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I am so tyred
As from today I am a potential law breaker. My car still has studded winter tyres on, and from April 16, they can only be used if there is snow, ice etc on the road. Not a speck of snow in sight. Was...
View ArticleDon’t shoot, get fired
A cop is called to a situation where a man in practice wants help with his suicide. The policeman seems to have sense and maturity and sees the person as no threat to anyone except himself. The man...
View Article“the most enjoyable wedding ever”
As a certified couch potato, I been watching Netflix quite a bit this past year or so. I don’t have a televison gadget and I do not go to the movies so this is one way to keep up with the Joneses...
View ArticleDarth Fish
Reading (i.e. slack-surfing on Wikipedia) about anglerfish, I came upon the small deepsea-living genus Black seadevil. Anglerfish are not famous for their good looks. The Humpback Anglerfish looks like...
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Ginkgo
Leaves are sprouting on a small ginkgo tree in a pot on my balcony. It is a fascinating plant, sometimes considered a living fossil, as it is the only surviving plant of the Gingkoales plant order. It...
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Added a page to the top menu for easy subscribing by feed. Will not add automated subscription-by-mail for the time being. Seems to have that feature, I have to set up accounts at external sites(?)....
View ArticlePolly-tics
I suppose I am like most people these days, getting less and less impressed by politicians. Maybe it is just that we have more channels of information, seeing them from more angles, but don’t they seem...
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Melons
The watermelon transformed into a giant pacman! Hlep hlep! It must have been GMOed. One genetic mix that I advice against is melon + collie. That would be depressing. Speaking of GMO. China is...
View ArticleA wise fool
It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools (Ecclesiastes 7:5) The quote above is from The Revised Standard Version, printed by Oxford University Press,...
View ArticleNo choo choo for you!
A piece of small news from the old Swedish province of Dalsland. An illustration of doing work, in this case asphalting a road, with tunnel vision. A mono-mental mistake (ho ho ho). In Swedish, but an...
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The future is not here yet
An (imho) very interesting and entertaining interview with James Burke published on The Mind Renewed. I do feel some of his visions may be overly optimistic. In a future were nanotech is in every...
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Vinyl archive
For many years I had my old vinyl record collection stored away at my parents’ house. Three years ago I brought them to my present habitat, and also bought new speakers, amp, and record player. I did...
View ArticleBankster poetry
When the warmonger wants a better shank and willing to spend loads of bucks He is off to visit a shiny bank Run by a collection of schmucks
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Pressure cooking
This is not a thorough review, just my thoughts on a gadget. I’ve never had, or even used the classic type of pressure cookers. The one you put on top of stove like any pot. There are still models that...
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Lingua franca et japonica
Being of the luddite bent, I use my phone for talking, sms-ing, and listening to a few podcasts. That’s it. I am not interested in “smart” phones. They are usually much more breakable than the old...
View ArticleGot mylk?
Today I learnt that “mylk” is used for those non-dairy drinking products that imitate dairy products, such as almond, soy and oatmeal “milk”. Such products have been around for a quite some time, and...
View ArticleA whiter sceaga of face
Whilst I had golden locks as a small kid, most of my life I’ve had dark hair. Which is getting greyer and even whiter. It started with the bottom of the beard and is slowly moving up my face. That is...
View ArticleEUW
The EU is not a nice construct. It is not designed to be democratic. Even many years ago, if you breathed critique of EU on principled terms (such as its undemocratic, bureaucratic construction) then...
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Beans
Today I harvested broad beans. This is the third year I grow such. They became higher than previous years, up to 2 meters. While many beans and peas are more of the vine type, and need something to...
View ArticleProblemsolving
We have an expression in Swedish: “When the laugh gets stuck in the throat” cartoon
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