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The Left Hand of God
The Left Hand of God is a fantasy trilogy by Paul Hoffman. I read the first book a few years ago and found it very fascinating and atypical as fantasy goes. Its world is an alternative medieval Europe,...
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Sometimes things do not add up
A random and fun way to quantify are numbers to describe a person’s “distance” from another (famous) person. Connections are usually in collaborations or other interactions, and each step in distance...
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Pew pew
I’ve had an audio CD player (Philips) for many years that I kept for nostalgia and also for backup, in case I needed one. It was given as birthday present for a family member in 1989, so it is 29 years...
View ArticleAncestorbot
Recently some headline caught my attention. A funeral home are working to create an AI so customers (the living) can “talk” to the dead (deceased family member). There is also apparently a chatbot one...
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Food is political
The other day I heard about Bernie’s Yearning, a Ben&Jerry’s icecream flavor showing support for Bernie Sanders. Old news as it was for the 2016 campaigns. It was something about “tasting the...
View ArticleMercy, Mercy, Mercy
A very soothing groove. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy Cannonball could play anything, but just staying is this slow hymn like mode works. Light from 1966. The world needs mercy.
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Marx 200
The European version of Indianapolis 500. Ok, that is a lie. Fake news! Today it is Karl Marx’s 200th birthday. Celebration featured talks by among others, politician-bureaucrat President Juncker (who...
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Twitelidoo
When I saw this I first thought it was from the Onion: Listen up! I have not researched further, but it does sound like an Onion type of news. But then, reality and satire are close friends Twitter is...
View ArticleI åa ä e ö
“A language without umlauts sounds monotonous, harsh, and boring.” Trüth, Beaüty, and Volapük The title for this post is a sort of dialectal sentence which in correct spelling would be “I ån är en ö” =...
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The Warrior Kid
I’ve heard a few interviews with Jocko Willink, which I found interesting. I also listened to his podcast, which was not really my fare. My list of casts is too long anyway ;-). It was quite a while...
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Batriarchy
Batriarchy – when culture is bat shit crazy. First, I want to say sports are usually segregated according to gender, and also to age. That is not discriminatory segregation, it is about fairness1. So,...
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Cakes and ale
I’ve read some Chesterton recently. He is not well-known in Sweden, I discovered him via the Internet, forgot how or where. He has often a rather wild style, often with drastic contrasts. I find him...
View ArticleOtis Rush (1935-2018)
Yesterday I learnt that Otis Rush had passed away on September 29. I seem to miss a lot of news, albeit Otis Rush was not a very famous pop artists or similar. He is one of my favorite blues artists...
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Language and culture. 日本語
I own about 1.35 meters of books about Japan. Including some fiction. In English. I had an interest in Japan in the 90s, so I think none of the books is newer than 20 years. I also have some...
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One time coffee
Recently I was in a digitally carried communication instance and in course of the immensely intelligent waffle there evolved in my duffery mind a memory of an odd item I own. Yesterday I by accident...
View ArticleMore on mylk.
I saw an interesting thread on Twitter (which I do not use) about Oatly. I thought of put it in as comment to a previous post, but I have apparently closed old posts for comments and I cba to change...
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Lussebulle
Also known as “lussekatt“. Associated with Advent, but especially Day of St Lucia (December 13). I baked a bunch today. Too lazy to write recipe, but they can be found on the web.
View ArticleSwedish elephants
An interesting documentary/interview film about Sweden, now with subtitles in English and German: A Swedish Elephant. Independently financed. The Swedish public service television corporation, SVT,...
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