Visiting Moth

October 31, 2009
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Official picture of the house for rent. Well, it will not be for rent long.
Today I visited Møll, where there was a nice house for rent.  The name of the small farming village literally means “Moth” in modern Norwegian, but it is more likely to be related to “mill”, or perhaps some old word no [...]

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Ubuntu install, GRUB rescue error

October 29, 2009

Obviously this picture is taken after the grub is rescued.
The subject line will make sense for those who desperately need this post.  I apologize to my normal friends for a line that looks like sheer insane babble. But such is life for us who dabble in the wild world of Linux, the free and rapidly [...]

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Sixth-dimensional programmer

October 23, 2009

The Light is a source of absolute power, as I am sure I have told you repeatedly.  But this time it is an illustration from the anime “The Laws of Eternity”.
I have thought about this so often the last month or two, I almost believed I had written about it already.  So I better do, [...]

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A glimpse of normalcy

October 21, 2009
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Very normal Norwegian house at half price. There must be something wrong with it. Then again, that is what people think about me too, no doubt.
I was, like most days, studying the “to let” pages of finn.no, a Norwegian online marketplace that overlaps with a lot of newspapers as well as having some unique [...]

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Science of happiness and prettiness

October 20, 2009

There is beauty for the eyes, beauty for the ears, and beauty for the mind.  Today I have enjoyed them all.
Got book from Amazon in my mail!  Actually it was too big for my mailbox, because they used a huge flat package. In a small box it would have fit right in, but I suppose [...]

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“This is my road”

October 19, 2009

Beautiful colors and beautiful music.
Lately I have watched some early episodes of the anime Guin Saga. At first I liked it: It was drawn with unusual beauty and rich colors that made the imaginary world seem intense and larger than life.  And there was the ending song, Saga by Kanon.  I was amazed to hear the beginning [...]

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NaNoWriMo story germ

October 18, 2009

Pre-industrial road from Oblivion.
I honestly still don’t know whether I will be able to take part in NaNoWriMo this November, as I usually have done.  It is the last month before I need to be out of this house and into a new place (which I still haven’t found), and experience shows that this is [...]

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Happy Science or just science?

October 13, 2009

This picture is taken from a video on YouTube portraying a strange phenomenon over Moscow.  Scientists say that this is a rare but not unheard of meteorological  phenomenon called a “hole punch” cloud.  What made my spine tingle, however, was the similarity to the promotional poster for Happy Science’s newest anime, to be released on [...]

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Double XP long-weekend

October 11, 2009

Dagslys, my bright/bright tanker.  Until the recent update, this build was only available as dark/dark.  I think this suits me much better. Hmm, reminds me of what Sigurd Bratlie once said:  If people had a visible halo in real life, that reflected their secret life, they would be far more pious when alone.
City of Heroes [...]

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Electricity restored

October 10, 2009

Winter is a pretty sight, here in Norway as well as on Hokkaido (here portrayed in the anime Sora no Manimani). But winter without electricity is not pretty.
For a couple days I have been without electricity in half the house. Although not cleanly divided like north/south or east/west.  The bedrooms have been without electricity, the [...]

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