Our kitchen window
- When we go out for dinner my wife wants to sample everyone’s dishes. And I want to make sure no food is wasted. So we both end up sampling everyone’s dishes.
- Danish metal detectorists refer to their finds as “cousins”. “Can somebody please ID this cousin?”
- I’m a typical Swedish atheist. I’m uncomfortable with people having strong feelings about religion. Pro or con.
- When reading about 17th century Swedish historians in the Rudebeck vein I can understand that they would uncritically repeat whatever a trusted authority had said. But I’m amazed by their willingness to just make shit up in great detail.
- A lot of the time I get the feeling that commercial space companies are just rehashing the Apollo program’s inventions. But SpaceX’s reusable rocket stage is something radically new, which will get the cost down for launches!
- The bones of Saint Erik, the national saint of Sweden, have undergone scientific reappraisal. Sabine Sten and her team will announce their results in Fornvännen 2016:1. I am pleased and entertained to note that three of thirteen co-authors have non-Swedish surnames. And eight of them are women.
- As a kid I heard ABBA’s song lines “Look into his angel-eyes / One look and you’re hypnotized / He’ll take your heart and you must pay the price”. And I thought they were about a charismatic debt collector.
- My buddy got hit with an inept swindling attempt. Dude tries to take out a really bad $2500 loan in his name, and opts for the physical signature method of identification. So my buddy gets the paperwork mailed to him. With the dude’s easily identifiable email address on it. And his bank account number. *slow clapping*
- What’s that 80s/90s movie where they’re dubbing porn and one actor hasn’t showed up, so the other guy has to jump between two mikes grunting erotically in two voices? [Jesus of Montreal]
- So happy about NASA’s sudden budget hike! And it’s largely thanks to one Texas Republican congressman who’s obsessed with looking for life under the ice on Europa. It’s now US federal law that NASA must try to put a lander on that icy moon!
- I like lists with hanging indents.
- Another language annoyance: writers who get download and upload mixed up. As in “I downloaded pics of my kids from my PC onto my phone”.
- The effect of sunshine and caffeine on my mood makes me wonder if I really do have an immaterial soul.
- The little plastic skis in the collar flaps of my good shirt have gone bendy. They are now collar messeruppers.
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Our kitchen window
- When we go out for dinner my wife wants to sample everyone’s dishes. And I want to make sure no food is wasted. So we both end up sampling everyone’s dishes.
- Danish metal detectorists refer to their finds as “cousins”. “Can somebody please ID this cousin?”
- I’m a typical Swedish atheist. I’m uncomfortable with people having strong feelings about religion. Pro or con.
- When reading about 17th century Swedish historians in the Rudebeck vein I can understand that they would uncritically repeat whatever a trusted authority had said. But I’m amazed by their willingness to just make shit up in great detail.
- A lot of the time I get the feeling that commercial space companies are just rehashing the Apollo program’s inventions. But SpaceX’s reusable rocket stage is something radically new, which will get the cost down for launches!
- The bones of Saint Erik, the national saint of Sweden, have undergone scientific reappraisal. Sabine Sten and her team will announce their results in Fornvännen 2016:1. I am pleased and entertained to note that three of thirteen co-authors have non-Swedish surnames. And eight of them are women.
- As a kid I heard ABBA’s song lines “Look into his angel-eyes / One look and you’re hypnotized / He’ll take your heart and you must pay the price”. And I thought they were about a charismatic debt collector.
- My buddy got hit with an inept swindling attempt. Dude tries to take out a really bad $2500 loan in his name, and opts for the physical signature method of identification. So my buddy gets the paperwork mailed to him. With the dude’s easily identifiable email address on it. And his bank account number. *slow clapping*
- What’s that 80s/90s movie where they’re dubbing porn and one actor hasn’t showed up, so the other guy has to jump between two mikes grunting erotically in two voices? [Jesus of Montreal]
- So happy about NASA’s sudden budget hike! And it’s largely thanks to one Texas Republican congressman who’s obsessed with looking for life under the ice on Europa. It’s now US federal law that NASA must try to put a lander on that icy moon!
- I like lists with hanging indents.
- Another language annoyance: writers who get download and upload mixed up. As in “I downloaded pics of my kids from my PC onto my phone”.
- The effect of sunshine and caffeine on my mood makes me wonder if I really do have an immaterial soul.
- The little plastic skis in the collar flaps of my good shirt have gone bendy. They are now collar messeruppers.
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