Moved to Malmö

Sweden’s third-largest town (270 000 inhabitants in the City, 600 000+ in the metro area) was initially called Malmhaugen (“Gravel heap”) – Wikipedia told me, so it’s true.

Now, the name of the town is Malmö. And it is my town. And, Luisa’s.

My address is Löjtnantsgatan 8B, 21150 Malmö, so update your address containers.

The phone number, land-based is +46-40 66 70 774.

Tough choices in life




Tough choices in life

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My new amazing workplace in Malmö, Sweden (the new town I am moving to) has regular “Swedish” brewed coffee.

But, if they had better coffee machinery, we might not be able to say “we need to go out for a coffee”.

My wise previous co-worker Stefan said “I refrained from buying you a king-size candy pack at the airport, since I did not want to rob you of the little hike from the screen to the kiosk. You might enjoy the break more than the candy.”

Wisdom, schmisdom. Note to self: buy candy in bulk, keep in secret storage at work.

(My brother’s becoming quite the photographer. The inspirational image comes from his photofeed.)

EU asks you for a comment

Support open standards in Europe.

Go and sign the petition. I did, and wrote this 300 chars comment:

Open standards enable as many creators as possible to invent around the
standards-conforming documents and resources. EU citizens have many
to-be-invented systems in their minds — open standards speed up their
invention. Also, with readable documents to work on, these inventions are more
useful.

The end date for this “EU asks its citizens for comments” thing is July 31. It opened April 14. Summer months, when everyone’s in their hammock, doing as little as possible…

So, fire up your favorite editor, and tell them.

Lots of information about them old formats on that website, and lots of (scary) EU websites to go visit. Participate.

Carpentering handyman in Malmö area needed

Having assembled two-thirds of the A-Team that will build a hyperfunctional kitchen in our Malmö apartment, me and Luisa are now looking for a carpenter.

Luisa will be the project manager, leading and supervising the progress on-site. Kirsten will be the AutoCADing architect, and also function as technical advisor.

  1. Ideally, among the people we know there will be a carpenter, perfect for this.
  2. Second-best, among the people we know, someone’ll have had the perfect carpenter in their employ, and being able to recommend said craftsperson.
  3. Finally, someone’s relative might’ve had a good experience hiring building help, and can make a recommendation.

Do you know a good carpenter? Please, please Lazyweb, I invoke thee to help me.

Malmo Ho!

Pulling up the pegs, moving tents!

Destination: Malmo, Lojtnantsgatan 8b.

July 22 is the move day.

Very little furniture, some books, some loose junk. Mostly, it’s a social occasion, so come join us. Either on the Malmo, or the Copenhagen side.

By the way, if you happen to have a van in need of some exercise, we will be happy to be of assistance.

Get in touch with me for the finer details. It’ll be fun!

Insulted!

I was just insulted. By a paperback. The book that insulted me was “Five equations that changed the world” by a Dr. Michael Guillen in 1995.

His psychologizing take on Newton’s youth was demeaning to the reader’s intellectual capacity, and after having experienced the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson, which contains quite a lot of newtoniana, Guillen’s baby-talk was… grating. Luckily I was able to put the book down after the insulting five pages of Newton-talk.

Instead I picked up the next book that my friend, the Fortran expert, lent me: a memoir of Richard Feynman. It shows verve and storytelling promise. Have you read Feynman? Any thoughts?

Pinter’s political stuff played in Malmö

A friend, who I met via Luisa, just sent me information about the stage design work she has done in the period of time. Keywords are, according to Sarah: Site-specific, literary, installations, video, and an amazing trombone player.

So, without much further ado, I hereby inform you, the interested public, that there is great possibility to see the play “Amerikansk Fotboll” at Inkonst (Bergsgatan 29, Malmö). (I guess it’s in Swedish. But their website says the group consists of Scandinavian and English actors. Well, who knows.)

The theater group Insite is the first group to get permission to play Harold Pinter texts in a collage of 4 shorter dramatic pieces and some of his poems.

Dates are May 10, 12 + 16+17+18+19 + 24+25+26 . Book the tickets online (Swedish interface, ugh!).