Monday, November 29, 2010

What Is Steep Tech Supposed To Do

evening dew

As Nata, I play with the pink!
Saroyan A scarf and a small cup - home made hack.

Home Made With Love! For a small INA. Map view

there among Yokoblog, inspiration here.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Seman That Smells Like Fish

It's time for Homecoming 2010 zident


For several days I say let me ab-so-lu-tion that I'm talking about my exciting life in upper part of the dynamic Parisian life.

Good as ever finished by 19:30 (I have a thought for my fellow commuters every evening at 19:30 sigh "and shit, I'll still go and I should 21h not my kid." Sadness.) I 'm too tired to write you anything super interesting, except that I'm tired.

And the fact is that I do not know what to say because I do not really know what I think.

There's a part of me is really happy to finally have responsibilities, to learn every day a little more of this new profession, to have a really great boss (he must be passed by the French Alliance Sydney to take the measure of what it is!) to help small babes looking for a job to find one, to complete projects, work in teams.

And then there 's another part of me that's like a big big big doubt. Is said thousand times a day "But what am I doing here?" The butterflies in my stomach.

I told you talked a little side Commercial Super clean this job. The next, I'll get the business, Toper contracts, make conf calls with Dir Com. You see a little? The commercial objective side ---> ----> contracts premiums at the end of the month, yay champagne and mojitos. Ben

not miss it eh, I think I'm not made for that too. Just talk to me about it, just I do not care really.

I do not feel in my place, I feel like a farce.

And the little super weird stuff of life: I now have an assistant.

And I admit, I envy.

I want to 18h when she takes her jacket and breaks. I envy when I see it in his quiet corner so I conf call with my Dir Com sucks too. I feel like when my boss gives me my Weekly Point and I have not reached my goals and it must be talked about. In fact

responsibilities, I'm drunk. That sucks, shameful, cowardly and pathetic, but true.

I can not say I was not warned. This job is the line near what I described in maintenance. And now I'm a picky eater at the first hurdle ...

must say I was gently put into prospecting for 3 consecutive weeks to test my motivation and I will start to recruit strictly speaking Monday. So if it is, I'm having as a divine illumination and kiffer my race.

I have not said my last word, I give myself until the end of the year to see. Hope!

Good end of weekend my balls!

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Dora The Explorer Teaches French

A good initiative on the city of Besancon

I discovered today an interesting initiative, and it seems unusual, the city of Besancon . Indeed, in a few days the capital Franc Comtoise all freely available for its citizens (for a small deposit) cameras and thermal power meters.

With a thermal camera, it is possible to detect temperature differences on materials and thus bringing out the heat loss of a building.
The meter allows him to calculate the electrical power consumed by one or more devices.


More info:

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Bionicle Vezon & Kardas For Sale

Why not a green roof

The idea of a vegetated roof has always interested me.




In doing some research I realized that this process had (almost) the benefits :


The main benefits of a green roof :
  • thermal inertia to achieve significant energy savings
  • a very good soundproofing
  • a looks better than solid foam tiles
  • reduced temperature variations up to 40%
  • protecting the waterproofing membrane against UV, temperature rise and weather (hail gel, ...)
  • filtering rainwater
  • improving air quality (humidity, dust, toxic).
  • extension of longevity for the waterproofing membrane to 40-50 years
The few constraints:
  • limited to low-slope roofs (\u0026lt;35 °)
  • 's large investment in strengthening the structure and the addition of substrate, plants and drainage layers (even if over time we found it).



The layers



Three large family of revegetation

Type "extensive"
A thin layer of soil (about 10cm) covered with small plants of different colors without Thanksgiving Service (off-set a cleanup of weeds once a year)




Type "intensive"
A layer substrate most important (more than 15cm) allowing more hungry plants thrive. It is possible to make a garden on its roof. The supporting structure must be even stronger and maintains is more important and must be irrigated but the appearance is nicer.


type "semi-intensive"
This is a compromise between the two with 15-20 cm of soil and planting the nutritional needs measured (Eg grass)





In conclusion we would really like to revegetate 50 to 60% of the roof of our future home (especially the rooms to improve the acoustic comfort and thermal). However, after our appointment with the Mayor of Pirey , we're not very optimistic. Indeed, we have always refused to explain the flat roofs.
We could revegetate a pitched roof but the price is even more so. We'll try to find with our architect a solution that fits all with minimal impact to the aesthetics of our project started.