The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
Everything on the plate, save for the spätzle, is homemade: balsamic bacon brussel sprouts, braised cabbage with apples, mulled wine-poached pears, boar fillet, mulled wine gravy. Been cooking most of the afternoon, but da-yum!
Move over, le Motty, there’s a new chasse game in town!
Some people say that the Swiss can be standoffish. This might be the cases in some parts of the country (looking at you, German cantons), but the Swiss Romands are lovely people. I’ve just had a completely impromptu 15 minute conversation with a lovely man called Claude and his tibetan terrier. He professed his love of Gilles Villeneuve, was à martial arts instructor, and spoke about the lovely vacation he’d had in Montréal when he was a boy.
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Except during live demos.
Every. Single. Time.
Once in a while, I try and clean up the crap that’s been accumulating in my website. I just realized that I built my first website some time in 1998, if not before, and some traces of it still linger on the filesystem today – and also on the Wayback Machine.
The original homepage – circa 1998 – greeted you like this:
Welcome gentle reader.
A bit of background on this website:
In case you’re wondering what Karoshi means, let me inform you that it is a japanese expression meaning “death by overwork”. It’s fairly representative of the last few years of my life, moreso since I’ve started working towards my master’s degree. An interesting article on Karoshi can be found here
This web was setup primarily to showcase my the ever growing amount of pictures in my portfolio. In other parts of my web, you’ll also have a look at my bio and resume.
As a side note, the original title of the website was The Karoshi Archives – which I know now is in bad taste, but I was young and stupid at the time, and still used BLINK and MARQUEE tags and had ALT descriptions as “COOL SEPARATOR BAR”. Oy.
Happy anniversary Katy!
… and I can confirm that I’m 100% human!
And given my French-Canadian lineage, I’m really not surprised about my genetic heritage being predominantly Northwestern-European (French, British, Irish, etc…)
Katy says that “this might explain the forehead”. Thank you, my love.
The good news is that there are no major health gremlins hiding in my DNA (with the usual caveats that they don’t check for everything), so that’s good. Some of the train reports that they provide also indicate that the findings need to be taken with a grain of salt:
Bald Spot – Likely no bald spot
Cilantro Taste Aversion – Slightly higher odds of disliking cilantro
Early Hair Loss – Likely no hair loss
Fear of Heights – Less likely than average to be afraid of heights
Finger Length Ratio – Likely ring finger longer
Hair Texture – Likely straight or wavy
Hair Thickness – Less likely to have thick hair
Light or Dark Hair – Likely light
Wake-Up Time – Likely to wake up around 7:46 am
The errors seem to be mainly centered around hair, weird. I also really like coriander.
Happy anniversary Katy!
