Skara as action figure. Via: David. Ardala is the name of Emperor Morbius’ girlfriend in the Buck Rogers universe. (These names are also placenames in West Sweden, where I grew up.)
Author Archives: Olle Jonsson
Freeform role-playing in dictionary form
[Tobias](http://blog.wrigstad.com/) and I have now condensed our thoughts on role-playing in the form of [a wiki](http://jeepen.olle.ter.dk/wiki/doku.php), but that fails to attract others, being hard to read, follow and use. Especially off-line. The solution was to rewite some of the material and to collect it in one, accessible place. We had already bought [jeepen.org](http://blog.jeepen.org/), and set …
Moira: Swedish cutting-edge larp
Moira, “modern fantasy” live-action role-playing game. It is already played, and here is the organizers’ letter to the involved. A kind of post-mortem. There are pictures, courtesy of Gabriel. > “All magic replaced by half-bad grainy photos with no focus. May give a hint on how this bizarre fairytale reality was manifested.” Joc told large …
My bike dealer, a hero
I have the pleasure of telling you that my new bike will be led to its first tighten-the-screws service today, at my bike dealer’s: > Ravnen > Nansensgade 36 > 1366 København K > Phone: +45 3332 1828 The woman running that bike shop is the hardest, toughest and most straight-forward I have met in …
WordPress Plugins Database
For Mac folk out there, Peter Rukavina has made a screencast about using the Del.icio.us service with a couple of loosely coupled applications Mac OS X. For bloggers, and WordPress users foremost, there are many Del.icio.us plugins to choose from. I’m choosing something from the WordPress Plugins Database, but I shall do some reading on …
Update and CSS beauty
Talk of tech
My American experience
In conversation (via Skype) with Peter I told him I had been in the US once. Rode from Chicago to Duluth, MN in a Greyhound: > [17:52:50] Peter Rukavina skriver: You realize that the fact that your entire experience of North America consists of Duluth and riding to Duluth on a bus is worthy of …
What is an Arcade game?
Someone asked me today what an arcade game was. It was a first meeting with a man at my new office-space. I launched into a historical diachronical account of how the arcade came into being, what its social implications were, how the *flaneur* was created by this architectural/business phenomenon. Then how light entertainment was added …
Examples galore
The PLEAC – Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook has very many languages’ implementations of the examples of the Perl Cookbook. They have a Haskell section!
In Swedish: Kalla linjen
Ladislaus Horatius skriver högst personligt och med ett härligt tilltal på Kalla linjen. Eftersom du kan läsa det här kan du också läsa mer personliga texter. Och hans idé om en salong: jag tänder på alla cylindrar. Fridens! (Och visst längtas det till Vadstena ibland.)