Ole Magnus Karlsen

Premature daddyo?

2011-12-11T15:28:00.001+01:00

Emily has arrived! My gorgeous baby daughter is a little premature. Born 6 weeks early at 1900 grams and 41cm she is a real beauty. However, though things look goldenfluffy pink, reality sets in. At the moment she eats trough a tiny straw in her tiny little nose. She is wery well capable of getting milk from her gorgeous mom's boobs, but 12 meals of sucking is too mutch for that little body just now. So she just enjoys breasfeeding to connect with her mom, and just practise really :-) Linda is soooo great with her. Actually during birth, I found myself married to the Iron Lady. -only with a great sense of humor :-)

How we love Emily :-) <3 <3 <3

Baby on the way.

2011-09-09T23:53:00.001+02:00

We have a baby on the way. So we are pretty mutch redoing every room in the apartment. Even the storagerooms. The plan is to make it o'habitable for a freezer and clotes storage. Maybe even for drying clotes. The walls are soon done. Going to start on the ceelng tomorrow. Electrician will be in next week sometime to do the last wiering. Tiling the floor was completed yesterday. Been doing pretty manly things lately :-) including talking to Linda's nice belly. Oh, and it's going to be a girl. (altough I couldn't see it - or don't) We are about 22 weeks into the pregnancy.

New comic strips!!

2011-05-13T21:34:00.001+02:00

Little girl on the can. Thinking life trough with a little 'tenses problems.

Ollis in bad shape, but generally happy about not having to do the diaper-change-shift.

Who knows what goes trough a little girls mind at apx age 1,5?

Keeping phone-salesmen waiting for a sale for 6 months is fun!

First comic strip off the board, literally :)

2011-02-20T01:07:00.001+01:00

I have managed to make my first comic strip. It's in norwegian for now. I'll make one for the english reading dudes and dudettes out there soon. But for now I'm keepin' it simple :)

Feedback will be soooo welcome :)

Jogging!

2011-02-03T20:32:00.000+01:00

Yes, you read right! I'm jogging.

Oh, it's not too far. Takes me just under 15 minutes to jogg to work. That's 2,45km on the GPS on my trusty Nokia n900. That's about half an hour exersice every day! WOW! And I have done this all week. My legs got really sour today though, on my way back from work.

I really hope I manage to do this every day from now on. I actually feels really good! The only time I won't be jogging is when there is ice. I hope that is aceptable, but I'll still walk though.

Here's OLE! (bad "the shining" resemblence :p )

2011-02-03T20:21:00.000+01:00

Well, it seems I'm back.
Perhaps it is about time. Actually I have som projects going on. This means of course that there is a great big pile of unfinnished work in my head and on my desk. Perhaps it is a good thing. If I can stop playing PC games and just do them. I really think I get bored quickly. Especially if I'm doing something that I don't master at a reasonable level (wich I clearly define myself) in a given time (wich I clearly give myself). This could be why I struggle at calculus...

Anyway, new project: Cartoon. Like stripy thingy with a humorus point in the end.

This will be posted here, of course, to the merry reading of the few people accedently stopping by my blog. (I probably post it at my facebook page as well to get people to see it.)

Kindergardening is great!

2010-10-21T22:42:00.000+02:00

So I got a job at a kindergaden. And it's great! The people working there are great fun. I got 60% at the big kids and 40% at the toddlers :)

I got to admit that the "big" kids are more fun, because I can level more to their imaginary level and play-level. I can do make-believe games that they can relate to and make cardboard toys that make their eyes grow wide! And that makes a lot of difference.

And now I get a reasonable amount of exercise walking to work, or if it's a really good day, I use my skateboard. Now it's snowing and I wonder how to get to work without getting wet and/or taking too long and get sweaty and tired. And it goes without saying that I don't use the car or the bus. I really hate taking the bus, and work is really too close anyway.

I except that a solution will present itself.

Most excellent trip!

2010-10-05T21:38:00.001+02:00

Me and Linda came to Selje to visit her parents at their Country-house. Her sister with husband and kid was also there. My borther-in-law, Pål, and I went hiking to Tarvaldsegga, a mountain-top just east of Selje. We went there by Risnakken and Orren. Excellent trip. We used 3 hours and 21 minutes. The trip was 8,45 km as the crow flies. The top is 645 m high. Here is the 360 degree top view:

Kill Ole Wallpaper

2010-09-25T23:06:00.002+02:00

So I made a doodle. Kinda. Digital doodle anyway. Based upon one of the best cartoon-series I know: "M" by Mads Eriksen. This picture is in turn based upon the well-known movie Kill Bill. I made My very own version. Took my lovely wife's head and edited in Gimp. Here is the result:

I miss Linda!

2010-09-23T00:43:00.000+02:00

I miss her!

My lovely wifi (^,^ ) is off in Oslo for some banking-seminar-thingy.
And the bed is big and cold. I miss her...

Happily, she's home again tomorrow! YAY!

It huuuuurts!

2010-09-12T19:47:00.000+02:00

Yes it does! My jaw is hurting a lot!

I was on a waiting list at the dentist-specialist (because my regular dentist is a friend of mine, and wanted to stay that way), and they called me up by surprise and said they have an available spot for me. NOW! Oh Lord how that made me shiver me timbers!

So I grabbed a couple of slices of bread, (because I know I can't eat for AGES after) and ran for it. They called me because I live in the vicinity for the clinic, and could be able to get there quick.

Oh yeah, forgot to tell you; I wag going to remove one of my wisdom-teeth in my lower jaw.

The tooth is out alright! It had 3 roots. There was some inflammation behind it too. ...they scraped it out... And it feels like the dentist have sewn my cheek to my gum!!! I really wonder how this is going to look when I can gape again!

Oh well. The other one goes in November. My oh my... Can't wait!

What an eventfull summer!

2010-09-05T00:39:00.001+02:00

This summer has really been eventful! Lista Scout Jamboree was a complete success. I was promoted to ambassador to my area because the original ambassador was unable to make it due to death in the family(i think).

Well, I don't know why they chose to ask me. Maybe I was the final resort, but I think I did well. I got positive feedback anyway. Yay!

My small scoutgroup got a lot of attention. The four of us made it into 3 newspapers: the jamboree-paper, the local newspaper at Lista and Vårt Land, a nation wide newspaper.

The cause of this: out windmill. So it pays to plan and execute properly. And we bathe in fame! We love to know that everyone there knew who we were.

Then I got married! I know, ME, who knew??? It was great! A little bit anxious in the church though. Kept fiddling with my cufflinks.

The photo-shoot was like all photo-sessions, kinda dull, painful and exciting. BIG thanx to Eli-Karin who took great shots of us! Can't wait to get them!

As well as anything, the party was great too! As we were really excited and kinda "distant" as we plowed trough it. The time went really fast and the party was over far too soon! But it was excellent!!! Really! So great to see everyone that came to have fun with us. We really had too little time to talk with everyone, and some might have been harder to sit down with and strike up a conversation since we had not seen them in so long. (This being my fault btw.)

Newly wed and happy we went on our first honeymoon! Längsjö Camping seems to be our spot for camping. Nice location and great service! They even got us a cake! Cool. It had a marzipan mouse on it - AND it was blue! Tasted great too.

Home again we worked for a week before embarking on our second honeymoon to Fuengirola, Spain. Our friends Ove and Eli-Karin was to be married there, and without further ado they were. Linda was best woman to Eli-Karin and made everyone laugh and cry with her touching speech. The local resturant food was crap, but we had a great time there anyway. Some great partying (thanx to Putte and Lisbeth, shhhh....!)

I tried out belly surfing. I got some beating from the waves and I bet there is some water missing in the Mediterranean sea. It was great fun though!

I bought myself a new scateboard too, an Element board. The old-school kind, with soft wheels and don't have a usable nose. (Like the one used in "Gleaming the Cube" aka "Skate or Die".) I actually use it as transportation to work some days. It's really a smooth ride. And not so noisy as "modern" boards with hard wheels. It is great exercise too! Real fun!

As we came home, we found my sister, Ingvild, over-pregnant. 10 days later she gave birth to Leon Moss. I'm an UNCLE! Wow! Well, I was bafore too, but trough Linda by the wedding. I am soooo proud and happy!

As for my future prospects, I am taking (at least) a year pause from school. I plan to work as much as I can, or get a fulltime job. The right job might make me take a longer pause than a year, but I AM GOING TO FINNISH SCHOOL - if anyone wonders. I'm just a bit sick of math at the moment.

I also have a long-term plan to persuade Linda into purchasing more tec-items like graphic processors. Wonder how to?...

Survived bachelorparty, now 10 000 scouts wil have a go!

2010-07-02T16:08:00.001+02:00

I had the greatest bachelorparty hosted by my best man, Viet.

More info, with pcs and video will come from this. Promise! There have been really no time at all to blogg for a while. Wedding's in 2 weeks 21 hours and 53 minutes, I'm leaving in 2 hours for the Norwegian YMCA-YWCA Jamboree. There will be pic's and movies from there as well. Promise, really!

Anyways, have an excellent summer. I bid you good day.

Major sparetimequelch, game making, oh brother!

2010-05-24T00:44:00.000+02:00

This is me not doing any school for the time being :)
Happy times you might say. It is, REALLY!!

Suddenly I have a lot of spare time on my hands. AND it's raining. Add it up, and it makes for Computer-time.

So I have undertaken a couple of impossible tasks:

1. I am trying to make a remake of the classic DOS-game "Jones in the Fast lane". A simple career game. Probably the predecessor of Sims. The master plan is to make a 3D landscape in Blender, and use the Blender game engine to remake the game. I am well on my way of making the two first tiles of the map. (it has 10) I call the game "Tux in the Fast lane".

2. I had a crazy idea to remake Ducktales. It kept my mind racing and made me stay up late (in bed) to plan how to all in my head. The plan is the same, although I plan to make the animation in 3D, the gameplay will be in 2D sidescrolling, or up or down or whatever. I'm probably going to have the most trouble with the "Launchpad McQuack-flying" part of the game. Or maybe that will be the easiest. I don't know - Because I have to LEARN everything!!!
Game-name: TuxTales.

3. Another game-making idea. (This will have to wait till I'm well on my way with 1. or 2. And I really have forgotten what it was! LORDY!!!! Oh well, it'll come back to me soon. O! OOO! Oh!!! I got it. It's a rather complex task of remaking a simpler and heavily modified version of "Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space".

All made in Blender game engine, all plesant futile tasks. Wish me luck!

The event horizon day is 12. May...

2010-05-11T00:05:00.002+02:00

Exams, finals, whatever...

This is the deciding day of what I might do in the autumn (maybe even this summer?) It's like this:

1. I pass the test ( I will not diminish and go into the west and remain Galadriel :D )

2. I get a 2nd. test to pass in august/ early september. I pass it and get to take my final year. I will need to take another test that will make me math free for life! I will still need to pass all exams for final year as well.

1.1 I fail the first test. I can't take the 2nd. stest. I get to start looking for a job.

2.1 I fail the 2nd. test. I get to start looking for a Job.

Soooo: No pressure at all!!!!! Just do the best I can and follow the flow.

Linda, the love of my life, is a great help! Thank you! I love you!

Alligator Gar! Cooool! :D

2010-05-10T13:02:00.005+02:00

I take a moment pause from studying to bring you this treat:

An Alligator Gar!

Take a moment to reflect the similarities with it's name brother. This is a freshwater fish that grow to over 200lb's and 10 feet!

It's a FISH!

It made it into my consciousness via the Discovery Channel last night.

How I love gigantism!

Ahhh... New sound-system for my Ubuntu Desktop.

2010-05-08T00:51:00.001+02:00

And this is an excellent sound-system too. And fairly cheap as well. 399,- NOK at Elkjøp. Initially I was going to buy the Creative T3130. That decision was changed AT THE STORE, due to a possibility to save 100,- and come home with a newer and better model - the Creative T3200.

So now I can get the really good experience from games and music like I need.

It's a 2.1 sound-system. It enhances mp3's really well. It's spacefirendly, but have some wire-issues due to a MECHANICAL (WOW!) volume-button :D It also comes with a standard 3.5mm standard mini-jack. This I can connect to my n900 and play off sound directly. Cool? YES!

I realize I get extra happy when I spend money well. This is vital for my money-spending. After a couple of "bad ideas" I get into non-consuming-mode. Having spent my hard-earned cash on stupidity is a real pain in the bum :)

Now we are closing in on the RSVP from our wedding-invitations. Most have accepted, a few are unable to make it, and some are unresponsive - for now. We gladly accept your answer, how ever it may be. Though we hope you all can make it! :)

Tux aquired. I'm good looki'n!!! :D

2010-05-04T20:41:00.000+02:00

The wedding tuxedo is ready. That is; it's ordered. Slightly shorter pants and smaller jacket. It made me even more ready to work out and get a slightly smaller tummy :) (my six-pack promise)

I really can't wait for the wedding-day. The party will be a magnificent occation for everyone.

And then Linda will be mine... FOREVER! MMMOOAAAHAHAHAHA!!!! :D <3 <3 <3

MMS from all of me to all of you

2010-04-22T21:56:00.000+02:00

I got MMS up and working on my Nokia n900!!! Great!

Special thanks to fMMS and fAPN to make it work. Good job you guys!

Guild Wars Nightfall

2010-04-20T14:04:00.001+02:00

I have ventured out in the comercial world of MMORPG (or MMMUUUGHHHRRPPPOOOORRGGG, as I like to call it :) )

This is because I stumbled into a gamers shop about a month ago. Just to kill time and look around. They had a "by 2 games, get 3" sale. Anyways, that resulted in me leaving the store with:

- the complete Heroes of Might and Magic V set (Orginal, Hammers of Fate expansion and Tribes of the East expansion)

- the complete Warhammer 40,000 (Orginal plus 2 expansions)

- Guild Wars Nightfall Special Edition (Huge box with maps, artwork, making of CD and music of Guild Wars CD)

all for 200,- NOK. That's a good buy people! A bargin eaven :)

Change is coming! Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS

2010-04-10T00:49:00.000+02:00

Change is coming. Quite significant changes I think. I have tried the beta version for some time and there are a few points worth a closer look :)

It's sooo much faster in boot. Yay!
It's got new features in the "social network genre".

And so on. I had a problem updating on my laptop with the beta version, so I'm just waiting the last 19 agonizing days to see the final result!!!

The semi active nerd :)

2010-03-29T22:03:00.000+02:00

As time races towards summer, exams and wedding, I have boldly promised my fiancee a six-pack. And not the beer-kind. So I try jogging and a hobby-gym-membership. And all the outdoor activity i log with my Nokia n900. I use the eCoach program witch logg speed, distance, hight difference and heartrate (if i connect a heartrate sensor, wich I don't have).

I also type in my age, hight and current weight, merly to find that the BMI tells me that I'm slightly overweight and kinda lazy... :D

As of today I have bought the tools and "plumbing" needed for installing the Wood fireplace. Tomorrow the chimney will shake in fear!

I'm also to buy some mouldings for the roof in the kitchen and livingroom.

It might be a noisy affair :D I have notefied the upstairs neighbours so that they may take the baby and flee...

Also I have discovered a new band: The Baseballs. Their album, Strike, is great!
They take todays hits and make them 50's like. --

Testing the n900 to the max

2010-03-04T00:13:00.001+01:00

Well, to the limit of my knowledge.

It is still a remarkable phone. Or rather a small and handy PC. Every day i dicover something new.

The latest is a pedometer that measures steps via the acelerometer. And also this blogging application. So from now on, most small and rather "facebook-like" updates may come from my trustworthy nokia n900 :)

The last of the "my family meeting hers coffee-meetings" is complete :)

2010-02-02T15:08:00.000+01:00

Sunday was a fine day. Except for more snow. We had invited my dad and Anne (his wife and my semi step-mom) to dinner and coffee. Somewhere along the way we decided to invite Linda's parents to coffee too, so that the last of the parents could meet and greet.

The dinner went rather well, a simple spaghetti meal, well appreciated.

It was also the test of our new diningtable in the livingroom. It withered the storm perfectly.

Some time later we had unexpected visitors. Synnøve and Knut, who never manages to get around to visit us when we are actually at home, came ringing the doorbell. They got the quick tour while dad and Anne patiently relaxed in the couch. Of course that's when Linda's parents also showed up :) There was some 5 minutes of utter chaos before the introducing and greeting and good-bye-ing had been managed.

We had a wonderful coffee chat and everyone got on really well. We hope :)

The wedding might be a really good time for anyone. Let's make it a great party!

My sisters birthday:)

2010-02-02T14:52:00.000+01:00

We had a great time at my sisters birthday-partey last weekend. She made her famous homemade pizza. She's now 26. A respectable age for any girl/woman :D
(Hohoho, I made a funny :D )

We were 7 people there, overeating on the pizza, so I bet she has still got 4 cakes left in her refrigerator! If she's not ate them yet...

She's the greatest sister anyone could ever ask for. (I didn't, and still got her)

Nokia n900! Lord how great it is!

2010-02-02T14:41:00.001+01:00

I bought a new phone (cell/mobile/tablet whatever :p ).The BRAND NEW! Nokia n900. This is one of the first times that I find that money is well spent on new technology, at least when it is brand new. AND IT IS SOOO GREAT! It is costumizable beyond anything because it runs the Maemo 5 OS. Wich is based on Ubuntu 8.04 (or 8.10 ?).

You have NEVER seen multitasking like this on a phone!

With a great screen and great sound you can wach full movies on it. Although you might need a BIG microSD card. The phone has about 30 GB of storingspace built in, but i'm choosing to leave that alone for now. I have a 4 GB microSD on it. I have some audiobooks and music on it.

The camera is 5 megapixels and takes great pic's and the led flash is great.

The slide qwerty keyboard is great! It actually elliminates the danger of using you cell to write sms in your car :p otherwise it is great for the use of internett. Hook it up with your wifi at home, and it is faster than most small laptops like acer one and sutch.

It is imensly powerfull, i have seen quake 3 been played on it!!! and you can cable connect it to you tv! New software is pouring in as you read this. Games and apps and scrennlets and desklets. If you really want EVERYTING, there is a Debian installer, witch makes you install any Debian programs from the Linux communty. This is great if you are a little "white and nerdy" like me, but i need a bigger microSD card before i venture into that land of nerdyness :D

This is the best ting that has happened to the geeks of the world since internett.

I thought about getting an android, but I think this is miles better! everything is FREE!!!!

Back online!

2010-01-24T01:14:00.000+01:00

Here I am again. As online as ever :)
As we have moved and it does take some time to make Mimer set up the connection, the blogging has unfortunately had a standstill. In the very unlikely event that I might remember things that have happened the last month or so whit any accuracy at all, I will not try to tell you what has happened, and rather concentrate on the present and future.

We have just come home from a little trip to Trondheim. It was set as a mini vecation and a shopping-spree at IKEA. (It is amazing how much you can cram into a VW Polo.)

A couple of bottles of wine and a romantic dinner escalated to a rather moist night at random pub's in the immediate vicinity of our hotel.
This again resulted in a rather puzzled and pretty hung over IKEA trip. I hope we learned something that day:)

It was a really romantic trip for us, and Linda seems to have had a blast.

We also met up with Elise, who is rather happy with being "my half" of the Toastmaster-team we are setting up for our wedding. The other part is Lindas friend Hanne.

Maria Kristine and her husband Sivert made a lifesaver Lunch for us as we visited them just after the IKEA trip. As we nearly just ate and ran, we are happy to report of a great apartment, a happy dog, their gorgeous daughter Martha chewing the same piece of bread over and over til it is all wet and mush and she throws it on the floor. Classic family happyness:)

The 6 hours of drive is reeking havoc with my behind and I'm rather tired and soon to be crosseyed. I better go to bed. I hope to do regular updates on my blog from now on. This is my special service to the couple of people that might actually read this. And thank you for doing so:)

Later.

School is really lame, boring etc etc.

2009-12-01T17:44:00.001+01:00

Yes, you heard it from me, although probably not first:
School sucks. Thats right! It's really really not what I want to spend my time doing. At least not with the classes I'm taking just now, again.

U guessed it, it's MATH! The slow agonizing death of numbers (and more and more resently: letters too).

I seem to be able to solve any problem though. I kinda always have been, but the time spent on it is just not worth it! By the time I'm finished with the equation (or whatever) I shoud have been doing at least 5.

I practice and practice, but the solving rate is still the same. What I mean is: I solve an equation, and the next does not go any faster. Even if I use the same technique.

How come I'm so slow? What is damming up my river of thoughts that brings the boat of "solvation"? The river carves its way into my brain, but the flow-rate is still the same.

I try to do it faster, just to speed it up, but then I utterly fail to solve it. I go wrong somewhere.

Why don't I have a talent for this?

I can tell if a building is stable just by looking at it. I see the forces in the framework, the forces from the roof and the floors and the bending moment on the structure.
I eaven see the answer to most math-problems, I see what most answers should be. Most of the time I get the right answer by reverse-engineering my way trough it!

And that is bloody annoying.

And I don't want to go to school anymore! I want to work! To be a part of a team, or independently make my own way! Solve REAL problems or issues!
Contribute to society!

Have a home! Have a wife! Have kids! Have a job! Be appreciated for what I do!

How I long for it all...

On the plus side:
I have a home, I will have a vife by 17. July next year, kids are planned sometime after the marriage... So a JOB. That's what's left.

Just have to finish school/college... So:

This looks like a job for: SUPER OLE MAGNUS!

Better thoughts about scouts. And eagerness!! :)

2009-11-28T15:53:00.000+01:00

This is great. Finally things are going my (our) way with the scout organization.

We are approved on paper, we have regular meetings, we have acquired a tent and tent plugs. We have a recruiting poster that is going up on schools and sutch. We have a location for the Pentecost camp in spring.

The windmill we are going to construct is soon going from plans to construction.

These are happy times! :)

A little leaky...

2009-11-26T21:09:00.000+01:00

So I leak... From the belly and up :) No biggie. I just have a slightly damaged "valve" that stops stommack-acid coming up the eating-tube. So it kinda burns sometimes. But now I got my medication, and I take it when needed. And that is not all the time :)

So life still goes on, as usual. I just take some medicine when I need it, and even then it's just mild agony -sometimes.

I can eat and drink as before. My acid is normal, so my condition won't get affected. I just simply leak.

The medication is just to heal the acid damage done to my eating tube.

The Doc still took some test to see if I was allergic to wheat and stuff. Coeliac-disease. Cøliaki in norwegian.
If these tests are positive (meaning I have the disease), the Doc will call me. (No word yet).

Going to try out Vendetta Online

2009-11-24T11:39:00.000+01:00

http://www.vendetta-online.com/

I'm going to try out Vendetta Online soon. Seems like a fun MMO game. And the "space-nerd" I am, thing I might like it. Though it's a 21 day free trial, so I better get a move on.

Though I will only use a limited amount of time on it at present, because I'm studying for my finals which is 2. and 3. december.

Looking forward to getting tubes stuck down my troath...

2009-11-24T09:13:00.000+01:00

It's time for some gastroscophy (?) for me. I have been bothered by my guts for some time. So now I'm going to check it out. I went to a private clinic in town and today they are going to poke a stick in me and see what happeneds :)

I'm not looking forward to the actual tube-sticking, but the results can only make my life even better. So either it's medications for a short while, medications for a loooong time or no medication at all, and just a little more activity for me. Either way I win :)

Linda is sick on my behalf and is anxious, and probably will be all day. Poor thing :)

So now I have over eaten breakfast because I have to fast for 6 hours before the examination.

Good luck to me, trying to study for my finals this year, all hungry :)

Looks like an exciting game!

2009-11-23T14:25:00.000+01:00

http://www.darkdaysarecoming.com/

Wow, this seems like a really cool game! I have registered so that I might get a chance playing the Beta version. Check out the trailers on youtube :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsLXQEeLiI0
or:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woBJX-KSH_k

Our new HOME :D

2009-11-21T22:29:00.002+01:00

This is our new home from 26 January.

Check it out!
http://www.finn.no/finn/realestate/object?finnkode=19789698&sid=xz9iagNWE-c875346

Homeowner! YES!

2009-11-20T08:38:00.000+01:00

This announcement is brought to you by Ole Magnus, The Landlord:

I have bought a section of a 4-apartment house. With a HUGE porch and a garrage! It's really nice, though we need to do some painting at first. Maybe knock down a wall and mend some wallpaper to have it just the way we want it.

This is going to be GREAT!

Visualization on Gnome Panel, Ubuntu

2009-11-18T13:39:00.001+01:00

My desktop Ubuntu 9.10 codename Karmic Koala. The red arrow points to my new visualization of any sound played.

WAY better 3D-mapping of Norway than Google Earth

2009-11-15T13:32:00.000+01:00

This is an EXCELLENT 3D way to see Norway. I have used it for several "on-site" views of the topography and scernery. This is remarkable accurate. Check out the fjords in the middle the vest, just at the bend going east. It's great!http://www.virtual-globe.info/VirtualGlobeStarter.php?

Potensial wedding-cake?

2009-11-05T20:08:00.001+01:00

NOT if Linda gets to decide! :D

Just thought the cake was really cool!!! Though better suited at the LOTR convetions.

Nerds will always be nerds. Luckily. :)

I think I'm happy with beeing a nerd...

A spot of fishing, jolly good chaps!

2009-11-03T23:03:00.001+01:00

Went fishing today with Viet. (my BEST MAN, living with my sister.) Invited my dentist too (I grew up with him), Einar, who finally made it when it really was too dark to fish anymore. (Not his fault though, I forgot how fast the darkness comes at this time of year. AND he was the only one with a torch too.)

It was great. Relaxing fishing, mountaionious abuse on the quarry a couple of hundred meters behind us, when they dynamited a whole mountainside.

I didn't catch anything, but Viet got a little cod, excellent to grill in foil with butter, alt and pepper. Eaten with bare hands by the sea in total darkness.

Then we were off to Viet for some relaxing couch sitting and some TV watching. A spot of coffee and simpsons with 3 typical dudes is just plain fun.
We might do some fishing some other day, at a lighter hour of the day. Or poker with some of the other guys who might find fishing a bit dull. Perhaps if the would bring some beer...?

Blender on my cappy ATI laptop? YES! or maybe?

2009-10-30T21:54:00.002+01:00

YOHOOOO!
Blender problem fixed in Ununtu 9.10! Finally! Well, not fixed in ubuntu, but with the ATI driver for Xpress 1200 that I'm forced to use... Another step for me away from Mircrosoft grip! Lovely!

Testing finnised. Oh well...

2009-10-29T11:34:00.001+01:00

Well this seems to be pretty basic. It does support drag and drop picture adding, fat writing, fat and Itallic writng, Itallic writing, but sadly: no colours. I probably add those later though...

TEST SUCCESSFUL ! :D

Testing out new software in Ubuntu.

2009-10-29T11:28:00.002+01:00

Just trying this "Blog Entry Poster", a free software used in Linux. Seems good enlugh. Just one click and I can bog away! Username and password is preset. So:

TESTING TESTING!

Having 2.nd thoughts, or maybe thinking again. Just a different angle.

2009-10-26T13:53:00.000+01:00

Well, it's monday again. Time for another meeting for RR Ålesund. That is if anyone bothers to show up. Last meeting was cancelled due to lack of participants. We still have unfinnished buisness with the Norwegian Register, and need to resolve these before we can officially start this organization.

It's dawned on me that there are practiaclly just 5 people who still live here who actually have been a scout or guide before. And that if we are to have meetings with more than (maybe not eaven) 3 persons, we have to do heavy recrooting. This is hard because, as it is, we are not officially up and running yet, and without the proper paperwork, they really don't know what they are joining.

And now, with maybe 5 of us, all working and most got GF or BF at home, and maybe other things to occupy our time, we should be lucky to have more than 2 on any meeting untill recruting starts.

As I understand, there may be some of the good old guys and girls that wants to participate, allthough they have no chance at attending mettings. We have planned that they can join in on any trip we arrange, if they just pay the Norwegian YMCA fee. The rest will have to pay a little on top of that one aswell. That is for equipent and lease of... we don't really know, but it will be nice to have something in backhand if there is a problem sometime. (And there usually is.)

I understand that I can't do this by myself. Or, rather: I can, but then I need to do everything myself. Because I don't really know if I can trust my brothers in arms to do things that is neccesery to be done to the agreed time. If I delegate tasks, I need them done. Otherwise I'd rather do them myself and not worry about if they are beeing done or not.

As you might read this, I may come across as a bit negative. And I am. About certain things, at least.

Things I am wery happy about is that I've convinced my darling sister to come to the meeting today. Some of the guys need to know it's not a club for boys.

I really, really wish my good friend Vegard Glimsjø was here, in him I have trust to the bone if I ask him anything. Maybe becasue he is edging to the world of adulthood :) He is also passionate about the scouts, and we would have things done. He could hold me in the ear if I didn't do the things I am supposed to.

Miserabillity is caused by illness! I don't like today at all. Except that my girl treats me better than I deserve today. Got to like that! :) Thank you Linda! LOVE YOU! <3 <3 <3

2009-10-17T23:07:00.000+02:00

Well, I'm not well at all.

AND I think I am a pain in the ass for my girl. I say little and keep to myself. Ofcourse she gets a lot of TV watching and surfing done, however we had kinda planed a "couples all-day" kinda thing. We were going to see "UP", the new animated movie that just arrived at the cinemas here.

How I hate beeing sick! My throath hurts like i'm trying to swallow brarbed wire. I don't want food, I'm thirsty, but it hurst drinking. I feel bloated, allthough I haven't nearly eaten anything. My neck and head hurst (on principle I think) I'm restless, but there is nothing to do, and I can't go for a walk. I'm too hot, I'm freezing or just generally unconfortable. (This too on principle...)

And there is really nothing on TV! So i agonize to my girl, and sigh often, and is generally miserable.

Back to studio...

My love, my darlig, my everything! <3

2009-10-09T00:01:00.002+02:00

A little gimp'ing of the original pic of my dear when facebook'ing :D

so I get to change dipers and play with kids tomorrow. Cool :)

2009-10-06T23:35:00.001+02:00

Well, tomorrow it's back to kindergarden for some serious kindergardening(?)
Kinda good to vary between them and the rather older people at the nursinghome I usually work.

The job is almost the same, but the noise-level is remarkably lower at the nursinghome :D

So I get a little of everything. And there is some baggage to take with you from both places. Luckily there is some really good people at the nursinghome. It makes to job soooo much easier.

At the home-front I'm currently looking for the book I was reading. I'm about half-way and I seem to have misplaced it, or, rather, put it somewhere really clever, so I can't find it at all.
It's by my favorite author at the time: Terry Pratchett. The book is called: Thief of time. And it's mostly black. If someone have seen it, tell me where I put it, please! :D

I think I kinda like blogging, it's like a diary, only it's not - the difference is suttle, vauge, and complex, most because everyone is permitted to read it. I think I like it because it allows for occational mind-emptying and filosophical digressions, or not. Just whatever I like :)

So, these are the days of OUR lives

2009-10-01T23:40:00.001+02:00

The mornings go by too school,
the lunch is all about homework,
the mid-day is about dinner, usually alone with the TV, all though that's all changing now.

Congratulations to my GORGEOUS girl with her new job!!! <3

Evenings might be more 'us' time now. Just because she'll be working only early-shifts from now on. Well, at least for a year.Between workout, TV, more and more homework,
PC's (blogging, gaming, facebook, general surfing), I'm sure this will mean better rhythm to our lives. Logistics will be easier for sure. With only the one car, she starts job 15 min before I start classes. And the drive from her job to my school is apx. 5 min! Excellent!

Oh, we have made good arrangements before. It's just it'll be easier for me to get up in the mornings knowing that she too has to get up! Kinda demoralizing knowing that she'll still be sleeping when I get home after a couple of classes:)

It must be said, or rather shouted from the tree-tops, that I have never been more happy!!!

I'm relaxed in my everyday doings, and I DO HOUSEWORK, can you believe it??!!

Well, just telling the world that I'm happy, content and the future seems a bright and happy lace to me at present day.

Take care.

More of the book. I stayed up late for this, unable to put my work down and go to bed.

2009-09-25T07:09:00.001+02:00

Kap. 2

De trange gatene i Ålesund virket vide og uten ly for søkende blikk. Lys og skygger mosjonerte fantasien hans. Han stod skjelven på det nordøstlige hjørnet av Rica Parken Hotell og kikket ned gata. Storgata var tom, foreløbig. Kongens gate kunne han ikke se fordi han var så høyt oppe, og Einarvikgata hadde høyrygg før den knakk ned i Storgata. Det føltes som om alle tanker i verden om flukt og strategier raste gjennom hodet hans. Dyret sov igjen. Det var ingen nærliggende fare lenger. Han var kvalm, og hendene skalv.

Han måtte bort. Vekk fra alt en stund. Hva hadde egentlig skjedd? Han var ikke sikker enda. Det var for mange inntrykk, skarpe og forferdelige. Tankene gled tilbake til Ynglingen. Plutselig ble han brått revet tilbake til virkeligheten av hviningen i bilgummi på tørr asfalt. Fare. Dyret knurret i ham. Det var ikke tid til å tenke nå! Lydene kom fra periferien i sentrum og det var sikkert bare en råner. Endre kjennte at Dyret lengtet i motsatt retning, og han begynte å småjogge oppover gata. Et dystert lys fra gatelyktene faller mellom tynne, kalde grener fra trær som vokser i skillet mellom vei og fortau. Et tørt enslig blad skraper bortover veien i det han passerer inn i skyggen under trærne. Han runder hjørnet til nr. 11 og Aksla-fjellet ruver truende og bekmørkt over ham. Eneste grunnen til at han kan se konturen på fjellet, er at stjernene tegner et svakt skille og lager en sort duk der Aksla er.

Han liker ikke skogen og mørket. Han har altfor god fantasi til å like mørket. Likevel virker det innbydenede nå. Fantasien får vike for den trengende virkeligheten. Monstre finnes i virkeligheten, men de bor ikke i skogen. Han føler at Dyret liker skogen. Det kan gjemme seg, trygt og lenge. Endre stjeler seg over gata og vasser gjennom tykt vissent brennesle. Ett stykke opp i skråningen møter han en hindring. En mur i natursten toppet med jern-rekkverk holder Borgenes vei inntil Aksla. Det er en gangsti som går fra parken til Gangstøvika. Fra den snor seg frem mot sentrum folk sikert med et gjerde i sort jern.

Han hopper opp og tar tak i den nederste tverrstangen. Han finner fotfeste mellom to stener i muren og skal dra seg opp, da flere ting skjer på ên gang. Han hører løpende skritt på stien, og hører en bil komme farende opp Einarvikgata bak seg. Han slipper taket og detter på ræva ned på bakken. I panikk drar han seg inntil muren med ryggen og legger seg på siden. Brenneslene er ganske høye, men han ser billyktene mellom dem og de lyser rett på ham. Bilen stanser, og tre menn går ut. To av de leter lenger ned i gata, rundt nr. 11 og på andre siden av gata. De hadde ikke sett ham. Enda.

My book, at least the first couple of pages... :) in Norwegian mind.

2009-09-19T22:44:00.000+02:00

Ole Magnus – Boka.

Man kan dele inn kroppen i disse delene, grovt altså; kroppen – den gjør det fysiske arbeidet,

hjernen – den tenker, tar avgjørelser - og enkelte ganger overstyre den kroppen, også er det Dyret. Dyret tar over når hjernen ikke lenger kan styre kroppens funksjoner og tenke samtidig. Dyret er enkelt, brutalt og egoistisk. Dyret skal overleve. Punktum. Ikke noe mer eller mindre. Hverken eller. Dyret bor i deg. Skal det overleve, må du også det. Og Dyret gjør alt det kan for nettopp dette. Også du da. Men når Dyret er ute, er du bare passasjer, en belastning som må dras med til dere er trygge igjen, alle fire. Kroppen, hjernen, Dyret og du.

Er du ikke kjent med dyret? Da har du ikke vært i en presset situasjon før. Og det er nettopp her vi møter Endre. Dyret har ham nå. Det jager ham gjennom parken. Endre er passasjer. Han følger redselsfullt med mens kroppen hans bærer ham over plenene og grus-stiene. Dyret vet at det blir fulgt. Det kan ikke høre noe ennå, men det vet at det ikke er lenge igjen nå.

Dyret er vaktsomt. Endre begynner å legge merke til ting nå; han merker at han knapt kan se fordi øynene er fyllt med tårer. Han vet ikke om det er fordi han er redd, eller om det er fordi den kalde augustkvelden presses mot det vidåpne, redselslagne lyseblå øynene hans.

Han kjenner Dyret krype tilbake. Hjernen har tatt over igjen. Nå kjenner Endre blodsmaken. Han kjenner den på siden av tungen, mot de bakerste jekslene, søt og kvalmende er den. Han har kjennt den før, og slutter aldri å undre seg over at det faktisk ikke er blod i munnen, noe som smaken tilsier. Han kjenner også hjertet hamre hardt i brystet. Han kjenner ikke slagene en gang, bare at det gjør vondt, som om noen prøver å komme seg ut en låst dør ved å kaste seg mot den.

Nå kjenner har vinden i ansiktet. Han vet at den ikke er sterk, men farten han løper i klarer å presse tårene over kinnen og bak mot ørene. Han løper i en svak oppoverbakke. Parken er tom nå, og grenene til de store parktrærne svaier forsiktig i vinden. Ett og annet bøkeblad seiler stille forbi Endre, som bare kan høre seg selv hive etter pusten annethvert steg.

Han vet hvor de kommer til å følge etter ham. I ren desperat strategi bestemmer hjernen at han skal prøve å løpe i en rett linje bak trærne, slik at forfølgerne kommer opp i parken fra Ynglingen, vil de ha vansker med å se ham.

”Der! Det er han! Han løper mot Gange-Rolf!”

Strategien tok feil! Dyret har tatt over igjen. Bena blir kommandert til å dra den slitne kroppen opp bakken, forbi den majestetiske skikkelsen til Gange-Rolf. Der blir de fortalt at de må slakke på farten.

”Går det for fort her, detter vi. Og da er vi ferdige” snerrer Dyret og tvinger den panikkdrevne kroppen nesten ned i gange, før mange små steg blir brukt til å opprettholde farten uten at Endre sklir i det våte gresset i den bratte nedoverbakken. Høydeforskjellen hindrer forfølgerne i å se ham for en kort stund. Dyret utnytter sjansen. Endre enser så vidt silhuetten av den kjempemessige ape-skrekken, forsvinne fra sidesynet på høyre side. Det er en barnehage på høyden bak det treet. Det er gode minner som på en eller annen måte klarer å trenge seg på.

”Jeg må være heidundrende gal” tenker Endre. ”Tenk å tenke på da du gikk på barnehagen, når du er på vill flukt...”

Han hiver etter pusten og prøver å styre seg inn på parkeringsplassen bak Rica Parken Hotell. Asfalten har begynt her, rett utenfor porten til byparken, men det er alltid litt grus der som grusveier går over til asfalt, og han gli på småsteinene i det han skjener inn mot høyre. Fallet treffer ham hardt i hoften og den høyre albuen, og farten hans gjør at han sklir ett par meter på den grove asfalten. Panikk! Dyret drar ham opp etter nakken og sender ham løpende krokbøyd inn mellom bilene. Der er han igjen overlatt til seg selv. Angsten griper ham når han blir klar over at det første stedet de vil finne på å lete, er nøyaktig der han befinner seg.

”Hvis jeg begynner å løpe ned gata nå, vil de ta meg!”

Sakte begynner de små hjula, drevet av hamstre, å dra igang treskeverket som skulle være den største muskelen hans. Det gikk fort opp for ham at når den ene av to veier er stengt, er den andre veien eneste løsning. Han stablet seg på bena og prøvde å virke usynlig mens han skrubbet og og snublet seg mot den bakerste delen av av parkeringsplassen. Den endre brutalt i en én meter høy hvit mur med ett stykk loddrett vei, omtrent fem meter, ned til et slags platå, en platting med tregulv. Den tilhørte hotellet, og det gikk en glassdør inn dit. Det var mørkt der inne og han håpte at han ikke skulle bli sett i det han dro den forslåtte kroppen sin over muren i ett hiv. Langt gress og et par røtter i tillegg til til en liten steinhylle i skråningen ned fra barnehagen, hindret ham i å falle de fem meterne. Akkurat da hørte han et ”åh, faen” tett fulgt av lyden an en av forfølgerne som ble dradd nedover asfalten på grunn av ett par småsteiner.

Han holdt seg helt i ro, og prøvde å puste så lite som mulig. Etter noen sekunder bestemte han seg for å kikke over kanten. Ett halvt sekund var nok! Han fikk med seg at de seks forfølgerne trålet mellom bilene systematisk, ett par kikket til og med under dem. Ingen så ham. Han takket sine gull-hår og bestemte seg for å hoppe. Feilberegningen av høyden resulterte i at han datt sammen når han traff bakken. Forvirret over hvor lite bråk han faktisk hadde laget, kom han seg på beina. Et raskt blikk mot venstre viste at hotellet var tomt innenfor glassveggene. Det var nok for sent for folk å henge rundt om i ballsalen nå. Selv hadde Endre aldri vært inne på dette hotellet, og han beregnet sjansene sine for noensinne å være noen som helst plass for forsvinnende liten, om han ikke kom seg avgårde.

I enden av platten, var det noen trapper. De gikk nedover og svingte inn i seg selv nedover som en vindeltrapp i hvit betong, med slike ”halvetasjer” som man finner i viktige bygninger. Endre fulgte de hvite murveggene jevnt nedover, og forsøkte å lage så lite lyd som mulig. Tre ”halvetasjer” senere kom han ut på en åpent asfaltert plass mellom hotellet og bergveggen. Han hadde bare fluktretningen i hodet, ikke ruten. Dyret hadde bestemt retningen og dro ham med seg.

Om du hadde spurt Endre hva han hadde talent for, ville han svare: ”Stikke av og klatre.” En oppvekst med den lokale rampen (som var ett par år eldre), hadde tilpasset ham et liv som byttedyr. Han var slank og seig. Og han var rask. En gang hadde han klart å riste av seg en schäfer gjennom hekkene i hagene i området han vokste opp i. Dyret hadde vokst i ham. Blitt sterkere. Smartere. Dyret lærte av sine feil, det var alltid ydmykt og oppvakt.

A lot going on :)

2009-09-11T21:30:00.000+02:00

So I just started a Rover/Ranger Scout Organization. Well me and a friend of mine. Just for the social and trying to get outdoors a bit :)

And I'm getting married next summer!!! To the most beautifull girl in the world!!! (I know, clichee, or whatever it is in english :p ) Just picked up the rings today btw. Gold and glitter!

I try to finish my bachelor degreeeee...eee.e

I try to more tidy at home. Not that it is messy or anything, just generally make it more tidy. Seems like a clean home is good for me :)

Oh, yeah. The Man-Dates. We try to get together with guys and do stuff like fishing and poker and playstation and other guys-stuff. Inspired by the movie. And, yeah, one of the guys is going to be my best man. Viet, cool guy.

I work a lot, as often as I can. We're saving for the wedding, AND I can afford to by food and schoolbooks :) and the ocational party or happening. All in all I'm much more social than before.

Well, I thought that I had a lot going on, and I probably forgot something, but it really is taking all my time.

Comense Blogging, whatever that is... :)

2009-09-09T23:11:00.000+02:00

So this is blogging... well I better get things moving then. Sould be fun/could be fun.

Anyways. This is me:

185cm ape-decendant, and I'm getting married next summer! YES! <3 for the love of my life.

Oh, yes, I'm a dude. Straight. Building-engineer 2. attempt on finnishing 2. year of bachelor at Ålesund University College.

I'm 25... 26... ok: 28. OLD! And I had soooo much time in ...in 1993...

OK, that's all for now. This will probably be updated:)