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Garlic
Homegrown garlic. They do not get that big, maybe not warm enough, or may be wants different soil. But a decent catch. Time to plant new ones for next year’s harvest. The can sprout now and even grow...
View ArticleEuropean “patriot”
One of the EU top bureaucrats, Frans Timmermans, preaches against the evils of “nationalism” and for a European “patriotism”. Patriotism is a US term, made for a union. The US is a state, and that is...
View ArticleFeed feed
For a while the feed hasn’t worked well. It’s been an ebb in the flow(!). Today I disabled the plug-in WP Super Cache. I have used it for a long time, but seems to recently make problem. I tried change...
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666 to HEL
Ok, this is a bit silly (even for me) but I find it a trifle amusing as in seeing funny letter combos on car registration plates. The Finnair flight AY666 from Copenhagen (CPH) to Helsinki (HEL) made...
View ArticleSuing for “science”
I wouldn’t be surprised if taking scientific disagreements to court (!) is a general modern trend but I have no overview at all of this phenomena. But one sees it occasionally. Hopefully it is not...
View ArticleNovember 6
Today’s date in Sweden is mostly associated with King Gustaf II Adolf (Gustavus Adolphus), as he on that date in 1632 got lost in the fog in Lützen, and was killed on the battlefield. He is one of the...
View ArticleThe green green grass of something
This is funny. Maybe too funny to not be a troll for the lulz. Interview One point (I think) of the “troll” is that corporations and many politicians really want to find out ways to profit from the...
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Late cranes
My most repeated subject on this blog might be cranes. Since I moved to the town, I have not been able to see them, but I hear them, spring and fall. They usually fly high, and can be really hard to...
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Yule bread
This blog starts to look like lazy Hollywood, making sequels to earlier posts This year I was quite early in baking Yule bread. I thought of inviting the nearest family to First Sunday of Advent...
View ArticleCheers for Finland
Today it is exactly one hundred years since Finland declared its independence. Big congratulations. Sending a big virtual birthday cake across the water to our Nordic neighbor!
View ArticleHistory of law
I heard about this on a Swedish podcast. I find it really interesting. The uniqueness of Western Law (I started to write more about it, but realised it would become long and probably not very good, as...
View ArticleQuantative queasing
When money has no cost, the consequences of using it irresponsibly have no cost either. The bankers’ bets and actions crushed the global economy before, and they will again. Nomi Prins, All the...
View ArticleNativity deranged
Apparently, at Christmas time every year, the Vatican (or is it The Holy See?) arranges a large scale outdoor Nativity scene. I do not know how previous scenes were made, but I guess they would look...
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Oaf loaf
Happy New Year, Ye Mighty Web Surfers Who Dare To Visit This Blob… err… Blog! When baking, and you discover you have not quite enough flour to shape the dough into loaves or smaller units, one can put...
View ArticleUnrest
Unrest is a 2017 documentary by a person with ME/CFS about her situation and also about that of a few others. It can now be seen on Netflix. It took years to make. I’ve heard and read about it for...
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Red candle
The last red candle of this season. Smoke can be heavier than air. Or is it a wyrm rising out from a strange volcano? Once I stood on the edge of a volcano, the ever huffing, puffing, smelling and...
View ArticleIt’s inside!
I guess this is not news to most people, but the chip maker Intel has been revealed, via the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, to put in unchangeable code in their chips that is able to perform all...
View ArticleThe Bugcast 500 episodes
On Friday, the Bugcast broadcasted their 500th episode. That is a great accomplishment! To create stuff means, among other things, to just keep working at it (or is it work on? my English…). Almost...
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Angry tolerance
In the growing politics of censorship, “tolerance” and “intolerance” are two popular keywords. As many keywords, they are vague, applied to people and and views one dislikes, or, forgive me, is...
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