( The story of a chocolate egg in a Finnish border town follows. )

There's currently a live broadcast - both on TV and online - of the entire five-and-a-half-day journey a Norwegian cruise/transport ship is making from Bergen to Kirkenes, stopping by pretty much every harbor along the way. The Norwegian national broadcast channel has devoted one of its channels to this for the entirety of the run, no interruptions ( Read more... )

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And oh yeah, I got some ( new toys, too! )

So yeah, the Marvel movie "Thor" apparently premiered in Norway before the US. Hooray! I managed to kidnap a pal and drag'im to it tonight ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, there was a sack of taters. They were happy taters, the lot of them, for they were being brought in for Christmas dinners. This is how taters wish to go ( Read more... )

(The scene: A Livestream session in which the Welsh is suddenly being discussed. Inspiration strikes. Edit: Note that I'm in no way biased against the Welsh... Just amused by their written language ( Read more... )

My PC's DVD/CD player has been acting up lately. When I try to rip music CDs, it'll simply decide to stop spinning, go *whirr-whirr*, and then... pretty much keep doing that, occasionally actually working. This would be simply annoying if it wasn't for the fact that it doesn't TELL my ripping program that it's not working, and so the ripping ( Read more... )

You know it's Monday when you get the urge to post "It's Monday and no fun to get up early and go to work and I'm tired" but you resist it because you don't want your Twitter/LJ/Facebook to have a regular occurrence of minor variations on that particular message.

... But I must share the pain.

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Also, I have two DCUO characters. Here's Canadian Pharmacist, and The Greycat.