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  • Two out of two in two weeks

    Calvi harbour, Corsica It shouldn’t be humanly possible, and yet I have managed to do it!

    Within a span of three measly weeks I have managed to have one camera stolen and another one lost! Maybe it is a sign that I ought to stop taking photos?

    If by any chance you’ve found a Canon IXUS 400 in the international departures area at Oslo airport Gardermoen, I would be much obliged if you would give it back to me. But I suppose that’s a lost cause.

    However, this could be an appropriate moment to introduce the first outputs from my very, very cheap replacement camera bought at Corsica last week where companions Harald, Øyvind and I went for spring holidays.

  • Corsica: Unexpectedly pleasant

    Calvi harbourFrom me and my two companions, Harald and Øyvind, arrived at Bastia Airport until we were installed in our rented appartment in Calvi it took no more than two hours. Two hours during which we managed to collect our luggage, hire a car and drive it to the opposite end of the island.

    Calvi, a place I must admit I had no expectations of prior to arrival, proved itself to be a very nice place! The big tourist trap hotels you’d expect from a french riviera similar destination were entirely absent. Left was a large selection of water-front-restaurants catering to the locals and tourists alike and targeting the boat tourists as much as those travelling overland.

    Having read about the terrible state of roads on Corsica we were somewhat sceptical to exactly how enjoyable the driving experience would be but upon arrival we found that all but a few of the Corsican roads held a standard far superior to the roads we were accustomed to back home in western Norway.

  • Off to Corsica!

    Territorial Collectivity Logo of CorsicaI’m off to Corsica for a few days, check the ‘mobile’ category from time to time to see whether I’ve managed to get a mobile Internet connection down there. If so, I shall upoad the odd photo now and then, followed by the regular flow of irrational and/or entertaining thoughts!

  • 32 ways to tick people off

    Came across this wonderful list of ways to tick off your colleagues at work or other people for that matter:

    HOW TO TICK PEOPLE OFF

    1. Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 99 copies.

    2. In the memo field of all your checks, write “for sexual favors.”

    3. Specify that your drive-through order is “TO-GO.”

    4. If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.

    5. Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets.

    …

    For the full list check out how to tick people off.

  • Gevinst: 24 dagar fengsel på vilkår og 1.000 kroner i bot

    Krangel om lodd i Vik

    Denne vakre saka var å finne i nettutgåva av Sogn Avis, 22 Mai 2007.

  • Varedeklarasjon: Commodore 1541 II

    I Januar 1988 kjøpte eg mi fyrste skikkelege datamaskin, ein Commodore 64 – “ny utgåve”!

    Kvittering for Commodore 64 kjøpt i Januar 1988

    Det var like over Jul, eg hadde nyleg fyllt 13 år og hadde “lagt meg opp” pengar frå både “jebuss” og Jul før eg som “avlasting” for mor mi skulle på besøk til tante Kjellfrid i Oslo.

    Tysdag, 12. Januar, nøyaktig 28 minutt før stengetid, bladde den unge Runar opp to tusenlappar, mottok 10 kroner i vekslepengar og rusla godt fornøgd ut på Karl Johan med ein datamaskin under armen. Derifrå gjekk turen sporenstreks oppatt på Carl Berner der vidunderet vart utpakka og to og eitt halvt års fråvere frå sosiale samanhengar innleia.

    Dataalderen

    Med unnatak av heilt naudsynte aktivitetar, slik som å tilføre kroppen væske og næring, vart all tid nytta framom dataskjermen. Eller dataskjermen er vel feil å seie: TV-skjermen. For Commodore 64 måtte koplast til eit svært, sterktstrålande og flimrande fjernsyn. Avstanden mellom meg og skjermen var sjeldan større enn 50 cm og eg kunne formeleg kjenne at det “hetna” i skallen medan eg sat der og trykte.

    Det er underleg nok mykje som kan seiast om denne tida men det får vere til ein annan gong.

    Nedgongstid

    På førevinteren 1991 gjekk maskina mi sund. Det var kaldt i rommet der den stod og det var godt å hete føtene på den svære spenningsomformaren til maskina. Men så smelta omformaren, så fastna sokkane og så slokna maskina. Både eg og maskina kom oss att etter denne hendinga men herifrå og ut var det unnabakke.

    Det var avgrensa med minne på ein Commodore 64. Det minnet eg hadde lov å programmere til starta på adressa 0801 hugsar eg. Men eg fann også at det var nokre adresser som “nesten” aldri var i bruk også før denne adressa. Eg lagde nokre lure program som nytta dette minnet – og med eitt var det beint slutt på Commodoren og ein ny fase av livet tok til. Den utan datamaskin.

  • To ting som held meg attende

    • Ettersom eg er tiltakslaus gjennomfører eg sjeldan dei brilliante ideane som frå tid til tid sler ned i hovudet mitt.
    • Då eg er bunden av konvensjonar sler eg alt for ofte frå meg å gjere ting som er uvanlege og urimelege men fullt ut moglege!

    Eg skal skjerpe meg…
    Eg skal skjerpe meg…
    Eg skal skjerpe meg…
    Eg skal skjerpe meg…
    Eg skal skjerpe meg…
    Eg skal skjerpe meg…
    Eg skal skjerpe meg…
    Eg skal skjerpe meg…
    Eg skal skjerpe meg…
    Eg skal skjerpe meg…

    …ein gong

  • To måtar å tilbakevise ein idé på

    Dersom nokon lanserer ein idé du ikkje likar kan du avvise den med eitt av dei følgjande argumenta:

    • Dette har vore gjort/tenkt/sagt før
    • Dette har ikkje vore gjort/tenkt/sagt før

    Desse to enkle argumenta dekkar absolutt alt og er difor populære når folk som ikkje har take seg bryet med å setje seg inn i ei problemstilling likevel skal kommentere den. Berre fylg med i media og offentleg debatt.

  • Open letter to the bastard who stole my camera

    Canon EOS 350DDear Bastard,

    You may be surprised to read this letter as we haven’t formally been introduced to oneanother. However, as you know we did meet briefly at Dublin Airport Sunday, 13th of May 2007. I, a law abiding citizen and amateur photographer, was there with my camera. You, a bastard, were there making an exhibit of your liberal attitude towards criminal law. I left without my camera, you, sadly, did not!

    I write this letter to express my worst wishes for your future. In fact, I curse you and hope you will be badly injured in a one-in-a-million exploding-camera-accident and choke on the lens until you turn an unhealthy shade of blue. If this scenario doesn’t sound too pleasant I would alternatively settle for getting the camera back. How about you give it to me eh?

    Oh, and in the not entirely unlikely event that you acquired more than one camera in this manner on that date, mine is a Canon EOS 350D with a SIGMA 18-125mm lens neatly tucked away in forest-green Lowepro camera bag.

    With absolutely no regards

    Runar

  • Lorem Ipsum

    I have always been curious of the meaning behind the latin sounding “lorem ipsum” text frequently used as “placeholder text” by graphical designers. Here’s what I found:

    The phrase originates from a speech, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, made by Marcus Tullius Cicero in the year 45 BC. The latin title means something like “On the Ends of Goods and Evils” and debates the purpose of good and bad in the world. The most commonly found text reads so:

    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. (Source: Wikipedia)

    Translated into English this means

    “Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?” (Source: H. Rackham’s, 1914)

    The first application to make use of the phrase in computing was Aldus PageMaker, the predecessor of most modern desktop publishing software, introduced in 1985 for the Apple Macintosh platform.