Dawning sun through rainy clouds, on the #Paris quais… what a sight! The oranges, the reds, the violets distract even the blasé #runner-photographer.
Bloody road rash, my old friend, we meet again. 🌦🩸
My daily 10K #run today was along the #Paris Coulée Verte, where I was stunned to see the local cherry blossom (#Sakura) trees in full flowering!
February 12? Outside temp: +5° C. Sakura in full blossom?! Hello?!
Turns out, it’s a well-studied effect of #globalWarming. 😕
– This is @DPD_Fr courier services, how can I help you?
– I’ve just received a notification about a parcel delivery planned for tomorrow… and your #IT systems have deleted half of our address. Let me spell it out for you, so your last-mile delivery person can do their job.
– Oh, I can’t, because it’s not yet at the #DPD Paris Agency.
– Sorry, what?
– The parcel is at a DPD Regional Center. Only when the parcel will be marked as “DPD Paris Agency — out to delivery”, will we have access to the data about your #parcel.
– But that will be tomorrow. And your drivers don’t carry digital terminals. Only printouts on A4 paper. So you won’t update the info over #3G.
– Yes, that is correct.
– So if we don’t change the A4 paper printout Thursday evening, the driver will not be able to deliver the parcel tomorrow Friday?
– Yes, that is correct. Call us tomorrow, so we can add the missing address information.
– [ silence ]
And now, the question. What do you do in such cases?
You’re, among other things, a #programmer with 22+ years of writing #code. You’ve studied #logistics in business school. You’ve built companies, managed film crews… Computers don’t seem like some obscure black boxes.
Do you scream at the call-center person who’s somewhere in Tunisia and barely knows the #Louvre is a museum in #Paris?
What do you do? Do you just watch tracking information update to “missing address, second attempt scheduled for Monday”.
How do you live with daily, hourly #fails by #apathy-striken people?
What kind of processes do you have in your life to try to convince someone that 197 cm is not the same as 199 cm?
Yes, that’s a conversation I’m having with a customer relations #employee… 🤯
A 20-something girl in the AirBnB underneath my #Paris flat first smokes a fat-ass #joint, then spends 2 HOURS showering, conditioning and prepping her hair, followed by perfume ablutions on #High Couture™.
Those of you who, like me, have an ultra-#sensitive sense of… ahem…everything, including odors, imagine the #smell assault! 🤯
For the last 45 days, that fenced out tree has been the only part of nature, of something organically leafy and green I can see from my #Paris window. But only if I bend out and sideways. 😕
Have we gone too far with our need to shelter ourselves from #nature? pic.twitter.com/sDio0AZCVf
#Paris #Film #Locations #Expo #conference by @Film_France and @LeCNC about #international crews working together, specifically #American #cinema #crews with the #French.
Alex BODEN #Sense8 / @netflix, John BERNARD #Munich, #Inception, #Dunkirk, Romain LACOURBAS, DP #MarcoPolo… pic.twitter.com/kvgiF8ZkIl
I hope today is the last day to be woken by the #Cannes2016 #alarmClock. #IndieFilm in #Paris sure is mellow, right? pic.twitter.com/CVvhEh4GX6
Who’s going to the @Cinemadureel #documentary #film #festival in #Paris, March 18-27? I’ll be there. Let’s meet! pic.twitter.com/Kro5A6Yqw9
Well, I just don’t know what we’re going to do about the #fusillade in #Paris. Second time, right around the corner. Fortunately I’m in #LA.
Who’s also going to @FedeJPI young #French #indiefilm and #TV #Producers Day in #Paris tomorrow jjpi.eu ? Meet you there ;).
The silent swoosh of a #swift slicing through the evening stillness at a 110 km/h and past my #Paris window… #SoundEngineer bliss!
Bummer. 19:02. @dhlexpressuk still says “With delivery courier”. A glorious sunny 15K #run wasted… waiting. #Paris by night again.
Unfuckingbelievable. Tripped and fell during my nightly 15K #run through historical #Paris. On non-technical asphalt. “Wake up! Time to die”
#Paris streets aren’t optimized for anyone. Pedestrians, bicycles, scooters, buses, taxies, cars and trucks… we all suffer from bad #design.
While #running today in #barefoot @InvisibleShoes sandals in #Paris, someone asked me if it was a new concept. Yes, only 10 000 years old…
I’m looking for a #TaiChi mentor in #HongKong, #Paris or #Geneva. Relaxation & defense. Details: anatolyivanov.com/prose/en/AI.7… Please help, RT.
Awesome! #Paris #bike shop Bicloune bicloune.fr had spare internals for my #Brompton’s SRF3! A rarity. No need for #UPS from Taiwan.
Most eco-aware visitors to my minimal 13 m2 #Paris flat concur that I should now work on my #water #footprint… #Automation? Suggestions?
Wherever it is, #Paris, #Moscow, #Berlin, #Geneva, #Montreal… when it snows, it all looks the same. City #slush sucks.
Winter sun. Blue sky. Roofs of #Paris. But I have to close the curtains and open #Photoshop. The dark side of editing #photography…
I love the #minimalism of my 13 sq m flat in #Paris, but it lacks a stable vise for my frequent #DIY projects. Any ideas how to solve this?
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