Author, young, from my town. Raises issues of “Swedishness”. But, also a brilliant stylist. Reviews have called her style usage average. I’d like to call it shining and excellent. Piercing. Kan du säga shibbolet is the title of her latest novel, which I’m currently enjoying. She’s like the anti-Pär Thörn.
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Special interest
“Special interest” is a misnomer. Every interest is special. And you can become of a geek of anything. “Soccer is the only broad shared cultural expression.” (said by a Frenchman, explaining why hackerspaces are not “marginal” or “narrow” culture; everything is narrow compared to European soccer.) Met a guy tonight that wanted to hear biographical …
Olle and Rob
Olle and Rob Originally uploaded by reinvented Just a picture (taken by Peter Rukavina). This is Robert, and he is my Peak Oil mentor.
4th Øresund JavaScript Meetup report
The 4th Øresund JavaScript Meetup was just held at Hypergene‘s Malmö offices, yesterday night. Eight brave souls made the journey to Malmö C and came to Hypergene’s quite fancy offices. After a little pizza snack and introductory conversation, we repaired to a meeting room. Networking was in full swing, in at least three languages, when …
Pen buying recommendation in Malmö
Drewex has the art supplies that I need, according to my comics artist friend. She showed some pens that were also brushes. It’s situated in a backstreet, and is cheap and popular with the active artists. These facts sum up to a great endorsement. I’ll report back when I’ve been there. In other news: Rainer …
Enjoy RuPy for me
I went to Poznan, Poland in 2007. They run a very nice conference on dynamic languages, mainly focused on Ruby and Python. The post-RuPy party was stellar. The atmosphere during the event was kind, interested, and curious. OK, what you do now is go there for me. You submit a talk, and say hi to …
On “POLITICS OF THE IMAGINATION: The Life, Work and Ideas of Charles Fort”
POLITICS OF THE IMAGINATION: The Life, Work and Ideas of Charles Fort by Colin Bennett On this book about Charles Hoy Fort, that I was lent by a local sci-fi author. Quite talky at times, wandering around the subject, which is, a sad lonely poor writer, who was either a fool squandering his life in …
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Hacknight 2009 rundown
Oh, what a night! I’m home, have slept, and sitting the garden, typing up this event report. I started my event day in the afternoon, calling the event site, asking what needed to get fetched from the city. I was tasked with getting the projector for the lasertagging from the activist café in MöllevÃ¥ngen, Glassfabriken …
Death, discussed at the coffee machine
“When you lose your parents, you’ll know you’re up next. You’re mortal. Being mortal sets you free to do whatever you want to.” “Or, to be the best person you can be.” Reflecting, that might be the same thing, or it might not.
Preparing a festival: Hacknight
Can you do something for me? I want you to tell your hacker friend: there is a 11 July hacker festival (for free) in Malmö. This URL points you right at it:forskningsavd.se. Her friend knows others, so then at last everybody knows about it. Good? Good. Thanks, friend on the web. (If you did it, …