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5th Estate

2006/11/16 23:22

Normalt holder jeg blog og arbejde skarpt adskilt, men når nogle af kollegerne nede i London nu finder på at skrive en blog, og den ovenikøbet er værd at læse, må det være på sin plads at nævne den her.

BLOGGING · DA

Eksblog

2006/11/16 10:31

Phyllis gjorde mig i går opmærksom på, at Anette (min ekskæreste) nu også har fået sig en blog (hun fandt den via et link på Sebastians blog). Imponerende hvepsebo!

EN · TRAVEL

Back from Riga

2006/11/13 21:30

We came back from our weekend trip to Riga late last night. I have a long list of topics to blog, and so does Phyllis, but we both need to catch up on our sleep before we start blogging. 😉 The photo is from Riga Airport, which is a nice place to crawl…

CULTURE · EN

Temperature and blood pressure

2006/11/09 14:16

Being off sick with a flu has given me a chance to ponder the various ways people in different countries deal with being ill. As all Danish people (possibly all continental Europeans), I check my temperature regularly when I’m ill (yesterday I reached 39.5°C [= 103.1°F]), but Phyllis claims that people in this country don’t bother – more often than not, they don’t even own a thermometer. As she says, what would I do differently if I didn’t know my temperature? In Georgia, people don’t check their […]

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 […]

Kørekort 3

2006/11/05 09:37

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 […]

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 · FOODDRINK · PHOTOGRAPHY · TRAVEL

More about Transcaucasian products

2006/11/15 07:59

Look at these pomegranates from Azerbaijan! They are huge, beautiful and delicious! Why can’t we buy fruit like that here? Phyllis took this photo in Riga, and Riga has been part of the EU, and thus of the internal market, for a two and a half years, so if they can sell them there, surely they can be sold here as well!?! The same applies to my previous blog posting about Georgian wine – why can’t we buy the good stuff that Latvian consumers are getting?

EN · FOODDRINK · TRAVEL

Georgian wine in Latvia

2006/11/14 22:54

In Britain and Denmark, it’s almost impossible to get hold of Georgian wine. Compare this with the situation in any Latvian supermarket – see for instance the photo on the left (Gruzija is Latvian for ‘Georgia’). What surprised me even more was that they also sold cheap Bulgarian copies of Georgian wines – see the photo on the right (you might need to click on it to see a larger version). Needless to say, I brought several bottles back to Glasgow. Strangely enough, however, Phyllis doesn’t quite […]

EN · FOODDRINK · KIDS

A dark Hefeweizen for me, please!

2006/11/09 22:47

Léon has now progressed from his coffee-drinking stage. This photo was taken during a visit to the West Brewing Company, a very nice micro-brewery and German restaurant at Glasgow Green. It’s a really nice place – the food is great (if you love German food), they have high chairs that match the rest of the furniture, and they have free Ikea toys for toddlers.

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? 😉

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.

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 · 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?

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