I learned a new Norwegian word this evening, kebabnorsk. This literally translates to “Kebab Norwegian”, which means the language spoken by people in kebab shops in Norway. I’m pretty sure I’m fluent in kebabnorsk 🙂 Jeg tror at jeg er flytende pä kebabnorsk 🙂
I’m just walking along, minding my own business listening to music in Berlin. Nekkminit, I look through a fence and see an elephant. It seems there are interesting things at every turn in Berlin!
I own a pair of Sony headphones which went through the washing machine once. They still work just fine. I wonder if it works with Sony Vaio’s too?
This image of a venus flytrap about to flower really captured my attention today. There’s some truly appealing about it, but I can’t quite pinpoint what.
Me, drinking 7up, whilst working for 10up, at co-up!
Thanks to Harriet for finding another ridiculously addictive thing to keep me from doing things I should be doing 😛 http://geoguessr.com/
The problem I see with analysing climate science for the masses, is that almost all data presented to the common person is manipulated either for or against climate warming being a problem. Most of the junk I see flowing through my Facebook feed alerting to the horrors of global warming, is nothing more than fear […]
The top one is my current keyboard, the bottom one is the US equivalent. I always thought the keys were identical between countries! I guess not :/ Does anyone know if NZ computers come with US keyboards? I know the layout is typically set to US, but I’m wondering about the actual keys themselves.
Tutorials I’ve followed trying to get OpenVPN working in Ubuntu (none are working for me) … http://naveensnayak.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/ubuntu-openvpn-with-ovpn-file/ http://askubuntu.com/questions/187511/how-can-i-use-a-ovpn-file-with-network-manager https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/459675:configure-linux-clients-to-connect-to-openvpn-server
Hmmm, it seems my typing speed has improved lately. That was with no warm up, no double take. Just randomly decided to do a test and out popped that result 🙂 Typing test result
I saw this giant monstrosity of a fruit in a small stall in Berlin. I’d have bought one, but I don’t think I would have managed to finish it 😛
Install Ruby and run this … ruby -e ‘C=`stty size`.scan(/d+/)[1].to_i;S=[“2743”.to_i(16)].pack(“U*”);a={};puts “33[2J”;loop{a[rand(C)]=0;a.each{|x,o|;a[x]+=1;print “33[#{o};#{x}H 33[#{a[x]};#{x}H#{S} 33[0;0H”};$stdout.flush;sleep 0.1}’ Thanks to Chris Laing for sending this to me.
Thanks to Milan for pointing out this terrifically informative video. I learned a lot about bounce dynamics from it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL2-9k519Gs
Basically the old testament tells you how inferior you are to God and all the things you have to do to make it up to him. Then the new testament says, “Scratch that. This dude died for your inadequacies. Follow him and be saved.” – via @ronalfy
If you don’t know what VIP Quickstart is then this post is not intended for you 🙂 Edit: I’ve been reading the Varying Vagrant Vagrants page, which says that version 4.2.16 of Virtualbox is incompatible with Vagrant. That is the exact version of Virtualbox which I’m using right now, so I’ll try downgrading and see […]
What is the most appropriate response to the following scenario … You wake up to hear crashing and bashing in your apartment. You figure one of your flatmates is just drunk and ignore it. The bashing goes on for a while. You keep ignoring it. Then someone walks straight into your room (no knocking, just […]
If people had the right to seek vengeance for things they saw as an injustice, society would become a very scary place. You may feel you are justified in seeking vengeance upon others, but I’m sure others feel justified in seeking vengeance for things you would not agree with. I recommend not setting an example […]
I’m currently sitting in a teeny tiny pub in Bonn (Germany), drinking something called a Kristall weiss, which according to the bar tender is apparently like a regular weissbier, but it’s filtered so it doesn’t have the cloudy weissbier thing going on. Imma starting to feel a little drunk 😉
At 29 years of age, Ross William Ulbricht has been charged with running Silk Road. What confuses me, is that these are supposedly the ways he got caught. All of which seem like trivial things that he should never have been doing. He avertised Silk Road on drug forums and bitcointalk.org with the username “altoid”, […]
My awesome team won at beer pong this evening 🙂
Darn it. Winter is coming! I took this photo on my way to work this morning.
https://plus.google.com/110903788122203327516/posts/QVSWv7p1QDz
Testing out Elementary OS. First task … install Nginx, PHP and MySQL so that I can run WordPress on it 🙂 I’m running it on a dog slow Dell Vostro 1510. Despite the laptop being stupidly slow, the operating system is running very quick indeed, much faster than stock Ubuntu. If things go to plan, […]
Thanks to @georidersmtb for becoming my 2000th follower 🙂
I ate almost nothing but vegetables for a week and felt awful. I ate nothing but carbohydrates on the weekend and now I feel great. I think I’ll stick with the carbohydrates from now on 🙂
God sent this to me.
I think it bent out of shape when I was going downhill. I was nonchalantly leaning back whilst cruising down the hill, and I think it was that point I noticed something was odd. I initially thought I was just imagining it and the handlebars had always been that far back. Then I noticed it […]
Me, wearing Tina’s lovely pink apron whilst cooking up some pizzas for a dinner party.
Is this new? Or did I just not see it all this time?
My claim to fame for the day … Kim Dot Com is following me on Twitter …
Why the heck does AirBNB need to manage my contacts or see the meta data in my Google drive for?
Courtesy of Nora 🙂
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Ohhh, look at this, it’s an embedded Facebook post. If you would like to do this on your own blog, keep an eye out for the new Metronet Embed Facebook posts plugin for WordPress, which is coming soon. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151772305231789&set=a.10150325114636789.390255.646001788&type=1 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152801372260207&set=vb.78844590771&type=3&theater
Thanks to Arnstein, I’m now the proud owner of a pair of Bose QC15 headphones. These things are awesome at blocking out the noise 🙂
Shamelessly stolen from Marcus.
Hmmm, so I thought Norway has basically no supermarkets whatsoever. The only things I’ve found are teeny tiny little things with almost not selection. Then whilst cycling along on the weekend, I came across this place called “Coop obs”. I didn’t have anything to lock my bike up with so could only scurry in, see […]
I’ve changed my blog theme over to the TwentyFourteen theme. It’s the new default theme coming in WordPress 3.7 3.8. Opinions so far seem to be good. I think I preferred the TwentyTwelve design the most though.