So I walked through the biggest bookstore in Finland from top to bottom today (all four storeys) with a 50 euros gift card in my bocket. They had revamped the bookstore so it took a bit more time to find the shelves that I usually check. I bought two books for myself: Kylmä Suihku by Olli Tammilehto (the most interesting book on climate change that ( Read more... )

I've got a carrot cake in the oven. :3 I've never made one before but at least the batter (taikina) was delicious.Recently I've come across sources that claim that the state of the environment will be determined by what the Chinese people will do. I didn't get the reasoning behind that, but a quick Wikipedia search made it clear. It's about the ( Read more... )

I ran into this just now and thought that it was very clever so I'm sharing.

From The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann.

Consider where we are at this point ( Read more... )

In Finnish this time ( Read more... )

So the Eurovision Song Contest is finished for this year. Germany won this year. It was a good song but not one of my favorites. But I wanted to post Ukraine's song because it was an unusual song for the Eurovision. It made me cry and I can't remember the last time that a song on Eurovision had done that to me. The song is Sweet People by Alyosha. ( Read more... )

I tested my carbon footprint (hiilijalanjälki) and ecological footprint (ekologinen jalanjälki) on the Internet just now. I'll post my results as screen captures since the tests didn't have any ready-made code that you could copy and paste to post your results. I had to do rough estimates on some items, so I don't think that these are exact results ( Read more... )

I've decided to read some new books, to entertain myself and also to get new ideas and to facilitate thinking. I read a lot, but for a long time it's mainly been fanfiction (and school books). I haven't abandoned fanfics, but it feels like this would be a good time to return to reading more of the printed word ( Read more... )

You do realice that when I'm sharing music with you, I'm giving you something that I value greatly. Music is important to me. It keeps me sane. It keeps me alive. When I'm sharing a great song or some great artist with you, I'm giving you some of the best things in my life. At least that's how I see it. :p ( Read more... )

I've been quite accomplished this week. I've been to Uni everyday so far and I've gotten more studying done than in the past couple of weeks. I was also at my Pilates class on Tuesday, for which my legs hurt once again. :p Yesterday and today I went to my old bank to take care of some loan issues, something which I've been meaning to do for weeks ( Read more... )

I suck at studying on my own. Bad. Very bad. Not that I didn't know that already. And fock this society, which is built for morning people. I've tried and tried to change my sleep patterns so that I could study at times when the libraries are open, but it seems that when I don't have any lectures, it's impossible to drag myself out of bed before ( Read more... )