Futa

This is Futa. He is a two year old lesser panda.

Visible Earth

NASA has published a lot of satellite images with high resolution on this page. Lots and lots of lovely pictures...

I know some other pages with lovely pictures as well, but of somewhat other nature... :-)

Earth by night

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Humor

What is humor?

Everybody says that Monty Python is so funny.
I have today – again – watched a DVD with Monty Python and the Flying Circus.
I just don’t laugh. I have tried and tried, ever since I was a youngster. It is not funny.

It is strange because I love John Cleese - especially in Fawlty Towers. That TV-show is ranked by me as the NR 1 TV-show ever! It always makes me laugh.

Old statues

I have always believed that the old Greek classic statues were white - just plain marble white.
Boy, was I wrong!

New techniques like uv-lights and electromicroscopes have shown that these statues were indeed quite colorful.

A display has been shown in Copenhagen where they have analyzed some marble statues and made replicas with the colors they were able to reconstruct.

Imagine what it would be like to walk the streets of old Greece and the Roman empire...

This is a picture of K and me in Athens below the Acropolis two years ago.

Golf

Two weeks ago I signed up for a golf course. So far I have had two evenings with theory and one day with “hands on” golfing. Tomorrow I shall have my second day of instruction.

The weather has not been the best. It is cold and rainy, so the picture above is not of me – nor anywhere that I have been.

Now I shall have to decide on which golfclubs to purchase. Iron or composite. Full set or half set. Expensive or cheap. Regular or not. Long or short. How on earth am I to decide?

The last month I have picked up two activities that require me to lean somewhat forward: Golfing and rollerblading. I just hope I won’t look like the missing link by the end of this summer.

Her is a link to Bodo Golfklubb

17. mai!!

Yesterday was May 17th - or ”17. mai” as we say. This is the day we celebrate our constitution which was signed in 1814.

Karl Johan street

It is a big day in Norway. Everybody, all over the country, is out in the streets in long parades. Bands are playing, children and grown ups are filling their stomachs with ice and hot dogs, and everybody are waving flags and yelling “HURRA!!”

In Oslo the King and his family usually stands on the balcony of their castle and waves to the crowd as they parade by. (The King could not meet this year due to recent heart surgery).

I spent my day at Oslo Airport as I had to work in the afternoon and evening. I got to do some reading for my upcoming 6 months test, this year involving filing of flight-plans and calculations of loadsheets (weight and balance).

Rollerblades

I have never tried rollerblading before, but today I stopped by a sport shop and bought myself a pair. I also had to buy myself some protective equipment.

So around noon today I put on my knee pads, elbow pads, wrist guards, bicycle helmet and rollerblades. Quite a sight, I guess.

The neighbors then got to witness a show starring a white male in his mid thirties trying to balance on 8 wheels. I spent the first 15 minutes trying to learn how to turn and stop those things. The little brake thing on the back of my right shoe didn't do me much good. It only worked for me at low speeds. I guess I shall have to get some better balance before I can utilize it fully. Until now the best way for me to stop is to make turns.

I then went on a 20 minute ride around the neighborhood. I have never really paid any attention to the asphalt before - but today I learned that there are several types. The best is the one that is completely laminate.

I returned after half an hour. I guess that should be enough the first day. I have used muscles I haven't used for ages.

Lately I have been gaining some extra kilos, and I hope this shall help me get in better shape again.

And - I did not fall once. (I did not dare)