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cultural consuming, creating, reviewing, discussing technical + general geekness and all that pixel-pushing. political copyright vs human rights, panic vs privacy … personal and that which does not fit in elsewhere. subscribe to posts, comments, categories … Erika Nilsson Posts in English Ten years more by Erika on Wednesday 5 August 2009, 23:31 \| Comments (1) If laughing makes your life longer, I just added about ten years to mine. I went to see “The Ugly Truth”. It’s a romcom which is, all in all, rather stupid and definitely not for the faint-hearted (the number of appearances of the word “fuck” alone proves both points). However, I admit that Gerry Butler is cool even when he plays a chauvinistic pig and I’ve already touched on the fact that the film was so hilarious that I just could not stop laughing. I laughed so hard that my stomach muscles actually hurt. Also, “The librarian and the stripper” sounds like a cool name for a film. (Not that kind of film.) Tags: cinema, films, laughing, note, The Ugly Truth Posted in Cultural, English, Reviews \| Comments (1) Bloody timetables again by Erika on Wednesday 17 June 2009, 14:42 \| Comments (3) Of course, I should have learnt not to trust timetables here in Metz. Having done just that, concluding from the fact that both my resits were scheduled to take place this week that I could take a plane home on Saturday, I suddenly find myself unable to sit one of them because, guess what, it has been moved to next Friday . It’s pure luck that my Geometry resit was moved from today to this Friday, and not the other way round, and it was very lucky that I didn’t quite trust the word of the somewhat absent-minded professor who told me about it, but went to check the notice boards instead, or I would have had no idea. Conclusion: Whatever I do, there is no way in hell that I can pass all my courses, and hence no way in hell that I will be allowed to keep my Mobility grant, without spending hilarious amounts of money on extra flights and nights in hotels. I don’t have money to spend on extra flights and hotels. And I want to go home. This annoys me to such a degree that I don’t have words to express it. Tags: exams, grr, Metz, timetables Posted in English, Personal \| Comments (3) This is not … by Erika on Saturday 30 May 2009, 09:03 \| Comments This is not a video blog or a music blog, but traditions are meant to be challenged, and John Mayer seems like a wonderful excuse for doing so. Enjoy. I certainly did. Tags: Heart of Life, John Mayer, music, videos Posted in Cultural, English \| Comments Snippets by Erika on Monday 25 May 2009, 00:01 \| Comments (2) Something I’ve been playing with for a while. None of it particularly new, most comes from the bus trip home from Fort William; for now it’s a work in progress, unordered snippets to piece together somehow and to build on. For one thing, it needs more verses. And order. (I wish I had more time to, without I-should-be-revising-type guilt, spend on this sort of stuff.) Continue reading “Snippets” » Tags: creativity, ideas, music, note, songs Posted in Cultural, English \| Comments (2) My Metallic Soul by Erika on Wednesday 20 May 2009, 20:39 \| Comments (3) So instead of going “OMG oops I haven’t blogged in a month I’m sorry what am I going to doooo”, I act like nothing has happened (ahem) and present for your delight the lyrics of newly made “My Metallic Soul”, still somewhat at beta stage. Working title was “Sad Robot”. Backstory/justification: I watched Star Trek and, inevitably, a period of S.P.O.C.K. obsession followed. Continue reading “My Metallic Soul” » Tags: creativity, music, omg oops, poetry, sad robot, songs Posted in Cultural, English \| Comments (3) The Pirate Party UK by Erika on Monday 20 April 2009, 19:30 \| Comments (2) A month and a half ago, I posted a message to the — sadly rather sleepy — PP International forum, asking who would like to join me in changing the world, starting with the UK (I didn’t phrase it quite like that, but that’s the idea ). As we all know (or perhaps not — not everything reaches the mainstream media these days), personal integrity, the Internet and freedom of speech are under attack. Not only in the UK, but all over Europe. We cannot let this happen. Something needs to change, and it’s about time that we change it. Let’s start by changing the UK. Let’s start by starting our very own Pirate Party. Continue reading “The Pirate Party UK” » Tags: change, pirate movement, PPUK, The Pirate Party, UK Posted in English, Political \| Comments (2) Before/after by Erika on Saturday 18 April 2009, 16:42 \| Comments (2) First, some background. I’ve had the idea for a few months to introduce some more interesting categories to my thoughtbook (see top of this page). I’ve been writing about quite a diverse range of things, and everyone might not be interested in reading all of that. Therefore I also wanted some more RSS feeds, preferrably one for each category. (The plugin WP More Feeds sorts that, but more on the Wordpress plugins I can’t live without in a later post.) Here’s where I ran into a tiny problem. The headers — that is, the BIG colourful ones — have previously been static images, using a pretty font the name of which I can’t remember, because at some point in February my trusted laptop dies miserably, and with it went all the fonts I had downloaded. New categories meant a need for new page titles, so my first idea was to find the old font or one that looked like it and then let something like sIFR or FLIR render the headers. Continue reading “Before/after” » Tags: AJAX, fonts, New Thoughtbook, pretty, redesign, webdesign, Wordpress Posted in English, Personal, Technical \| Comments (2) For sale: Physical representations of culture by Erika on Friday 17 April 2009, 23:14 \| Comments (4) About three hours ago, I walked past the cinema, and I thought to myself that it would be nice to go see The Boat That Rocked (a wonderful film for which, one of these days, I must write a review) again. Then I realised what a bad case of hypocrisy it would be to first loudly curse the film industry fascist copyright lobbyists, and then walk straight up to the cinema counter like a docile pop culture vegetable and hand over my money to Universal Pictures. Continue reading “For sale: Physical representations of culture” » Tags: CDs, copyright, DVDs, films, industry dinosaurs, music, physical representations Posted in Cultural, English, Personal, Political \| Comments (4) I am a free blogger by Erika on Wednesday 1 April 2009, 21:59 \| Comments I am a free blogger. I also support all other free bloggers out there, and I want free speech to remain free, “AFK” as well as online. Just thought you should know. And, if you also want blogging to remain free, please consider sending a picture of yourself with the words “Free blogger” to join the thousands at http://www.beppegrillo.it/iniziative/freeblogger/. Or have a look at http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/11/italian-bloggers-cal.html. The Web is, it seems, under more of a threat than ever. Tags: big brother society, free blogger initiative, free speech, internet censoring Posted in English, Personal, Political, Technical \| Comments What Lucinda said! by Erika on Wednesday 1 April 2009, 20:58 \| Comments Short summary I am disappointed. Medium summary When I pay to see a psychological thriller, I want a psychological thriller, and not Biblical prophecizing cock-and-bull. Please disregard my religion or lack thereof for a minute; Ezekiel meets Star Trek is not the ideal resolution to an intriguing supernatural and numerological riddle, and I find it hard to believe that I would have thought it was even a year ago, when I classified myself as religious. The catchline of the film was “Knowing is everything”, well, let me rephrase that: “Knowing” is apparently bloody pointless. Continue reading “What Lucinda said!” » Tags: Biblical crap, cinema, films, Knowing, Nicholas Cage, righteous indignation Posted in Cultural, English, Reviews \| Comments Older Entries » Tweeted Would this be what's wrong with the 'bay? http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10645779 #tpb 03:18:48 AM May 18, 2010 from web Rights holders: "We should change the word 'piracy' - it's too sexy" http://bit.ly/cn3Lnv 04:53:56 PM March 21, 2010 from web Tier 4: Actually more convoluted than I imagined. 06:40:10 PM March 10, 2010 from web IS AWESOMELY KNACKERED. 12:47:55 AM February 28, 2010 from txt Group photo of speakers at Tomorrow's Mathematicians Today. I'm near the middle, gazing admiringly towards Prof Stewart http://bit.ly/dBI2kv 04:27:30 AM February 23, 2010 from web Find me Links ‘About’ page Calendar Favourites Photos Thoughtbook Subscribe Feed info Blogged Ten years more Bloody timetables again Dagens fniss — ägg och felskrivning PP for pppresident! 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