I dag kunne eg lese om ein Italienar som søkte den Katolske Kyrkja om å annulere ekteskapet han hadde inngått med ei kvinne som ikkje ville slutte å røyke trass lovnader om ekting og æring i både gode og vonde dagar. I Finland har dei ein skilsmisserate pr 100 ekteskap på godt over 50. (51,2 […]
I dag kan ein lese i avisene at Flora er den einaste kommunen i landet som har ein plan for å handtere klimaendringar. Dette fylte meg med ei uendeleg kjensle av ro og tryggleik. Som etnisk Gloppar veit eg no at det berre er å setje meg i bilen og køyre i halvannan time så […]
Fuzzy-logic time has fascinated me ever since I installed my first copy of RedHat Linux back in 1997. The system clock could be configured to report time in human terms rather than as numbers. It would say ‘about five’ instead of 04:58:23. This made sense to me and still does. A multitude of different applications […]
It is often said, without erring, that the worst web sites belong to web designers. While Avinet, my company, is not into web design it is close enough for the old web site to have brought considerable shame to the name. It has been about a year and a half since we stopped updating our […]
Tractor driver chatting up woman from old Zetor-tractor at one of Zetor’s characteristic pub tables. After visiting Helsinki’s tractor pub Zetor, named after the Czech tractor brand popular during the Cold War, my interest for Leningrad Cowboys came to life again after years of slumber. The pub, owned by Aki Kaurismaki, was decorated with Zetors […]
I følgje Associated Press har ein tysk domstol ilagt ei sjølvproklamert heks å tilbakebetale eit større pengebeløp innkravd for salet av ein kjærleiksfremjande trylleformel. Dette etter at ein kvinnelege klient kunne konstantere at den tidlegare kjærasten hennar, heksekunsten til trass, likevel ikkje kom attende.
My great aunt, Anna, aged 92 at the time (2002), with her new sun-glasses. Who said old people are prejudiced and out of sync with the fashion industry?
I am dissatisfied with the Norwegian postal service in general and today in particular. I have been negatively affected by this organization three times today and still the time is no more than 12:46. Waking from what can only be described as relative beauty sleep at a fairly comfortable airport hotel in Bergen this morning […]
You all know these words we recently heard, were fascinated by and try to put to use as often as possible. We know how to pronounce them, we know how to spell them and we know approximately nothing about what they really mean. Occasionally this proves fatal, when the victim of our superior conversation technique […]
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