(This happened almost a month ago and now I've been able to write something about it...)
( Agnostic's thoughts about the recent developments in the Church of Finland )

Music meme via lady myntti

You can learn a lot about someone by the music they listen to. So here is the game! Hit shuffle on your ipod or mp3 player and write down the first 26 songs. No cheating or skipping songs that are shameful. That is the fun!WinAmp will have to suffice ( Read more... )

Edward Tenner - Our Own Devices

This is, in effect, a history of what we consider everyday items - lounge chairs, running shoes, eyeglasses, keyboards, helmets. And what kind of things we have had to learn to use them properly.
( shoes, spectacles and baby bottles, oh my )

One of the larger meetings of the Tall and Small Association. We also had two guests from Germany, but they did not understand Finnish so me and couple of others had to translate ( Read more... )

Last Friday my sister ask me to accompany her when she took a visitor's group from Manchester (England) to the local private military museum. She thought she might not have enough vocabulary (note that she speaks more languages than I do…). Tampere's nickname is Manse, based on Manchester, because both are (were?) industrial places ( Read more... )

My parents finally bought their own cell phones. Dad has spent hours playing his phone version of old Centipede game - just like he did with the Donkey Kong and Tetris at the time…
( Pockets full of Communicators… )

Weather: +8 degrees Celsius, sunshine, cold wind.Pain below my left shoulder when I woke up ( Read more... )

Weather: 0 degrees Celsius, overcast

I spent the Tuesday evening trying to put the finishing touches to the accounts of the Finnish Science Fiction Writers. There's hoping that that's enough for the appointed auditor. Rules seem to change every year. Then I have review two (published) short stories for the Kosmoskynä 'zine.
Year's first meeting ( Read more... )

Weather: -7 degrees Celsius, overcast, icy ground.One of my neighbours is a woman who does not dare to even change the fuses herself (once she asked me to look at her sauna stove though everything I could say was that the heating coils had apparently burned up). Yesterday she came to give me a new (red) sweatshirt out of the corporate gift ( Read more... )

Weather: -2 degrees Celsius, overcast.First official board meeting of the Tall and Small this year - I am still just an observing "vice-member". Selection of new vice-chairpeople, editor for the members' 'zine, etc. Long-time chairwoman is a former teacher so her speech tends to be loud. The secretary of this meeting was our only "small" regular ( Read more... )