Tim took a picture and I think it is absolutely stunning. Go look!
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Heia Brann!
“Heia” is an encouraging shout in Norwegian, and “Heia Brann!” is of course what any decent citizen of Bergen shouts at a home football (soccer, to you leftpondians) match. Bergen’s pride and joy and disappointment (a team for all eventualities) has just added a whole new section to their aging stadium, and it has turned […]
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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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Explaining bad luck
An insurance company in Norway has interviewed people about bad luck. Is it your own fault when you trip or when you spill or break something? When that happens, how do you explain it? You’re clumsy? You’re stressed or distracted? Or it’s just one of those things? There’s a fourth explanation they don’t list: It’s […]
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Birds, bulges and benches
Yes, another four days since I last posted. Here’s why: SATURDAY: “Dawn’s at 5:45 am. I’ll pick you up at 5 am.” So I got up at 4:30-ish, starting making the coffee for the thermos and gathering the breakfast sandwiches I had made the evening before, dressed warmly, stuffed a small rucksack and grabbed my […]
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Whoa, four days?
Seriously, has it been four days since my last post? What have I been up to? Well, it’s been another one of those weeks, where I’ve been busy with Real Life. Specifically, I’ve been busy gathering fleas. For a fleamarket. Yes, they call it that here in Norway, too (except it Norwegian, of course – […]
A Roll in the Universe 