We fly to the US tomorrow, so the past few weeks have been a flurry of online ordering, so that we can take advantage of cheap internet prices and the weak dollar to do a bunch of our shopping. The last order went out on Tuesday, and I was a little worried because I’d put [...]
I’ve been meaning to write a post about russ since they first started appearing around town at the beginning of May. After watching the Russ Parade downtown on Constitution Day, I started this post, but before I got around to finishing it, I read the following description in a humorous post from Robert, a long-time Norway ex-pat I met recently:
A [...]
…Or at least let them die in peace?
There was an article in the English version of one of the Norwegian newspapers today. Apparently their food editor was actually charged with animal cruelty for boiling crabs! Granted, dropping shellfish into boiling water is not my cup of tea, but isn’t animal cruelty charges taking it a [...]
I wrote a post a few weeks ago about how I was glad to be watching the new Pirates of the Caribbean here in Norway, where it would be safe and untouched by the Chinese censors. This came up again, as the film release just hit Chinese cinemas last week.
In line with the release was [...]
Our apartment is right across the street from the Frognerbadet swimming pool, which means that normally we have a nice view to Vigelands Park. Yesterday, when we came home, instead of the long lines of families waiting to get into the pool (the temperature here has been up around 30°C), there were equipment vans and roadies [...]
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Lucas sent me this Pearls Before Swine strip this morning, which was a delightful bit of college nostalgia. Aside from grand educational pursuits, college seems to be the time for pursuing other, more meaningless studies, and for us it was learning the complete lyrics to [...]