I just watched Arctic Blast, which is a movie about a sudden ice age sort of scenario which hits parts of the world. A cold front with -90F (-68C) temperatures hit parts of Australia killing a lot of people. Understandable. After a couple of hours the temperatures were a bit better: only -50F (-45C), but the people were still acting like it was too ( Read more... )

At the cottage I read an article on Tieteen kuvalehti (a Finnish science magazine) about how semen acts as an antidepressant in women. I finally remembered to search the net and it seems to be based on legitimate scientific research. I wonder, if I could find that original article at the Uni library... Nope, they don't have access to that journal. ( Read more... )

Winter put in a sneak attack a couple of days ago when we were thinking that it was already Spring. There were flowers starting to sprout out in the garden and everything. Most of the huge amounts of snow that we had gotten this Winter had melted away and then this happened. We have a word for this called "takatalvi", which apparently translates to ( Read more... )

We got my computer fixed. Mostly it was Orasi's doing because I was all out of ideas. Orasi said to trace back my steps in case of problems, which is good advice. So we put the computer back together as it was step by step and it turns out that the problem was that we had put the power cord to the graphics card backwards. Both ends look the same ( Read more... )

Well, it seems that we managed to break my computer. Orasi and me tried to change his old graphics card to my computer since mine is so small that my games crash all the time. I also put a new case fan at the back. The computer wouldn't start up at all. Only the light on the front panel blinked, nothing else happened. We changed my old graphics ( Read more... )

There was a big storm today which resulted in some major power outages across the country as trees fell on power lines. Someone died when a tree fell on them. We were without electricity for 7-8 hours. We had heating and running water so it wasn't so bad. We ate a cold lunch because we couldn't heat the food and I sat at the kitchen table working ( Read more... )

The weather is too damn hot. I feel like I'm meltin while sitting at the computer and it's even hotter outside. It's too hot to think. I just want to go swimming. BTW, Vantaanjoki river is +23C. My room is +28 and it's +32 outside.

I'm testing out Vigil's new speaker system on my computer and these speakers are utter bliss. (Orasi is keeping the speakers for Vigil and I loaned them since Orasi took his computer to a LAN party and left the speakers behind.) They're Bose's Companion 3 multimedia speakers. I'm so used to my headphones (my own speakers are still broken) that I've ( Read more... )

I don't really intend to follow what's going on in pop music, but I watch Voice (Finnish music television) so much that I can't help it. I like watching music videos.

Rihanna - Te Amo (NSFW ( Read more... )

It's snowing outside! It's only the 4th of November and we get the first snow, awesome. Snow, the bringer of light. You can see the ground and the trees even after the sun has set because there's snow.

It'll probably be gone by tomorrow... >.> But right now we have snow!