French students are at it again! This time it’s all about insane new labour laws.
From the Guardian Unlimited:
It’s like a reprise of the May 1968 protests. The CRS riot police cruise the streets of the Latin Quarter in Paris, breaking up groups of protesters, and storm the Sorbonne where students staged a three-day occupation last week. Between 51 and 64 of France’s 82 universities are now disrupted by the wave of angry protests.
This is amazing, and although most of the protesting is overshadowed by senseless vandalism, I’m glad there are still countries in Europe where people are not too lethargic to actually go out and protest.
Check out this blog for some English language coverage of the protests!
Thanks to the outspread infrastructure of the University of Vienna, I am constantly discovering new places. This time it’s a park next to the university building that hosts, among other things, the tiny, tiny institute for numismatics. I’m attending a lecture there on medieval gold coinage, and although it’s quite an interesting topic, I’m one of a staggering eight students there, four of which are already retired, and, I believe, have devoted the few remaining years of their lives to the study of coins.
Well, click the below picture to get to the gallery. Please once again note that it’s mid-March, and the white stuff on the pictures is indeed snow.
I ran into a guy yesterday who I went to school with. We only had a couple of minutes to talk, and although I hadn’t seen him in a few years, a suspicion I’ve always had once again proved to be dead on: People don’t change with age.
Now, there is this thing called “maturity”, but it’s all a big scam. You see, maturity is not much more than succumbing to the rules and regulations of the adult world. When as a child you were free to say what you wanted, as an adult it’s frowned upon. So once you’ve learned to shut up, you’ve matured.
The essential person behind this process doesn’t change. Sure, they may become a specialist in ForEx trading, and maybe take over a company someday, but it’s still the jackass who in high-school would badmouth people behind their backs. Which in a way is what I’m doing right now, but I’m not using any names, so it’s OK, really…at least in my frame of reference, which consists of flimsy moral standards anyway.
And I’m not actually saying that all people who are specialists in ForEx trading were pricks in high-school. I’m just hinting at it.
Alright, so it’s not a give-away specifically for students, and it’s not exactly one give-away either, but I’ll still add it to the “give-away” section. It’s a door mat and slippers, all based on a pun involving a colloquial term for TV. What for? Digital TV.
This time my extreme procrastination came in handy, because I’ve actually thought about putting a “no ads” sticker onto our apartment door. Our neighbour has one, and she was slipper- and matless.
…but it’s still a pig.”
Henry Rollins
It took me the better part of this Sunday, some coffee and quite some advice from my girlfriend to get this whole new version of Stormgrass up and running.
I’ve also started using Mint, so I can keep tabs on you even better than before.
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