I have not been a frequent poster to this blog lately, and so decided it was about time to post again. I’m not done with my Dresden/Berlin trip yet, and started looking at photos for the next installment. It was harvest time in the ol’ DDR when we were there, and ripe grains, fruits and […]
Wordless Wednesday
Well, we’d finished up at the porcelain factory/museum, and now it is time for lunch. No one prepared us for the ancient charm that is the town of Meissen itself, nestled on a large rock, with an assortment of buildings and its cathedral clinging to the sides like barnacles on a tidal rock. (I do […]
Flight of the Conchords (from New Zealand) play some wicked good disco guitar and ditto lyrics.
Welcome to George Washington National Park, Norway. No photos yet, but there is talk of oil exploration. Read all about it here: Department Of The Exterior Opens U.S. National Park In Norway OK, so my title is misleading. So’s the article. 😉
Wordless Wednesday – The rainy view through my boss’s window
Traffic fatalities so far this year in western Norway have been at an all-time high. 45% of the ones killed are between the ages of 15 and 25, and the main reason is speed. This is happening in a country that has mandatory and expensive driver’s training and exacting driver’s tests. It’s like the thousands […]
Norway’s government is bailing out Norwegian banks, or at least helping them reduce their losses. The front pages of Bergen’s two newspapers have been telling me since the summer that the real estate market now sucks. I am following an Icelandic woman’s blog and getting emotional about her problems and Iceland’s. It’s hard work not […]
The electrical inspector showed up early. I had made an appointment for 8:30 and at 8 am I heard someone open the fuse box in the stairwell. I opened my door – I was dressed, made-up, had finished breakfast and was leave-the-house ready (if you knew my usual state at 8 am, you’d realize what […]
Wordless Wednesday
Man-made, all natural. City, woods. New, old. Yesterday evening, as I stood outside the police station waiting (no, not to get arrested), I looked up the street that leads to Bergen’s cathedral and on up the hillside. The photo above is a feeble attempt at trying to capture the contrasts of modern cars, older buildings […]
A couple of weeks ago, my ISP was the target of a massive spam attack. That choked the normal flow of e-mail and I decided to switch to a different e-mail address. What I didn’t do, was correctly update the comments notification for my blog. I thought my readers were just being silent – or […]
One of the excursions out of Dresden was a morning visit to the town of Meissen. That told me nothing until it was announced that we were visiting a porcelain factory. Then a memory stirred in the back of my mind about Dresden and porcelain, and I had the sense to appreciate what I was […]
These past few days I have been busy doing other things besides sitting in front of the computer. I got some energy back (in spite of darker mornings), and a good reason to clean house (electrical inspection coming up), and have actually enjoyed taking before-pictures, clipping my iPod Shuffle to my clothing and chasing the […]
Wordless Wednesday – Kjosfossen in Flåm valley
Here are a few more pictures from Dresden, before “we” leave. First, we had to eat. It was noon when our official city guiding was done, and it was a rather bitter day weather-wise, so we wanted someplace warm, too. We were about 10 people who disappeared through a doorway, and down a long, spiraling […]
Finally! My absentee ballot arrived in the mail. My choices for president are: John McCain (pres.), Sarah Palin (VP) – Republican Cynthia McKinney (pres.), Rosa Clemente (VP) – Green Alan Keyes (pres.), Wiley S. Drake, Sr. – American Independent Ralph Nader (pres.), Matt Gonzalez (VP) – Peace and Freedom Barack Obama (pres.), Joe Biden (VP) […]
A researcher, Bente Ailin Svendsen, in linguistics at the university in Oslo has concluded that bilingualism is an advantage (Norw. article). It doesn’t lead to confusion; it leads to greater flexibility. The article says about her findings (quoted text my translation): Bilinguals react faster to stimuli than do monolinguals, and the brain seems to stay […]
Wordless WednesdayCourtesy of xkcd – because it wowed me.
A Roll in the Universe 