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General Discussion / Re: Hello Everybody
« on: March 31, 2014, 06:41:24 AM »
Nice to hear from you, welder. All is well with new Dawn too.

And good to hear that you, Peace, may get to have some free time. Make good use of that time. Life is not work only.

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General Discussion / Re: Youtube!
« on: March 15, 2014, 07:12:51 PM »
I do feel a little bit alone in here but I'll try anyway

My daughter put my attention to this one. It is amazing that he apparently has made the text, arrangement, "choreographic", edited and produced all of it himself. And he sings well too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diU70KshcjA

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General Discussion / Re: Youtube!
« on: March 03, 2014, 09:16:56 AM »
I think this 1-minute clip is pretty amazingly well done too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CyYpPqHn-s

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General Discussion / Re: The weather
« on: February 27, 2014, 07:51:53 PM »
I hear the 'Pineapple Express' is running and giveng the West Coast some much longed for rain. Are you getting any rain, Sir Osis?

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General Discussion / Re: New Dawn goes literary!
« on: February 27, 2014, 07:48:25 PM »
Time for an update regarding my quest. Since my last post I have read: (Haven't I been busy, say? :-)

H G Wells   War of the Worlds               A real Science Fiction classic that should be a must for all those that likes SF.
Robert A Heinlein   Starship Troopers   
Orson Scott Card   The Speaker for the Dead    The sequel of Ender's Game. I loved it.
Ursula K Le Guin   The Left Hand of Darkness
Kurt Vonnegut   Slaughterhouse 5   

Charles Dickens   A Tale Of Two Cities       Is said to be one of the worlds most read books but I had heard very little about it before I read it.
PD James   Death comes to Pemberly   A crime story as if written by Jane Austen. Not worth reading according to me.
Selma lagerlöf   Gösta Berlings saga     My first book by her even if she is Swedish (Nobel prize winner)
Edgar Allen Poe   The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum and a few more

I am currently reading:
Neal Stephenson   Cryptonomicon  (This is some heavy stuff for cryptonerds)

(Sorry for the bad layout of the post)

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General Discussion / Youtube!
« on: February 20, 2014, 07:40:55 AM »
I thought I'd try to shake some life into this forum by linking to a few Youtube-videos I like. This is the first one out. I so love how this is done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmSbXsFE3l8
There are tons of covers of it (even if this one isn't the original)
(Hint: Cup song)

Feel free to add your videos too. (But please don't spam the forum) :-)

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General Discussion / Re: Government shutting down.
« on: October 18, 2013, 06:42:50 AM »
Now when the governments have restarted again. What are the most obvious changes from before that you can notice? (Besides there being speed limits again)

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General Discussion / Re: Government shutting down.
« on: October 06, 2013, 08:40:06 PM »
That was an interesting link. I'll try to read it when I get a little more time.

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General Discussion / Government shutting down.
« on: October 01, 2013, 07:46:15 AM »
Now when the US government will shut down - how will it affect you?

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General Discussion / Re: I am happier than you!
« on: October 01, 2013, 07:45:17 AM »
If the inspectors comes here we will discretely direct them to our neighbor country Finland where they will involuntary have to listen to the metallrock band Lordi after which they will return home with the message 'No happiness will ever be found in this area'. Then we will get peace.

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General Discussion / Re: I am happier than you!
« on: September 20, 2013, 02:55:07 PM »
That makes me even more happy  :)  :)

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General Discussion / I am happier than you!
« on: September 13, 2013, 11:49:02 AM »
We all knew this before, of course, but now there is proof. This UN report tells it plainly that Swedes, together with people in the other Nordic countries are among the happiest in the world. The US appears in place 17 while Sweden is on fifth place. (Canada is directly behind Sweden).

http://unsdsn.org/happiness/
http://issuu.com/earthinstitute/docs/worldhappinessreport2013_online

So, whenever you feel happy in the future, remember that I will be even happier.

:)

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General Discussion / Re: New Dawn goes literary!
« on: September 03, 2013, 09:49:11 AM »
Back to topic again. :-)

I have made a short jump-away from science-fiction and I have now read Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights'. A dark, tragic story about love and hate. For some reason it became famous. I can't say I liked it very much but it was interesting to read a book I have heard about so many times and finally realizing what it was about.

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General Discussion / Re: New Dawn goes literary!
« on: July 10, 2013, 04:17:13 PM »
I am aware of the heat in Death Valley - it has recently taken over the official record as the hottest place on earth as the record from the previous holder (in Libya, Africa) were discarded last year. I am also aware that there is a race that goes by foot, is 135 miles long and starts in Badwater in Death Valley, Californa and ends on Mt Whitney. It will start for the 36th time this coming Monday (July 15), And no, I am not participating. But I am unsure whether I should awe or ridicule the participants.

Back to weather: I can understand that for people used to have good weather (almost) every day it is not interesting to talk about weather. If the weather isn't good one day it will be the next day instead.

For us up in the north it is a bit different though. If you want to have a party of some kind you want it to be on a day with nice weather. Some summers here can have maybe 5 days of good weather. You don't want to sit inside if there are just a few of them. On the other hand , some sommers can have maybe 30 days of good weather. It's hard to know in advance. That's why I and many people around me talk about weather and follow the forecasts (short and long) to know when there is the best chance for good weather.

But we got light! Nowadays it is light from very early in the morning and to 10pm and it doesn't get really dark in the night at all.

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General Discussion / Re: New Dawn goes literary!
« on: July 07, 2013, 05:00:56 PM »
Imagine 113 degrees.. That's 45C. The hottest temperature ever recorded in Sweden is 38C.(100F) Three summers ago we had almost 34 and that was intense hot...

I've been away, though, on trips to the Mediterranean and experienced temperatures between 40 and 45 in Turkey and Greece and that was hard to endure. But I knew that it was only for a short time and I didn't need to work - just relax.

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