Just got back from Ida’s birthday pre-party and we had a marvelous strawberry cake (yummy)!! Congratulations Ida and hipp hipp Hurray! 🙂
The real party is tomorrow evening for anybody interested. Just invite yourselves 🙂
Random Image: Riksgränsen July 2001
Summer in Riksgränsen. Tovah contemplating over a rock at 1200 meters above the sea level. Her carrier is in the back.The photo was taken in July 2001. More from this series…. We go here every summer as the University has an apartment here in a prefect place for hikes into both Norway and Sweden.
Finis Origine Pendet
Finis Origine Pendet, loosely translated means “The end depends upon the beginning.” The quotation is taken out of context from the Astronomica of Manilius. This is the great academic motto of the Phillips Exeter Academy (real) as well as the St. Benedict’s Academy for Boys (Hollywood fiction) in the movie The Emperor’s Club. It is a great story about a teachers that strongly believes in good and right and put his strongest hopes onto a young son of a senator whom unfortunately disappoints his teacher by cheating. Being a university teacher myself, I feel strong sympathies for the situation presented in the movie and it really go to me. 10 stars to the movie The Emperor’s Club.
Finis Origine Pendet, The end depends upon the beginning.
Spring is back!
SPring is back and I honored it by taking out my bike again and riding 9.74 Km in high pace (which means in my untrained condition a mean speed of 18.5 Km/h). Wooohooo. I feel good! 🙂
Flying Cat
Got this fun movie from Serge! Enjoy!
Link collection at Aftonbladet
Swedish Newspaper Aftonbladet has made a nice collection of useful links (in Swedish). Thanks for the tip Jalle.
Random Photo: Dessert on Madeira
This is the splendid dessert table at our hotel (Ocean Park on Madeira). We were here in March 2002. More images from this series as well as a travel report is available. I highly recommend Madeira to anybody that want a peaceful and green vacation.
Dinner at Waldorf
To celebrate our 7 year wedding anniversary we went out and ate a large dinner at Waldorf today. Waldorf Roll (sushi roll), vegetable tempura, garlic bread, a children pizza, and yakitori chicken. That was a lot of food and when we got home we topped it of with some “Marräng Swiss” 🙂 I feel like a blimp!
Third Animatrix episode released
The third Animatrix episode was released yesterday. This is an animated series based on the Matrix movie.
Reading, Tom Clancy Executive Orders
Just finished a very interesting book to read during the current Iraq war, Tom Clancy’s Executive Orders.
SPOILER
This is the book that inspired the 9/11 events as well as the following anthrax attack. In the book a 747 is flown into the US Congress building and most members of government are killed including the president. Jack Ryan then becomes president and the attack is shortly followed by an Ebola attack on the US and a “fun” detail in the book is that a US general says “This is exactly how we planned it might happened but we used Anthrax instead of Ebola”. This all leads to the attack on the United Islamic Republic, UIR (Iran and Iraq is now one country after Saddam has been assassinated by Iran) by US troops and the killing of the UIR leader on live TV. They bomb his house in Teheran.
It was a rather strange feeling reading about US troop movements (very detailed) in Saudi Arabia while at the same the current Iraq war is going on.
Here are all books I have read since 2001.
Want to know more about Tom Clancy’s books? Take a look at the Clancy FAQ.