Have a great stay at home!

I have a million more things to say about Paris but (1) my last post was rather text heavy and (2) rather than going detail by detail I've thrown together some photo highlights with commentary.
The long history:








Among my favorite mistranslations - spoiler: Napoleon "loosed" because he sucked. Plate armor didn't disappear after firearms were introduced but you can see why they were gradually phased out. Those earrings were made during the Revolution - far from modern chic. There were several plaques up in specific locations in Paris where the Nazis or Vichy shot someone, or a site of resistance, with fresh flowers for the recent anniversary of the end of the WWII in Europe.
The food/drinks which, like any major world city, were from all over.






That side of the sausage is not mayonnaise but rather a melted cheese with a perfect viscosity for consuming with said sausage. I regretted this meal later but I would 100% eat it again. No less than three languages cultures occur at "La Cantine Russe". I always like to try foreign attempts at US cuisine and Parisians knocked it out of the park with that pile of egg/fried chicken/waffle. Finally, on the flight back I ordered a glass of wine and got a minor health potion.
The monuments to victory and tragedy.









The Deportation is the French name for the 700,000 or so people who were swept up by the Nazis and their collaborators during the occupation. It's right next to the famous Notre Dame, not far from the Champs d'Élysées (pictured from on top of the long staircase up L'Arc de Triomphe - worth the hike for the view)
The technology, and specifically the hidden gem of a museum to technology we wandered around in:








Weights and measures, robot squirrel, crazy-ass rotary piston engine bike, the Cray-2 supercomputer (considerably less powerful than your phone), a camera that would definitely get you shot by the police today, and the automatic loom that kicked off the industrial age. Special shoutout to the vintage point-and-click adventure kiosk software from like 1998 found throughout the museum that has about the same input-reaction performance as something made yesterday.
The art, of course:









Frequent readers of this blog will know well my appreciation for weird guys and fucked up faces and Paris delivers here. Did I put a Van Gogh next to a "trés beau" drawing on an unwashed car? Sure. Also included is a political cartoon about trying to have a family dinner during the Dreyfus affair and evidently some of your family is antisemitic. I was gonna keep this post entirely away from current events but I can't not include the Gates of Hell by Rodin because it rules.
Finally just some random stuff that is funny or weird, enjoy







