Category: thoughts

Despite my outmost effort to stay completely mysterious and inaccessible to common folk, my newly assigned courses in German language forces me to work in groups during our 1-hour seminars a couple of times a week. Here’s me using a new word in a sentence: – "Das junge Mädchen hat keine fingerspitzengefühl…" – Das ist […]

Since the terrorist attack in Oslo a week back the newspapers and media here in Norway have been feasting on the fear like starving vultures. Some people say that this is freedom of the press and we must protect journalism. But I suggest we’re experiencing a lack of journalism and a lack of civilized culture. […]

As the police helicopters are flying over my office right now, the mass murderer mr. Breivik is in court to be officially charged and imprisoned until his trial. Many have strong reactions and call for death sentence, court-marshalling or even torture. And while one can agree with the sentiment we must not turn to barbarism, […]

It is 6:59 pm as I am writing this, and having read the global news, I cannot see any tell-tale signs of the biblical rapture that was supposed to go down at 6pm local time all over the world today. /> If there was an earthquake, it was not sufficient to get me or Lady […]

I was getting ready to board the tram going homewards yesterday evening, when I got behind an elderly couple who took their time to get up the stairs, naturally. While I was waiting in line behind them I felt a nibble in my backpack. I turned but there was nothing, so I turned back. I […]

I very much dislike these winter months. They are dark and extremely cold, so you simply move from building to building, and live and breathe in fluorescentlit hallways, offices or bathing in the LED light of your widescreen telly. I’m very much a bear, and I should be hibernating now, not running around with ethernet […]

We have been watching history take place in North Africa, thanks to the wonders of modern media. Without cellphones and cheap cell cameras, telephone networks and the Internet; would these revolutions have been possible? You need to sustain a certain amount of fire, and to know that brothers in arms on the other side of […]

In this "feature" I present to you e-mails that I have sent-to-all at work. They are mostly about local matters at work, this one as a response to the company sports team. Click here to search for more: From my Outbox Here’s the original e-mail I got: Dear all, Some of your colleagues have expressed […]

Following the civil disobedience in Tunisia, the old American ally Egypt is about to fall. So far 8 people have been killed in demonstrations, more than 800 are imprisoned, an air plane is waiting to take Egypt’s dictator Mubarak and his unpopular son and successor out of the country. Some reports tell us that the […]

I’ve been crap at blogging lately, I know. I’m all like, I’m about to blog right this minute when all of a sudden I just can’t be arsed. Though it’s more like: CAN’T BE ARSED! So I cancel on the mofo, words of wisdom* disappearing right into the browser cache, never to be seen again. […]