I promised to write only about important, essential things, no personal jabjab that makes some blogs so tideous. Rabbits are important. My place is now a bunnyplace. I didn’t realise how much I’ve been missing companion animals. How calming it is to work in the home-office to the eager sounds of rabbits busily minding their […]
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Jan 09
Ad “The Dangerous Indifferency”
Wow! I am going to have to moderate yesterday’s post substantially. While I’m still as puzzled by the selective blindness I’ve seen many times, the people of Oslo have proven that there’s still solid numbers of people who care. When a city of half a million can present 40 000+ people for a procession, there […]
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The dangerous indifferency
I turn on the news. I can’t watch and turn off again. I turn it back on, it’s too important, too big to be ignorant about. I’m of course talking about the war on the edge of Europe. This is no political blog, but I can’t hold my peace on this. But instead of commenting […]
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Mail rant [warning: general lack of punchlines]
16:30: OK so I was off to the post office to dispatch a middle-sized mountain of winter presents. Walking the bike and balancing the stuff on it, as the Spar post office is on the way to the bike library and as I go home on Friday my issue needs returning. Post office closes at […]
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Why I’m in science
So what do you do? [Icebreaker phrase alarm! Aight, I know what’s coming] -Biochemistry. (The degree is really called Biotechnology, but biochem more/less covers it and saves some definition of terms to someone who’s not terribly interested anyway. Also, it’s easier to pronounce.) -Whoah! *drawing slightly back* Science is so hard! Why do you do […]
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Peter Rabbit
I want to share with you my childhood hero Peter Rabbit. It’s of the very predictable and safe tales that children love, where the naughty get punished, mom’s love knows no end and everyone is safe and warm in the end. The romanticized and neat picturing of the English countryside absolutely enthralled me, still does […]
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St. Andrew’s céilidh
In the rest of the world, November 30 is known as All Saints’ Day. Here it is devoted to one saint alone, how gracious. St. Andrew was a holy man who lived everywhere else than in Scotland, but after his death another holy guy named St. Rule had a dream saying Andrew’s remains were to be […]
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Nessie and E.T.
Birthdays: Generally a rather enjoyable concept. I did not have too high hopes for this one, being away from everyone and all, but today’s been a blast. I’ll take you through it: * Sleep in (no classes. What a pleasant coincidence) * Discovering there’s been a heavy snowfall during the night! (Aggy is a sucker […]
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Recap
Two weeks to go and I guess it’s time to sum up some experiences. First of all, the Scots are the best people in the world and that is for sure. Easy going and real folks. Much easier to get to know than the shy Norwegians. The stereotype of them being greedy (as conferred by […]
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Update
Generic update: I’m quarreling with my computers, this is why my blogging has been less than great lately. So today I was at PC World (the shop, not the magazine) to update things – mine are over four years now and both are being bad-tempered, so I believe it can be justified. But for Miss […]
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