peterhoneyman

peterhoneyman, 1 day ago

@palvaro

i really dug that track about 10 years after it came out

peterhoneyman, 1 day ago

@palvaro

for me, it was the year my son graduated high school #BornInTheTrumanAdministration

peterhoneyman, 2 days ago

@ffg I do like it. Do you like Cafe Bustelo? El Pico?

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peterhoneyman, 2 days ago

@nixCraft https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/954654.954664

peterhoneyman, 2 days ago

@nixCraft 53 on iPad/chrome

peterhoneyman, 7 hours ago

@curtisysmith

wow awesome tracks!!!!!

peterhoneyman, 3 days ago

We arrive in France on a national holiday, and it’s also an anniversary for us: start of week four of our trip. We slept in eight different beds, hauling a hundred pounds (46 kg) of luggage across southern Italy and Sicily, but are finally settled down for a couple weeks in Nice, with our own kitchen and a washing machine (omg no laundry for three weeks is a challenge!).

peterhoneyman, 3 days ago

We found an open boulangerie, bought a baguette that was still warm and delighted to the crunch, the smell, and the taste as we nibbled at le croûton on our way back from the bakery.

peterhoneyman, 2 days ago

In Sicily, almost all the overheard street chatter was in Italian, with German the most common foreign language. Not so in Nice, where you hear people speaking English all over the place, in cafes, shops, and on the street.

peterhoneyman, 2 days ago

a view from our apartment balcony

plus some street scenes

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peterhoneyman, 2 days ago

no cars!

peterhoneyman, 2 days ago

actually there’s a lot of cars in the places where cars are allowed but there are many blocks filled only with people

it’s nice here (ha ha how many times can i make that stupid joke)

our neighborhood is dense residential, mostly six-story or so. we’re in one of them, on the second floor. all the older buildings have shops on the ground floor, so there are bakeries, pâtissières, butchers, dentists, second-hand clothing shops, nail and hair salons, plumbing supply, basically everything.

peterhoneyman, 2 days ago

@tasharoni thanks! me too!

peterhoneyman, 1 day ago

About six months ago, @aka_pugs was ranting NFS MUST DIE and one of the NLUUG organizers challenged him to write up his thoughts for the conference.

When he agreed to do so, I knew I had to be there, and I was planning to be in Europe at that time anyway, so I threw down some old stuff I never wrote up and also submitted to NLUUG. They loved it and asked me to keynote!

So come to the NLUUG Spring Conference and hear me and Tom! Buy us beers! Utrecht is lovely in May!

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peterhoneyman, 1 day ago

Here’s a teaser for my NLUUG keynote.

peterhoneyman, 1 day ago

the view from here

peterhoneyman, 1 day ago

Nice has so many beautiful buildings

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peterhoneyman, 1 day ago

… and streets …

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peterhoneyman, 1 day ago

… and food. (we had the best lunch!)

diverse salad

peterhoneyman, 1 day ago

@koen oh damn

peterhoneyman, 1 day ago

@jef Fondation Maeght for sure (it will be my third visit), drive to Aix for a day trip, train to Ventimiglia for a day, maybe a day in Monaco. But we have a lot of lying around doing nothing to catch up on, too.

peterhoneyman, 1 day ago

@koen

I hope so — this is ALL YOUR FAULT 😝

peterhoneyman, 9 hours ago

We visited the Chagall museum and its numerous breathtaking oil paintings, many with biblical themes, which churned up long dormant feelings from my pre-teen fascination and puzzlement with Old Testament bible study

peterhoneyman, 9 hours ago

More Chagall

Adam and Eve expelled from Paradise 1961 Oil on canvas Adam and Eve's expulsion sows discord in Paradise: trees are uprooted, birds with goat heads fly away, while others have heads turned upside down and mingle with winged fish that surge from the river. Harmonious shades of blue and green are punctuated by areas of warm, vibrant colour, such as the dazzling bouquet depicted on the left of the composition. The angel that bears the divine wrath, in the middle of the upper section, drives Adam and Eve out. The couple sit astride a cockerel, a symbol of vitality and fertility. It appears to be flying away towards the future of humanity. The small mother and child painting in the lower right-hand corner confirms this rather optimistic vision of the Sin. (Museum description)

peterhoneyman, 8 hours ago

We stumbled upon the Fête des Mai à Nice in a large park that faces the Musée Matisse and found ourselves amid food trucks, olive trees, families, picnic tables, park benches, kids crying, screaming, running, climbing trees. A band just finished playing.