Escape from boredom

Due to the renovation situation back home, we have tried to spend most of the weekend away. Tonight we visited Ingrid and Lars Tormod, went to see a movie with them and when finished we shared a pizza at their place. The pizza was bought at the local kebab and pizza place named Sonys Pizza or something like that. Anyhow, it seems like good kebab ingredients are worth a lot, since they have spent quite some time to protect their store. I have not seen a door so well protected before, and that is the back door. Is it the due to the fact that Blitz is in the neighborhood maybe?

Maybe to keep Mattilsynet (The Food Safety Authority) away? Or at least storming in the back door 🙂

Now all the parts to our new kitchen has arrived, what a choosy living room we now have. Elin is very happy right now. I must admit I have just called Espen and asked whether or not he is home this evening. I do not want to stay at home.

Elin, quite happy 🙂

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You can almost see the sofa

I’ve also finished the flooring today

Sorry for this for my readers that does not understand Norwegian, but most of this posting will be in Norwegian. There is a tv serie made by a Norwegian comedian, at least I think that is describing him the best, and he wanted to find out whether or not Hell exists by doing all the seven deadly sins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins. And in the end, if he did not go to hell afterwards, Hell and therefore God does not exists would be the conclusion. A lot of fuzz here in Norway due to that.

Read this article today http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2007/11/09/517682.html and I had to comment it, somewhere in the huge amounts of comments you will find my comment

Har prøvd å finne ut av hva Finn Jarle Sæle & co sa under Mohammed-debatten, og da for å finne ut av om han (de) biter seg selv i halen ved å forlange friheter for sin tro som de ikke tillater for andre religioner.

Ved å søke med følgende streng på Google “site:idag.no mohammed tegninger sæle” så får du treff på de innlegg som har Sæle, tegninger og mohammed i seg på domenet Idag.no.

Det er faktisk litt vanskelig å finne ting “å ta” Sæle på, ikke fordi han ikke vil ha friheter som han ikke gir andre (les; Islam), men fordi mange av innleggene er i kategorien; Skal vi synes skyld på _de andre_, så er det jaggu synd på oss også.

MEN – jeg fant blant annet følgende artikkel http://idag.no/ledere-oppslag.php3?ID=9216 og jeg siterer:

“Gir ikke imamene i Norge aksept for frimodige ytringer, som Grunnloven vår sier, om den politiske side ved islam, er vi ille ute.”

Er ikke det tilsvarende for Sæle i forhold til programmet til Schau? Burde ikke Sæle tillate slike _frimodige_ ytringer som Schau gjennom sitt program gir (noe jeg ikke ser i særlig grad), for hvis han ikke gjør det – hvordan står det da til med ytringsfriheten i Norge?

I also came to think of it: Has anyone seen Kristopher, is he dead or alive? I guess it would be in Finn Jarle Sæles interest of getting Kristopher off the face of the earth, so he then could prove that Hell, and therefore God exists 🙂

This picture was taken at 14:05 today at Majorstuen…

Here is a short update of the status of our kitchen project. The first picture shows Elin standing in front of the fridge which now is pretty convenient placed right next to our tv. If we want something while watching tv, we won’t miss anything!!

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Not much left of the sink, which now is returned to Brobekk.

Pretty nice

And here is a picture from when I painted the ceiling. It was needed, quite clearly…

The story of the book is about Moritz Nachtstern, the Norwegian jew who was arrested by the Nazis and brought to Auschwitz. When there he was picked out to be sent to Sachsenhausen where the Nazis had made arrangements for their Operation Bernhard where the plan was to make fake money to destabilize the allies economy.

Just realized that a movie has been released this year about Operation Bernhard http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_F%C3%A4lscher.

My latest book was yet again about the World War II, this time about the Russian reporter Vasilij Grossman. A very good book, very interesting to read about the war in a Russian context. More about the writer in Norwegian http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasilij_Grossman

A review of the book, also in Norwegian http://www.aftenposten.no/kul_und/litteratur/article1165986.ece

Også Harald Strømme i reklamebyrået Try advarer nå annonsørene mot å trekke seg fra «De 7 dødssyndene». Strømme sier han tror etablerte merkevarer som Coca-Cola og Expert er bedre tjent med å bli identifisert med Kristopher Schau enn med Finn Jarle Sæle, redaktøren av i Norge i dag.

http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2007/11/07/517506.html

I totally support TV2 and Schau, and remember: do not let Finn Jarle Sæle define what is good television or not

Have been in Vienna since Saturday, traveled down early to participate at the User Group Advisory Council , and have been attending the conference since Monday. I have learned a lot, but you better check at the blog at my companies website http://www.workplace.no/ (In Norwegian). But apart from the daily agenda it is always important to get to know people and expand my network. So for that reason I agreed to go out on town yesterday with Brian even though I had planned to go to bed early 🙂 So we hooked up with his colleague Tim. Tim had heard that the Kju-Club was supposed to be a good one, so we ended up there – and that is confirmed as well:

Me, Brian and Tim showing on the photo
http://www.vienna.at/party/fotos/archiv/06_11__Almrausch_im_Kju/

Brian in the left corner

http://www.vienna.at/party/fotos/archiv/06_11__Almrausch_im_Kju/party_fotos_fotoinfo0.html

Sign you name here http://www.opprop.no/opprop.php?id=atakk

I did, in response to http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2007/11/03/517124.html?1193949641#1193949641 If this is the worst thing they have seen, they have not seen much I must say…