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Driving
Twilight, day is in slow transition to become night. What starts up with light pink and yellows eventually flares as neon pink and orange illuminating the cloud-bellies of pre-storm sky. Landscapes, slowly drained of colour as the light vanishes, dash by as you drive on and on towards the city. The backdrop of our planet's awe inspiringly beautiful ( Read more... ) -
The water we share
Since we were all down with a cold I have gotten into the habit of filling a plastic water bottle with cold tap water and then drinking from it whenever I get thirsty. This way I get to have the fresh cold water (for some reason the hot water seems to taste just a little bit off) from the tap, but it's at room temperature when I drink it and is ( Read more... ) -
The winter is finally visiting
It's been between -7 and -15 past few days and today we finally got a decent enough layer of snow. It's basically the first snow this year and I celebrated it with a several hours long walk in the snowfall. At first it was tiny flakes of hard snow which stung bitterly driven by the wind. Then it turned into a classic magical (Christmas) snow, white ( Read more... ) -
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"Maybe writing fiction about particular kinds of people living particular kinds of lives will allow certain areas of life to be understood a little better than they were understood before. /.../ Good fiction is partly a bringing of the news from one world to another."
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How the mind works
When I got back from jogging just now, I got really mad at a white sheet of paper taped to the front door of my building. "Due maintenance, there will be no hot water in the building on June 12th from 10:00AM to 13:00PM. We apologise for the inconvenience ( Read more... ) -
"Seven Veils of Seth" by Ibrahim Al-Koni
I once stumbled upon a site (Scribd.com) offering wide selection of e-books for a monthly fee. I signed up half-way, didn't feel like completing when they asked for my pay-pal to get to use my first month free. Since I had entered my email address I've been getting promotional emails once a month - each time they feature a selection of three new ( Read more... ) -
Philip K. Dick "Ubik"
It was recommended to me with the words, that surprisingly this book doesn't end as depressingly as books by Philip K. Dick usually do. After having read it I have to agree ( Read more... ) -
Quick reading-diary note to self
Some books I've read recently.
1) Brandon Sanderson "Words of Radiance"
2) Ivan Turgenev "On the Eve"
3) Brandon Sanderson "Legion"
4) Emmi Itäranta "Memory of Water" ("Vesi mäletab")
5) Salla Simukka "Red as Blood" ("Punainen kun veri")
6) Ulla-Lena Lundberg "Sibirien" ("Siber: tiivuline autobiograafia")
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Talk about writing when it's half past midnight.
I just translated something regarding pump engineering ( Read more... ) -
Tired of bad news
Nikkei index is plummeting but I wonder how news agencies shares are doing. With all the turmoil in Egypt and then elsewhere in the Arab world and now with a well documented first rate disaster in a wealthy country with advanced technology that completely overshadows what we thought was breaking news just half a week ago, I think that all over the ( Read more... )