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[Oct. 30th, 2011|08:42 pm] |
Turned 40 last Friday. Had a nice party with friends and family. Thanks again to everyone who came, and especially to Therese, Eva, and my mother-in-law Ingrid, for organising and doing most of the job!
I got an iPad from my brothers, which I've decided to call Poplock Duckweed, for reasons that are both obscure and related to the Swedish language. Sadly, the setup process isn't as streamlined as it could have been (instead of saying that the password was out of date according to Apple's rules, it just said invalid password). |
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| Pun of the Day, Swedish version |
[Sep. 21st, 2011|09:38 pm] |
Innuendo är när man menar två saker men säger en ända.
(Troligen en av mina bästa någonsin. En autologisk ordvits med dubbla bibetydelser.) |
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| In the head of a five-year-old |
[Aug. 29th, 2011|09:00 pm] |
"Pappa, tänk om man kunde bygga en dinosaurie av makaroner!"
("Daddy, imagine if you could make a dinosaur out of macaroni!") |
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| Crackfic |
[Jul. 13th, 2011|02:45 pm] |
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=91.6) thette complains about the various crackfic ideas (and puns) I have breaking her brain (in a good way), and that I never does anything with them. This one, however, was short enough to complete:
Mountie: Conan! What is best in life?
Conan: To swing your axe, feel it strike deep, and to hear the lamentation from falling trees.
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Conan: I never wanted to be a barbarian hero. I always wanted to be a... lumberjack!
*switch to lumberjack song* |
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[Jul. 8th, 2011|09:34 am] |
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Has landed Paris. About to depart to Stockholm soon. Hulda holding up well (for reasonable values of well) |
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| The fuq |
[Jun. 2nd, 2011|11:01 pm] |
Suddenly, all the "XX comments" links in the friends list were turned into links for replying to the entry. Since I use them to keep track of new replies, this is deeply suboptimal.
I've been using the Nautilus theme since forever, since it's simple and good enough. Does anyone know if this is a temporary LJ glitch, or a change in the theme, or something more permanent?
ETA: Now it has changed again, going to the full and commented article, but without specifying the number of links in the article. Which is better, but not as good as before. |
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| Re-visiting a childhood classic |
[May. 31st, 2011|06:17 pm] |
Some childhood classics can be re-visited. I remember avidly watching l était une fois… l'Espace when it was first shown on Swedish television in 1983.
So, naturally I bought it on DVD for Hulda, who has watched it a lot. Yesterday evening I watched the first episode myself (using the original French sound, and Swedish subtitles), and today Hulda and I watched the second one (with Swedish sound and subtitles).
It does hold up pretty well. The different types of animations can be a little jarring, and the plot develops quite slowly (but that's probably good in a children's show). No, the real thing that made it hard to watch was that the translation to Swedish—the subtitles and the dubbing—had clearly been done by different people, and maybe even from different source languages.
Differences are to be expected, but there were major differences—sometimes with changes in meaning—in word choices, style and grammar. If I hazard a guess, one was done from the original French, and one from the English version of the show (the intro music in the Swedish-sound version is in English, giving credence to this). |
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| Wide. Shiny. Huge. |
[Jan. 20th, 2011|03:59 pm] |
As a present to myself after the Doors From Hell, I bought myself a new shiny for work: a Dell U2311H, which conveniently was for sale at a reputable Swedish supplier.
Got it this afternoon. It's HUGE. Not so much higher than my old one, but much wider. And I think my eyes will thank me soon too, given how much I watch it.
I also got a Sapphire Radeon HD 5450 for the computer, so I wouldn't have to connect the new Shiny! via VGA (I do most of my translation work on a basic Vostro 220s), and a DP cable for the Macbook so I can use the new Shiny! whenever I do heavy-duty work on the Macbook as well. Only snag was getting the standard brackets off the card and the low-profile brackets on it. Once, I was afraid I had broken the card getting the last screw off. |
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[Jan. 18th, 2011|10:24 am] |
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Have new desk, will translate. |
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| Travel-karma |
[Jan. 7th, 2011|01:04 pm] |
All that absence of bad luck that you fellow NYE-revelers in Chicago had after the festivities, it ended up on us, that is Hulda, thette and me.
We visited thette's parents in Boden, and arrived on NYE with the sleeper train a little over two hours behind schedule. Given all the transportation hijinxes, especially on the trains, that went on in Sweden during Christmas, that was hardly noteworthy or stress-inducing.
The journey back, however. Last year, we ran into a moose, had a broken-down engine, and encounted some other travel hazard, making us five hours late into Stockholm, a scrambled connection there, and a long round-about over southern Sweden via various connections that were given us.
This year, we got the auspicious start that the train was one hour late from Kiruna. After that, it went pretty well until about 4 am. Between Långsele and Bräcke (which is about as middle-of-nowhere you can get by train in Sweden) the power was broken. We were stuck there for almost six hours, but luckily we still had power for heating and so on (it was -20 degrees outside). We arrived in Stockholm seven and a half hours late at 5.30 pm.
After some misunderstandings and poor communication, we got tickets for a new connection in Stockholm, and that train ran into a major signalling error north of Norrköping, reducing it from a march speed of around 180 kilometers per hour to maybe 30. So when we got to Alvesta at 10.25 pm, we had missed our connection from there to Värnamo as well.
By then, we declared defeat. thette took the offered bus to Värnamo with a very much reduced baggage, since she was to work today, but Hulda and I overnighted with my parents (who live just outside Alvesta). |
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| Identifying a cult childhood classic |
[Dec. 26th, 2010|10:25 pm] |
When my side of the family tree had our Christmas celebration and gift-giving, there were no less than three copies of Trolltyg i tomteskogen (Gnomes for you Anglophiles) in the pile of Christmas gifts.
One from my brother E to my sister-in-law M, one from M to my brother H, and one from my brother H to my daughter. Need I mention that when I saw a large pile of them at the local grocery store, I was very tempted to buy a copy to her as well, and that M had seriously considered buying a copy to E. |
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| Geeking the kids |
[Oct. 25th, 2010|04:58 pm] |
Last spring, I told Hulda's kindergarten that I'd like to visit them and show them the insides of a computer. Now, I've finally managed to locate and get my hands on an old trash computer (a 1994-vintage Pentium, no less!), and I'll visit them tomorrow for a show-and-tell.
Things to show from the outside:
- network contacts (RJ45, coax, and old-school transceiver)
- display contact
- keyboard and mouse contacts (maybe with comparison to USB)
Things to show on the inside:
- processor
- hard drive - probably open up this as well
- RAM
- power supply
- graphics card
diskette drive tape drive- CD-ROM drive
- fans and cooling system
I've also prepared a short tutorial/play on network topology, using two different sets of strings. I intend to show star topology, and one set of circle or bus topology.
Any other good ideas to do or show? The kids will be four or five years old. |
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| Bitsies |
[Oct. 12th, 2010|09:32 pm] |
Today, I spent the afternoon with my daughter. We went to the doctor for her rash, bought the medication, got a pair of (skeleton) gloves for her, visited my old office place and did a tour of my new office place (which has lots of old and interesting stuff, since it's located in an old bag-making factory, which still is operational but much smaller than it used to be).
After dinner she fetched our copy of Tantrix, and we played with it a bit. She caught on to the basic rules (match the colours; don't get three of the same colour pointing at the same space) very quickly, and we did it as a puzzle and drawing and placing one blick at a time until bedtime.
thette squeee'd over the skeleton-marked gloves, and wanted a pair herself, if only she could find a pair that fit. |
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| Women in sf meme |
[Jun. 10th, 2010|10:42 pm] |
Ok, might just as well do this too. I'm using Skwid's list, but is adding a few more names.
( The list, the entire list and nothing but the list )
Not the best turnout, but at least decent, I think. Names with exclamation points are those authors I've met, and underlines names are those I added. I haven't bolded those names where I only own short stories in anthologies or magazines, but have bolded e-books.
Also, it's a little disingenious to include TNH and Farah, since they've write non-fiction.
ETA: Linda Evans, PC Hodgell, Sarah A Hoyt, Mercedes Lackey, KD Wentworth. Also added a few more books own and authors read. |
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