August 2006 – Page 2 – Denseman on the Rattis

Large Lunch

22 August 2006

Large Lunch
Originally uploaded by carpetmankent.

I just saw this on Flickr. It’s cool how the web is almost invisible so that one could be fooled into believing the spider and the fly are falling together through the air.

I hope the spider has a healthy appetite – it’ll need it!

Børn, børn, børn…

22 August 2006

Det ser ud til, hele verden er venter sig for tiden – min søster og min chef har jeg kendt til i et stykke tid, og i det fik jeg så at vide, at min fætter Henrik skal være far.

Insektmatematiker

20 August 2006

bug bibliophile Originally uploaded by vojtisek. Insekter er sååå søde, når de prøver at forstå matematik! 🙂

Jeg har netop læst en artikel i Jyllands-Posten om, at Helmuth Nyborg fra Psykologi ved Aarhus Universitet er blevet fritstillet. Manden har jo kontroversielle holdninger, men hvad jeg fandt interessant, var, at JP har offentliggjort rapporten fra det sagkyndige udvalg (skrevet i LaTeX). Så vidt jeg kan se, er to af de tre sagkyndige statistikprofessorer, […]

Scorpions

19 August 2006

Bugs and Scorpions Originally uploaded by decadavide. I’ve always disliked scorpions (well, ever since Ötz found a scorpion crawling on his son’s duvet in his house in Italy very close to my parents’). That said, I’m in two minds whether I like them better roasted on a spit, like the seem to do in China. […]

Slag

12 August 2006

En af de få danske retter, jeg ofte savner i min landflygtighed, er rullepølse. Men det skulle jo egentlig ikke være så svært at lave det selv – svin og krydderier findes jo også herovre. Mit eneste problem er at skaffe svineslag, da jeg ikke véd, hvad det hedder på engelsk – pork belly? Muligvis […]

København

20 August 2006

Jeg fik en sms fra Miriam om, at hun nu er flyttet til Bredgade i København. Jeg nåede aldrig at få hendes lejlighed i Odense at se indefra – nu får vi se, om jeg når at se den i Bredgade – det lyder, som om den er lidt lille til fem personer… 🙂

Alternate pasts

20 August 2006

Lying in bed this morning, I was trying to analyse the similarities between two of my favourite books, Between the Rivers and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Between the Rivers (by Harry Turtledove) takes place in Mesopotamia (hence the name) in antiquity. The basic idea is that gods are as real as people believe them […]

Christian the Great, King of the Incas

19 August 2006

I posted the following to the soc.history.what-if newsgroup back in 2003. It didn’t attract any attention, though, so I’m reposting it here now, since I think it’s one of my better ATLs. PoD ca. 1518. King Christian II of Kalmar decides that fighting the Swedish rebellions will only harden their resistance. Instead, he sees possibilities […]

The Grapple

13 August 2006

I just finished reading Harry Turtledove’s Settling Accounts: The Grapple, taking place during World War II in an alternate world where the South won the American Civil war. As usual, the plot moves along at a snail’s pace, the dialogues are unimaginative, and the whole thing is totally predictable as soon as one realises that […]