Murder on board

I'm tired. There's quite a lot to revise this time round. But so as not to leave the previous post at the top of my blog for too long, here's a riddle I got from WW.

A man was found murdered on board in a japanese navy ship at 2am. Police questioned everyone on board.
Captain: I was sleeping when the murder took place.
Cook: I was cooking.
Crew: The flag was upside down so I was turning it.
Scout: I was scouting for enemy ship as there was a signal.
Anchorman: I was anchoring.
POLICE ARRESTED THE MURDERER IMMEDIATELY. Who do you think is the murderer? And why?

Answer below.













Answer: The crew because the Japanese flag cannot be upside down!

Goanboylered!

Like what I said before, sometimes you just have to say it so that someone will hear.

"Try to do something useful", he tells me!!

YOUR HEAD!!!

Une tendance à écrire tout et n'importe quoi en période de DS

Je devrais être en train de travailler, mais j'ai pas envie. Donc à la place, je suis en train de relire des anciens articles sur mon blog. J'ai trouvé ceci: Le démineur sur son CV? que j'ai écrit l'année dernière.

Finalement pour ma recherche de PFE cette année j'ai gardé le démineur sur mon CV...je pense pas que ça ait changé quelque chose. C'est vrai que cette année j'ai eu plus de mal à trouver un stage, mais je crois que la raison principale est que pour la plupart des offres il fallait postuler sur un site web (et non pas à une adresse mail) et donc la personne concernée (celle qui fait la décision, quoi) ne reçoit peut-être pas la candidature directement, ou tout de suite. Par exemple j'ai reçu deux offres après la date limite de dépôt des sujets...heureusement j'avais déjà trouvé mon stage à ce moment-là.

Cette année il y a une entreprise où on m'a parlé justement du démineur pendant mon entretien (l'année dernière personne l'a mentionné)...mais je sais pas si ça a augmenté ou diminué mes chances. Finalement je l'ai pas eu, ce stage...mais aussi je le voulais pas puisque c'était trop loin de Lyon et pas meilleur qu'un stage que j'avais déjà sur Lyon! Donc j'ai même pas envoyé un mail de remerciement après l'entretien...ça a peut-être joué sur leur décision!

Alors il y aura encore une décision à faire pour mon prochain CV...ce sera en Malaisie donc il vaudrait peut-être mieux ne pas parler du démineur... non? Enfin, on verra...

Comment peut-on ne pas adorer Luce?!

Here's an e-mail she sent us:

A Mesdemoiselles et Messieurs les Etudiants de 5 GE présents à Lyon:

Un pauvre petit manuel mauve de" Recherche Opérationnelle" traîne, corné et esseulé , sur la table face à la porte du Secrétariat des Etudes.
La destruction le guette mais, entre les pages, de petits feuillets perforés et griffonnés de notes hâtives suscitent le scrupule.
Merci pour lui au propriétaire de se manifester dans les meilleurs délais pour remédier à ce délaissement.
Ranger vos mouchoirs.
LV

All this to tell us that someone has left behind their "Recherche Opérationnelle" textbook. I'm trying to translate it the best I can (with a little help from Google) :

To all 5GE students in Lyon:

A poor little mauve "Recherche Opérationnelle" booklet sits, dog-eared and forlorn, on the table outside the secretary's office.
Destruction awaits, but between its pages, small slips of perforated paper with hastily scribbled notes raise scruples.
May its owner come forward as soon as possible to remedy this neglect.
Put away your handkerchiefs.
LV

:D

Go and read!

Rather busy, but I wanted to share this: Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell to Make Us Miserable

It's really really funny...I love the picture of the hungry printer! (paper jam)

And also: The Saddest IMDB Profiles Ever

Hey, but at least they're there! lol

So the weather decides to do some acrobatics

Just at the beginning of the week, it was snowing, and the snow was there for several days. And now it's 10ºC outside.

I don't know whether this should be called global warming or not.

Je veux râler

Depuis une semaine (à peu près) il y a tellement de groupes sur Facebook qui essaient de regrouper des gens de telle région géographique ou de tel établissement (INSA en fait, j'en ai pas vu d'autre...encore)

Je crois que le premier que j'ai vu était pour des Alsaciens, puis il y en avait pour des Ardéchois, des Languedociens, et encore... Et tous ces groupes s'appellent "On m'a dit impossible de regrouper [nombre "énorme" entre 10 000 et 100 000] [Alsaciens/Ardéchois/INSA*iens/etc], on leur montre?"

Alors franchement il faut croire que les gens ont rien à faire à part se lancer les défis de "regrouper des gens de ta région, sinon t'as perdu!" Quel jeu d'enfant...c'est pas plutôt un passe-temps de collégien (ou plus jeune)? Dire que des étudiants d'INSA se mettent à le faire aussi...que deviennent les futurs ingénieurs?

Which language to use?

Facebook seems to be confused. These are the notifications it sent me when two of my friends clicked "like" on one of my links (which is, by the way, a hilarious scene of a few people with phobias at a phobic reunion)


As you can see, in one of the notifications it says "lien" instead of "link", which is simply the French word...which probably means that Pauline's using Facebook in French. It's the first time I've seen this bug though...does this mean that most of my friends (even the French) are using Facebook in English? :P

(I was going to post this yesterday, but with all those music videos it kinda slipped my mind after I had saved the screenshot)

Kavana and Ultra

Today it's Kavana's turn. I guess my search for Gary Barlow on Youtube prompted it to suggest a video by Kavana. And of course, as usual, I wasn't going to stop at one video...

Here's MFEO:



and Crazy Chance.



He does like dancing in enclosed spaces, doesn't he? :P It's a safe bet he doesn't have claustrophobia...lol

There's also another video of Crazy Chance, not the one released in M'sia, I think. I can't remember what other nice songs he had though.

And wow, in the related videos section I found this: Say You Do by Ultra.



I remember that I really liked this song last time, but I had totally forgotten the group :P

One thing leads to another

Do you remember Gary Barlow?

It all started when I visited David's blog (from where I got the video Hijau). He had written a post about the movie Stardust and he had posted a song from the movie, Rule The World by Take That. Now I'm not going to say much about the movie, though it did seem pretty interesting; what I want to share is the song.

However, embedding is disabled. :( So instead, I will embed another song by Take That that I came across: Greatest Day



And I found a trailer for their DVD:



The last song there is Rule The World, in case you want a "preview" before watching the video linked above.

And that is why I thought of searching for songs by Gary Barlow...I couldn't even remember what songs he had sung, I only remembered that there was at least one song I had really liked.

And upon finding that song, I realised that I had really completely forgotten it :P Especially the video...I had no recollection of it at all. Embedding is disabled as well (*sigh* Why are Gary Barlow fans so kedekut (stingy)? :P Or maybe it's Take That fans...), so you'll have to click on the links.

Here it is: Love Won't Wait. And another one is So Help Me Girl; I only managed to recognize this song from its chorus. I still prefer Love Won't Wait ^_^

Edit 3: Ooh I found Open Road. Nice one too.



(end of Edit 3)

Oh, and by the way, I checked out several other Take That videos...and one thing I noticed was that they are pretty lousy dancers! lol What they do is not dancing, it's more like arm-flailing and goodness-knows-what...n'importe quoi :P

Edit: Okay, I take back what I said about their dancing. Maybe it was just choreography.



Edit 2: And I found this song, Shine. It's great! ^_^



(by the way does anyone know how to make the video smaller so that it doesn't overlap onto the sidebar? It's already the smallest size available on Youtube...)