The Great Hanshin Earthquake
… usually known in the West as the Kobe Earthquake. Two days ago it was 20 year anniversary of the quake.
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Winter is coming 5: Defrost
This winter is horrible. Dark, rainy, windy. Almost no snow. Today it was at least around zero, so I decided to defrost the freezer. Putting out the frozen food on the balcony. For once, I was glad there was no sun. I defrosted it for the first time in over a year, since they put …
A Love Supreme
In December 2014, 50 years had passed since John Coltrane recorded maybe his most famous album, A Love Supreme. When I was younger I listened to a lot of music, and most of all to jazz (in a wide sense of the word). John Coltrane was one of those. I had a bunch of vinyls …
Linux Outlaws
I’ve always been an avid radio listener, and much less a teve watcher. However, I rarely listen to broadcast radio nowadays. That has partly been replaced by podcast listening. A lot of radio is rather mediocre, in my opinion. I just listened to the final episode of Linux Outlaws, also known as LO. It was …
Winter is coming 4: Seaside
The weather has since October been really gloomy with very little sun. It seems most of Europe experienced a very grey November 2014. Duffer climate? It is still comparatively mild weather. This fall I have so far only seen snow once. I haven’t been to the sea for some years, and December may not seem …
Towards the Light
I’ve previously written about two books from Dmitry_Glukhovsky’s post-apocalyptic Universe of Metro 2033: Metro 2033 and Metro 2034. There are many published in Russian, and some originals in other languages, but translations are few so far. In Swedish there are currently four of them. I have just read Towards the Light by Andrey Dyakov, who …
Winter is coming 3: Outdoor furniture
Last night we went from summer savings time to standard time. A pretty daft system if you ask me, but I am not going to rant about that. One mnemonic for the problem of turning a clock backwards or forwards one hour is that "when you put BACK your outdoor furniture to indoor storage is …
Spam revisited
I have previously [1, 2] mentioned schpam here. There is no solution to it, it will continue to be sent as long those who produce it believe in it and will continue having their bots spew it. Perhaps after any human have given up producing it, bots will continue on their own. It is probably …
Feeds
I post both in English and in Swedish. Lately I been posting much in Swedish, most which have been critical/sarcastic/angry opinions about Swedish politics, and about the Public broadcasting fee. My feeling is I have mostly posted in English, but right now there are 88 posts in each language! It’s purely incidental. And no, it …
Winter is coming 2: Clothes
I put away un-seasonal clothing into boxes and other storage. Maybe that is old-fashioned. Or maybe I just do not want drawers filled with shorts at Christmas? In summer, having winter boots and coats occupying the hallway is not very nice. Today I brought up some autumn/winter coats from the basement storage. It felt a …
Winter is coming 1: Cranes
In June last year, I moved from house in countryside (lived there for 23 years) to an apartment in town. The house was on a side of a not high mountain, with open landscapes, so one could see quite far in some directions. One seasonal change that was very obvious was the migration of birds, …
Sneaking in the queue
Between birth and death is life, and people rush in different parts of, and different ways in, their timeline.