Saturday, July 28, 2007
Friday, July 20, 2007
Earthquake / Tremblement de terre
Réveil en sursaut ce matin a 4h40! Deniz, que se passe-t-il? La terre tremble, mon corps aussi. Vite je me met à quatre pattes sur le lit (!), instinct de survie (?), je beugle comme un jeune veau, en tout cas je ne me rappelle pas avoir fait cela, c'est Deniz qui me racontera le lendemain en se moquant de moi. Le temps de sortir de cet état de mi-conscience, tout est fini. Ca a duré apparemment moins de 5 secondes. Suffisamment en tout cas pour une bonne montée d'adrénaline, mon coeur bat a 300. On se rendort tout de meme. Le matin on ne trouve plus le déodorant, qui finalement s'est refugié par terre, de même que le télephone et quelques objets ci et là. Les cadres ont un peu bougé, mais sont toujours en place. On va se renseigner sur internet: 4.2 sur l'échelle de richter (de la gnognotte apparemment), l'épicentre a 12 km de chez nous (petite flèche verte sur la carte):
We were suddenly awakened at 4h40 this morning! Deniz, what's happening? The earth is shaking and so is my body. Quickly I kneel down on my knees and hands on the bed (!), it must be survival instinct (?), I moo like a veal, in any case I don't remember having done this, Deniz told me about it afterwards laughing at me. The time that it took me to come out of this state of semi conscientiousness the earthquake was already over. Apparently it lasted less than 5 seconds. It was enough to for my adrenaline levels to shoot up to the ceiling, my heart was beating 300 beats a minute. We managed to sleep again nevertheless. When we get up in the morning, we can't find things in their place like the deodorant stick which got knocked down just like a vase and the telephone.. some of our frames were crooked but still on the wall. We look on the internet to find out that it was only 4.2 (nothing big), the epicenter was 12 km from our place (look on the map for the green arrow):

4600 personnes sans électricite à Oakland, quelques fenêtres cassées, rien de plus. Pour ceux qui comprennent l'anglais:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/20/BAquake.DTL
We were suddenly awakened at 4h40 this morning! Deniz, what's happening? The earth is shaking and so is my body. Quickly I kneel down on my knees and hands on the bed (!), it must be survival instinct (?), I moo like a veal, in any case I don't remember having done this, Deniz told me about it afterwards laughing at me. The time that it took me to come out of this state of semi conscientiousness the earthquake was already over. Apparently it lasted less than 5 seconds. It was enough to for my adrenaline levels to shoot up to the ceiling, my heart was beating 300 beats a minute. We managed to sleep again nevertheless. When we get up in the morning, we can't find things in their place like the deodorant stick which got knocked down just like a vase and the telephone.. some of our frames were crooked but still on the wall. We look on the internet to find out that it was only 4.2 (nothing big), the epicenter was 12 km from our place (look on the map for the green arrow):
4600 personnes sans électricite à Oakland, quelques fenêtres cassées, rien de plus. Pour ceux qui comprennent l'anglais:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/20/BAquake.DTL
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Point Pinole
Le 4 Juillet, un jour ferié! Enfin un! Après un passage éclair au labo (pas plus de 5 min, faut pas exagérer) on décide de profiter de cette belle journée pour aller faire un petit tour en vélo à Point Pinole, au nord de la baie. Un petit parc naturel protégé plein d'eucalyptus.
4th of July, a holiday! Finally! After a quick back-and forth to the lab (not more than 5 minutes! one shouldn't exagerate) we decide to take advantage of this sunny day to do a little bit of biking at Point Pinole, north of the bay. In a little regional park plenty of eukalyptus trees - dream of any kuala bear!












4th of July, a holiday! Finally! After a quick back-and forth to the lab (not more than 5 minutes! one shouldn't exagerate) we decide to take advantage of this sunny day to do a little bit of biking at Point Pinole, north of the bay. In a little regional park plenty of eukalyptus trees - dream of any kuala bear!

Monday, July 2, 2007
Oakland Marina
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Russian Hill
Petite virée à Russian Hill (colline russe), un quartier très pentu de San Francisco, avec notamment la rue Filbert et ses 31,5 % de dénivellation!
Little hike to the Russian Hill, a super steep neighborhood of SF with the notorious Filbert Street (31.5 % slope)










Vue sur Alcatraz
View over Alcatraz



mmmh une glace au café turc!
a yummy turkish coffee flavored ice cream!


La fameuse rue Filbert qu'il faudra que je me fasse au volant de ma voiture.
Here is Filbert Str, I wish I were behind the steering wheel driving down!



Little hike to the Russian Hill, a super steep neighborhood of SF with the notorious Filbert Street (31.5 % slope)
Vue sur Alcatraz
View over Alcatraz
mmmh une glace au café turc!
a yummy turkish coffee flavored ice cream!
La fameuse rue Filbert qu'il faudra que je me fasse au volant de ma voiture.
Here is Filbert Str, I wish I were behind the steering wheel driving down!
La tour Coit (!)
The Coit(us?) Tower (!)
The Coit(us?) Tower (!)
Monday, June 25, 2007
View over Berkeley / Sur les Hauteurs de Berkeley
Petit week-end tranquille entre nous deux. Allons jouer au backgammon sur les hauteurs de Berkeley, avec vue sur San Francisco et le Golden Gate.
Little calm weekend between the two of us. A round of backgammon on the heights of Berkeley.



On vous avait pas encore présenté notre voiture (avec le Golden Gate dans le fond si vous regardez bien).
Yep, this is our new car.

Bien évidemment c'est Deniz qui a gagné. Forte comme une turque!
Deniz wins as usual in her national sport.
Little calm weekend between the two of us. A round of backgammon on the heights of Berkeley.
On vous avait pas encore présenté notre voiture (avec le Golden Gate dans le fond si vous regardez bien).
Yep, this is our new car.
Bien évidemment c'est Deniz qui a gagné. Forte comme une turque!
Deniz wins as usual in her national sport.
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