Amazing.. I sent out an in-house email Friday and the response has been phenomenal. As before, I still expect to get fired any minute now. In 3 – 2 – 1 – eh? Seriously, though, I’m amazed. People are beginning to say things like: "I hope other people get to read you soon too.", thinking […]
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Link of the day: The Ricky Gervais Show
In the relatively quick pace of internet trends, I’m the old guy waving a cane. This is because I don’t IRC, and only IM with mates, family and co-workers who are just as blindfolded as I am. So you might have followed the Ricky Gervais radio show, or podcast if you want, for a long […]
Live like Vlad the Impaler
Impaling has always been one of my favourite pastimes, and keeping in spirit of my New Year’s Resolutions, maybe this place could be something for me? And as the advertising said "for a building dating from 1377, it’s in reasonably good condition." But I think it’s a bit draughty. And there’s 57 rooms to clean. […]
Why I don't do mediocre
Two days ago I got the results from my exam before x-mas. I got an A. I didn’t fail to mention this to the lovely, brown-eyed waitress at the café. She was impressed. I was cool. And there we were. Discussing my supreme genius. I never hold people’s inferiority against them. Thank God nobody noticed […]
Link of the day: National Geographic GeoViewerPanel
Do you watch National Geographic Channel? Or read the magazine? Or not? Then please take their viewer panel survey! LOTD: www.NatGeoViewerPanel.com It’s just a few questions about your habits (or lack of habits) with regards to their channel, magazine, documentaries etc. You can win one of three Samsung Digimax i6 digital cameras, which makes you […]
Did you know..
Did you know that it’s an old tradition to capture and eat sparrows in South Germany? They capture them with intricate net constructions and grains injected with sleeping drugs. The problem is that you need so many to fill one plate that some types of Old World Sparrows are close to extinction. But I believe […]
Scariest picture of the day: Joseph Bromfield
This is definitely the scariest thing I’ve seen all week. His parents must be so proud. Joseph Bromfield loves his bench. Here he is, signalling discretely what he thinks about the bench. [ Image removed due to heart failure of visitors. Click for big. ] What’s your favorite memory? I am most fond of sitting […]
2006 – The Year of the Pizza
I think a fair estimate of last year’s food consumption would show that 30% of all that I ate was pizza, and that 50% of what I ate was lunch in the cantina at work. We sometimes have pizza at work, but that’s not very often. But eating here (at work) is something I do […]
Happy New Year!
This has been a weird year for me. On the second last day of it, I must admit that it treated me gently in the beginning and the middle, only to seriously worsen towards the end. (I actually wanted to write fuck me in the ass but then I remembered there are children reading this […]
La Clemenza di Tito by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Konwitschny)
If you’re going to Oslo opera to see the last performance tomorrow, don’t read this. Sitting at work earlier today, my mother sent me an SMS message asking me whether I’d like to see Mozart’s opera Titus. A two minute notice to think about it, I shut down the computer and left work earlier than […]