Discovering San Franciso

Disneyland, Japanese, American & French culture

 

I pick up sentence from the book I'm reading: Managing for the future and more particularly from a case study about the opening of Disneyland in Tokyo and then in Paris. It show a funny difference of culture between Japanese, American and French people. During Japanese were totally enjoying the American experience, Europeans were reticent even if the park were adapt to their culture:

"[...]The French (and Europeans generally) and are much less willing to pull their children out of school for special vacation trips (as in the United States) or to school trips to Disneyland as an appropriate educational experience (as in Japan)."

That's very interesting for me to know that Japanese people can considered a trip to Disneyland as an "educational experience", I even can't imagine this.

Everybody against Breast Cancer with Anitale

Cancer is still one of the most cause of death in the world (according to the OMS). Even if the medicine has done many progress, there is still too much death because of this. "Approximatively 180.000 women and also some men will be diagnosed with Breast Cancer this year. And 40.000 will die from this disease.". Even people who can receive cares, like chemotherapy, are suffering so much because it just destroy the body. That's why I support Anitale, who is participating to the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. "Is a week end walk done by thousands of women and a few men. 39 Miles or 63 kilometers.". It's just a symbolic walk to show that people are mobilized against this disease. But that's not the main goal. The deal is to raise money. She is trying to get at least 1800$ from donation, from your donation. This money will help research to find a cure and people who can't afford the care. I especially support Anitale because I loose, few time ago, someone very close of my family who died because of cancer and got this cancer before. Even if you feel not concern because nobody around you is sick, just keep in mind that it can easily happened. Please donate, every donation is good, even the smallest is important. 

Click here to donate.

Thank you for your donation, thanks to her for doing that! :)

Our second flat in SF

Well done!

We finally got the flat. After the 2000 Broadway St, we are now at 845 Pine St. It's still a Trinity agency flat, so it's furnished. This flat is better on several point, first we have 3 bedroom, actually, 2 br and 1 living room. Secondly it's in the downtown and third it's a more hot flat. 

It was not an easy job to got it. Normally we should rent it without problem. But few hours before we plan to sign the contract and give the money, the manager called us to say that we should hurry because at least 3 people wanted to rent it. So we run in SF to get the money and finally got the flat, what a crazy day.

We are still looking for a 3 bedroom flat/loft but it's almost impossible to find with our criterias. Moreover we must find it before saturday! 

Agrandir le plan

Run just for the landscape?

I'm just coming back for running, about 15 minutes away from my flat, I can run on this kind of beautiful beach... For sure it's more motivating than running in Paris!

  

 

4-by-4 In-and-Out

After the 2*4, we have tried with Fabien the 4*4 In-and-Out burger, finally it was easy to eat and I still hungry after it, next time, let's try the 6*6!

 

Startup Crawl event, feedback

It's an amazing event! Startup crawl consist in many startup which are opening their door, furnish food and drink at the same time. You can go there to discover buildings of your favorites online services, meet employees and other people for networking.  

Most of the time, startup have cool atmosphere, in each one you can find funny things that you don't imagine to find in a work place. At the same time you eat and drink a beer, and meet many people to exchange about your life, technology and business. It's definitively a good moment to share and exchange!

I went to this event with Fabien and Adrien. First we went to Pivotal labs which develop Ruby on Rails software, Engine Yard it a deployment and management Ruby on Rails services, Sauce labs which provide open source services and finally to Scribd which provide a document share platform. We was very good welcome in each of these companies and I thanks them for this.

I juste take a funny picture from Scribd:

And a little video of Scribd. I did not take picture and video of other companies: