Few days ago I and my "Warm Light" met a Norwegian couple. Gradually our vacuous exchange of typical routine questions turned into quite interesting discussions. Among other contemporary novels I mentioned my favourite Norwegian author Lars Mytting and his brilliant "The Sixteen Trees of the Somme". They knew the author and all his novels but this ( Read more... )

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U.S. nerds probably won't get it due to different unit system in use there :-)

Einstein, Newton and Pascal are playing hide and go seek.

It’s Einstein’s turn to count so he covers his eyes and starts counting to ten. Pascal runs off and hides. Newton draws a one meter by one meter square on the ground in front of Einstein then stands in the middle ( Read more... )

Local farmers say thousands of animals are killed with mudslides and floods. Lots of cows, 80% of egg producing chickens. Nobody can estimate wildlife loses. Bears are mostly impacted, I presume. It was freezing -1°C overnight. Even those ones who escaped from the flood are awake and probably won't be able to hibernate for quite a while. Inter- ( Read more... )

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Well, I am in the middle of this. Not sure what media say, power is off since about 5pm yesterday (Nov.14, 2021). I am just getting tons of messages from my friends and colleagues who are separated from me on the islands and in the mountains.


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Product perfectly matches its description and discount is huge :-)


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Having watched this emaciated bear at the road shoulder this morning, I pictured those obese authors of the bylaw against feeding wildlife.

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I still recall a buxom Essex seamstress,
Her bosom tight against a Roman wall;
As ever-faithful witnesses of interest,
My madrigals still haunt the lofty halls.

Alas, those days are gone. The doom befell me;
And, though the time maintains its steady pace,
I'm only after mice these days, so tell me -
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