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Ben Nevis as a political metaphor(Note that most inline links in this post lead to Swedish sites. Look towards the end for Anglophone links.) Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the British Isles. Last weekend, I and a few others went to climb it, and I couldn’t help drawing parallels between that and a completely unrelated struggle for the top, which I have, to some extent, been involved in lately: that of Sweden’s newest political party. Continue reading “Ben Nevis as a political metaphor” »
The car, the warWalt Kowalski is an old war veteran who knows how to scowl, wheeze, growl, squint, spit, swear, use guns and make big, tough gang boys pee themselves (Clint Eastwood may be almost 80, but he hasn’t lost his touch). He has no more contact with his two sons and their families than is absolutely necessary, and the three loves of his life are his wife, his labrador and his 1972 Gran Torino. The story begins with Mrs Kowalski’s funeral, and Walt’s scowling at his grand-children’s bad posture, navel piercing and Austin Powers quotes, respectively (the cinema audience giggles). Then, the young padre who Mrs Kowalski talked to before her death tries to get a confession out of Walt, who confesses “that [he doesn't] want to confess to a boy who’s just out of seminar” (the audience snorts). That’s about the most polite we see him. Continue reading “The car, the war” »
It’s Bluefish from now onAllright, world, I’m sorry. I’m sorry for having first learnt how to use a computer on a Windows 3.11 machine. I’m sorry for thus having got used to coding, first in Notepad, then in Dreamweaver (never even touched the WYSIWYG features, I only used it as a fancy syntax highlighter, so sue me), before I even came close to learning to use Linux and good editors and web standards and godknowswhat at the age of sixteen. Five years of my life wasted, I know, I know. But to the point, even being a horrible horrible semi-wannabe-half-geek, I would have thought that simple commands such as Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V were sort of standard in GUI applications. I know that things don’t work that way at the command line, but it’s not the XFCE terminal I’m angry at right now but ViM. Stupid, stupid, stupid and still oh so annoyingly competent ViM. Continue reading “It’s Bluefish from now on” »
The State vs. TechnologyDear non-Swedish reader, Continue reading “The State vs. Technology” »
Pity, really“The best films are those that surprise.” Did I say that? I clearly ought to have been more precise. Because films that surprise by having you sit there for two hours feeling like a question mark might feel if a question mark would be capable of having feelings is one thing, if most questions are answered before the end, that is. It is another thing entirely to see the end credits scrolling up in front of you, still feeling like a question mark might feel, wondering whether you were slightly stupid when you asked yourself if this film would get ever so slightly interesting at some point. What if there are never any grand, intriguing questions to start with? Continue reading “Pity, really” »
Effing effing effingA brief warning: The following does not conform to the “I am so cool rational and intelligent” image I’ve been trying to adopt. It is also a bit rant-y and might sound slightly bitter. Consider yourself warned. All right, first off it should be noted that I have one hell of a talent for getting crushes on people (as long as the gender is right, other details don’t seem to matter). Secondly, I seem to have a bad habit of having these crushes for ridiculously large amounts of time. However, I have never before fallen in love, out of it and then back again with the same person after n years. There are so many ways in which this will fail. Continue reading “Effing effing effing” »
Those that surpriseThe best films are those that surprise. Those that surprise, for one, in the sense that at 6 p.m. I ask an open question to everyone in the room (”Anyone seen any of these films that are on tonight? Either of them any good?”), at 8 p.m. I find myself in a seat at Vue having followed a rather vague recommendation, and at 10.30 p.m., I push open the door, my head spinning. Oh, and how is it even possible that a film with a title like “Slumdog Millionaire” can keep you hanging until the very end, not knowing whether the guy will actually win the effing money or not? Continue reading “Those that surprise” »
Soit Q un voisinage de E …The thing is, I can’t say I know any of these people that I’ve lived with for five months. I’ve only managed to learn some five names, I’ve been out with them twice (they’ve gone out almost every weekend, from what I’ve heard — as usual I never know when there is something going on). Might I add that I felt utterly out of place both times … So when someone shows up in my door and goes “Hé, tu pars aujourd’hui et tu vas pas dire au revoir ?”, I get very, very nervous. How do you say goodbye to someone you don’t even really know how to say hello to? Continue reading “Soit Q un voisinage de E …” »
Pauline CrozeI am listening to the beautiful voice of Pauline Croze. I have finally got around to buying her first album from 2004 and it was 13 euros very well spent. It must have been during my Mathieu Chédid-surfing on YouTube in early 2008 that I came across track 5, “T’es beau”. Continue reading “Pauline Croze” »
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by Erika on Sunday 15 March 2009, 19:30 | Comments (1)
I just corrected the most stupid coding error I have ever been completely unaware of making. Only yesterday was I made aware that it has been impossible to post comments to my blog. I just thought that nobody wanted to comment. How was I to know?
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