June 29, 2003
Cool Oracle ad to PeopleSoft customers
(Back of the Economist.) They make a great point about their purchase of DEC Rdb (a VMS product) 9 years ago and how happy the Rdb customers are to this day.
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2002 tax forms
I love taxes... (Please note that this posting is just for show. I did not actually fill out the paper forms, I submitted it online.)
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June 28, 2003
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June 19, 2003
Professor Diakonov's whiteboard
At Nordita, the Nordic institute for theoretical physics.
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June 16, 2003
June 15, 2003
Queue at the Eiffel Tower
Nothing like the queues at Universal Studios...
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Battle hall
This hall contains paintings of important battles in French history,
including the Battle of Yorktown in 1781 (or "Yorcke-Town", as it is
known in French), commanded by General Washington and General Rochambeau.
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Who needs the original painting when a photograph is good enough?
It protects the fragile artwork.
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June 11, 2003
Louvre courtyard
This glass-roofed courtyard reminds be a lot of the Great Court at the
British Museum. Which came first?
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Flash photography of the Mona Lisa
Amazingly, the French allow flash photography of the Mona Lisa. This is
probably the reason why the painting is not separately illuminated.
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Louvre pyramid -- female
Designed by I.M. Pei (who was trained at MIT, iirc)
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Charles de Gaulle Terminal 1
The ugliest airport in the world.
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June 10, 2003
June 03, 2003
Gloria has a film in Cinemascope 1:1.85
Very impressive! (For the lesser minds among us, Cinemascope is 1:2.35.)
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