Welcome to ... whatever
Here we are! The first entry in this, my new blog. It's just an inane welcome message, but I expect great things in the future. Or at least I expect I'll get in an explanation of the name and a short...
View ArticleRetroflex flap
A retroflex flap is a consonant sound in some languages, including the dialect of Norwegian that is my native tongue. It's difficult to describe, but you take an ordinary 'l', curl your tongue back a...
View ArticleMe and this blog
This is going to be a relatively anonymous blog so that I can speak my mind without having to worry about any students with more time than sense googling his or her way to it and posing embarrassing...
View ArticleYoutubing!
Okay, so now that we have the capability for embedding YouTube videos I have to test it. And what better way to test it...
View ArticleRunning water and the urge to pee
Yet another annoying feature of human physiology. Example: I'm feeling my normal self, no urges of any kind. Well maybe I'm a little peckish, so I go to wash up before fixing a snack. And what happens?...
View ArticleThank you Cheesus
Do you have any weird habits? I have one in particular I want to share with you. (But you guessed that from the opening sententence, right?) When I'm done placing slices of delicious cheese on my...
View ArticleI love Opera
I mean, what's not to love? It's made by someone who's not Microsoft, it's free, it's Norwegian, it's feature rich, and I'm used to it. And now I've discovered another feature. I can nickname bookmark...
View ArticleProcrastination
It's not something I'm proud of, but there's no point in trying to hide it. I am a procrastinator. And not a wishy-washy oh-I-sometimes-leave-the-dishes-for-a-day-or-two, or...
View ArticleWeird neatness obsession
I like "my recently visited pages" list to be neat. There's absolutely no reason for this since it's not a significant "efficient web surfing" factor, but I have several habits that only make sense if...
View ArticleEmission and absorption
I've recently been teaching kids about what we can learn about stars and nebulae from observing their light. Temperature, age, size, composition, etc. But the simplified explanations that I seem to...
View ArticleQuestionable Content
This is one of my favourite webcomics. Sure it's a bit soapoperatic, which I actually like, but it's also got great funniness and deep...
View ArticleJesus fan-fiction
Okay. Another web-comic post. And Home on the strange isn't one of my favourites. That is, it's on my list of twenty or so that I check automagically when I'm online, but I have issues with the style,...
View ArticleBCC
When sending email to a large and diverse group of people, BCC is your friend. Everyone in your address book might not be happy to have their email address distributed to everyone else in your address...
View ArticleOg nå på norsk (And now in Norwegian)
En siste test før jeg gir meg for dagen. Hva gjør mee.nu med norske bokstaver? Jeg må vel ikke inn med html-entities for hver jævla norske bokstav? For jeg har planer om å blogge litt på...
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