Obviously, I would fail the French Turino Test

Turino Test: a test of machine (or human) translation, where a native speaker has a text-only conversation a person who is either a native speaker, or with a person who has no knowledge of the language, but has a translator. If the native speaker cannot tell that the conversation is being translated, the translator passes the Turino Test.

This seems just as hard as the Turing Test. Probably harder.

more accurate

Violence: the universal language.

Photos from around Lyon

Cover of a used book, part of what looked like a standard collection of different authors, like Victor Hugo, etc.:

Two from a health clinic:
Yes, that's a condom.
And that's a butterfly having sex butterfly-style with what appears to be a very ill ant. "The summer favors new encounters. Protect yourself."

travel plans

I will be in the following places at some point during the summer:
NYC, South Bend, Minneapolis, Toronto, Lyon, Geneva, Barcelona, London, Paris, San Francisco. If you'll be in any of those places, and I don't already know that (i.e., you don't live there), then let me know.

so civilised

Check out this article about FOTC ending. Two things: :( , and read the comments. Have you ever read such literate/polite web comments anywhere in your life? New Zealand is fucked up.