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Canada trip picture mosaic

Posted on October 3, 2018July 28, 2020 By admin

Click to see full version (2100×2100, 5MB)

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It always works on the dev’s machine

Posted on October 2, 2018October 3, 2018 By admin

Except during live demos.

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This is why my work clothes are always ginger

Posted on October 2, 2018October 3, 2018 By admin

Every. Single. Time.

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Wow… just… wow.

Posted on October 2, 2018 By admin

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.

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Happy 144-month wedding anniversary

Posted on October 2, 2018October 2, 2018 By admin

Happy anniversary Katy!

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My DNA results are in…

Posted on October 1, 2018 By admin

… 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.

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There’s a fine line when dogfooding

Posted on October 1, 2018 By admin


FYI: Eating your own dog food

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Happy 168-month meeting anniversary

Posted on October 1, 2018October 2, 2018 By admin

Happy anniversary Katy!

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[recipe] Toad in the hole

Posted on October 1, 2018 By admin

4-6 large sausages of your choice (pork, beef, boar, etc)

Yorkshire pudding mix
250g plain white flour
300ml whole milk
4 free-range eggs, beaten
2 tbsp sunflower oil
Salt & pepper, to taste

1. Sift the flour into a large bowl with a generous pinch of salt.

2. Make a well in the middle of the flour and add the eggs. Pour in a little milk and then whisk the lot together to make a smooth batter. Mix in the rest of the liquid, until you have a batter the consistency of single cream. Leave at room temperature for at least 15 minutes.

3. While the batter is resting, put the sausages in a roasting dish with a generous splash of oil and roast in a pre-heated oven at 200C for 10 minutes.

4. Take the dish out of the oven, and keep warm on the hob if possible while you ladle in the batter – if it doesn’t sizzle when you add the first spoonful, put the tin back into the oven until it does.

5. Put the TITH into the oven and cook for 45 minutes until well risen and golden.

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La nuit des épouvantails 

Posted on September 29, 2018October 3, 2018 By admin

Au départ il y a une légende,
Celle de l’épouvantail,
Que certains prétendent,
N’être qu’une cassibraille.

Elle fut trouvée par hasard,
Dans le galetas du château.
Elle raconte l’histoire bizarre
De quelques épouvantaux.

Ils furent donnés aux vignerons,
Par Amédée beau garçon,
Notre Bon Comte de Savoie,
Bienveillant de surcroît.

Qui… écoutez bien camarades !
Pour protéger le raisin des oiseaux,
Imagina cette parade,
Pour apeurer les étourneaux.

Obligés de sa bonté,
Promesse fut faite,
Par les vignerons du comté,
De s’acquitter d’une dette.

Il fut solennellement décrété,
Que vendanges ce faisant,
Le meilleur raisin sera porté,
A Amédée le bienveillant.

Mais la vendange fut si belle,
Que les vignerons en kermesse,
Dans des bacchanales continuelles,
Finirent par oublier la promesse.

Amédée fâché garda rancoeur.
Jurant, qu’on ne l’y reprendra plus.
L’année suivante à la même heure,
Sur les épouvantails… jeta son dévolu.

Les ayant tous ensorcelés,
Non content de faire peur aux oiseaux,
Ils se mirent à gesticuler,
Pour épouérer les badauds.

Impossible de pénétrer dans les vignes!
Tous enfermer dans leur maison,
Les vignerons ont la déprime.
Le raisin? Comment ils le cueilleront?

Alors l’Amédée dit aux malandrins,
Vous n’avez qu’à tenir votre promesse,
Apportez-moi vos plus beaux raisins,
Je vous sortirai de la détresse.

Ainsi vit-on venir de partout,
Des brantes pleines et des vignolants,
Converger dans un grand raout,
Vers le petit bourg de Denens.

Ils partirent en cortège,
Avec tambours et accordéons,
Louant Dieu, qu’il les protège,
Dans leur acte de rémission.

Ils descendirent par vignes et par champs,
Jusqu’à Chigny où il y eu bombance,
Les paysannes ayant pris le temps,
De mitonner victuailles en abondance

Puis ils repartirent repus et joyeux,
Destination le château.
A Morges notre chef-lieu,
On a dressé des chapiteaux.

Ils arrivèrent sous les hourras
D’une foule en allégresse.
Devant Amédée… Alléluia!
Donnant le raisin, tinrent la promesse.

Alors Monseigneur reconnaissant,
Célébra… Roi de la vigne et du vin,
Celui qui, son travail maîtrisant,
Lui offrit le meilleur raisin.

Puis pointant du doigt
Un épouvantail géant,
Sentencieux… il déclara,
Voici le charlatan !!!

C’est lui le roi des épouvantails,
Vous n’avez qu’à le brûler,
Et grâce à ces funérailles
Du mauvais sort, serez libérés!

C’est alors qu’ils traînèrent le roi déchu,
A travers les rues de la ville en délire,
Torches, pétards, artifices et tohu-bohu,
Accompagnèrent à son bûcher… le martyr.

Dans un fatras indescriptible,
Le brave fini par exploser,
Sous l’effet des combustibles,
Devant la plèbe hallucinée.

Enfin libéré du sort qui leur était jeté,
Les épouvantails retrouvèrent la quiétude,
Les vendanges purent alors se dérouler.
D’un grand millésime ce fut le prélude.

This was not your average, traditional harvest festival.

Here are some of the “official” pictures from the show:

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