re going to hell for it. A few weeks back, he […]
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Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Berga encontrado en Casablanca
Las noticias han confirmado que no fue Maddie sino nuestro ex-compañero RastaFonero, Berga, quien se perdía por tierras magrebíes (aunque con la ayuda del photoshop de Hysidro, seguro que veríamos a ella también escondida en la foto). Pues, sí, definitivamente hemos encontrado a Berga en Casablanca.
Pero una pregunta ¿a quién se le ocurre una escapada […]
1 Comment » - Posted in FON, Friends / Family by eric
Friday, October 5th, 2007
Underpants
When I was a kid and whenever we’d see someone’s underpants, say Jane’s, sticking out of her pants, we’d sing,
I see London,
I see France,
I see Jane’s underpants.
And when someone sang that song to you, you were pretty embarrassed. I sometimes wonder what all of that fascination with underpants was all about. Or with butts in […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Digressions by eric
Friday, October 5th, 2007
NPR Jazz Profiles
I have significantly slowed down my leisure reading and substituted it with podcasts. I haven’t given up reading altogether, but I generally go through a period each year where I take a little break from books. Now one of my favorite podcasts for listening to while falling asleep or traveling is NPR’s Jazz Profiles.
Even if […]
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Shifting Targets
I would really love to shy away from my politically motivated posts and get back to the sillier Digressions. I also have laundry to do, a flu to supervise, and plenty of work related to work. But I find myself feeling like Michael Correlone in Godfather Part III: everytime I am almost out, they pull […]
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
FON: A Quick Corporate Promo
Sorry to interrupt you all with a little shameless corporate promo, but I have to get this out of the way.
On Tuesday, we announced that we were launching the Neuf WiFi FON service in France with some 600,000 Neuf boxes flashed with FON’s software. We celebrated in Paris and were hosted by Jean-Paul Huchon who […]
