Get out of my fridge please

Victory Tiem

2009-09-15T13:22:00.002+02:00

The current government won the election, so now I'm happy. Yes.

Fantasy

2009-08-02T23:03:00.003+02:00

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

-Albert Einstein.

Keep that one in mind, kk?

Screw that!

2009-07-20T16:48:00.002+02:00

Obviously what we all dream of is making Goliaths:

I got in!

2009-07-20T16:05:00.004+02:00

I got into uni, wooy!

Turns out I was actually like 10 points above the required score, but I didn't know that before-hand, so it was nice to know I was safely on the right side of the big fence.
I'm going to do a Master of Science in Technical Cybernetics, which means I'll get to do research on Protoss air weapons and air armour, as well as singularity charges for the Dragoons. Awesomes.
I'll also be doing stuff like this:

And maybe this:

And some day:

:)

Do your duty, demand your right

2009-06-24T22:37:00.003+02:00

Wow. It's been a strange year. So motionless, yet eventful. It is about my age where people decide that "I'm going to find myself" and goes travelling the world or joins the army to go to Afghanistan or something. In my case, it's been the other way around. Myself has found I, I have been standing still all the time:

I've spent the year attending NITH, a school which was interesting but too expensive and eventually just not my cup of tea.
I had my last exam last Tuesday, last Wednesday I started working as an electrician for the summer. I had forgotten how much I miss the companionship of a workplace. The sense of a common purpose, standing shoulder to shoulder to solve tasks. And I get to make things. Creating is such a wonderful thing to do.

For various reasons, my goals in life have changed, matured. Old and new thoughts have blossomed and shaped each other. I realise now how social-democratic my mother really is, how the ideals of sharing and egalitarianism has been showered over me throughout my entire life (Try saying "Norge er en dugnad" to my mum"). Then there's my history teacher last year, who got me really interested in foreign politics. More than ever I enjoyed looking for the patterns, links and the way history repeats itself. Sometimes subtly, sometimes obviously.

The invigorated interest for politics and the financial crisis has caused my mother's teachings to surface I think.

The title of this post is translated from the title of a book. The book is called "Gjør din plikt, krev din rett" and is the biography of Yngve Hågensen, former leader of the labour union LO.

I like the title, it sums it up. You do what you're expected to do, but you also demand what is yours. You work and contribute to society, but you also demand things like the right to vote and to have freedom of speech.

I used to just be interested in foreign politics, but now I realise that every fraction of managing society seems interesting. Not the political pitfights and masquerading, but the chance to make things better for other people. To combine one's creativity and resources with other people's creativity and resources to improve society.

I realise that my meaning in life is to give back to society, a society where people lift their burdens together. Together because they want to.

Yes. Slightly dramatic, with the odd cliché kissing you in the face. Well, I can't be arsed to rewrite it.

Science!

2009-06-21T00:46:00.002+02:00

I got a 5 (like a B) on my A level math!!1111!111

That means I'm qualified for NTNU, Norway's university for doing 5 year engineering degrees! Oh sweet science!

As Luke Skywalker said:

"Fuck the Force Kenobi, I can do vectorial equations!"

Aaaaaah, I'm so happy right now! A five!

Happy May the 1st!

2009-05-01T14:33:00.001+02:00

Happy May the 1st peoples!
A bird shat on me at Youngstorget. That was a bit of a letdown:(

Aaaaaarg!!

2009-04-30T21:50:00.001+02:00

Last night I wasted about 30 minutes on equations because I misread a task in my taskbook. Tonight I spent about an hour on solving a task that turned out to be unsolvable:(

God's Eye

2009-04-14T22:28:00.006+02:00

Pretty.

The impressive part is that it's not a picture made by man. It's the actual result of a dying star, some 700 light years away from Earth. That thing exists out there, and it looks exactly like that.

New stealth boat technology

2009-03-26T19:34:00.001+01:00

2009-03-17T23:37:00.003+01:00

From an article in the Economist:

THE legend blames a lantern forgotten by a miner at the end of his Friday shift. When he and his colleagues returned to the Red Ash colliery on Monday, they found the mine burning. That was way back in 1915. But the fire still burns.

Smoke rises from vents and gaping holes in a scrubby hillside above Wilkes-Barre. The ground remains warm to the touch and the hilltop view looks over a blighted landscape: scrawny trees, ash and the telltale broad scars of strip-mining (deep-coal mining, the type with miners and lanterns, is long gone).

Red Ash is the oldest of 36 fires currently blazing in Pennsylvania’s 180,000 acres (73,000 hectares) of abandoned mines. The most famous is beneath Centralia, which began in 1962 when residents burned some rubbish on top of an exposed coal seam. In 1981 a hole there swallowed an 12-year-old boy; Pennsylvania has since condemned the entire town, relocated almost all its residents and had its postal code revoked. Like Red Ash, Centralia’s fire is thought to have enough fuel to burn

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Silent Hill! It's all TRUE!
Must stop in Pennsylvania whenever I get around to do my USA-roadtrip-thing.

They burn the cop, the only part of the movie that actually was a bit scary. The games however... And the coppy-woman is hot. I mean, she's riding a motorbike, she got a gun and she's wearing leather and a cop uniform.

In teh news

2009-03-04T00:27:00.003+01:00

Alt i alt er «Empire: Total War» en tour de force fra Creative Assembly. At de klarer å overgå forventningene de selv har skapt er så imponerende at man bare må ta av seg spill-fezen i andakt og vurdere sukkerinntaket sitt.

I'll try to translate the fun bit: "..is so impressive that the only thing to do is to take off the gaming-fez in awe and consider one's sugar-intake."

wtf?

Also, OECD reports that "Norway needs to make efficient decisions to get people currently on social service into jobs".

And doctors and other medical personell needs to do things that saves lives. But that's not from OECD, THAT'S FROM CAPTAIN OBVIOUS, DO YOU KNOW HIM HE LIVES NEARBY.

My brother gave me this t-shirt today:

Chaos and Order

2009-02-17T00:57:00.004+01:00

When it comes to chaos and order, or anarchy and law or whatever you want it call it, people think they've got to pick a side. If you're not good, you're evil. If you don't support government, you're an anarchist.

But the fact is, opposites doesn't only balance each other out, they define each other. Which is obvious, if you think about it. How are you going to explain the one without sooner or later referring to the other.

And the beauty, the thing that makes it all fantastic, is that it is the mix of the two that makes the best result.

100% order in a government: Planned economy police state. Now that's a recipe for destruction (and eventually; chaos).
100% chaos, meaning there is no goverment: I suppose at this point Somalia would be a good suggestion. But is Somalia a complete anarchy? No. There are warlords and such telling other people what to do, governing them around.
And this goes on and on and on. With the possible exception of machines, neither one can self-sustain. Yin and yang comes to mind here, I didn't suckle this idea from my own breast (as that would be disappointing and anatomically difficult).
Anyway, the point here was, the idea is to mix them. I wrote about creativity some time ago, a perfect example. If you just spac out random things all the time, you're just mad. If you're spaccing out random things while rich, you're eccentric.
But if you put your randomness into a system, or build your randomness on systems, you're suddenly being creative, innovative, inventive and other things ending with -ive. (repulsive? attractive? magnetic? locomotive?) Words that are positive.
Go the other way and be aaaall about systems, and you'll be very boring. Or an accountant.
Traditional fiction is all about picking a side. Jedis vs Siths, Midgard vs Mordor, The Dark One vs The Light, the Titans vs the Burning Legion and so on. Who will win? Who will prevail? In the end, there can only be one victor!

Wrong.

Valentine/356

2009-02-14T17:34:00.002+01:00

I think Valentine's day is overrated. I mean, the concept is nice, a day for love. And there's a good mood for going out with a girlfriend/boyfriend.
But I think it would be better if people were a little Valentine every day, all of the year. And Valentine's day has a light touch of materialism. Apart from those two things, nice thing.

Genious

2009-02-11T21:57:00.002+01:00

"If you got one of those fancy TVs with a typewriter attached, go to bbc.co.uk/food"

I laffed!

Also, people are putting too little effort into detail.

Road signs hacked

2009-02-09T17:41:00.001+01:00

From Gadget Lab

Fit but don't you know it

2009-02-06T00:56:00.002+01:00

I always hum this song whenever I meet pretty girls that are acting all arrogant about it. Just because it makes me feel cool and intelligent and shits.

More birthday

2009-02-05T23:01:00.002+01:00

My dad was in town today, and he took my sister and me to a fancy restaurant close to the Opera. It was so fancy that the waitresses were Norwegian, which actually made me surprised. I'm so used to waitresses being Swedish, because most Norwegians are all posh about it and feel too good to do 'simple' jobs.

I ate boiled cod with potatoes, purely because I wanted to know what it would taste like at a place like that. Some cheating occured though, it was served with a Wazabi cream on top, which was great. The actual cod in itself was nice too of course, as cod goes. You could taste that it was fine meat, and nicely boiled. Not too much, not too little.

And I really enjoy talking to my dad without a lot of other people around. We very often think the same way, and he's really clever, so he can provide a useful ideas and help. We disagree sometimes on how to actually do things, the way I rarely follow his advice on my choices in life. But I don't really feel bad about that, we're different persons and all that.

10111

2009-02-04T22:35:00.002+01:00

It's my birthday motherlicker!

So far I've got:

Gift card @ Outland, a brilliant book shop
Iron
Rubik's cube
Pip Boy keychain
Cake
The Folklore of Discworld, by Terry Pratchett & Jaqueline Simpson
USB vacuum cleaner
T-shirt with LIGHTS on, I will wear this for the rest of the week
Screeching rubber chicken (wtf?)
Some money

I was unexpectedly invited to a birthday lunch by Tora and Skjalg, that was really nice. Then I went home and my mum and sister came to celebratez. I made them some tikka masala and my mum had brought a chocolate cake. Whoop-dee-doo.

Beauty imperfected

2009-01-31T00:50:00.003+01:00

I just went to bed, and decided to watch some tea-wee, and there was a documentary about The Doors and their overly famous song "This Is The End". Some music guy commenting it said something about "Its very obvious that they were experimenting on this song, and all good bands has got to dare to experiment, to release music that might be weird or flawed but still somehow beautiful". And so on.

I thought that made sense. The latest albums from Coldplay and Offspring were both quite experimental, sometimes rejected by their core fans for that reason. But I really liked both albums, there's a certain something to them.

Things are beautiful when it's not entirely streamlined, when it has a well timed flaw that your mind can latch on to.

One exception however; engineering. Machines. When every little part is perfect, neither doing too much nor too little, when every part is polished and fine tuned, machinery is beautiful when it's flawless. Maybe that's why Hollywoodian beauty is so perfect, we live in an age of scientific marvel, where there are few other ideals but money and technology.

For everything else, you need that spot o' fail.

The Right Stuff

2009-01-30T21:27:00.000+01:00

If an aircraft carrier runs ashore, does that make it a miscarriage?

Some day

2009-01-30T18:19:00.001+01:00

I'm not that fussed about cars, meaning that there are a lot of other things I want to spend my money on instead. But if I ever get wealthy, I'm getting a 70's Pontiac Trans Am:

Oh yes.

House of Fjords

2009-01-30T17:41:00.001+01:00

Haha, look at them:

I mean, honestly, look at them. Haha

FOSS

2009-01-22T00:43:00.000+01:00

Are you busy in the easter? I'm visiting London in both weekends of my easter holiday, I thought maybe I'd hang around in the countryside in the days between.

Ztreeng eet

2009-01-15T22:48:00.002+01:00

I just got my guitar out, but since I hadn't played on it in ages I had to tune it massively. One careless moment and one string went to Valhalla (200 meters down the road, then take a left and then the second right. It'll the big blue building on your right.)

Fortunately there's a musix shop on my way to school, so I can fix it tomorrow without much trouble, but I really wanted to spend the last hours before bedtime making musix.