Auteur : Martine

How do you know your boyfriend thinks you’re hopeless in the kitchen? When he looks at the Brita pot in the fridge and asks you – before he leaves for a week of work in London – if you think you’ll be able to handle keeping a constant supply of filtered water while he’s gone.

He is a very generous person. Probably the most generous person I know. But man, does he have trouble sharing his kitchen!

Dear kitchen: I’m looking forward to a week of reacquaintance. What should we start with? My poulet chasseur? My linguine with leeks and Pernod? My chicken pot pies? My… eh… How does take-out sound?

Never mind. My sister just invited me for a sushi dinner tonight. Kitchen, I’ll see you tomorrow.

Then again… This might just be the ideal week to start a diet.

It’s late and I’m drinking mint tea because my stomach hurts. No, it’s not hurting because of the ribs I ate, it’s hurting because a movie made me laugh too hard.

I was not expecting The 40 Year-Old Virgin to have some of the best dialogue I’ve heard in a while in an American movie, but it did. It’s vulgar, geeky, juvenile (sometimes in a satirical way, sometimes not) and it’s brilliant, except for the part about not having sex until you meet the right person, but that’s just one cheesy, romantic line that you’ll quickly forget and forgive. Oh, and you’ll never look at a FutureShop employee the same way again. (Try to avoid seeing the preview so you won’t ruin some of the best lines.)

I always like to read reviews after I have seen a film and I particularly appreciated this one.

This movie could have been a lot of things, some of them awful. The gimmick certainly did not ensure quality. But man, it’s a wonderful film, directed with endless energy and written with a sharp wit.

The only thing that annoyed me about this review is that it says about the main actress (the awesome Catherine Keener) that she’s « luminous ». That’s what people say about female actresses when they run out of adjectives. If I hear one more reviewer say that an actress is « luminous », I’m going to print many copies of the review, roll them up really tight and, you know… Yeah, that.

Anyway, I have to go. My tea is getting cold and my stomach still hurts.

Pour les geeks curieux: un petit tour de San Francisco et Silicon Valley par les photos des �difices qui abritent les compagnies high tech. On s’y prom�ne en utilisant une carte ou encore un diaporama. Les compagnies sont class�es en 3 cat�gories: Old and Busted, Business as Usual et New Hotness.

J’ai travaill� pendant 4 ans dans ce b�timent, au premier �tage (coin inf�rieur droit de la photo). Pour le temple, c’est ici. (Parce que je sais que c’est probablement �a qui vous int�resse.)

D’autres points d’int�r�t:
Mozilla
Craigs List
Google

via Dan Gillmor