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EN · PHOTOGRAPHY

What’s this?

2006/11/07 22:24

Alien worms
Originally uploaded by viralbus.

I took this photo recently. Can anybody here guess what it is? 😉

EN · PHOTOGRAPHY

What's this?

2006/11/07 22:24

Alien worms Originally uploaded by viralbus. I took this photo recently. Can anybody here guess what it is? 😉

I går købte jeg teoribog og en trænings-DVD etc. for £26,50 (DKK 295,50). Bagefter havde jeg min første køretime med Phyllis i et øde industriområde. Vi har dog et problem, før vi begiver os ud i trafikken: Hendes forsikring dækker ikke, hvis jeg kører galt med provisorisk kørekort. En forsikring, der dækker den slags, vil koste tusindvis af kroner ekstra, så i stedet bliver vi nok nødt til at leje en rigtig kørelærerbil til £9 (DKK 100,25) i timen, hvilket inkluderer forsikring. Det skulle stadig blive en […]

EN · POLITICS · SCOTLAND

Independence

2006/11/02 23:24

A survey made for The Scotsman now shows support for Scottish independence. Although I left the SNP and joined the LibDems instead two years ago, I did this because I disagreed with the SNP on some specific policies (in particular, it really upset me how they campaigned against the CFP), and because I felt more and more convinced that I am a liberal first and foremost, not because I disagreed with the goal of Scottish independence within the EU. England is such a dominant part of the […]

EN · PHOTOGRAPHY

Resolution and colours

2006/10/31 22:28

Wheel Originally uploaded by viralbus. I really love our new Sony Alpha 100. The resolution is impressive, and the colours are so magnificent. Finally I can take take better photos than I could with my old Minolta SLR. I’ve only just started playing with the white balance and all the other fancy stuff, but it can really do wonderful things. And it’s so fast too – I can take several photos per second, with almost no delay at all.

EN · SCIENCE

Far north

2006/10/29 23:54

My previous posting made me think about the fact that many people don’t realise how far north we are in Europe. If one asks people to mention a European city on the same latitude as New York, they might come up with London or Paris, but the correct answer is Madrid. Scotland and Denmark are so far north that very few people live at these latitudes in areas not heated by the Gulf Stream (Glasgow and Copenhagen are on the same latitude as the southernmost part of […]

EN · HEALTH

On Atkins again

2006/10/26 16:43

I discovered the Atkins diet a year and a half ago, and since then, I’ve been on it three or four times, every time losing half a stone or so over a fortnight. I’ve put on a few pounds recently, probably because we’ve stopped playing touch regularly at work, so I thought it’d be good to do it again. Only this time Phyllis has joined me – I think she’s beautiful as she is, but if she thinks she’d look better lighter, being two makes it much […]

DA · FAMILY · KIDS

Idith og Ottos første oldebarn

2006/11/07 10:26

Hvis Idith og Otto stadig havde været i live, ville de være blevet oldeforældre i går, da min fætter Henrik og Ulla (hans kone) fik en datter (iflg. Nikolaj ved 1-tiden om morgenen). Tillykke! Det er en dejligt nem dato at huske for Phyllis og mig, da den 6. november også er vores jubilæumsdag. 🙂 Givet datoen, og fordi Phyllis selv blev født tidligt om morgenen, foreslog hun mig, at jeg skulle opfordre Henrik til, at de kalder hende Phyllis. Jeg har dog på fornemmelsen, hun ikke […]

DA · POLITICS

Elisabeth Arnold stopper som MF

2006/11/06 17:25

Jeg så netop i det seneste nyhedsbrev fra ÅRV, at Elisabeth Arnold forlader Folketinget ved næste valg. Som aktiv radikal i Århus har jeg flere gange været med til at føre valgkamp for hende, og hun har altid gjort det fremragende i Folketinget, så det er en æra, der slutter her.

Kørekort 2

2006/11/03 18:22

I dag kom så endelig det midlertidige kørekort, som jeg bestilte for et par uger siden, og mit pas kom såmænd også tilbage, dog i et andet brev. Jeg har nu ret til at køre bil, så længe en erfaren bilist sidder ved siden af mig. Når Phyllis så mener, jeg er dygtig nok, kan jeg gå til køreprøve og bytte kortet ud med et rigtigt.

DA · FEATURED · LINGUISTICS

Hvil i fred, propædeutik!

2006/11/02 18:16

Jeg så netop i det seneste nyhedsbrev fra Lingvistik, at diskussionerne om propædeutikkens fremtid ser ud til at ende med dens død. 🙁 Propædeutikken – det ikke-indoeuropæiske sprog, som alle lingvistikstuderende i Århus skulle lære på første år – var en god og stor oplevelse for mig, og så vidt jeg husker, var det en medvirkende årsag til, at jeg valgte at studere i Århus frem for København. Jeg valgte japansk (mig og Uffe – der valgte hebraisk – var vist de første, der nogensinde havde valgt […]

EN · LINGUISTICS

ACLWiki

2006/11/02 10:04

I recently discovered that a wiki for computational linguistics has been set up. It contains not only articles about corpus linguistics, speech recognition and so on, but also information about conferences, mailing lists and other useful information. It looks like could be a great resource – I wonder whether anybody will set up a linguistic typology wiki, too?

CULTURE · EN

An interesting difference

2006/10/31 09:54

When I moved to Scotland, one of the differences to Denmark I noticed was the lack of adoptive children from other continents. Lots of Danish parents have kids of Korean, African, Chinese or Indian origin, but I never saw any here. I discussed it in the car with Phyllis this morning, and it turns out that it used to be common, but that the practice was abandoned in the mid-70s because of concerns that white parents couldn’t raise kids of other cultures. Interestingly, it only seemed to […]

EN · POLITICS

The Gulf Stream stopped for ten days

2006/10/28 10:46

The Guardian had a really alarming article yesterday about the cooling Gulf Stream, which would give Britain a climate more like Canada’s. Other researchers have warned for some time that it might be slowing, but new evidence shows it actually stopped completely for ten days two years ago. How long will it stop for next time?

DA · LINGUISTICS

Hvor alien?

2006/10/27 01:09

Léon synes, det er vældig sjovt at dække øjnene med sine hænder, og når man så fortvivlet spørger, hvor han er, fjerner han hænderne, man jubler begejstret, og han ler. Forleden spurgte Charlotte, “Why are you calling him an alien?” Jeg forstod ingenting, men så forklarede Phyllis mig, at “Hvor er Leon?” i skotske øren lyder som “Vo alien?”, og “Dér er Leon!” lyder som “Dair alien!” Først undrede dette mig, men man skal jo huske, at de danske palatale vokaler er meget lukkede, så [æ(?) ‘le:?n] […]

EN · GAMES · KIDS

Dodgy Bank

2006/10/26 00:06

Yesterday, I introduced Marcel and Charlotte to the boardgame Broker (das Börsenspiel in German). Normally, Charlotte tends to learn fast, but she didn’t really grasp the concept of buying cheap and selling dear. Marcel, on the other hand, very definitely got the idea, and he won the game with nearly £100k. Charlotte made one sweet contribution, though: One of the companies traded in the game is Deutsche Bank, but she turned that into Dodgy Bank!

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