Last night in Vancouver, we were walking back to Chinatown under an expressway, in a rather uninspiring section of town. Waiting at a cross-light with another couple on the other side. As we crossed the street I glanced at the man and noticed his Chamonix North Face tee-shirt. He happened to do the same and… noticed my identical Chamonix North Face tee-shirt! We shared a laugh at this (huge?) coincidence and continued on our respective ways. (He was not taking part in MCMskiii in case this seems a likely explanation!)
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Posted in Mountains, pictures, Travel, University life with tags Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, coincidences, JSM 2018, North Face, tee-shirt, The Norse Farce, Vancouver on August 5, 2018 by xi'anthe Norse farce [amazoning]
Posted in Statistics with tags Amazon, amazon associates, backpacking, biking, ENSAE, logo, mug, North Face, puppies, werewolf on November 30, 2017 by xi'an
[Warning: This (silly) post is completely unrelated with the previous one!]
Last week, when biking back from ENSAE on the Plateau de Saclay, one strap of my (recent, grey, handy) North Face backpack gave way and I barely avoided a crash! The stitching at the top had unravelled, it appears, and there was no way I could fix it myself. Once safe at home, I thus called Amazon from whom I had bought it less than a year ago and was quite impressed by their handling of the matter, as they reimbursed me almost instantaneously. (Which brings the customary reminder and warning that my Amazon links are connected to my Amazon Associate account and [modest] benefits.) Anyway, this led me to concretise a pun I thought of a long while ago, namely to build a pastiche of the North Face logo where the Half-Dome representation would be turned into the half of a Viking helmet… My daughter Rachel helped me to turn this into an actual output, as shown above, but I would welcome proposals of alternative designs. The winner (if any) gets a free mug with the selected design!
Merci taxi!
Posted in Mountains, R, Statistics, Travel with tags ABC, beanie, EMILE, Montpellier, North Face, taxi on February 9, 2011 by xi'an
I am in Montpellier today for a general meeting of our EMILE ANR grant bi-yearly meeting, discussing ABC model choice and new applications of simulation methods in population genetics, including an upgrade of DIYABC into the 2.0 version. (The above is a picture comparing “true” Bayes factors with ABC versions, commented in my Zürich talk last Saturday.) In the taxi from the airport, I chatted with the Yugoslavian driver who seemed to enjoy very much the city and drove me to the CBGP in a record time, but I forgot my favourite North Face beanie in the car… Tonight at the airport, I had the pleasant surprise to find my hat waiting for me at the taxi stand! Merci, taxi!
