w00kie's ramblings

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Hi 👋, I’m François

I’m a French engineer who moved to Japan after my studies and will soon hit half of my life spent in Tokyo.

  • New show – Dexter

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    I’ve added a new show to my weekly rotation. It’s named Dexter and it’s just the kind of show I like in a Nip/tuck kind of way. Dexter, played by Michael C. Hall from Six Feet Under, is a blood splatter specialist for Miami PD. But that’s only his day job, at night he sheds…

  • Best Effort

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    Working in the IS/IT management team of my company, I’m copied on any IT related announcement made by the local infrastructure, and there is always something interesting/funny in there. For example here’s one mail I received this morning: (I cut out the japanese part) (Important) PC Network stop to the Yoyogi headquarters office on 04th…

  • 7 TV Shows of the moment

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    For the past 2 and a half weeks I’ve been leaving work between 10PM and 11PM every night. This is why I’m not posting so often, I don’t do much outside of work, except for watching my weekly TV shows downloaded from bittorrent. So I might as well talk about my current viewing list. These…

  • Tokyo International Film Festival

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    This weekend is the start of the 19th Tokyo International Film Festival. They’ll show a lot of cool movies until next weekend at the Bunkamura in Shibuya and in Roppongi Hills. I’m going to try to catch Flags of our Fathers saturday, the American part of Clint Eastwood’s 2 movies about the Battle of Iwo…

  • Something’s up in Japan’s sky

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    Something’s going on in the sky over Saitama. Yesterday morning, in the bus to work, I saw a diamond formation of what looked like 5 C-17 flying very low. And today we heard jets screaming all day over our heads at work. I don’t know if they raised the state of alertness since North Korea…

  • Air France is so generous

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    This morning I received a postcard from Air France Japan. Here is what it says: Early holiday season gift for you! It’s that time of year when we all get excited about going home, but how exhausting all the preparation can be! That’s why we are delighted to offer you a comfortable chauffeur-driven ride between…

  • Switching to English

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    I’ve decided that from now on I’ll stop writing in french and switch to english. There are many reasons for that: More and more of my friends here in Japan feel left out because they can’t read my blog. That language barrier is a bitch… I love being read by a lot of people and…

  • New Google Maps

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    Apparently, it’s it’s been live for 2 weeks now, but it’s the first time I notice it: Google Maps has been updated for Japan! It’s now much more readable with full-width characters, building elevation, 2 more zoom levels, brighter colors and at last hybrid view. And the best part, we can now see the underground…

  • Train Otaku festival

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    This weekend we had perfect weather in Tokyo, thanks to the typhoon that just passed. It’s impressive how it can pour with crazy wind friday night and be 8°C more with a perfect blue sky on saturday morning. So we thought it’d be nice to go for a big walk around Hibiya/Yurakucho/Ginza in the afternoon…

  • World Executive

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    Le matin quand j’arrive sur les coups de 10h, 10h02, je suis comme un fou, je m’eclate! Je bois une cannette de Boss – World Executive Blend parcequ’au fond de moi je suis un winner, et je peux vous dire que la haut, ils apprecient enormement.

  • Disney Sea

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    Je suis alle a Tokyo Disney Sea ce samedi. C’etait vraiment sympa, vachement mieux que mes souvenirs de Euro Disney / Disneyland Paris / Disneyland Resorts Paris, enfin je sais pas quel est le nom officiel en ce moment, ca change tout les 2 ans. Ma copine avait trop peur de faire les attractions marrantes…

  • Visa au rabais

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    Voila, je sors du bureau de l’immigration et j’ecris ce post depuis l’Apple Store de Shibuya. Je suis alle me faire tamponner mon passeport et c’est un visa d’un an qu’ils m’ont colle. En bref, mon visa va expirer le jour de mon dernier jour de boulot. Donc a moins de trouver un autre job…

  • @#!§様

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    Hier soir je devais recevoir les batteries de remplacement pour mon Powerbook suite au rappel de batteries d’Apple. Comme d’habitude, j’avais demandé au livreur de passer à 20h et il est passé à 19h30 alors que j’étais toujours dans le bus rentrant du boulot. Donc j’arrive chez moi et voila l’avis de passage que je…

  • Mikoshi a Koenji

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    Sur la fin de l’été, tout les 神輿 de Tokyo sortent pour un dernier tour de quartier. Celui-la était a Koenji chez ma copine, mais ce jour la j’en ai vu aussi a Shinjuku, Shibuya et Omotesando.

  • Surf à l’eau

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    Le weekend dernier un typhon est passé sur le sud du Japon avant d’aller se perdre au nord d’Hokkaido en passant par la 日本海, vu avez dû le voir dans les news, 9 morts. Au passage, il a amené avec lui une masse d’air des tropiques et a nettoyé le ciel de tout ses nuages…