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Stating the obvious
I will take a break from swearing at my test tools (temperamental bits of hardware and software that have the potential to make my life a joy, if only they would stop making my life a misery), and point out that I have changed my icon ( Read more... ) -
Row, row, row your boat
So far, I have rowed from Tallinn to my office in Espoo. It was 83.66 km, as the crow flies and as the Google Earth line tells me, and I didn't even have to leave the comfort of my own home ( Read more... ) -
Two random things
1) Many years ago, Joel the Elder was given homework from his Finnish language class to write about what he could see out his window. He wrote a (really quite beautiful) poem about winter nights blurring the boundary between sky and sea. "Nobody else wrote a poem," he told us yesterday, looking faintly surprised. He's such a wonderful man ( Read more... ) -
Books 2009
3) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
Another of the 1001 Books, coincidentally instead of deliberately read, because I read it as part of my fascination with the Cambridge Spies Scandal, and the repercussions from that. I'm reading around it, so TTSS fits in there perfectly ( Read more... ) -
Contexts
You know the way, you can be in a typical situation with friends and acquaintances, and then various things come together in your subconscious, and you realise that your normal day is in fact a day Fraught with Significance for others. And it comes home to you, again, that you really are only a bit part in somebody else's movie-of-their-life ( Read more... ) -
Books 2009
1) The Prize in the Game, by Jo WaltonRead on my iPod Touch, I started reading this one weekend when stranded at my mother-in-laws with no paper books available. I had no idea until googling it just now that it was part of a series, it certainly stands alone with no problems. It's a short, trashy, YA fantasy, and she has written much better, but I' ( Read more... ) -
Trailer
The Helsinki Axe Murders.
finnbear as the murderer (lucky bastard!), Z. being extremely good as the main character. ("I have a bone to pick with you," she told me during filming. "Your husband is trying to kill me!")
I play Cop #3 and Cop #4 in the same person, but I didn't make the trailer. :(
slimmeroftheyea - this is one of the films I was telling you about at -
(Untitled)
Almost three months ago, I began to get pains in my ankles and wrists, especially on my left side. After a while, my elbows and knees also started to hurt, and for a large part of November I also had shooting pains through the muscles of my arms and legs.
Thankfully, the muscular pain has stopped, and the joint pain is not the early onset of ( Read more... ) -
Blinking sleepily
The past month zoomed past, if zoom isn't too active a verb, without me living through any of it. At one point, I decided that when making notes at meetings, I would add a description of the setting, so that when revisiting the notes I would be more involved in them ( Read more... )
