Despite the heavy rain I decided to ride my bike to work. I was wet and dirty, but enjoyed it very much!
Tomorrow the weather is supposed to clear up, I hope so, cause I’m going to get a haircut and all.
Bikes rock!
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Wet but dedicated
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008Hello Bicycle
Monday, August 4th, 2008
Our mission bicycles have finally arrived. The excitement was total and we assembled them post haste.
There were some disappointing factors. I felt that my bike was a little to large for me, despite sending exact measurements.
Also the front fork clanks quite a bit, there are gaps in the assembly. I’ll have to take it to a local shop to be looked at.
As for Vlad’s bike, it was perfect, except that both front and rear rims had some scratches on them. Hard to say if it was due to rough shipping or bad packaging, but when we opened up the box nothing looked out of place.
Other then these minor (and some not so minor) issues, the bikes handled like a dream and we rode them through the pouring rain with joy.
Just our luck that after days and days of tropical heat, today had to be the day that the tropical rain started.
It better not rain tomorrow!
Update 2008-09-04: Mission is sending me a new frame and replacement parts so I can fix the problems with my bike! Yay!
Mathoonika
Friday, April 25th, 2008Mathoonika is way of life based on the idea of the Mathoonikan Dream. The Dream in question is of a life where the most life can be lived, with the least possible effort.
In other words, live your life in such way that you can sip a cappuccino at any time of the day. Your income should preferably also be above that of humans that do not follow The Dream.
No Life
Saturday, December 9th, 2006
The blog is dead. Long live the blog.
Anyway, I’ve recently moved into what I can only describe as the larval stage (I do not use the word lightly!). While I am not new to programming, I do not consider myself yet past the larval stage. Probably because this has never been allowed to run it’s course. I hope I might be able to do so now.
I’ve recently [re]started work on several fun gaming projects. I really like making programs and making games is one way that I can tell stories, which is something I want to do. So I intend to make games.
I can only hope that I will one day leave coocoon and rejoin the world of man.
Uberman’s Sleep Schedule (aka Polyphasic sleep)
Friday, December 2nd, 2005After reading about polyphasic sleep, I decided to give it a try.
My sleep schedule is probably more irregular then a quantum filament, and this causes me problems both social and professional.
I have on many occasions tried to get up as normal people do, around 8-9am, and sometimes I went to school or just out for a walk. It felt great. Getting up early is a truly great feeling, however in the end I always return to irregularity.
First, in order to get to a normal sleep schedule, I usually need to spend a few days without sleep. After a few all nighters for a school or work project, I make a decision and a few days later I am waking up early.
All is well, except that a week into all this, I accidentally start watching a movie too late, or some friends come over, or I am working on some project that I just cant stop working on, and here I am, going to bed a 2 or 4 am. 2 OR 4 AM is my normal sleeping time. It rarely happens that I go to bed at 1 or 3, its either 2, or 4.
Even when I have to get up at 7 the next day for some school thing, I usually fail to go to bed early, unless I have an exam maybe… I really don’t like spending so long time sleeping, but unfortunately, I have been unable to reduce the time I spend sleeping to even 6 hours.
I accidentally stumbled upon it in the comments on Joi’s page this morning (funny, because it was 3PM and I had just woken up…).
At this time I have some exams coming up in the next two weeks, so I am not gonna start now. However after this term’s exams are over, I am going to spend my christmas time to try the experiment and carefully document the whole thing.
This will be interesting. In the mean time I will do more research on the subject, so I can be well prepared.
You must ungeek, what you have geeked!
Sunday, March 13th, 2005Lately I’ve been feeling that I am losing my geekyness somewhat.
I am no longer entranced by shiny gadgets, and I no longer crave the latest mobile phone just because it has a cool camera.
Until December I had a really el-cheapo Siemens A52 which I bought for 300kr without abonnemang, and it was my ex-gf’s fault (HI!) that I ended up buying a much more expensive Panasonic X700 for Xmas…. She asked my advice on phones, and I searched, I saw, I clicked, I payed.
Now I am thinking of selling it. I could use the cash for other stuff, and frankly, I hardly use the features of the phone at all. The only feature I do use sometimes is the ability to read e-books. Seems hardly worth the expense however.
I’ve also ungeeked myself to such an extent that I don’t even have a VGA cable anymore. Sure, there are some odd cables hanging in what used to be a server room, now a storage room, but still, it feels empty.
In a way, I miss that, but I really don’t know where I stand right now. I like technology, but maybe I’ve just outgrown the need to buy gadgets unless I really feel the need for the featureset.
It’s probably just that I am poor right now, that’s all. I mean, fuck, I wouldn’t mind getting a new PC for playing games and tinkering in Linux, but instead I’ll be spending the money in Japan. I obviously decided on Japan so you can see what I feel is more important, still I wouldn’t mind.
In any case, I just feel that my geekyness is in somewhat of a limbo. Sometimes it feels that I am artificially maintaining it, and sometimes I feel I want to immerse myself in Binary numbers and make love to blinking lights (preferably blue ones).
To let you understand how disconnected I have become.. I can summarize the number of electrical items I believe will accompany me to Japan:
1. My camera
2. iPod Shuffle (mainly as a memory card for pictures I might need to store on it)
3. My electrical razor (although I might not even take that, depends on space)
So ungeeky indeed.
While I’ve been thinking about this topic for quite some time, I decided to post it today, after looking at this. Enjoy.
Kendo
Saturday, March 5th, 2005Recently a Kendo sensei from Japan was here in Stockholm teaching us poor saps some real kendo.
For those who did not know, I started doing kendo this fall (2004), and still going strong. I am enjoying it a great deal, and made a bunch of new friends, kendo people are a bunch of nice chaps!
Anyway, I got some pics and video footage of the camp… If you ever had questions about what kendo is, this should give you some insight.
Just make sure to turn down the volume before you watch the movies, a kendo training session is not for the faint of heart 
edit: here are some more pics of great kendo!
Photos and the passage of time
Monday, March 22nd, 2004I recently started using iPhoto.
Again.
Since I am often changing platforms because I can never decide what I like, I’ve always been afraid to commit myself to a single, closed source and single-platform solution for storing my precious photos.
Recently though, I’ve come to realise that I will probably use my mac for a long time to come, so I decided to give iPhoto another shot.
However, while iPhoto is a great app for storing images and you could easilly export your pics, things like albums and some meta-data will never be exported to a system where I can be sure that my photos are safe even if I decide to use a linux PC eventually or whatever.
There have been some solutions to export iPhoto albums into various online services, like TypePad, but TypePad photos can not be exported, and the service costs money, so when you run out of cash, you can say goodbye to those pics.
So I’ve decided to see if I can do something about it. To create some sort of application or interface which would allow me to save my pictures, and whatever metadata I deem worthy, into a format that will survive the test of time, platform and wont depend on my debit card containing funds (which, with my unstable lifestyle is not always the case).
