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About Me

Paris resident ex-pat, and in the thick of it!In between organising the famous Green Linnet ( ;-) ) Football Club in their assault on the summits of the Tankards' League, learning the ins and outs of Linux & networking, and turning "sucker punch" into an opponent to be feared in the Virtual worlds of Counter Strike, there's also a girlfriend, hound-dog and day job in the mix.Paris is a great place to be. If you don't like it, you're probably French. No offense!

My Interests

Beer & Alcohol / Laughing / Etiquette / Everything IT & Hi Tech / Live Music / Travel / Meeting people / Loud music & video games /

I'd like to meet:

Hmmmm, the list is long but here are a couple of excerpts:Neil Alden Armstrong / Thom Yorke / George Soros / Bill Hicks (RIP) / Maynard James Keenan / Albert Einstein (RIP) / God (Eternal) / Michael Moore / George Bush Jr. /
Who I'd like to meet with a baseball bat:
Anyone who dares put up banner ads here...! do you feel lucky ?

Music:

tool / radiohead / stereodrawings / morcheeba / deftones / rage against the machine / portishead / mycelium / prodigy / tricky / streets / strokes / system of a down / 16 horsepower / kyuss / queens of the stone age / queen / kinks / leftfield / crystal method / depeche mode / down / asian dub foundation / everclear / aimee mann / nine inch nails / marilyn manson / massive attack / skunk anansie / stone temple pilots / violent femmes / red hot chilli peppers / moby / U2

Movies:

Alien Trilogy / RoboCop / Apocalypse Now / Revelations / Cheech & Chong Up in Smoke / Akira / Bladerunner / Waking Life / Jackie Chan / Arnie / Michael Caine / Michael Moore

Television:

X-Files / B5 / ST / 24 / BattleStar Galactica / CSI (Les Experts) / Fast Show / League of Gentlemen / Monty Python / Les Guignols / Spitting Image / Ali G

Books:

George Orwell / Douglas Copeland / Willard Price / Hunter S. Thompson / Courrier International / Economist / haruki murakami / and tonnes more... /

Heroes:

Joint First: Bill Hicks / Hunter S. Thompson / George Orwell / My MumThe best of the rest! Jimmy Wales / George Soros / Sir Tim Berners Lee / Winston Churchill / Sergey Brin / Nelson Mandela / Frank Lampard / Steve IrwinThose who bought their way in, respect: William Gates (keep it up!)

My Blog

The Gay Bomb

...was indeed researched by the US Air Force with a view to being used as a weapon in 1994. A sum of 7.5M$ was requested to develop the concept weapon. It is not mentioned if the offer was t...
Posted by Rob on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:51:00 PST

Firing blanks in Paris

OK, OK, it's not actually what you might think from the heading! That would be the subject for another blog, if I ever need confirmation ;-) Went to Rush bar, my local in the quiet neighbourhood of ru...
Posted by Rob on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:03:00 PST

No wealth from immigration... well whaddaya expect ?

Below follows a comment I made after reading some fine journalism from everyone's favourite redhead, The Sun..... The original story is at: http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007000256,00.html No w...
Posted by Rob on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:00:00 PST

Better than donuts (sic) !

Not-so-chilled US Cops are suing Burger King after being served a Whopper with a difference.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1941499,00.html Not really sure who's dumber in this episode !...
Posted by Rob on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 05:37:00 PST

NEWS FLASH - UNLIMITED POWER PROMISE

NEWSFLASH.... BREAKING NEWS........Scientists awed by energy generation machine powered by politicians' empty promises. Spokesman Sean Blague of HAS (Hot Air Solutions Ltd) says of the discovery: "We ...
Posted by Rob on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 10:18:00 PST

Unwelcome neighbours and how to deal with them !!

Picture the situation... In a sleepy town in the North East of France, the local mayor pays a visit to a local gypsy encampment with a team from the local police station. Upon arrival, considers what ...
Posted by Rob on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 04:29:00 PST

fear, paranoia and media screeching in France

This is a first attempt at posting an external video, so here goes! The background to this video is the recent series of dog attacks in France, which have been blown out of all proportion by the press...
Posted by Rob on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 04:32:00 PST