January 2011
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10 awesome but impolite email filters →
I used to have this kind of problems with my voicemail. One day, I recorded this passive-aggressive message “Hi. If your call is important, please leave a message.” and never call back the missed calls. That did the trick.
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The Sock Gap
Jeff: Okay. Have you thought through your foreplay?
Steve: What do you mean ‘foreplay’?
Jeff: What do you think I mean? I mean when exactly do you take your socks off! My advice is to get them off right after your shoes, and before your trousers. That’s ‘The Sock Gap’! Miss it, and suddenly you’re a naked man in socks.
— Coupling, season 1, episode 2
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Women Laughing Alone With Salad →
Exactly as advertised.
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Yet another proof the world is just awesome
Since I’ve moved to New York a few days ago, I’ve been constantly videoconferencing over Skype and FaceTime. I was able to:
Help Harmonie’s grandmother to blow out her birthday candles in Paris,
Catch up with my friend Hugo who lives in Shanghai,
Say “please don’t kill me” to my parents’ evil cat Charly near Paris,
Chat with my sister Sarah who lives...
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Psst… you're awake?
I recently moved to New York City and temporarily living in a small apartment with three friends, which means nobody can’t turn on the TV in the morning unless everybody is awake.
Today, I woke up the first, grabbed my MacBook, fired up TextMate and build a Rails web app deployed on Heroku where each of us can tick a box when they’re awake. When everybody has checked the box, we all...
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