I went to hear one of my favorite Norwegian cartoonists, Mads Eriksen, speak, and took a picture of him working, but that didn’t come out, unfortunately. He was sketching what was to become this: Eriksen was pleasant and humble, and he did say something about Norwegians and their attitudes to the newspaper daily comics: Those […]
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Comics nerd
I scored rather highly on the sci-fi/comic part of the Nerd test I took. That has made me think about the cultural difference between the US and Norway (as I understand it) in comics: Norway has a number of monthly comic books – aimed at adults. They are not adult comics in the sense that […]
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Definitely blue
Bergen has decided. The Right party (blue) has chosen a coalition with the Progressive party (dark blue). Now they’re trying to get the Christian Folk party (light blue) to go in with them. The Progressive party has been not so much progressive (quite the contrary) as it has been, well, contrary. It’s been the protest […]
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Waking up blue
No, I’m not blue. The city is. It’s the day after local elections, and Oslo and Bergen are blue (still), and Trondheim is red (still). In the US, somebody fiddled with the colors on the chart showing where Republicans and Democrats are strongest and so went against an old tradition: That of assigning blue to […]
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I voted
It’s local election time in Norway. And I voted today. Norway is a constitutional monarchy that holds elections in odd-numbered years. Every four years there’s a national election, when they elect their parliament (Storting). The other every four years are local, when we elect our municipal and county parliaments. Apparantly, the deal with parliaments is […]
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More yr
Sravana and I have been having a discussion about using the new Norwegian weather website, yr.no, mentioned in my last post. She noted some oddnesses and I’ve noted them, too, but it is hard to tell if this is intentional or a bug. The site is still in beta. So for those of you who […]
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Cloud and Sun, meet Moon
Norway’s main broadcasting company (wholly government operated) and Norway’s meteorological institute have joined forces and produced a new website, with animated maps and stuff. It’s still in beta, but I’m finding it a rather fascinating alternative to the institute’s own pages. I can search for my own little neck of the woods, Fyllingsdalen. I am […]
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What’s in a name?
A good laugh. That’s what. Spurred by the Webmiztris’ comment on naming your kid Imola or Werdna (do read that one), I went looking for Imola. It’s a town in Northern Italy. But that lead me to this blogger’s category of bad baby names, and from that I laughed myself silly at this: Qwuincey – […]
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Modern nostalgia
June days are perfect for gathering people for almost anything. My trip to the city today to get my hair cut, had me getting off the bus one stop sooner than planned because I saw all this color on our “festival square” – Festplassen. It turned out to be a huge collection of Corvettes, handled […]
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To-dos done Friday June 8
Complained to employee ombudsman about Norwegians’ propensity to fire up the barbecue at the first sign of hot weather because co-workers chose to do right outside my office window today and the lighter fluid fumes actually made their way indoors. My sinuses hurt for several minutes after just a minute of exposure to that. Other […]
I just read an article on theists vs. atheists and it was not a waste of time. It was a very good look at how the non-believers and believers can get along and why insisting on not getting along isn’t a good idea at all. Over on my other blog I go on about God […]
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Food meme – sort of
Paula tagged me, and when I saw what I had been tagged with, I immediately felt at a loss. You see, my relationship with restaurants in Bergen is, well, more or less non-existent for a couple of reasons. First of all, my company has an excellent employee cafeteria and a hot dinner Monday through Thursday. […]
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Confirmation time
Things can be extremely seasonal in Norway, sometimes to the point of comical, as my grandma noted when she discovered that house slippers are sold only at Christmas time. That was then; now, slippers are sold all year round. However, don’t expect to find bathrobes in any other month than December. And so it is […]
A Roll in the Universe 