Crazy Japanese road construction
Google maps censorship catalog
Scary looted nuclear lighthouses on the north coast of Russia
Neil Hopcroft
A digital misfit
We went to the Technical Museum for my birthday last week. A number of the museums here in Stockholm open late on wednesday evenings, so we headed down after I finished work. The smell of machine oil perks me up every time, there is a main hall with many old steam and early internal combustion engines, and a few old cars including one of the original Saab 92s (not a Saabaru, so wrong but so right).
The interactive section is a lot more fun when its not full of children – I made meme_me a Möbius strip.
After the museum we went to the Kaknästornet, where we arrived just in time to get some food at the restaurant on the 30th floor. Being the only people there we got the finest seat in the house overlooking the lights of central Stockholm, with a view from Nacka in the south all the way around to Lidingö in the north. There was some excitement going on in the park around the tower, with some flashing blue lights apparently closing in around someone in the darkness.
And now I’m drinking apple and cloudberry yogourt, and reminiscing about previous birthday trips to the London science museum.
For some reason its a public holiday here in Sweden tomorrow, so I was looking for something to do. I wasn’t very successful but I did find Volvo abuse on a scale only possible in rural Sweden. Comes complete with a little giggle in the background that brings to mind hirez throwing a sack of hammers down a stone staircase.
The car was registering -5 outside today when I was heading out for a walk. I drove to the other side of the nature reserve north of Akalla, before walking across to the memory fields. There was a biting wind and the snow underfoot was being creaky. There were a few streams and pools nearby the path covered in ice, the surface on a couple had been broken to show an inch of ice on them.
I was glad to get back to the car and thaw out, its such a nice feeling being able to move your face again and getting the burning sensation in your ears so you know you didn’t get frostbite in them.
How to steal the Empire State Building
If you ever thought that video would be funnier with Benny Hill music
Burlesque Muppets (worksafe, not sanity safe)
Head and neck injury risks in heavy metal: head bangers stuck between rock and a hard bass
Happy New Year
One of my resolutions this year was (as probably has been before) to be a bit better at communicating – I’ve somewhat lost touch with a lot of people over the last couple of years. So I’m going to start writing here a bit more.
We started by seeing the new year in with the Burnt Out Punks, well, we would have done if there hadn’t been quite such a crowd in the way, so actually we just saw some flames twirling above peoples heads on stage.
The view over the city across the harbour from Skansen was fantastic, so we got a panoramic view of the cities fireworks.
Really, I was joking about a Lego wedding ring
Dammit, I haven’t yet gotten to the Frag Grenades in my Advent Calandar.
Linkblast
Linux boot sequence visualised
The first in an intermittent series celebrating Swedish cakes. Today we have a Napoleon Cake, a frog cake and a mini mint cake.
