
it flies!
February 14th, 2010
You might call it an elite’s sport, a billionaire’s toy or whatever, but the truth is, when you have a 90+ ft long monster yacht sailing at 33 knots and leaving barely any wake, it’s so graceful you just shut up and enjoy the show.
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winds of change
February 13th, 2010These past few years, I’ve been doing a lot of “stop sitting on your ass and just do it” stuff that I’d been thinking about for years. OK well the news is, I got up again. Except, no jump this time, I’m staying in the plane.
You read that right.
three-oh
November 24th, 2009Entering a new decade feels… like any other birthday, actually. But I’m closer to what I’m looking for than last year. This “taking steps instead of doing nothing” approach may not be glorious at times but it’s working. I’m facing my flaws and telling them to kindly fuck right off.
It’s a rocky path but I keep walking.
Tara Rapha Barcelona
October 3rd, 2009Funny, there’s a good chance I went on TV yesterday evening as they were broadcasting live for Thalassa. Smashing, baby! 
Beautiful Tara
October 2nd, 2009What a week, oh my.
Not only will the week-end be dominated by the previously mentioned Red Bull Air Race finals, it’s been brought to my attention yesterday that Barcelona has a very special guest mooring tonight and tomorrow at Port Vell.
Tara.

Tara is a schooner with an extraordinary history. She was purpose-built for polar expeditions as Antarctica in 1989 by Dr Jean-Louis Étienne, with a specially designed aluminum hull curved so that the ice packs don’t crush it to smithereens like Shackleton’s ill-fated Endurance.
Later, she was bought by Sir Peter Blake after he retired from racing for his exploration tours around the world, and renamed Seamaster. Seamaster was his mothership in his work for the United Nations Environment Programme, and it is onboard this ship that he was murdered by pirates in the Amazon in 2001, a tragic and pointless end for one of the most talented yachtsmen of our times.
It was then rebought and renamed Tara and put to service for Tara Expeditions and spent over 500 days encased in the Artic ice, drifting with the pack to measure global warming. Today she’s on a round-the-world trip set to take her pretty much everywhere, that will end in 2012.
This fantastic boat is here tonight and I’m so going to be there.
More about Tara on the French Wikipedia
today we talk about boobs
April 27th, 2009Boobs are great. I love them. I wish we could spend more time together… I mean with you dear, of course.
Unfortunately there’s this nasty little thing called cancer that destroys them and kills people. And there are people who fight this thing. With their brains. With their will. And if nothing else is available, some do with their wallet.
I know someone, well, not in person, only from Internet, but I’ve learned to appreciate and respect her, and every year she walks with many other women to raise awareness and cash to help the big brains fund their research so that we can get rid of this pesky crab. It’s called the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.
Cancer affects millions of people all over the world, and we need to put an end to it. The money donated will be managed and disbursed by the Avon Foundation Breast Cancer Crusade to help provide access to care for those that most need it, to fund educational programs, raise awareness, to accelerate research into new treatments and to find potential cures.
Many thanks to Scott Kurtz, author of PVP Online, for his kind permission to use his work.
stargazing
March 5th, 2009Being a sci-fi fan, geek, whatever, I also can’t stop reading about astronomy, astrophysics, and all that fascinating stuff out there in the stars I can’t even begin to comprehend. Among other things I try to follow the rover missions as much as I can, even though I can be a bit late sometimes.
Recently, I came across a wonderful picture taken by the Spirit on Mars in 2004.
It is the Earth, viewed from the red planet. A tiny dot, barely visible in the dusty martian skies. An awesome and humbling sight which reminded me of another picture, and Sagan’s famous description of it: The pale blue dot.
The only home we’ve ever known.
no-fly zone
January 27th, 2009It’s decided.
I’ve had a lot of fun since 2007, and I don’t regret one second of it but it left me pretty much without a safety net, let alone actual savings. So whether I get this flat or not (which, by the way, I think I will), I won’t travel this year and keep my extras and bonuses safe in the bank. I need to dedicate the moneyz for future projects of much more ambitious scope than a week’s vacation, and I need to start saving now.
I don’t want to get stuck.
"If I ain’t dead already, girl, you know the reason why"
November 13th, 2008I promise, it’s not about me this time.
No, I’m just posting this as a tribute to Mitch Mitchell who passed away yesterday.
Behold the great Dirty Mac performance from the Rolling Stone’s Rock and Roll Circus, feat. John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Mitch Mitchell.
Yer Blues – The Dirty Mac
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