{"id":566,"date":"2014-08-31T00:07:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T23:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alainserrano.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Babak.jpg"},"modified":"2014-08-31T00:07:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T23:07:26","slug":"babak","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/www.alainserrano.com\/wp\/?attachment_id=566","title":{"rendered":"Babak"},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-566","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/www.alainserrano.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Babak.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alainserrano.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Babak-300x196.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alainserrano.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Babak-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alainserrano.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Babak.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Babak was doing a PhD in computer science at the same time as me, at the LIRMM, University of Montpellier 2. I could have never met him, because he was actually not working in the main building with me, because of his nationality! I met him accidentally because at that time I was going regularly to the Rockstore, the famous indie-rock club and concert venue in the old center of Montpellier. At that time, the world wide web was just starting, and, as a student in computer science, I was having my home page on the web site of the university. I made a little homepage about the Rockstore, announcing the next concerts and parties, and sent a mail to all the laboratory to advertise about it. Babak replied to this mail, answering that it was a good idea, and that he wanted to do the same thing about the Psychodrome, a small underground bar in the center of Montpellier in which he was actually DJing once every week with a few friends for indie-rock-psychedelic evenings. That&#8217;s how we first met.<\/p>\n<p>I followed Babak to the Psychodrome and there I met Pascal, and all the other group of friends from this time. We had a lot of parties at this time, and made new friends.<\/p>\n<p>When Babak ended his PhD, he left Montpellier for a job in Ottawa, Canada. This picture was actually taken in the airport of Montpellier, the day of his departure!<\/p>\n<p>After Babak&#8217;s departure, I stayed in the group of friends and we kept on having fun time. I stopped my studies, found a little job, lived a few months in Marc&#8217;s apartment&#8230; And then I finally visited Babak to Ottawa. I lived a month or two in his apartment, hoping I would also find a job in Ottawa! I&#8217;m grateful to him for that!<\/p>\n<p>I actually found a job&#8230; in N\u00eemes, thanks to my older friends Michel and Bruno (who also studied with me and Arnaud too) so I came back to Montpellier! But Babak comes back to Montpellier almost every year for vacations, to meet the old group of friends of the late 90&#8217;s!<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>Babak<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":577,"height":377,"file":"2014\/08\/Babak.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"Babak-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.alainserrano.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Babak-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"Babak-300x196.jpg","width":300,"height":196,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.alainserrano.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Babak-300x196.jpg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"Babak-577x372.jpg","width":577,"height":372,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.alainserrano.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Babak-577x372.jpg"},"full":{"file":"Babak.jpg","width":577,"height":377,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.alainserrano.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Babak.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":0,"credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":0,"copyright":"","focal_length":0,"iso":0,"shutter_speed":0,"title":""}},"post":null,"source_url":"https:\/\/www.alainserrano.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Babak.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alainserrano.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alainserrano.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alainserrano.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alainserrano.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alainserrano.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}]}}