{"id":89,"date":"2010-03-21T20:43:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T19:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/?p=86"},"modified":"2012-08-07T14:45:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T13:45:10","slug":"fred-is-rebooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Fred is rebooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width='100%'>\n<tr>\n<td>\nI&#8217;ve been totally swamped by work for months and months. Ok (mostly) willingly&#8230;<br \/>\nNo time for friends. No time to draw. A huge backlog of unseen DVDs (the fact that my old flat screen plasma TV caught fire didn&#8217;t help either&#8230;). No time to read. Six months without tweaking my Linux kernel (gosh !). No time to find a new apartment. No time to cook. No time for me. This had to <b>stop<\/b>.\n<\/td>\n<td valign='top'><img src='http:\/\/quantum-bits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/reboot.png' align='top'><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Today is the first day of spring. Spring is <u>my<\/u> season. And nothing will ever be able to stop me during this season. Yes, I&#8217;m an Aries.<\/p>\n<p>I am rebooting.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style='list-style: square inside;  color:#aaaaaa;'>I&#8217;ll find a new apartment before the end of Spring<\/li>\n<li style='list-style: square inside;  color:#aaaaaa;'>I&#8217;ll read one book a week (bought a pile of them yesterday)<\/li>\n<li style='list-style: square inside;  color:#aaaaaa;'>I&#8217;ll find enough time to draw<\/li>\n<li style='list-style: square inside;  color:#aaaaaa;'>I won&#8217;t miss another (good) movie<\/li>\n<li style='list-style: square inside;  color:#aaaaaa;'>I&#8217;ll try to cook as much as I can<\/li>\n<li style='list-style: square inside;  color:#aaaaaa;'>I&#8217;ll start to take care of myself and drop a few pounds<\/li>\n<li style='list-style: square inside;  color:#aaaaaa;'>I&#8217;ll treat myself with a new Samsung LED TV and an iPad<\/li>\n<li style='list-style: square inside;  color:#aaaaaa;'>I&#8217;ll spend more time with my friends<\/li>\n<li style='list-style: square inside;  color:#aaaaaa;'>I&#8217;ll get more involved in local politics<\/li>\n<p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here goes my first &#8220;Book Of The Week&#8221;:<br \/>\n<center><img src='http:\/\/quantum-bits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Symmetry.png' alt='' align='bottom'\/><\/center><br \/>\nYeah, slightly geeky. Maybe. Art, mathematics, brain research &#038; fundamental physics. Seems lovely.<br \/>\nThis week-end &#8220;DVD Backlog&#8221;:<br \/>\n<center><img src='http:\/\/quantum-bits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ergoproxy.png' alt='' align='bottom'\/><\/center><br \/>\nOh, and the fact that the <a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Union_for_a_Popular_Movement' target='_new'>UMP<\/a> lost the <a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Regional_councils_of_France' target='_new'>elections<\/a> is a good sign of change. Only two years before the <a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sarkozy' target='_new'>midget<\/a> is kicked out of the <a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%89lys%C3%A9e_Palace' target='_new'>Elys\u00e9e Palace<\/a>. This adds up to my good mood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been totally swamped by work for months and months. Ok (mostly) willingly&#8230; No time for friends. No time to draw. A huge backlog of unseen DVDs (the fact that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[14,18,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}