June 13, 2009
June 12, 2009
Data integration
It would probably be more fun selling weapon systems than data integration frameworks.
June 11, 2009
June 10, 2009
June 6, 2009
June 4, 2009
June 2, 2009
A package from Turkey
Yesterday (Monday) was my first day in the office for three weeks. It is always good to be back home, but it was sort of sad not being on vacation anymore.
So when I received this package from Turkey:
I was pleased.
While it may LOOK like a package of something that would ordinarily not be sent via DHL, we all know that you have to hid those sorts of things inside of table legs or ceramic Buddhas. So I knew that this was nothing more exciting than antique rugs.
This makes it look even more suspicious:
But once I opened them up, the great rugs that we bought came tumbling out:
It is fun buying rugs. It is amazing that there are so many rugs to buy in the world. I would guess that in some places, all people ever do is weave rugs:
That little one with the diamond patterns was really interesting. It is more like needlepoint than anything else. I will try and find a way to get a better photo of it online.
So when I received this package from Turkey:
I was pleased.
While it may LOOK like a package of something that would ordinarily not be sent via DHL, we all know that you have to hid those sorts of things inside of table legs or ceramic Buddhas. So I knew that this was nothing more exciting than antique rugs.
This makes it look even more suspicious:
But once I opened them up, the great rugs that we bought came tumbling out:
It is fun buying rugs. It is amazing that there are so many rugs to buy in the world. I would guess that in some places, all people ever do is weave rugs:
That little one with the diamond patterns was really interesting. It is more like needlepoint than anything else. I will try and find a way to get a better photo of it online.
May 31, 2009
Expats at work | The Economist
Travel and creativity: Expats at work | The Economist
Having lived overseas for four years, I can support those conclusions.
Having lived overseas for four years, I can support those conclusions.
May 13, 2009
What Makes Us Happy? - The Atlantic (June 2009)
This is a great article about a horizontal study that followed a cohort of Harvard men ('42, '43, '44) throughout their lives.
Well worth the time it takes to read it:
What Makes Us Happy? - The Atlantic (June 2009)
Well worth the time it takes to read it:
What Makes Us Happy? - The Atlantic (June 2009)
May 11, 2009
To Oslo! To Turkey!
I will be taking off in the morning for Oslo. Then to Turkey. I will be blogging at a new address for this trip - you can find it here. (It also has an RSS feed)
I am uncertain of the Internet access on the Anatolian Plains. But I will do my best.
I am uncertain of the Internet access on the Anatolian Plains. But I will do my best.
May 10, 2009
Passing a subway station
Passing a subway station from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo.
That is the station where I get out in Oslo to go to my hotel.
I did not, of course, make that video, but I recognized the station when I saw it.
May 7, 2009
Oh God, what am I doing here?
Tonight Doreen was off discussing Out Stealing Horses with some old friends. I was left alone with some old friends as well.
After Doreen was whisked away by her friend in a Mini-Cooper, I sat on the front porch reading my Kindle about Turkey. When it started to get dark, I went in. I don't yet have a light for the Kindle.
Then I made supper. 1/2 of a cold bratwurst (you can see the rest of it here) with some home made sauerkraut. I had a couple of bottles of Rio Blanco Pale Ale with the wurst and kraut.
While eating, I read in the New York Times Magazine how horrible it is to live in a socialist country like The Netherlands.
Then I came upstairs and put on some music.
No videos, no reading, just alone listening to some tunes.
I started with the Holy Modal Rounder's disc "Last Round"
My baby don't bother to wear,
none of that pink underwear.
She's so slick and sleazy,
She just don't care.
There is plenty more that would not be appropriate for a family blog.
Then I moved onto Graham Parsons' disc "The Grievous Angel"
I remember something you once told me
I'll be damned if it did not come true
20,000 roads I've been down, down, down.
They all bring me straight back home to you.
What is it about artists and Heroin?
Then I turned on Tom Waits and "A Foreign Affair"
Trains and planes and boats and buses
Characteristically
Evoke a common attitude of Blue
Unless you have a suitcase, a ticket and a passport
and the cargo that their carrying is You.
and David Bromberg's dual disc that included "Bandit in a Bathing Suit". I think he is the only heroin free artist this evening
As you read this letter that I write to you
Sweetheart, I hope you understand.
You're the only love I've even known
So please forgive me if you can.
and rounding the evening out with Warren Zevon's first (self titled) disk.
Don't the sun look angry through the trees
Don't the trees look like crucified leaves
Don't you feel like desperados under the eves
Heaven help the one who weeps.
All the lyrics are from memory.
Which is the best, don't you think?
So long Norman.
She said: "So long, Norman"
After Doreen was whisked away by her friend in a Mini-Cooper, I sat on the front porch reading my Kindle about Turkey. When it started to get dark, I went in. I don't yet have a light for the Kindle.
Then I made supper. 1/2 of a cold bratwurst (you can see the rest of it here) with some home made sauerkraut. I had a couple of bottles of Rio Blanco Pale Ale with the wurst and kraut.
While eating, I read in the New York Times Magazine how horrible it is to live in a socialist country like The Netherlands.
Then I came upstairs and put on some music.
No videos, no reading, just alone listening to some tunes.
I started with the Holy Modal Rounder's disc "Last Round"
My baby don't bother to wear,
none of that pink underwear.
She's so slick and sleazy,
She just don't care.
There is plenty more that would not be appropriate for a family blog.
Then I moved onto Graham Parsons' disc "The Grievous Angel"
I remember something you once told me
I'll be damned if it did not come true
20,000 roads I've been down, down, down.
They all bring me straight back home to you.
What is it about artists and Heroin?
Then I turned on Tom Waits and "A Foreign Affair"
Trains and planes and boats and buses
Characteristically
Evoke a common attitude of Blue
Unless you have a suitcase, a ticket and a passport
and the cargo that their carrying is You.
and David Bromberg's dual disc that included "Bandit in a Bathing Suit". I think he is the only heroin free artist this evening
As you read this letter that I write to you
Sweetheart, I hope you understand.
You're the only love I've even known
So please forgive me if you can.
and rounding the evening out with Warren Zevon's first (self titled) disk.
Don't the sun look angry through the trees
Don't the trees look like crucified leaves
Don't you feel like desperados under the eves
Heaven help the one who weeps.
All the lyrics are from memory.
Which is the best, don't you think?
So long Norman.
She said: "So long, Norman"
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