This post is a bit overdue, but I just got around to taking a photo to go with it.
A while ago, I posted about how much I wanted the Space Invaders sweater from the Gudbrandsdalsost ad campaign. Back before Christmas, when we were exploring the Christmas market at the Folk Museum, there was a stall [...]
Over at Gigapan, David Bergman has generated an ultra-high resolution photo of Obama’s inauguration, using a composite of 220 individual photos to create a single 1,474-megapixel image. Using the Gigapan Viewer, you can start from the original landscape-style image and zoom in to the point that you can see individual faces in the crowd.
Zooming [...]
Rubik’s Cubes are cool. LEGO Mindstorms are very cool. So when you get a LEGO Mindstorm to solve your Rubik’s Cube for you? I don’t even know if there’s a word for that!
Originally seen at Geekologie.
I’m not often one to pass on “blog forwards,” but this one from Courtney today did spark my interest. Basically, it’s just a big list, and you mark the things you’ve done in bold. Then add one to the end of the list if you’d like. Looking back, it reminded me of lots of experiences [...]
On Sunday, we had a heavy midwestern style snow fall, that added a bit of brightness and a little excitement to our dark winter weekend. And what do you do in Oslo if it starts pouring down snow on a Sunday afternoon? You go for a walk, of course! It actually wasn’t very cold outside, [...]
Since we now have a decent stash of California wines to work our way through, we decided to open our last bottle of wine from our visit to the Margaret River, Australia wine region: Our “Bling Bling Shiraz”
We spent a while at Windance trying their excellent reds and chatting with the owners. “Bling Bling Shiraz” [...]
Because my friend Shane may or may not believe in zombies, I thought I’d offer him a tribute post with a few relevant international news items…
First, since Sundance opened yesterday, I thought it right to mention Norway’s own offering, of which I’m eager to find a subtitled screening:
According to a film poster I’ve seen around [...]
We’ve been back from San Francisco for two weeks, and I’ve finally gotten the chance to post something! A technical glitch with my blog, followed by a poor attempt to fix the problem by upgrading the software meant that I haven’t even been able to post for a while. (And I was stuck with that [...]