Le nerd sonne le tocsin

Quand j'ai commencé à écrire ce blog, mon objectif était d'avoir un ton léger et de ne pas aborder des sujets trop sérieux et ne pas étaler mes états d'âme à longueur de colonnes. Mais aujourd'hui l'heure est grave et la France fait face à un péril qui peut changer la face de notre civilisation: ….

Il n'y a plus de galettes à la frangipane!!!!

Le nombre de fois que l'on arrive à la boulangerie le coeur en fête pour acheter la reine des galettes des rois et que l'on se retrouve devant des gâteaux que l'on appelle galettes car ils ont de la pâte feuilletée. Elles sont à la poire, au chocolat, à la framboise (pourquoi pas à la carotte et au brocolis pendant qu'on y est).
Il n'y a pas si longtemps, pour la galette de la chorale, j'ai dû me contenter d'un truc spongieux à la pomme au lieu de ce qui reste LA vraie galette.

D'où vient cette pénurie qui ne peut être qu'organisée pour m'empêcher de savourer celle que j'attends avec impatience pendant toute l'année? Un avis du Conseil d'Etat très actif en ce moment? Un complot du boulangisme renaissant rejetant la pâte d'amande? Une nouvelle règle néo-libérale voulant que la frangipane n'est pas assez bénéficiaire? Une décision présidentielle réservant à une actrice brune quarantenaire l'exclusivité de la galette divine? Un ukase lancé par les bonnets rouges? 

Je ne connais pas la réponse mais j'enquête. Vous aussi, ouvrez l'oeil et dites-moi si vous en voyez une ou vous pouvez les envoyer par porteurs à bras à mon domicile.

Sinon, pour les courageux qui lisent ce blog, Bonne année 2014 : Santé et prospérité.

Le nerd contre les trolls

Les deux tweets ci-dessus sont le résultat d'une expérience douloureuse vécue récemment.

Tout d'abord, il faut savoir qu'il existe dans le monde des associations qui regroupent des personnes extrêmement intelligentes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_IQ_society
La plus connue est la Mensa. Elle recrute les personnes qui sont dans les 2% supérieur dans les résultats à des tests de QI. http://www.mensa-france.org/fr En gros, à partir de 131 de QI vous pouvez y entrer. Il faut savoir qu'il y a des sociétés qui demande plus comme la Mega society où il faut être dans le 1 pour 1 million (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Society).

Les tests d'entrée sont basés soit sur des tests internes soit sur des tests "standards". Le but est de regrouper des gens de même niveau (ou supposé tel) pour échanger entre gens de bonne compagnie sur des sujets de haute volée. Comme disait Eleanor Roosevelt: « Les grands esprits débattent des idées, les esprits moyens débattent des événements, les petits esprits débattent des personnes » Elle visait alors les hommes politiques et journalistes mais cela pourrait s'appliquer à ces associations. Sauf que ….

Récemment un groupe "for high IQ" s'est ouvert sur un réseau social professionnel. J'ai postulé. On ne m'a rien demandé et j'ai été accepté comme membre.
J'ai participé à des threads puis j'ai ouvert le mien. La question était s'il y avait un standard international dans les scores aux tests de QI. Cela venait après la lecture d'un article présentant le haut QI de stars du cinéma. http://www.mensxp.com/entertainment/gossip/9274-top-10-celebs-with-the-highest-iq.html Alors qu'Einstein et Hawking sont supposés tourner autour de 160 on y trouve aussi Tarantino.
La conversation a vite dérivé sur les tests de QI mais personne ne répondait vraiment à la question posée. Ma position est qu'importe les tests de QI et les niveaux de formation, ce qui importe est ce que l'on en fait et comment on le montre (ou cache) au quotidien. Et là, cela a commencé à se dégrader et s'ensuivit le dialogue suivant : M = moi Tx= troll 1,2,3
 M: je me souviens d'une journée de recrutement chez IBM dans la fin des années 80. On était une trentaine de candidat et le matin on passait des tests de QI. Fin de matinée on n'était plus que 3. L'après-midi on passait devant une psychologue. Comme je ne suis pas fait pour les grosses structures et qu'à l'époque IBM ne recrutait qu'un certain profil. Je ne fus pas retenu.
T1: Moi j'ai été reçu et j'avais fait le 2ème score de toute l'histoire d'IBM. …..    
M: Je suis bien content pour toi (à mon avis c'est cela qui l'a agacé). Nous, on ne nous a pas donné les résultats. J'étais plutôt content car c'était sous la forme stressante d'une compétition….

T1 : Vous faites partie d'une société de haut QI ? (Curieusement la question a disparu)

M: Aucune. Juste un gars normal. En revanche je suis capable de comprendre toutes les références en physique, comics, science-fiction et video games de The Big Bang Theory. …. (où l'on verra que le haut QI ne comprend pas le second degré)
T1: excusez-moi mais je pensais que ce forum était réservé aux gens à haut QI.
M: Ne pas faire partie d'une société de haut IQ veut-il dire que l'on n'a pas un haut QI? Drôle de conclusion. J'ai eu l'occasion de rencontrer des personnes vraiment intelligentes. Elles avaient 2 caractéristiques : l'humilité et ne pas se prendre au sérieux
T2: Créons un club du Gourou de Haut QI du mois. Le premier nominé est …
M: J'ai fini par trouver la réponse à ma question sur un article de la Mensa. (La réponse tient en une phrase)
T3 : Mensa? quote T1" Vous faites partie d'une société de haut QI ? "
T1 : He-he T3 . (la réponse avait été soi-disant donné 11 jours plus tôt par T2 « Si vous ne pouvez expliquer un concept à un enfant de six ans, c'est que vous ne le comprenez pas complètement" Albert Einstein ). Vous voyez, il y a une raison simple pourquoi les personnes de haut QI ne partage pas les bénéfices d'une conversation avec les gens d'intelligence normale. Bien sûr, nous espérons que notre ami normal en a profité. Les Haut QI n'en ont pas profité.
T2 : si quelqu'un veut forcer les autres à l'humilité, il cours le risque de ne pas prendre au sérieux l'autre au prix de se prendre au sérieux lui-même, non? (oui celui-là est le champion des phrases absconses. Il est capable de citer Leibnitz, le rasoir d'Occam, Feynman et Liousville en 10 lignes pour dire que "si l'on veut être heureux il vaut mieux ne pas se compliquer la vie")
M: Forcer me semble exagéré. Opposer l'humilité à l'arrogance et le mépris me semble plus approprié …… En ce qui concerne se prendre au sérieux, ma réponse (Big Bang Factory), la devise sur le cite web de ma boite, mon compte twitter et mon blog parlent d'eux-mêmes. Je ne suis pas venu sur ce forum pour me vanter des résultats à un test de QI comme si le QI était la taille du pénis. Je ne m'attendais pas non plus à être trollé d'ailleurs. …..

Ce que j'en tire
Je n'insisterai pas sur la bêtise du postulat "seuls les membres d'une société de HIQ ont un haut IQ. Les statistiques sont contre eux. Il y a plus de personnes intelligentes en dehors de ces associations qu'à l'intérieur. C'est un peut comme si on disait "Excusez-nous M. Camus vous n'êtes pas membres du société littéraire donc vous n'êtes pas écrivains".  J'ai du mal à comprendre comment à ce niveau d'intelligence on puisse avoir de tel raisonnement.

J'ai la faiblesse de penser que lorsqu'on se prétend intelligent on a d'autre sujet de conversation que de comparer la hauteur du QI. Comme je leur ai fait remarquer, c'est un peu de la comparaison de taille de pénis. C'est bien quand on est jeune mais à nos âges … Et vouloir se comparer que cela soit par des caractéristiques physiques soit par des revenus soit par n'importe quel autre moyen me semble une activité futile. A part dans le sport où c'est l'essence même.

Je suis de plus en plus dubitatif sur les tests de QI car manifestement il y a des ratés. Il faut savoir d'abord qu'ils dépendent beaucoup de votre état de forme physique et psychologique au moment où vous les passez. Que s'il y a une incitation pécuniaire, les résultats sont meilleurs qu'en son absence. Qu'il y a beaucoup de questions où, si vous avez un bon background en langue et mathématique, vous gagnez beaucoup de temps pour répondre notamment au questions basé sur le spatial. Prenons par exemple les suites de nombres: il y a toujours quasiment la suite de Fibonaci (1,1,2,3,5,8….) Autre exemple sur un test pour rentrer à la Mega society: question analogie de langage ruban = Mobius bouteille = ….. (je vous laisse chercher 10 minutes et je reviens )
Si vous n'avez pas quelques notions de topologie comment pouvez-vous répondre Klein ? (la bouteille de Klein est la "variante" 3D du ruban de Mobius http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouteille_de_Klein).
Mon test sur l'intrus des formes http://blogdugeekvintage.blogspot.fr/2012/12/le-nerd-se-rebiffe-le-probleme-lorsque.html ne demande pas de connaissance mathématique et là c'est du raisonnement. 


Je laisse la conclusion à Albert : « Il ne faut pas faire de l'intelligence un dieu, car si celle-ci est douée de muscles puissants, elle ne possède pas de personnalité.  »

Addendum 20/03/2023

J'ai eu l'occasion de passer le WAIS IV (test reconnu internationalement) en 2017. Je suis membre de la MENSA depuis 5 ans. Comme quoi ...

The nerd vs trolls

The two tweets above are the result of a late difficult experience

First of all, you have to know that there are lot of society in the world gathering people extremely intelligent.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_IQ_society
The better known is Mensa. It recruits people who are in the top 2% in the results of IQ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensa_International In short, from a QI of 131 de QI you can enter in it. There are society which are more demanding such as the Mega society where you have to be in the 1 for 1 million (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Society).

Application tests are either based on internal tests or "standard" tests. The goal is to gather people of the same high level (or supposed to be) in order to exchange on high level subjects. As quoted by Eleanor Rooesevelt "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." She was refering to politics and journalists but it can apply to these kind of associations.

Except that ….

Recently a group "for high IQ" has been created on a professional social network. I applies. Nobody asked me anything and I became a member.
I participated to some threads and I posted mine. The question was to know if there was a international standard in the IQ tests. This came from the reading of an article talking about high IQ celebs. http://www.mensxp.com/entertainment/gossip/9274-top-10-celebs-with-the-highest-iq.html As Einstein and  Hawking are supposed to be around 160, Tarantino is also 160.
Quicly, the conversation drifted apart on the IQ tests themselves and nobody really gave a clear answer. My point was that whatever result of an IQ test or formation, what's is important is your achievements and how you show (or hide) your intelligence on a daily basis. And it was there that things began to deteriate. The following dialog occured M = me Tx = Troll 1,2,3

 M: I remember a day of recrutment from IBM in the late 80's. Were were 30 contenders on the morning when we passed IQ tets. 3 remains and there was a interview from a psychologist. As I am not fit for big companies and at this time IBM was searching for a type of people I was not taken.
T1: Me I have succeeded and I was the second in the tests history ....
M: Good for you (I guess that's what annoyed him). We didn't have the result. I was proud to have passed the tests among competion ....

T1 : Are you a member of a high IQ society ? Curiously this question has been deleted

M: ANone. I am just a regular guy able to understand all the references to physics, comics, sci-fi and video games from the TV serie "The big bang theory". So a real nerd....( Here we will see that hig IQ don't understand 2d degree)
T1: Sorry, thought this group was for High IQs
M: Does not be a member of high IQ society implies that one has not a high IQ ? Curious reasoning. I met few people in my life who were really clever. They had two caracteristics : humility and not taking themselves seriously.
T2:  Let's start a High IQ Guru Of The Month club. The first nominee is …
M: I found my answer in the description of Mensa.Your score depends on the test you pass. So for the same level you can have 131,132 or 148.(Only one sentence needed to explain)
T3 : Mensa? quote T1" Sorry, thought this group was for High IQs ? "
T1 : He-he T3 . (the answer were supposed to be given eleven days before by T2  but as Einstein quotes « If you can't explain it to a six years old, you don't understand it yourself ). See, there's a reason why H-IQs and more normal/regulars don't benefit from sharing threads.
Well, we of course hope our regular did, even we, the H-IQs didn't
T2 : If one tries to enforce humility onto others, then one doesn't take the other too seriously at the price of taking oneself over seriously, no? (yes this one is the champion for abstruse sentences. He is able to put in 10 lines with Leibnitz, Occam's razor, Feynman and Liousville just to say that "if you want to be happy don't complicateyour life")
M: Even if english is not my mother tongue enforcing seems an overstatement. Opposing humility to arrogance and contempt is what's intended. In the titan test it would have been 1. ARROGANCE : HUMILITY :: ENFORCE : OPPOSE.
Concerning taking oneself seriously, my answer to the question of belonging to an highIQ society, the quote of my company's website, my twitter account and blog are speaking by themselves.
I didn't came in this group to boast about success in intelligence tests or compare level of intelligence as if intelligence was the size of penis. Didn't expect either to be trolled by the way.


What I learned from this adventure
I won't insist on the stupidity of the axiom "only members of High IQ society have high IQ. Statistics are against them. There are more intelligent people outside than inside these associations. It is as if you tell "Sorry Mr Camus you are not member of a literary society so you are not a writer. I really have difficulies to understand how such intelligences can have this kind of reasoning.

I have the weakness to think that when you are really smart you have other subjects of conversation than comparing level of IQ. As I remarked it is as if we compare the size of our penis. It is OK when you are young but at our ages .... Also I thing that comparing itself whatever the mean (physic, earings or other) is futile. Only sport is relevant because it is the essence of it.


I am more and more dubious about IQ tests because obviously there are some failures. You have to know that results depend on your physical and psychological state when you undertake them. Also studies show that when there is a money incentive the results are better.
There are a lot questions where,  if you have the needed background in mathematics and language, you can save a lot of time and answer other questions such as the spatial based questions. For exemple in the number series there is always the Fibonacci suite (1,1,2,3,5,8....) Other exemple in a test to enter the Mega Society in verbal analogies : Strip = Mobius / Bottle = (I let you search for 10mn and I come back).
If you don't have any notion of topology how can you hanswer Klein? (the bottle of Klein is the "equivalent" in 3D of the Mobius strip http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouteille_de_Klein).
My test on the shapes http://blogdugeekvintage.blogspot.fr/2012/12/le-nerd-se-rebiffe-le-probleme-lorsque.html is pure reasoning and not mathematic.

Il let the conclusion to Albert Einstein : "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality"

 

Addendum 20/03/2023

Fun Fact:  I pass the WAIS IV (international test) in 2017. I am member of MENSA for 5 years.

Boris Vian et moi et quelques pensées en vrac.

Je suis en train de me délecter de la lecture des oeuvres de Boris Vian dans la Pléiade. N'en déplaise aux amoureux de la technique et des e-books, caresser le papier bible du livre augmente le plaisir de la lecture. Contrairement à mon habitude, j'ai pris la peine de lire l'introduction qui résume la vie et l'oeuvre de l'auteur. J'y ai découvert que nous avons beaucoup de points communs. Si on excepte le génie, Centrale, le jazz, St Germain-des-Prés, la mère amoureuse de Moussorgski et l'amour des automobiles, on est pile poil pareil (PPP).

Des mots-clés donnés par Marc Lapprand (Boris Vian Oeuvres romanesques complètes), je retiens : humour, excentricité, professionnalisme, éclectisme et liberté. La phrase que je viens de mettre au fronton de mon blog à la place de celle d'Alexandre Astier (qu'il me pardonne cet abandon) résume très bien ma philosophie : être sérieux sans se prendre au sérieux. Le caractère trop sérieux cache souvent un manque de maîtrise de son sujet. Quand on maîtrise on peut être détendu ce qui n'empêche pas d'être professionnel.

Ecrire court et les jeux de mots. Boris Vian n'aimais pas écrire de longs chapitres (ce qui l'amenait à se faire chapitrer par les critiques littéraires de l'époque) et adorait jouer avec la langue. Pour cela Twitter est un excellent vecteur qui a remis au goût du jour les jeux de mots et calembours qui avait quelque peu disparu. Le bobo actuel ne goûte que très peu ce genre de littérature et aurait tendance à vous renvoyer à vos roucasseries. On leur ferait lire "Conte de fées à l'usage des personnes moyennes" sans leur dire que c'est du Vian et leur jugement serait implacable: nul. Pour ma part, j'aime écrire mais il ne faut pas que cela ne me prenne trop de temps. C'est pourquoi ceci est la fin de mon billet.
Boris Vian aurait été un très bon bloggeur. 

Science fiction et Van Vogt . Boris Vian a été le traducteur des premiers romans de Van Vogt : "Le monde des non Aristotéliciens". Pour moi c'est le summum de la science fiction. Je l'avais comme livre de chevet pendant mes années lycée. A tel point, que pour l'épreuve de philosophie au bac, je choisis "Une expérience de la liberté peut-elle être possible ?" ou quelque chose d'approchant  et basais totalement ma dissertation sur ce livre. Résultat : 13, ce qui pour un bac C n'est pas mal.
"Une carte n'est pas le territoire". Cette phrase de Korzybski est un des principe de la sémantique générale qui était le point de départ de Van Vogt dans le monde des nonA. Les ouvrages de cet auteur était aussi une de ses lectures favorites.
Moi j'y rajouterais "La faune de l'espace" de AE Van Voght à cause du nexialisme qui désigne une discipline de connaissance transversale efficace pour résoudre les problèmes compliqués. Là on retrouve le coté éclectique à la fois de mon parcours intellectuel et professionnel.
Une autre heureuse coïncidence est que BV ait fait des traductions d'ouvrages en anglais. C'est une des tâches que j'accomplis pour un de mes clients alors que ce n'est pas mon métier.

La musique quand même. Je ne suis pas un joueur de jazz mais j'ai une éducation musicale complète pour avoir fait le Conservatoire d'Orléans dans la classe d'Arlette Biget. Aujourd'hui je me contente de chanter dans des chorales.

Voilà. Boris Vian et moi on est PPP. Il y en a beaucoup d'autres qui le sont mais c'est plutôt Pas Pour Payer.

J'ai commis quelques tweets sur la théorie de la relativité appliquée à la politique. Comme Boris Vian je n'ai pas beaucoup de considération pour un monde où l'arrivisme et la médiocrité est la norme. Les exceptions sont rares.
Donc la base de la théorie est le fameux E=MC^2 avec Ego = Médiocrité X Connerie au carré. Par ailleurs, l'Arrivisme (A) peut être défini comme A = E^2 + M^3/ √H où Arrivisme = Ego au carré + Médiocrité au cube divisé par racine carrée de l'Honneteté. Vous noterez que je ne suis pas trop dur avec les hommes politiques puisque la fonction est défini sur l'ensemble 0 (ouvert), + infini . Cela implique qu'il faut toujours un peu d'honnêteté pour avoir une valeur et que plus l'honnêteté augmente plus l'arrivisme diminue à E et M constants.
Si on développe en remplaçant E dans la formule A, on obtient A = M^2(C^4+M)/ √H . On voit donc que la Médiocrité doit être de signe négatif et supérieure à la puissance 4 de la Connerie pour que l'Avidité soit négative. En gros peu probable.


PS : Si quelqu'un a le sujet exact de l'épreuve de philosophie du Bac C 1979 Académie d'Orléans je suis preneur.

Boris Vian and me and a few loose thoughts.

I'm delightly reading the complete works of Boris Vian in the edition of Pleiades. No offense to the lovers of technology and e-books, caress the bible paper of a book increases the pleasure of reading. Unlike usual, I have taken the trouble to read the introduction that summarizes the life and work of the author. I discovered that we have much in common. With the exception of engineering, Centrale (major enginrer school) , jazz, St Germain-des-Prés, a mother loving Mussorgsky  and love of cars, we are exactly alike (EA).

Keywords given by Marc Lapprand (Boris Vian complete fiction works), I keep: humor, eccentricity, professionalism, versatility and freedom. The sentence I just put the title of my blog instead of the one from Alexandre Astier (forgive me this abandonment) summarizes very well my philosophy: be serious without taking himself seriously. A person too serious  often conceals a serious lack of mastery of his subject. When you control your subject, you can be relaxed. That does not prevent you to be professional.

Short writing and puns. Boris Vian did not like to write long chapters (which led him to be lecturing (in french the word used is the same as chapter ie chapitre. It is a pun) by literary critics of his time and loved playing with the language. For that Twitter is an excellent tool that has revived the days of wordplay and puns that had somewhat disappeared. Highly nosed bourgeois taste very little such literature tends to refer you to your roucasseries (Jean Roucas: guy who made a political puppet show using cheap puns). They would read "Fairytale for the use of average people" (without telling them that Boris Vian wrote it) and would have an implacable jugment: not good. For my part, I like to write but do not let it take me too long. That is why this is the end of my post. 
Boris Vian would have been a very good blogger.

Science fiction and Van Vogt. Boris Vian was the translator of the first novel by Van Vogt: "The world of Null-Aristolians." For me this is the ultimate science fiction book. I'd like it as my bedside book during my high school years. So much so, that when I had my test philosophy for the Bac, I selected "Experience of freedom, can it be possible?" or something similar and based totally my dissertation on this book. Result: 13 for a Bac C (math section) is not bad. 
"A map is not the territory." This sentence of Korzybski was a principal of general semantic which is the starting point of Van Vogt of the "World of Null-A. The books of this author were also one of his favorite reading.
 I would add to "The Voyage of the Space Beagle" by AE Van Voght because of nexialism which refers to a discipline of knowledge for effective cross-solving complicated problems. Here we find the eclectic side of both my intellectual and professional journey.Another happy coincidence is that BV has made translations of books in English. This is a task that I perform for one of my clients even if it is not my primary job.Music anyway. I'm not a jazz player but I have a complete musical education for doing Orleans Conservatory in the class of Arlette Biget. Today I just sing in choirs.That's it. Boris Vian and I are EA. There are many others that are also EA but it is for Everlasting Ass.






I made a few tweets on the theory of relativity applied to politics. Boris Vian, as I, did not have much regard for a world where opportunism and mediocrity is the norm. The exceptions are rare.
So the basis of the theory is the famous E = MC ^ 2 with Ego X = Mediocrity X Dumness squared. Moreover, Ruthlessness (A) can be defined as A = E ^ 2 + M ^ 3 / √ H where Ruthlessness = Ego  square + the cube of Mediocrity divided by the square root of Honesty. Please note that I'm not too hard on politicians since the function is defined on the set 0 (open), + infinity. This implies that it is always a bit of honesty to have a value and more honesty  decreases  Ruthlessness with E and M constant.If we develop by replacing E in formula A, we obtain A = M ^ 2 (C ^ 4 + M) / √ H. We see that Mediocrity must be negative and greater than the power of the power four Dumness that Ruthlessnes is negative. Unlikely possible.

Mon règlement sur Twitter

Faire partie de ma Time Line cela se mérite. Il ne faut pas que règne l'anarchie. C'est pourquoi j'ai créé un règlement qui s'applique à tous mes followers. De graves sanction sont prévues en cas d'infraction à celui-ci.

Règle N°1: pour les #FF (très nombreux) je dois apparaître seul et ne pas être au milieu du vulgum pecus.
Modèle de FF : "#FF @GPRPichot pour son intelligence et son humour". Les fayots peuvent rajouter "et son humilité".

Règle N°2: quand je réponds à un tweet avec un trait d'esprit, le LOL et RT est obligatoire.

Règle N°3 : La lecture des blogs http://blogdugeekvintage.blogspot.fr/  et http://blogdugeekvintage2.blogspot.fr/  est obligatoire. Le commentaire n'est pas optionnel.

Règle N°4 : Un accident de tweet étant si vite arrivé, vous pouvez souscrire à mon assurance en me cédant la moitié de vos followers

Règle N°5: On me demande la permission quand on veut se désabonner. Le coût de l'unfollow est fixé à 100 followers

Règle N°6 : quant on m'envoie un tweet, il faut commencer celui-ci par Maître ou Votre Haute Intelligence

Règle N°7: la bone ortografe est obligatoir quan on m'écri. Je ne suportte pas l'ortografe néglijée

Règle N°8: Quand je me déplace quelque part, mes followeuses doivent m'accueillir à la gare vêtues comme des vahinés et colliers à fleur.

Règle N°8 bis : elles devront me faire un chemin de pétales de roses. Se référer au film "Un prince à New York" avec Eddy Murphy pour les détails.

Règle N°9: Il est obligatoire de connaître et d'apprécier la série Big Bang Theory.

Règle N°10: Il est obligatoire de suivre les 9 règles précédentes.

Les lecteurs de ce règlement sont priés de signer leur accord dans le commentaire obligatoire. Ceux qui ne sont pas encore abonnés à ma Time Line sont priés de le faire dans les meilleurs délais sous peine d'astreinte de 10 followers/jour de pénalité.

My regulation on Twitter

Following my Time Line is something  that has to be deserved. It is not necessary that anarchy reigns. That's why I created a regulation that applies to all my followers. Severe sanctions is imposed in case of breach thereof.

Rule # 1: #FF in a Follow Friday (I have numerous) I have to appear alone and not in the middle of the vulgum pecus (the crawling insect crowd around me)

Model of FF: "#FF @ GPRPichot for his intelligence and humor". Bootlickers can add "and humility".

Rule # 2: When I reply to a tweet with a pun, the LOL and RT is mandatory.

Rule # 3: Reading blogs and http://blogdugeekvintage.blogspot.fr/ http://blogdugeekvintage2.blogspot.fr/ is mandatory. The comment is not optional.

Rule # 4: An accident can happend so quickly in the tweet sphere. So you can subscribe to my enforcement insurance paid by transfering me half of your followers

Rule # 5: I request permission when you want to unsubscribe. The cost is 100 followers.

Rule # 6: When you send me a tweet, you must start it by Master or Your High Intelligence

Rule # 7: goud speling is mandatori wen you vrite to me. I dont beer bad speling.

Rule # 8: When I go somewhere, my female followers have to welcome me at the station dressed as vahines and offer flower necklaces.

Rule # 8a: they will make me a path with rose petals. Refer to the movie "Coming to America" with Eddy Murphy for details.

Rule # 9: It is mandatory to know and appreciate the series The Big Bang Theory.

Rule # 10: It is mandatory to follow the above 9 rules.

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Are you smart ? The summer quizz

Summer is a good period for games and quizzes. When you answer to one of them, you know if you are the ideal lover or a specialist of Thai food.
That's why I decided to submit the following quiz. You can answer either on the beach under the sun is at home if it rains. This quiz will be able to determine whether you are worthy of joining the Mensa or if you only have a few neurons to roast on the beach.

1. In the phylogenetic tree macroviruses are placed between archaeas and eukaryotes
A. The reproduction process of macrovirus is closer to the one of normal cells than the regular viruses;
B. Macroviruses are viruses programmed with Excel macros
C. This is not Judas Eukaryote whom denounced Jesus?
D. I do not know

2. My Hammerdin has difficulty in Act IV Hell because of lack of res solo P8
A. My Paladin specialized Blessed Hammer has difficulties to progress level Hell  playing P8 because of a lack of resistance
B. I like Diablo 3
C. In the army I was reformed  P4 so P8 it must be damn reached
D. I do not know

3. Policy on dependency will take its full measure despite a tense
A. Policy to help the elderly will not have the financial resources originally planned
B. We will do a study to measure the elasticity between the age of the elderly and their cholesterol level
C. I'll take grandma to the nursing home
D. I do not know

4.Taking a compact manifold V simply connected 3-dimensional, without boundary. Then V is homeomorphic to a hypersphere of dimension 3.
A. The objects of the same dimensions without holes can be transformed in the same form of the same dimensions (Poincaré conjecture)
B. 3D movies are more spectacular in domes cinema
C. Me and the music variety
D. I do not know

5. Megatak is one of the victims of the Scourge of the Underworld
A. Enemy of Thor with his powers coming from video games, Gregory Nettles was killed by the killer of villains disguised as homeless
B. Megatak is a giant always saying thank you. Tak means thank you in Danish.
C. Megatak is the victim of the attack on the Giant Pumpkins of the Interior World , famous Z movie.
D. I do not know

6. When the switch opens the sudden change in flow ensuing product of self-induction current picked up by a small capacitor and especially a current induced in the secondary high voltage, of the order of 20 000 volts which is driven of the coil, to the distributor cap and to one of the candles, where the spark causes the explosion of the fuel mixture present in the cylinder.
A. In an internal combustion engine, the Delco's head is the ignition device.
B. Do not tamper with electric arcs and use candles in case of power failure
C. When there are two switches, each co-breakers trying to provoke an explosion of violence (in french co-breakers is co-rupter so corrupters trying to provoke …)
D. I do not know

7. The cuttings are made by cellular dedifferentiation of the meristem
A. The tissue where cell division takes place back to its primary state to give a new body
B. I take yje cutting of my flowers shaped in crowns using the stone because the stone of the crown. ( Again a french game word between stone of the crown and jewel of the crown)
C. Take of cuttings and back aching are the two parts of gardening.
D. I do not know

8. Bazinga
A. Equivalent to "this is a joke" uttered by Sheldon Cooper in the series The Big Bang Theory
B. This is the sound of the Big Bang
C. I liked the novel "Viper in the Fist" from the guy Bazin (gars is guy in french)
D. I do not know

Count the number of response by letter. Go to the next line to find out your profile.

You have a maximum of A
You are a genius .... or insane

You have a maximum of B
You try to pretend that you know something but you do not know more than others

You have a maximum of C.
You are normal

You have a maximum of D
I do not know.

My bath with a baby whale

We always dreamed of swimming with dolphins. I was able to swim with baby whale.

These exceptional circumstances have occurred during one of these software’s users conferences where the topic is less to see the news that give users the opportunity to have fun for a few days. The will of the inviting company is to get customers to buy more modules or programs. For participants, what is important is "At what time is lunch?" and what attractions are planned in the evenings. Thus the busy commercial are trying to introduce the latest  functionalities in the optimization of vehicle schedule while the client watches the waitress’ bottom.
In this kind of convention where there are more than a dozen nationalities, the French are notably absent. We are a nation of serious people who don’t participate in trivia events even if it can give yje opportunity to see that there are effective solutions elsewhere. Of course, the language barrier is also not an issue since everyone knows that the French are multilingual.

So I was in Hamburg for the European Users Conference of one of my clients, a global leader in IT solutions for public transport.

The seminar venue is a large hotel on the outskirts of the city, with a golf course, swimming pool, relaxation area, spa and saunas.
Already the day before the beginning, much of the technical team is hard at work to establish no fewer than thirty computers, servers and Internet connections because many demonstration sites are sometimes in the USA .
Festival-goers (because for some it is a festival) come next, with most in the morning. Each receives a badge held by a collar of color. The color codes are: white language = German English = green, red = Scandinavian black = staff (I have a black collar).

If you want to do a statistical analysis of the physiology of the participants, we can quickly draw up a report. White collars have a tendency to be overweight (it's called understatement). The red collars are rather slender but not all blond. The green collars are rather mixed. In the staff, the girth follows the nationality.

The sequence of days is very simple. Breakfast can be gargantuan because you can make a complete meal. I noticed that the Danes eat cheese for breakfast. I have not tested and does not seek to do kiss but the taste of cheese/coffee must be particular. This method can replace the cold shower.
After breakfast it's pre-conference snacks (salty or sweet). 45 min Conference (which starts on time and ends at time). Inter-conference snacks. 45 minutes of lecture. Inter-conference snacks. 45 minutes of lecture. Lunch. Coffee and return to conference cycle / snacks. Just writing it makes me gain a few grams.
Impossible to follow this diet for a healthy body, is scrupulously respected by white collars As a result, the proliferation of tufts and the creation of the famous buoy which, for some, is closer to that of truck tire than an inner tube of bike.

Meanwhile, I continue to cultivate my beautiful body enjoying the pool. This is not very large but you can take a dip if taken on the diagonal. For me, it's 3 arm strokes. So I'm constantly tumbling in what is good for breath. The idea is not to make a full session but to stir a half hour.
On Monday, the pool is empty and I do my little business quietly.
On Wednesday, it is crowded. At least three swimmers. One of them has a strong overweight without being obese: this is my baby whale. He does not swim horizontally but vertically. In fact, he waved his arms on the surface and backpedal underwater.
Archimedes’thrust and Brownian motion (which has nothing to do with abuse of brownies) do the rest. The problem is that it behaves like a drifter and his speed is inversely proportional with its roundness. This is a moving obstacle around which to maneuver. Passing near raises ripples like the effect of passage of a speedboat next to a boat. The baby whale back-pedals feverishly and waves his little arms. But he inescapably drift towards the edge. Come close to it, it does not lean on the edge but turns on itself to start again drifting into the other direction. The cry of the baby whale is closer to the blast of a steam engine as the song of the whale. After 10 minutes, it leaves the water, exhausted.

To recover, we go to the sauna which is mixed and ... nudist. Be aware that a sauna up to 8 people can only  take only half of this number if you consider the size of the occupants. As I sat, I noticed that the seat slats are broken in half which is not surprising because the average weight they have to bear is close to 150 kg. After my 15 minutes of sweating regulatory, I say goodbye to my Baby whale. This went on his way to the nearest buffet of snacks pre or post conference.


In this post, no animal has suffered abuse or were injured. We apologize to baby whale that could have been hurt to have been compared to humans.

The good excuses from the late blogger

It has been a while that I didn't write an article on my blog. I have good reasons. Here are a few :
- my cartrige pen was out of ink
- I was on the phone
- I didn't have coins anymore. The call has been cut off.
- electricity has been shut down because coming from nuclear power (area held by ecologists)
- I had a chainsaw accident and my two hands were cut
- my computer felt accidentally in the toilets
- I've been abducted by aliens friends of Cheminade (french presidency candidate whom believe than futur is in Mars)
- I've been called by the Avengers
- I've been lost in the CERN's LHC and collided with a Higgs Boson (cranial trauma)
- I've just given birth
- I had been called to replace Tony Parker beside Eva Longoria
- I felt in a parallel universe while studying string theory
- I flirted with a Mimivirus (mimi is cute in french)
- I                               .Hey! Somebody can tell me where I am?
- I had breast surgery
- there was a solar flare which prevented any communications
- I went on my dad's row boat to celebrate FH's election (french private joke)
- Diablo III has just been released
- I had to go in a crummy place to throw some ring
- I change of bank
- I am dead.

I swim, therefore I am.

One. Two. Three. Four strokes. Blow. The mark in the bottom of the swimming pool. Breathe. stretch out the arm. Look at the entering in the water. Break the elbow. Push. One. Two. Three. Four strokes. Blow. The mark is a little to far, I have to stretch out the arm more.

When you have to swim for 2,5km equal to 50 roundtrips, 100 lengths (!!!), you have time to thing about anything else. Still almost? Because swimming is boring as hell as you have contantly to look at what you do in order to sped up in the most effective way. The main objective is that the session last the least time possible. More, swimming pool are built with a slope. As you go it is going down and quick. For the return it is going up. I even suspect that there is a current against you.

One. Two. Three. Four strokes. Blow. The mark in the bottom of the swimming pool. Breathe. The wall is coming. Stop the stroke. Knock over. Fold down the legs. Lean on the wall. Push.

A good thing at the swimming pool: nobody can cheat. When you are young, you have a tendency to compare length and girth of the willies. As you grow old, you look at who is the one with the bigger belly. The smallest fold is instantly remarked by the ones whom regularly swim with you. It is simple you can hide to your wife for a while that you ate too much pizzas but not to the swimmers. Under the water, we can see that the push of Archimède does well its job. There is always, naturally this hateful race of persons who, whatever they gulp down, remain thin and show boldly their flat stomach.

One. Two. Three, four movements. Blow. The mark at the bottom of the swimming pool. Inhale(breathe). Stretch out the arm. Look at the entering in the water. Break the elbow. Push. How much do I have done? 350 or 400? I do not remember any more. According to the fatigue I choose the one or the other one.

The plague are palm-kernels. I do not speak about those who use mini-palms to make fundamental exercices. It is the others, those who have big palms and who take the water line as if they were alone. Palm-kernels are the drivers of 4X4 for swimming pools.
After there is the average swimmer who does not look behind him when he arrives at the wall and who swerves while you are doubling him. I gave the piece of advice to glance behind her at a small lady who had got away from me twice. I did not understand her wrinkled glance because I had no intention to be aggressive. When she restarted her lengthes, another swimmer says to me: " you know whom it is? ", "No", " it is the woman of whom the husband in tried to kill her. She swims now with only one lung ". A triton passes.
The worst cases are the grandpa or the grandma who did not understand that lines are reserved for good swimmers. The result is numerous collisions because they do not respect the sense of swimming until a MNS comes to suggest to him or her to go to swim farther.

One. Two. Three. Four strokes. Blow. The mark is too far. Breathe. I thought that I pushed always with the same intensity but my swimming is less and less efficient.

I swim with Jean, age 62, who is 3 km by session. It can seem a lot but, in fact, until few, he made the same distance in 2 sessions. He does not make more than a session since the change of agent which won the DSP (Delegation of Public service). It is necessary to know that local authorities want less and less to take care of public services. The neoliberalism gangrened the spirits and people want to pay only for what they consume. So the non-swimmers do not want to pay for the swimmers, the non-football players do not want to pay for the football players, etc. …
Local authorities are generally owners of equipments. They delegate the exploitation of equipments to private companies. They assign a fee to the agents. In the small brain of the elected representatives in charge of the call for tenders what matters it is that the royalty is the lowest possible. This nearsighted management of the public money lead to the doubling rates in particular for those who come regularly, dismissals, colder water, problems of opening (not enough chlorine, a single maitre-swimmer). What there is of fuming it is the contempt of which shows the elected representatives in charge of the case. You ask them questions and they send dismiss you on the agent who is in his logic. These high noses sirs or ladies, who requested our vote, ignore their citizens once elected representative.

One. Two. Three. Four strokes. Blow. The mark in the bottom of the swimming pool. Breathe. stretch out the arm. Look at the entering in the water. Break the elbow. Push. Hey, a guy doing split exercices. I will try to follow him.

There are two type of swimmers. There is the good swimmers and the bad swimmers. The good swimmers swim and the bad ones … euh … swim too. But they are bad swimmers.
I can't do any activity without keeping a competitive spirit. When I see a swimmer on the neighboring line which is doubling me. I want to follow him. The problem is that I swim long distance thus I have already exceeded 1 000m while the other one makes series of 100 m full speed (that is the split session). If we add the fact that the competitive swimmer is 30 years old less than I and is a real swimmer, I finish to run after my youth before running after my breath. In that case there, I do not feel any more my shoulder (what is a funny expression to say) meaning that I feel only the pain in the shoulder. Once, I managed to resist. It gave me a big blow of pride and three weeks of stop to recover.

The last one fifty meters. I give all I have of remaining strength that is not very much. I may accelerate, inhale once every eight beatings, I have the impression to stand still. The wall seems to move back as I move forward. My heart will finish before me as it seems to want to go out of my mouth. The slope of the pool became more marked; it makes at least of the 10 %. One. Two. Three. Four movements. I touch the wall. It is finished … until the next session in two days.

B, Sect and Fun

In the movie "Pédale douce" (sweet queer), there is a scene where Patrick Timsit comes out of a restaurant. He goes left passing by a white porch and stops in front of high barred windows. Behind the porch and the windows was a company where I worked in. Even the crew had diner there during the shooting.

Should the meal be earlier in the day, technicians and actors would have witnessed a strange ceremony. Several people would have arrived one by one. They would have gone downstairs in a fit out basement. Some minutes later, they would have heard a liturgical chant raising. With more attention, they would have heard a song for an illustrious unknown female person.

The ritual was held every evening (or as Sheldon from Big Bang Theory would say prevening) around 6PM. I was still at work doing administrative tasks. The first I heard this strange chant, I told myself: "Hey. There is also a choir in this company. Choir always needs bass voice. If the repertoire suits me I will join it". Finally, the repertoire didn't suit me and I didn't join.

You have to know that in France there is a governmental agency whom lists all the sects. In the 1996's list, there was an association whose members gathered at the headquater of my company. A retrospective fear would have taken me if the following didn't happen.

The association's members were rather high level people (lawyers, programmers, businessmen, …). At the head of it a Canadian woman whom tried to prove her sanity by telling that she had cured her husband from multiple sclerosis by drinking her urine in reclusion in an apartment at Nice. I know that the quantum intrication states that two particles can interact at great distances. The intercontinental urino-therapy let me puzzled.
The association's activities were rather classic : books, conferences and psycho-therapeutical seminars. Usually, it is well known that what caracterize a sect are two points : psychological constraints and money. In short, we prevent the members to quit the sect and we try to get the most money possible.

During my stay beside the association, I saw a lot of members leaving one by one the association without any trouble at my knowledge. Concerning the money, the association met some troubles. One of the member was a singer. She asked the association to help her to produce her first record. She had certainly some talent as she had been invited to a musical radio show. But the production cost dried out all the association's founds and so the association disappeared. The remaining three members were thrown at the four cardinal points. What would be a sect reveals to a ill managed association.

I have to confess that there was no proselytism in my company even if my boss was an important member of the association. The company had an activity with no connections with the association. On the contrary, the situation gave me a lot of stuff to use and perform my second degree humor. By the way, it was there that I started what would become my second career : IT programming. If somebody would have tried to entrap me in this association, I would have said as Alexandre Hagutte (one of the character of the movie) : "You have to stop to piss me off. You have to stop to piss me off".