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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Urden
 welcome  So happy to see you. No, you were not at the list this morning, but I'm sure you'll be when I look later. And yes, you are the most important - the most important Frenchman on the crew  |
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Former Member
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Urden !
----------------------------------------Ne te laisses pas entraîner par les sirènes ... Souviens-toi : "Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait beau voyage, Ou comme cestui-là, qui conquit la toison, Et puis est retourné, plein d'usage et raison, Vivre entre ses parents le reste de son age!" Trop tentant, pour que je ne fasse pas la blague. ---------- Do not let yourself be carried away by the mermaids ... Remember: "Happy who, like Ulysses, had a good trip, Or like that, who conquered the fleece, And then returned, full of use and reason, To live between his parents the rest of his age! " Too tempting, so I do not make the joke. Référence : https://www.etudes-litteraires.com/du-bellay-sonnet-31.php [Edit 3 times, last edit by Former Member at Apr 3, 2018 6:16:12 PM] |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
stefada, I'm going to study your warning in depth a little later
   Urden, don't worry, we will all take good care of you .... Good Afternoon Base Campers I’m sorry I’m running late. Danish reading club with short stories by Johannes V. Jensen, Nobel laureate 1944, heart fitness (two times left – formed a group with three women on my team so we can support each other keeping ourselves fit after they let us loose from the health system), and a late lunch with my buddhist friend at the my town’s answer to Daytona Beach. It has a dug canal where the tide went in when we came, stalled, and turned out again. That’s how much we had to discuss. Consequently, today’s program in Mexico will be an easy and uncomplicated one, and I hope you remembered to pack you swim wear. We’ll jump on a bus which takes us toward the Mexican Gulf. In Puebla we’ll make a stop and walk around. The city is on the UNESCO World Heritage list and is well worth our while. Look:  Puebla is know as the gastronomic capital of Mexico, so what better place to have our – albeit late – lunch?  I have to tell you what Chiles en Nogada is: A celebration of the fall bounty, the dish features a picadillo, a stuffing or hash, of finely chopped meat seasoned with apples, peaches, pears, and dried fruit stuffed inside a roasted poblano chili. The stuffed chili is then fried in lard, drowned in a creamy walnut sauce, and garnished with parsley and pomegranate seeds for a white, green, and red tableau reminiscent of the Mexican flag. Bon appetit! We cannot leave without visiting The Biblioteca Palafoxiana – the first public library in the Americas founded in 1646.  On we go to Veracruz by the sea. It's called Havana’s twin city. Here Fidel Castro planned the Cuban revolution. We, however, will while away the rest of the day swimming and enjoying colorful drinks with umbrellas.  Even as we are a nice size crew now, we would welcome new crunchers in this Mexican Base Camp class. We need as many as possible to know this trade before our Grand Galla Base Camp trek to celebrate SNURK in September. Remember: You’ll get your reward: 1 WU = 1 badge Address: Cahuamos - where is our host captain? |
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Urden
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Salut Stephada !
----------------------------------------Comment cela ? je me serai laissé prendre dans les chants d'une sirène ?  On me flatte juste en disant que je suis le Français le plus important de l'équipage... Rien que cela......  Mais cela veux dire quoi de rentrer à la maison ? C'est la team Kraland ?  Mais alors en tant que bras droit de Saphir12, tu serai mon ...  papa ? TU ES MON PERE ??  ---- Hi Stephada! What do you mean ? I'll be caught in the songs of a mermaid? I'm flattered just by saying that I'm the most important Frenchman in the crew ... just that ...... But what does it mean to go home? This is the Kraland team? But then as the right arm of Saphir12, you'll be my ... dad ? YOU ARE MY FATHER ??  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Ah! trés bon, Urden, quelle belle response
Trés, trés bon Oh! very good, Urden, what a beautiful answer Very, very good |
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acpartsman
Veteran Cruncher Martinsville VA, USA Joined: May 6, 2007 Post Count: 943 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Didn't get a chance to log in yesterday, I've got a bit of reading to do to catch up.
----------------------------------------Starting off the work day way behind. Between having Monday on Tuesday the server was running at a snails pace yesterday  so I got almost nothing done so I get to start off today doing yesterdays work.So sad they rely on a server that has 1/4th the ability of my home desktop. I offered to sell them 2 of the 16 core servers from Brendas office for $1200 each but their IT guy is an HP nut so my $30000 Dell servers aren't good enough for him, he'd rather have a $10G HP. 
One drop raises the sea.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
@stefada: You could join us for a bit on this Mexico trek - then we would have two Frenchmen - and who would be the best?
We know who has the seniority as a Base Camper. Vous pourriez nous rejoindre un peu sur ce trek du Mexique - alors nous avons deux Français - et qui serait le meilleur? Nous savons qui a l'ancienneté comme base Camper. @Urden: I still smile at your answer Je souris encore à ta réponse @acpartsman: How come they cannot see an obvious talent when they are virtually tripping over him? Good Morning Base Campers! We are eight! Veracruz is more exciting than I thought, so we’ll make it our Base Camp base for one more day. For one thing it is the most important Commerce Port of the whole Mexico.  38,000 containers are handled monthly. They have congestion problems, so they are in the proces of expanding their capacity. They add to their already comprehensive and intricate system of piers and wave breakers that shelter the ships from stormy weather.  Port cities this size will normally offer boat tours for tourists to see the activity. I haven’t found any, but I trust there is one so we can have a tour. We’ll see people dance Cuban ’danzon’ style, and why not try our feet at it ourselves? We’re at the sea, so our meal will be fish.  When you visit Mexico, you must go and see those Atzec and Mayan temples, so we’ll do that, even though I think like what we do in Veracruz a lot. Can we postpone that mandatory thing until tomorrow? Havana’s twin city? I would rather say Cuba’s Trinidad’s twin city Please feel free to join acpartsman dave Doneske little mermaid tanner2 TLD Urden Yodap by KliKing this here link Cahuamos - we haven’t seen even the shadow of our host captain yet On a personal note: My German dermatologist reported that the biopsy of the thing she scraped away at my nose was the suspected basal cell carcinoma. That resulted in five new appointments: Two times on two days by the end of this month for a light therapy, and one four months away for a check. So I was busy updating all my calendars ... One would think Hexagame is just for fun - but it is actually very educational. Currently we have a topic called disease and for the 'H' entry, I chose Herpes zoster. Out of curiousity I seached and found a CDC recommendation of being vaccinated with a new vaccine. On the advice of oliviathefirst who is not crunching any more, I was vaccinated a couple of years ago. Now they have a new and considerably more effective vaccine: Shingrix available in the USA. Herpes zoster is a painful condition and it may leave painful chronic aftermaths after it itself is cured itself. The vaccine is approved in the EU but not available in Denmark yet, Smithkline Pharmaceuticals answered.  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Urden !
T'es qu'un sale traître à la solde de l'ennemi ! (Il faut jouer, ou avoir joué, à Kraland, pour comprendre cette blague) ---------- You're a dirty traitor in the pay of the enemy! (You have to play, or have played, in Kraland, to understand this joke) Little Mermaid. C'est vrai que j'abuse un peu, déjà que le Français c'est pas facile, si en plus je fais des blagues avec option poésie. Le lien, c'est Ulysse et les sirènes, c'est une des épreuves qu'il doit affronter. Et le poème -très connu chez nous- , c'est un français qui explique qu'il préfère retrouver son petit village "gaulois", que de vivre à Rome. Une manière de taquiner Urden, qu'il fait partie de la Team Kraland. (comme toi du Base Camp, mais si vous faites les touristes) ---------- It is true that I am abusing a little, already that the French is not easy, if in addition I make jokes with poetry option. The link is Ulysses and mermaids, it's one of the trials he has to face. And the poem -very familiar with us- is a French who explains that he prefers to find his little village "Gallic", that of living in Rome. A way to tease Urden, that he is part of Team Kraland. (like you at Base Camp, but if you do tourists)  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Yes, I recognized the Odyssey, but so long time has passed since I read it.
It was so dramatic with all the challenges that could cost him and his crew his life. And when the sirens sang and they are not mermaids - they have legs his crew tied him to the mast to prevent him from running the ship into the rocks. Oui, j'ai reconnu l'Odyssée, mais il y a si longtemps que je l'ai lu. C'était tellement dramatique avec tous les défis qui pouvaient lui coûter sa vie et son équipage. Et quand les sirènes ont chanté et ce ne sont pas des sirènes - elles ont des jambes son équipage l'a attaché au mât pour l'empêcher de faire couler le navire dans les rochers.  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Good Morning Base Campers!
We are down to seven; TLD got homesick and went back to SeriousCrunchers. Thank you for having pitched in, my friend You’ll have your badge eventually. I have discussions with the Chairman of the Review Committee. He’s still not convinced that ’Cahuamos’ means turtle. Besides he’s very understandably slightly grumpy because of being grilled by herpes zoster – the late-in-life revisit by chickenpox which I touched upon yesterday. I wrote our host captain, so hopefully we’ll get that clarified so everything is crystal clear. We have a peak day on April 8. That means that anyone who thinks he would give the trek an extra boost, but is otherwise committed, can see his chance to make a French visit to Cahuamos on that day. We have whisked ourselves back to Mexico City, and from there we make a field trip today. We have to see the structures the Indian cultures left behind. On our way to the archeologic zone Teotihuacan, we pass  the Square of Three Cultures - Plaza de las Tres Culturas - where we have the three elements that form Mexico at a glance: From the Aztec age the temples at the market square, above that the Spanish colonial era with the Santiago Church from AD 1524, and circling the square Mexico of today. Later we’ll make a stop at the Guadalupe basilica where Our Lady of Guadalupe is believed to have appeared to Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin. It is one of the most important pilgrimage sites of Catholicism, and the basilica is visited by several million people every year.  In Teotihuacan we’ll see some of Mexico’s largest pyramides know as the Sun and the Moon pyramides which hover over the remnants of the old metropolis.  It is believed it was the most important city in the world at that time with upwards of 200,000 people living there when it peaked at AD300-600. It is a mystical place. Archeologic finds show impeccable arts and craft: Masks of obsidian – the vulcanic hard rock looking like black glass  and architectural beauty combined with superb craftsmanship. We will look inside one of the palaces and see the murals there, walk down the long road of procession with the Moon pyramide at the end, climb the 63 m/190 feet high Sun pyramide and finish by seeing the citadel with the Quetzalcoatl pyramide in the southern end of the city. We are never afraid to try something new for lunch; today it was avocado sandwich with grilled locusts  |
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