Xmas

It's Christmas today, so Merry Christmas everyone!

Merry Christmas!
Joyeux Noël!
Wesołych Świąt Bożego Narodzenia!
Feliz Navidad!
Feliz Natal!
Buon Natale!
Froche Weinachten!
And other languages too!

Mon cou

J'ai mal au cou. Je pense que je dormais bizzarement (oui, avec 2 z's - très bizarre). Je me dis, dans la salle de bain ce matin, en français, que j'avais mal au cou et que c'est probable que j'ai fait quelque chose bizarre avec mon cou, et j'ai remarqué qu'il y a deux mots en français qui sont presque même, surtout pour moi (n'oubliez pas que je le trouve difficile de differentier entre 'dessus' et 'dessous'). Cou et cul. Donc, quand j'ai pensé que j'ai fait quelque chose avec mon cou....

Tapeworms

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Hello Opera

I've been using Opera for about an hour now because I got fed up with Firefox's instability issues and I can't bring myself to use IE because I still have a soul. I like Opera so far; the speed dial thing is a good idea, and it seems a lot faster and more stable than FF. I still have the issues with typing that I'm sure I've complained about before, but that's a computer issue and not a browser problem (which I know because it happens in all programs, even notepad). The pages in Opera don't stall and pause while trying to scroll down through them and they scroll much faster too.
I haven't noticed too many other differences, but overall I'm happy with Opera so far.
It's a shame that it has come to this with Firefox because I still like it and its concept.

Ten Weekend/Ce Week End

Jadę na plaże. Lubię bardzo jechać na plaże i jadę do Noosy, i myślę że Noosa jest najlepsza plaża w Australii. Będę mieszkać w mieszkaniu mojej matka, więc ja wiem dobrze gdzie muszę jechać bo byłem tamte duży razy. Jadę na plaże z K'ą, z I'ą, z R'ą, i może z N'em i z K'em, ale nie wiem teraz jeśli K i N jadą też z nas. R musi mi mówić.

Je vais à la plage. J'aime bien aller à la plage et je vais à Noosa, qui est ma plage préférée en Australie. Je resterai dans l'appartement de ma mère, donc je sais bien où je dois aller parce que j'y suis allé plusiers fois. J'y vais avec K, I, R et peut-être avec N et K, mais maintenant je ne sais pas si N et K y vont avec nous. R doit me dire.

X-wing en tickets de métro

This is a great use for some used Parisian metro tickets. I assume it'd work for others too, as I'm pretty sure the Strasbourg tickets were the same dimensions. I used a Navigo, but I had enough visitors who used many many single tickets that I could have had an entire squadron!

10,000

Visitor number 10,000 was a random googler, I think. This person found my blog through a google search for "french dance craze 2009", which led to my post "The Latest Dance Craze in France". The visit was also done on an apple mac, so I feel a little dirty* about that. The visitor in question is in Australia, and the ISP routed through Sydney, with Telstra, but with Telstra, the location mentioned isn't always the location of the person (actually, it seems to be rather rare that the two locations match).
Oh well, I've had my 10,000th visitor, but it wasn't someone I know. Szkoda.
Better luck next time an arbitrary milestone comes up.

*not in a good way

DVD's

I went DVD browsing today because I was recently given some gift vouchers to celebrate an integer number of times that the earth has passed around the sun since the day I was born. I spent most of my time looking in the foreign films section of a well-known electronics, music and DVD store. I'd like to purchase some DVD's to add to my collection, but I'm not sure what I should get. I saw The Lemon Tree for just under $30, which is a film that I really enjoyed when I saw it at the cinema, and while it's definitely a film that I'd like to own, I'm not sure if it's one that I'd watch over and over again, which kind of defeats the purpose of owning it, other than just having it in my collection. It's one that I'd recommend and lend to friends though, because I think other people would like it. As for an English language film, I've often considered buying Little Miss Sunshine, though I know other people who own this film already, so I could feasibly borrow it whenever the mood to watch it struck. Other films that I'd like to buy, but which weren't in stock at the particular store where I was browsing include La Double Vie de Veronique (directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, who also directed Les Trois Couleurs), The Lives of Others, and Goodbye Lenin*. Are there any other good films out there that I should buy but that I've forgotten about? I'm sure I've seen some movies in the past few years that I've wanted to buy, but that I've forgotten about now. Suggestions welcome.

*For some reason, I thought I already owned this one, but it's not in my collection.

Horchata

I like this song (Horchata by Vampire Weekend):

A recent milestone

Another arbitrary milestone number was reached recently - this blog's 10,000th visitor. I don't know yet who it was, and I can't be bothered looking it up at the moment because I'm tired, but I'll work it out soon. Hopefully it wasn't just a random google searcher.