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My brave little boy is home alone :(

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:42:45 +0100

My brave little boy is home alone :(

Partysvensker come home!

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:58:42 +0200

HEI LOVISA OG THERESE <3

Nå har dere vært borte lenge nok. Kom hjem!

Sverige er SÅ 2008 liksom.

"spm: Hvor mange timer er det i en uke? Therese; mener du i Norge eller?"

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:20:23 +0200

“spm: Hvor mange timer er det i en uke? Therese; mener du i Norge eller?”

- Therese Birgersson, tp kveld på Frogner.

LOL

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:38:03 +0200

LOL

Project Geek

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:06:00 +0200

Aight, det er herved bestemt at min nye crib skal geekifiseres.

Nå som jeg for første gang bor helt alene, er det ikke lenger noen krav til sosialisering med andre når jeg er hjemme. Hva jeg gjør der, er det ingen som vet uansett.

Så hva er planen?
Jo først skal gangen pimpes med veggmaleri fra Sin City. Ikke fra filmen, men bøkene. Liten men viktig detalj. Når det er fullført, skal soverommet angripes. Om jeg fikser et übernerdete veggmaleri utelukkende basert på egen fantasi og ferdighet, eller om jeg bestiller ferdiglagde Super Mario “wall graphics” (vettafaen hva man kaller det på norsk) fra ThinkGeek, er enda ikke bestemt. Men noe blir det.
En haug andre gadgets fra ThinkGeek skal forøvrig også bestilles, men det kan jeg komme tilbake til når jeg en vakker dag får fingeren ut av rævva.

Men GeekPoints får man jo ikke akkurat av bare å male greier. Selvfølgelig skal Wii’en min joine Xboxen, og en ordentlig nerdrekrok skal opprettes så snart sofaen min er på plass på mandag. Ledninger skal trekkes langs listene, tvhyllen min må flyttes til leiligheten, og så er det game on.

Om ikke så alt for lenge skal jeg svi av et par tusen på den nye, lydløse Xboksen også. Min nåværende Xbox fungerer fremdeles utmerket, men da jeg har klart å dodge RROD i snart fire år, frykter jeg at den vil takke for seg any moment. Inntil den gjør det, kan den holde meg og TV nr 2 med selskap på soverommet. Å ha to gamingstasjoner i leiligheten er jo alt annet enn feil.

Videre, så skal Kinect selvsagt kjøpes i november. Før den tid, skal jeg dog få reparert laptopen min. Den vil hverken gå på nett eller fungere på noen som helst annen måte, så jeg priser meg lykkelig for den fantastiske garantien som gjelder frem til januar.

Så snart laptopen er fikset, skal den få æren av å bringe meg inn i den fantastiske MMORPG verdenen, en verden den godeste Lovisa alt har levd i et par år. Det stemmer folkens; vi snakker WoW. Så om det er noen der ute som føler de har sett for mye av meg i det siste, så frykt ei. Snart blir dere kvitt meg.

Game on mothafackas!

Gamle Kruseduller

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:28:00 +0200

Jeg logget nettopp inn på google analytics for å endre innstillingene for denne siden, da jeg oppdaget at alle mine gamle hjem på webben fremdeles generer en del random treff. Jeg var sikker på at de gamle stedene var slettet, men det var tydeligvis ikke tilfellet. Jeg har ledd godt og lenge av de tidligere prosjektene mine - og er lettere lykkelig for at en del har forandret seg siden den gang.
Samtidig synes jeg det litt leit at jeg ikke har klart å gjøre som kjæreste Lovisa, som har spart alt på ett sted. Hun er rett og slett litt smartere enn meg I guess.

Jeg vil nå alikevel anbefale alle å ta en titt her. Jeg kjenner ingen som skriver så underholdende som min mor; jeg forsøker fremdeles overtale henne til å skrive noe annet (og litt lengre) enn e-post.

Jeg snublet også over en del gamle tegninger jeg har laget (de kan sees i innlegget nedenfor). Det er rart å tenke på at jeg ikke har tegnet noe som helst på over et år nå. Jeg har vel strengt tatt ikke gjort noe som helst kreativt på skremmende lenge. I morgen skal alt av penner, blyanter og tusjer flyttes fra mine foreldres hus til min nye leilighet, og jeg sverger på alt som er hellig at noe skal lages i løpet av helgen. Om det så blir skisser til veggmaleri eller ren ventilering på papiret (finnes faen ikke bedre terapi) gjenstår å se.
Noe må i alle fall gjøres - dette skal ikke ende på samme måte som musikken.

Photo

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:27:00 +0200

Death Spank

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:16:00 +0200

After reading several reviews of Death Spank yesterday, I realized that I had no options - the game had to be mine.

And now I am addicted.

I love the graphics, I love the music, I love the characters, I love the dialogue, I love the humor and I love the bizarre quests.

So what kind of game is it? Think Diablo meets Monkey Island, and Bob’s your uncle. The game is packed with terrible jokes of the kind you cannot help laughing at, it’s full of parodies of other games, loaded with irony and selfirony, and parodies of the selfirony and so on.

Death Spank costs practically nothing and is guaranteed to make you laugh your socks off, so I suggest you get your ass home and download it through your Xbox 360 (or PS3 if you’re one of those people).

Trying out the trampoline. I <3 spring!

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:17:04 +0200

Trying out the trampoline. I <3 spring!

/Action!

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:14:00 +0100

OK. Time to do something with this pathetic excuse of a blog.

Lot’s of things have happened since I came back to Norway, but I’m going to save that for the amazing biography that will be written once I’m rich, famous and dead. It involves the fascinating transformation from brunette to blond, career shit, new flatmates, a dog, being drunk and other exiting tales. I bet you can’t wait to read it.

From now on there shall be updates (no level of quality guaranteed) with both text and photos. Hopefully more often than once every month, but no promises. I like to pretend that I actually have a life.

/ttyl

How can you not love this.

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:52:11 +0100

How can you not love this.

/not dead

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:19:32 +0100

Apparently people still drop by my blog.

I guess I should start publishing stuff again, but I don’t know what to write or where to start. I haven’t died or anything and stuff is happening in my life, It’s just that I don’t feel like writing any of it down and sharing it with the rest of the world. It’s not that exciting anyways, so it’s not like you’re missing out.

Oh well.

maybe tomorrow

/kill me

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:09:00 +0100

Weather forecast for Oslo the coming week:

Wednesday: -15 degrees Celsius
Thursday: -14 degrees Celsius
Friday: -9 degrees Celsius, snow
Saturday: -11 degrees Celsius
Sunday: -17 degrees Celsius. I refuse to leave my bed this day.
Monday: -16 degrees Celsius. I have to go to work. Argh.
Tuesday: -16 degrees Celsius. I have to go to work. Again. Fuck.
Wednesday: -16 degrees Celsius. Same as above.
Thursday: -14 degrees Celsius. Yay.

..and this is pretty much what the next three (!!!) weeks will be like.
WHY did I ever leave Japan? Oslo is covered in 0,5 m of snow, and is cold as fuck. Can’t wait for summer.

Source: www.yr.no

Made it!

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:26:47 +0100

Made it!

OK. I’m at Kobe airport waiting for the first flight of what shall from now on be known as the...

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:43:10 +0100

OK. I’m at Kobe airport waiting for the first flight of what shall from now on be known as the journey from hell. Dont ask me why I’m flying from Kobe - that remains a mystery for me as well. Oh, and everything kilroy and whoever i spoke with from ANA said about not being able to cancel my ticket turns out to be bullshit. Now add the fact that i have the heaviest bag in the world, in addition to one big camera bag, two laptops and my normal bag. Did I mention that i have exactly three hours from this flight lands at Haneda until my second flight leaves from Narita? and yeah.. they couldt check me in from here either. Feel free to place bets on whether ill make it or not. Oh, and im broke, so taxi is not an option. merry fucking christmas!

The people

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:28:43 +0100

The people

This little badboy decided to join us for lunch last Monday, and...

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:14:00 +0100

This little badboy decided to join us for lunch last Monday, and ended up being the target for my beloved camera.

Pretty spider :)

A note on onomatopoeias

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:24:50 +0100

This post is reblogged from ledenes. I’ve no idea how I came across his blog, but I’m so glad I did. It kicks ass. I suggest you take a peek at it :)

/Julie

ledenes:

One of the things that fascinates me the most about the Japanese language are Japanese onomatopoeias. They use them in regular conversation in such a variety of ways that I’ve never seen before. First of all, they are most often (though certainly not always) a repetition of the same sound twice. And they do have basic ones like we have in English, for example “gan-gan” is roughly equivalent to “bam” or “bang” in English. ”Kushan” is the English “atchoo.” But they get even more specific than that.

“Bisha-bisha” is the sound of liquid continuously hitting a surface, like rain on a window (like “pitter-patter,” although “pitter-patter” can be used to describe things other than just liquid). ”Kyat-kyat” is the sound an animal or person makes intermittently when it’s excited or in high spirits. ”Zubu-zubu” is the sound of something soft being repeatedly stabbed or penetrated by something long and thin, like walking through fresh snow (the snow being repeatedly penetrated by your feet).

“Doki-doki” is one I hear and use fairly often. It is the onomatopoeia for a heartbeat, like the English “lub-dub,” but more specifically a hard and/or fast heartbeat. And although it represents the sound of a heartbeat, it’s used in regular conversation to describe the feeling of nervousness. Instead of simply saying “I was nervous,” people will often say “I was doki-doki,” which means exactly the same thing, only it’s much more descriptive of the actual feeling.

And there are so many others that, in the same way, do not describe sounds, but instead certain types of movements, actions, or feelings. And they can have rather complex meanings. The word “fuwa-fuwa” is often used to express something that appears smooth and soft, like baby’s skin or a marshmallow. And to get more complicated, when my kindergartners, inevitably, start to touch and feel my beard, they often say that it feels “funya-funya,” which means something like “soft but inflexible.” There’s also “nou-nou,” which means acting carelessly despite being in a situation that requires one to act with care.

I was once trying to explain how difficult it is to eat rice with chopsticks when it’s not sticky because it won’t stay together and the person I was talking to taught me “boro-boro,” which describes when something breaks apart and falls haphazardly to the ground, as does rice from chopsticks when it’s not sticky.

What really amazes me is how commonly they are used and how commonly they are understood. In English, we don’t really use onomatopoeias that often, aside from, like, animal noises. But in Japanese there are thousands of them, from the sound that boiling water makes to the rough feeling of sandpaper, and they are used all the time (some more often than others, of course). I have a dictionary that is solely for Japanese onomatopoeias, that’s how many there are. And I think it’s a really wonderful aspect of the Japanese language. ”Doki-doki” is much more descriptive than saying “nervous.” ”fuwa-fuwa” is much more descriptive than saying “soft.” It makes conversations way more interesting.

Ah, Tuesday again. Lovely. This Tuesday has decided to bless me with shitloads of reactivation...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:58:18 +0100

Ah, Tuesday again. Lovely.

This Tuesday has decided to bless me with shitloads of reactivation cases. That means I’ll be having a lot of fun with domains in redemption period, deleted zone files, deleted websites, deleted exchange accounts, and various other deleted things.

I wish someone would delete this day.

Photo

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:33:42 +0100