Bloguidien rapidfire - January 2025

Introduction

Nota: I wrote this post more than a month ago and completely forgot to publish it… Better late than never I guess :-).

Bloguidien is a (normally) French blogging challenge that prompts a question daily. As I don’t necessary want to write a (short) post every day to answer, I select my preferred questions of the month and answer them in one post. You can read all my bloguidien response here.

Monthly Responses

Jan. 3rd: A series that left its mark on you, moved you, and that you absolutely want to share.

Lots of them, but keeping it short:

• Friends (yes, that my generation)
• Big bang theory (can’t help it, loved that show)
• Black Mirror, in particular the first seasons. Even more in particular, the episodes « Fifteen Million Merits » (S01E02), « White Christmas » (special episode after S02), « Nosedive » (S03E01) and « Arkangel » (S04E02)
• Special mention for Game of thrones because it lead me to the books that are so much better than the tv show! To bad the books are still not finished…

Jan. 6th: What was the last concert you went to? Did you enjoy it?

I believe the last one was R.A. the Rugged Man (US rapper). Took the train from Paris to Marseilles for him. Was a very small and intimate venue (I’d say less than 150 people). I like these small concert where only hard core fan base join :).

Jan. 8th: What’s the really dumb thing you do when you need to disconnect from normality?

Play with my dog like a dumb kid :).

Jan. 11th: Right there, what was the last video game you enjoyed?

Easy, Factorio :).

Jan. 13th: What is your most memorable concert?

I believe my first big concert was for Korn. While not my preferred music genre, it was crazy! A huge crowd acting mad in those kind of concert (=Metal music) do! I still remember it vividly even though I don’t remember a single song from that group :D.

Jan. 16th: What absorbs you the most?

Coding on a personal project, reading and some games like Factorio or Heroes of might and magic III.

Jan. 21st: What was your last impulse purchase?

I recently back the pilet project on kickstarter… Even though I ordered a uConsole Kit RPI-CM4 Lite a few months ago…

Jan. 22nd: What (art)work would you like to forget in order to rediscover it?

I feels like this is a trap question, because loving a book/movies/anything is very dependent on the context of when you read it. My favorite manga is Dragon Quest - Dai No Daiboken. And I love re-reading it now. Same for many others. But would I loved them as much by discovering them now? I just don’t know…

So I’ll nominate something I discovered 20(!) years ago which is still on going and still love as much or even more and more: One Piece. Not the oldest manga I read still ongoing (I read another one that started even before one piece and that is still on going too), but One Piece is something else… I loved it when I discovered it, and I still do so much that I wait every single week to read the next chapter like a kid in a candy store… And most of the time, after reading it a more or less long conversation starts with my brother and other One Piece lover to discuss the crazyness happening.

One of my friend started it only last year and I couldn’t help thinking how lucky he was to discover it for the first time… So yeah that’s the one I’ll nominate here :).

Jan. 23rd: You can do another job for a month: what do you do?

Easy, blade-smith! I did a 2 days “training” where I built my own folding knife, I loved it!

Conclusion

See you next month for another round of responses :).