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I lost my baby

Interprété par Jean Leloup

I lost my baby
I lost my darling
I lost my friends
I lost my mind

Pour une fille d’Ottawa
grandit a Sainte-Foy
D’un père militaire
et d’une belle fille qui fut sa mère
Qui écoutait du country

Entre deux caisses de bières
Et partait le samedi
pour un lac d’Hawkesbury
Rejoindre la grand-mère and all the family…
And all the family…

Ah je ne peux vivre sans toi
Et je ne peux vivre avec toi
Mais tu peux très bien vivre sans moi
Je suis foutu dans les deux cas

I lost my baby
I lost my darling
I lost my friends
I lost my mind

Coup de fil de Jaimi
Qui un jour tomba
Pour une fille d’Ottawa
Grandie je ne sais pas
D’un père pilote de l’air
Et d’une mère je ne sais quoi
Tous deux aimaient le cinéma

Nous sommes habitants de la Terre
Il y a des milliers de frontières
Quelqu’un existe dans l’univers
Pour quelqu’un d’autre et c’est la guerre

I lost my baby
I lost my darling
I lost my friends
I lost my mind

Pour une fille d’Ottawa
Grandie àSte-Foy
Et qui un jour tomba
Pour un chanteur populaire

Grandi en Algérie assez fucké merci
Et qui lui dit adieu je repars faire ma vie
À Hawkesbury

I lost my baby
I lost my darling
I lost my friends
I lost my mind

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Excursion au soleil

Last week I went on a tour of Le Soleil newspaper headquarters here in Québec city. At the end of the tour, our guide asked us to write a little bit about what we are doing in Québec and to send a photo for their online version of the paper. I sent the following (I hope people can understand it because some of it I had help with and some I did not!):

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Je m’appelle Jeff Milner. Je viens de Lethbridge, Alberta. Je viens juste de terminer mon bac à l’Université de Lethbridge en Nouvelle Media en avril.

Je suis venu ici pour apprendre le français, parce que je trouve la culture et histoire québecoise intéressante. J’ai reçu une bourse du gouvernement du Canada. Je suis en le cours Français “Elémentaire A”.

J’aime Québec beaucoup. Mes lieux preferés à Québec sont Vieux-Québec et les Plaines d’Abraham.

J’ai hate de revenir.

The photo was taken at the Plains of Abraham after a demonstration of historic battle formations and musket firing.

Update: Les photos publiées!! (Click on the smaller photos to the right to see our individual photos and paragraphs).

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Frogs and Snails: Watch out!

Specifically it’s snails that need to watch out because that’s what was on the menu for supper on Friday night.
Escargot
I’ve never had escargo before, but it wasn’t as bad as I imagined (nor was it as good as many people like to pretend). I think the biggest problem is the “ewww” factor. Even though they taste alright, there is no getting around the idea that you are, in fact, eating snails. It was worth it though, if only to expand my horizons a little.

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Sunscreen Tip

I was reading about Dooce’s recent diagnosis of skin cancer, the other day, and today I came across a little health tip gem that might prevent you from getting your own dose of Basal Cell Carcinoma: Rubbing in suncream ‘cuts effect’! Sunscreen is most effective when left as a white film to dry on the skin.

Researchers said rubbing in sunscreen could even put people at higher risk because while it did not protect against UVA rays it did offer resistance to UVB which causes the skin to redden.

They said that could encourage people to stay in the sun for longer.

Please excuse me while I head off to apply some sunscreen before the soccer game at 2:00 (with communication in French of course—there is a reason you learn the swear words first and that reason is “sport”).

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Julian Dibbell’s Book Play Money is Now Out

Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot, the new book by Julian Dibbell is now available.

Julian’s goal was to earn more money selling imaginary goods (ie. online gaming goods) than from his “real job” as a professional writer. He came up short of his goal by only a few hundred dollars and, though I haven’t read it yet, I understand the book documents the entire endevour from day 1.

In addition to bookstores selling his book, Play Money will also be available in the virtual world of Second Life (in the currency of that world—Linden dollars).

From the press release:

In-game versions of Play Money designed by Second Life coder/publisher Falk Bergman are available for L$750. These copies can be signed by Dibbell at his in-Second Life interview with journalist Wagner James Au on July 27th. For the Second Life resident who needs something a bit more tactile, L$6250 buys a real-life copy of Play Money, shipped with care to the buyer’s real life address, in addition to the standard in-game version.

(At the time of this press release, Linden dollars are trading at approximately L$300.00 to the US$1.00. Adjusted to US dollars, an online copy costs US$2.50, and the price of a real-life copy bought in-game is around US$20.85.)

I’ve previously written about Julian’s professional game-playing.

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Hot Hot Heat Tonight

Last Friday I saw “Live” at the Festival d’été de Québec and tonight I’m going out to see Hot Hot Heat (official site|myspace). I’ve never heard of Hot Hot Heat, but listening to their music on the net, it appears I’m in for a great show tonight.

So another little family update: currently I’m still loving life in Québec. My parents have survived some of the most intense tension in Israel recent years and are now headed home. My brother and his wife will be arriving back in Canada later today after spending a year in Australia and my sister is still taking beautiful photos of her (mischievious) kids. I can’t wait to chat with them all about each of our adventures.

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The Wizard of Oz and the Dark Side of the Moon

Fans of my backmasking page will probably want to check this out.

A few years ago my friend Megan dropped by the house sporting a copy of The Wizard of Oz in one hand, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon in the other, and a giant grin on her face. We played them both simultaneously and watched/listened as the two synchronized. I am not completely sure it’s intentional, but there are some interesting coincidences.

I recall reading that when asked about this, Pink Floyd has neither admitted or denied intentionally creating their album to go along with The Wizard of Oz.

To set this up at home, you needed to start the album just as the MGM lion roared for the third time, but thanks to Google Video you can see the combined video and audio: Dark Side of the Rainbow.

It’s a little easier to make connections if you know the name of each track:

  1. “Speak to Me”
  2. “Breathe”
  3. “On the Run”
  4. “Time”/”Breathe (Reprise)”
  5. “The Great Gig in the Sky”
  6. “Money”
  7. “Us and Them”
  8. “Any Colour You Like”
  9. “Brain Damage”
  10. “Eclipse”

So what do you think, intentional syncronization or just our minds making connections where none exist?

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A Quick Update

My brother and his wife climbed Mt. Fuji – (photo). My parents left a city in northern Israel that was bombed later that day by militants in Lebanon — more info from my mom:

We were shocked to hear that there were bombs from Lebanon in Safed or Safet :( however you spell it… I’m not sure if that was today or yesterday, but we were there yesterday afternoon about 1 or 2 p.m. and it is only 20 miles from the Lebanon border. Our Tour Guide was talking to all the soldiers and shopkeepers, but we had no idea what he was saying since we only speak English. He spoke to us about how bad the situation was since 7 soldiers had died, but I really didn’t have any idea of the implications.

As for me, I’m loving Quebec. I played Ultimate Frisbee yesterday. Tonight I will see the band, “Live”!