I bring you a culinary guide to my breakfasts, lunches, and some of my snacks growing up. This is not quite complete, as the pictures include only one trip to the local grocery store in the middle of some kind of strike. As you can see, it is a very balanced and healthy diet – [...]
Movable Type has updated to 3.0. This blog, as well as about a dozen other blogs I manage and host for friends runs Movable Type. Another dozen or so blogs I manage and host for friends runs WordPress. Following the new licensing restrictions of Movable Type, I regret to say that I will no longer [...]
Monday is 17th May, big nationalist holiday in Norway. Lots of flag waving, hot dog eating, song singing, band playing, people marching, and occasional Sweden bashing. I’ll be following my cousins Alex and Frida around and will do whatever they do. I saw something interesting on “children’s TV” this morning, which I was glued to [...]
I finished my second full day back in Stavanger, and it has been marked by almost continuous nostalgia. I have been away this time five years, but this city, where I have spent a decade of my life, is the closest thing I have to a home. I have been “watching” myself and my reactions [...]
Watched the news tonight on the national TV channel here. A 30 minute show giving us a summary of the news we need to know. Of this 19 minutes was used for domestic news. The dominating top headline was the marriage of Denmark’s crown prince Frederick (around 10 minutes but it seemed to last forever). [...]
Ok, this procrastination has to stop. A few more links: Who’s the master? – Simon at Kikuchiyo talks about his PhD cumulative exams. Two years from now, if I survive, I’ll have to undergo a similar process. Timothy Burke has an strongly worded posting on the torture issue and the dangers of abstraction. Together with [...]
Claire has a fun posting on different kinds of people as they approach deadlines. She included my own type: The Avoider: Suddenly becomes very sociable and good at running errands when he/she should be working. Hmm, I need to get a conference paper out by tomorrow, perhaps that explains all the short postings I’m making [...]
Kerim has unicode up and running at his Keywords site. He has a great posting on sajiao (撒嬌). I wish I knew that word earlier. He quotes its definition: To deliberately act like a spoiled child in front of someone because of the awareness of the other person’s affection.
Media Matters, a great source for a little breakfast rage against conservative media madness. Today, there was an entry about the whack Michael Savage’s comment about the Nick Berg incident, “Nick Berg, an American, not military, over there building transmission towers, was captured by the Untermenschen the sub-humans, who wrap themselves in a religion. He [...]
I’m sitting in the airport in Amsterdam, on my way to my hometown, Stavanger, Norway. I haven’t been back in Europe in five years and it feels great. Amsterdam’s airport looks pretty much the same I remember it as last time I passed through on my way back from Japan/Kuala Lumpur with my uncle Thomas. [...]