Random babblings from an underproductive mind.

Still great. There's not much can say about the music one likes, you either like it or you don't. To that end, I will provide a link to her website, and any-one who is interested can decide for themselves.

From Anna Ternheim 120120

From Anna Ternheim 120120

From Anna Ternheim 120120

But only toilet tissue... nothing else at all at all?

I've been watching the American T.V. series, "Life", on D.V.D. I was watching an episode about an apparent racially motivated double murder, leading to scenes of racial tension, the fraught Iranian mother who can't speak English, you know, the usual worthy clichés... then they needed to unlock files on the victim's computer, which they could only do by playing Prince of Persia to level ten...

...and you realize that this whole episode, the racial tension between the Anglo community and the Iranian community, is there to give them an opportunity to sell Prince of Persia.

They mentioned the placement of mobile services and computers in the credits, but there's a lot more. There are long shots of the lead character in his shot car, with a close-up of the logo. There's close-up of the two leads holding their his and hers iPods. Advertising with-in the programme or film is big business now. It's part of the system.

But it's a bit disturbing when you realise that the whole plot is there to serve the product placement. At that point, you essentially are watching an ad.

http://xkcd.com/978/

For evil.

For some reason.

From Sunsets, etc.

From Sunsets, etc.

You can see why it's fenced off. Look at the damage it did one night!

Max isn't nearly as much fun with-out Lucy getting mad at me for paying.

Town is amazingly quiet for a Saturday evening. It's the lull before the storm. Way Out West is on. Prince wowed something like 40,000 people last night, and tonight it's Kanye West's turn. If that's his name. They, Robyn, and a whole roster of people that I've never heard of. I hope town survives the night! I shall, hopefully, be curled up in front of my T.V. and computer, watching "The Big Lebowski" with my precious. That's you, Lucy. Put the gun down.

Be well.

Oh, yeah.



Yum.



Blogs can have consequences. Sometimes, great consequences.



You have to love a place where East and West are in the same direction.



And where the cars are tiny.






Nice, though.



My sweetie in my city. <3



Monkeyworld deserves it's own post. My photos kind of suck, though.

Except for theses;

Kitty's post of the Copenhagen carnival of this morning (ridiculously early this morning!) made me long for Bosch. (Apparently, it's actually called Bio Mio).



It was a restaurant specialising in organic foodstuffs which happened to be right around the corner from my hotel.

Expensive it was, especially as the Danish crown was riding high and Swedish hanging low at the time, but man. The food was good, the staff were really friendly, and it was just a nice place. I spent a lot of time just hanging out in the sun outside there, with a soft drink and some kick-ass food. And no waiters to bother me.







I hope it's still there, it's been a rough couple of years all over. It might be time for a trip to Copenhagen soon! Maybe I can drag a certain English lady with me.

This post ends... now.

Something that really puzzles me is ebooks being more expensive than their paper counterparts. It's not an absolute, but it is the norm.




This is a random selection from Amazon.

It's strange. Physical objects cost money to produce, and to distribute. Electronic distribution isn't free, but it is a lot cheaper. The overheads for the content and promotion are the same. The electronic version should be cheaper, one would think.

It's also unfortunate. 2010 was the worst year on record for carbon emissions. We need to do a lot more, but digital downloads would are a relatively painless way of reducing one's carbon footprint. I know, i know, downloads don't smell or feel the same... but we're fast approaching a genuine crunch. Self control or catastrophe.

Just a thought.

It avoids airport taxes.

We had a work party at Liseberg yesterday. It was fun. I'd have taken pictures in the Ghost Hotel, but it wasn't allowed. There's something very like it in the Tusauds wax museum in the Tivoli, I think.

I've been using Emmy's old iPhone 3G for a couple of hours, and I've come to the conclusion that I much prefer my Nokia C3. Both are frustrating, but I hate the touchscreen, and the autocomplete. I started this on the iPhone, but really, just no way. I also hated my parents Android mobiles. Nokia gave up on Symbian too easily. Give me buttons.

And I say that as a very happy Mac user.

And I still haven't found a practical way to put pictures on a blog post from a mobile. Maybe I'll start a mobile company using Symbian.

Some-one lights these candles every night. It's out in the forest, and has been there for at least nince years; though I thk that the grave was fresh when I first saw it.

Keeping faith with a dead pet, or pets. This leaves me feeling touched every time I see it.

I attended the annual, now to be semi-annual, meeting of Konsumentföreningen Väst, a consumers association that owns, along with other branches of Konsumentföreningen, Coop. Coop is a supermarket chain, amongst other things. They were originally set up to see that their members had access to good quality stuff at good prices. Nowadays they concern themselves with organic and fair trade a lot. I like them.

The meeting took a serious side turn, though. There was a motion passed at an earlier meeting that the association would instruct Coop to stop buying products made in parts of Palestine where the Israelis have built settlements, illegally, according to the U.N. and the E.U. Sodastream were named in connection with this. This year, a delegation of Jewish folk came to protest this development. And the people who had proposed it were there to offer rebuttal.

It was interesting to hear both sides, because they both made good points and both almost completely failed to address each others' points.

The three Jewish gentlemen pointed out that many other countries are guilty of human rights abuses, and that many large companies have a presence in Israel. Those who supported the motion pointed out that we couldn't buy Palestinian products, and that Israel is guilty of systematic human rights abuses, and systematic discrimination.

Both sides are correct. That others are doing it too is a pretty weak defence for behaving inhumanely. But why do we pick out Israel? Why does Morocco, also an occupying force, escape from our attention? Russia, China and Turkey surpress minorities brutally. America and virtually every Western countries committed or colluded to enable torture. The human rights records of many middle eastern countries are appalling. So why do we single out Israel? Is it just because the conflict has been on our radars for so long?

These are thoughts that do not make one proud to be human.

If you look closely at the photo above, you'll notice that the Christmas decorations are still up. Only here.



I noticed this building in the Haga again, so you get a photograph. Not random at all. I've been taking my random pills.



Now you need an iPhone or an Android to interpret the posters. I'm pretty sure that this is one of the seals of the apocolypse. I saw an add for The Phone House today; Vi kan Android. We can Android. Gary Numan will be thrilled. I can Ship. You can Kettle. This could be fun for hours.



I want to get this for Lucy, but I'm afraid that she might kill me. Or worse...

I felt like crap today, and managed to sleep away the whole weekend. But I didn't want to stay in the apartment, so I hung out in Solrosen. For hours.

I had one of these.



As well as real food.

Did some art cards, and a couple of letters.



Annoyed the patron.



Then I went too Coop in Sisjön. They have a great organic section.



This was a mistake, though, as I nearly fainted in the toilets. I didn't take a picture of that.

Much more interesting;





Less interesting;



The ladybird on the lek rum (play room)is called Prickard.

I had these.



Wasn't that exciting? Bet your glad you came by now!

Good night, one and all.

Max, part two.

The last time I blogged from here, town was hanging under the threat of politically motivated bombing.

Or so we thought.

That day, the police arrested some people in their homes. They weren't gentle about it. They were so not gentle that it is the subject of a disciplinary process. But if I thought that my hometown was hanging under a cloud of explosive violence, I mightn't be gentle either.

This is where the story becomes murkier. All of those detained were ultimately released. We had been led to believe that the arrests were the result of along-running surveillance operation. Not so. The arrests, and the high alert, were the result of one overheard telephone conversation. Overheard... by a relative? Or by electronic surveillance?

The men in question claim that they were just talking big. No charges have been laid, no further evidence has been forthcoming. In the meantime, a suicide bomber struck in Stockholm; possibly the attack that was a result of the plan that had been under long-running surveillance.

I don't know. No-one is talking, that I know of.

So, some guys were arrested over an overheard 'phone conversation about a possibly imaginary bomb threat.

I feel so much better now.

On a happier note;



Frölunda Torg apparently has now has sex rooms, with faculities for amputees.

Dinner

I've not been around here much lately. It's partially due to my hanging out online with my darling Lu quite a lot, and partially because I've been sick for a good part of the last month, and I jusy don't have the energy; but it's also partially because my Nokia 5200 became sick.

I've done a lot of my blogging and commenting on the go, via Opera Mini, on my mobile pretty much the whole time I've been here. Not being online on the go has meant... well, that I got a bit more reading done, but also, that I've not been in contact as much.

But hopefully, all of that is a about to change. I popped into Media Markt to take a look, and found the Nokia C3-00 on sale at 999 kronor, with-out a contract. It has a full keyboard. It can connect via wi fi. It has a nice screen. It has Opera preinstalled. It hasa pop mail reader, it's supposed to have chat functions... it's a lot of mobile for the money.


Anyway, sorry for gushing. The long and short of it is, I'm a mobile blogger again.

This may not be good news.