Took the little one to her very first basketball game today! And enjoyed a nice end-of-day at home with some gorgeous blooms on the way, along with golden light in the lounge :)
Life
Never missing an opportunity to share fellow bon vivant Action Bronson’s adventures in Paris:
no one makes me want to roam the city [Paris] quite like American rapper and food enthusiast Action Bronson.
Color is never just color… it’s light, meaning, and mood.
Taken from my wife’s life and interior design newsletter
Life of a Sports Fanatic: chill Saturday night watching
- a doubleheader of the Riviera Derby between my AS Monaco and OGC Nice, ⚽️❤️🤍
- while catching up on my Orioles baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays! ⚾️🧡🖤
Finally discovered our local library and was delighted to take this graphic novel out for a loan!
Bowie by Mike Allred 📚
This goes against a lot of things I believe in — which is unsurprising since it’s about New York-based corporate culture…
“New York’s Work-From-Home Moment Is Over But the Office Has Shrunk”
Been stuck on something for work the past few days — something minor but couldn’t wrap my head around it.
Took some time to formulate it to my AI overlords, with the right context and suddenly things are cleared up. I love using it to help me gain clarity — feels kinda super power-ish
Spent some time with the pals at Fixtured to tell my story of being a sports fan :)
Very excited to open this baby up in the next few days: ⚾️ 🃏
This VaultX album for my Topps trading cards is awesome, if somehow much larger than I had anticipated 😅
Fun day out today: friends, bike rides, and long walks in our former neighborhood 🌞 🧑🧑🧒
- Tibz, what is it like living in Europe?
- Like this…
Delightful weather, sun, and light these past couple of days so we were able to to set up the balcony.
I was even able to hang out there for a little break from work and read thru my acquisition of Obvious State’s reprint of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven 📚
Found some of my old journals — in notebooks I never truly completed, dating from the time (2017-2018) when I started dating my now wife, a time when I traveled around the world by myself for 9 months. Will be going through some “archiving and digitizing” of these across Day One and the built-in camera’s text scanning feature.
Very excited to revisit some of the most exciting time(s) of my life and our story!
Quick Duolingo update
Back to back frustrating defeats lately 😩 🏀
Return to Adidas Arena to watch my @ParisBasketball team — another Euroleague win against Bayern Munich!
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 →
It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
Written down like this, it seems pretty bizarre, and that’s because it is. It’s also not easy to realize that our relationship with America is over after 80 years. It took time for me as well to accept that.
But it really is over. (…) The US has dismantled the official privacy framework. The deal is dead.
So stop surrendering our society to America. Have the courage to use different software and services. Even if it takes some getting used to.
You can take the woman out of the US, but you can’t take the US outta the woman:
“The first time I had a blood orange was in a can of San Pellegrino”
😅 fun lunchtime conversation with my wife!
Absolutely stoked to read a story on my old neighborhood basketball court in the New York Times (by way of The Athletic)
I used to play about 1.5 to 2 hours there every Sunday mornings back when we used to live in Montmartre/Pigalle!
Bref 2: un éclair de génie ⚡️ ❤️🩹
Wrapping up our yearly Birthdays-and-Anniversaire week with a long family walk and an unbelievable dinner
A lovely walk today to reset and reconnect with my wife and daughter. Also, some miscellaneous scenes at home :)
Perfect timing — I guess they were waiting for the AI Summit but French startup Mistral behind the French/European AI (Mistral) just updated and upgraded their platform. Much faster and more powerful. Gonna give it a try for work and play 😊
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 →
Finally took some time to update my /now page :)
Paris Basketball v JDA Dijon (Coupe de France - Quarter finals)
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Well… @ACMomento doesn’t yet support the basketball “Coupe de France” but last night was a nice and simple victory against JDA Dijon in the Quarter Finals round. Yesterday’s game marked the anniversary of moving from the old Halle Carpentier on the southernmost part of town, to the shiny new Adidas Arena located in the northernmost point at Porte de la Chappelle. Hard to believe everything that has happened so far in just over one year:Birthday weekend 3️⃣4️⃣ 🎁
Decided to go to our local German pub for luck today — I realized I haven’t had a delicious currywurst since 2013 (!)
Exciting game but tough #Euroleague defeat at home againstst the most in-form team of the 2025 calendar year.
A sunny weekend for the first time since the end of last year!
Silver Linings:
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Got sick (flu season) the day before a business trip to HQ. Had to cancel the trip this morning with my French and German colleagues.
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My French colleagues obviously still went. Flight got cancelled and they now have to wait from 10am to 8pm to be rebooked on a later flight.
So while I’m recoveringing at home, this is …for the better in my part