Huono lihaskunto....aina sama juttu

Sunday ... teaching Karate for 1.5 hours and then 3 hours of chopping woods. The result (again) - laughing hurts as **ll.
Today I was driving back from work and listening YLEX's team afternoon really made me hurt. Watching The Simpsons with the guys at home really hurt. Liikunta on pahasta !

Advertising with a vision... makes the difference

Saw this in Sunday paper ... beautifull example how good innovative advertising looks for unconventional approaches and thus totally rocks in people's minds.

"News for those who do not find company's Xmas party to be quite a real one without a massive taxi queues... now nothing is missing from Silja Line's Xmas parties. From November on we have real taxi stands on decks where you can go and visit if you wish so. You decide how long you stand there, we quarantee the toughest queueing conditions in Baltic Sea.
....
Feet above the ground."

In era of the overwhelming stimulants only those who really try to find new wierd mixtures & approaches can wake some end user reactions... and even if we know this it seems that it's easier to just go with something conventional - "let's not try to be funny for now".


I want to go for pikkujoulu cruising with Silja line for the first time ever !!

Windy Autumn Sunday...

+1C and 13m/s North wind is too cold for water sports.... +1C and 13m/s North wind is just about the right wheather for a stroll in Eiranranta and hot White chocolate & fresh munkki in Carousel.

Some more beer to remember....

What the heck ?

"Yoga flying will be teached in 4 phases" .... "6000€ + 22% taxes with 12month downpayments" ... "Financial Capital of Finland Oy"

Excellent Trappist beer...

La Trappe Blond ... very nice indeed. Might be the best from them all ? or then not. Nice anyway.

Miserable failure... or just brothers ?

I've been using quite some time to try to explain Otto and Vili how "you should build positive brother-2-brother relationship instead of constantly nagging each others since there will be enough naggers in the world"... I found a drawing today from Vili's desk describing ~10 ways to kill Otto. I asked Vili what was it all about and the answer was just simply "Otto is irritating" ?




















Another grand failure or just a normal phase between brothers ? Hopefully the latter...

Tampere....

Two days/16hours of intensive sitting in the Karate's World Championships... otherwise pretty well organised but unfortunately the organisers had more like "Karate-Kid-the-movie"-games in their minds than World Championships. All the cliche rock songs with the help of an announcer with all the "Are you ready ? I said ARE YOU READY ? Look at those tiger eyes of our lady competitors ..."-cliches and 20 seconds National hymns instead of the normal a bit more uplifting stuff one would expect from world championships. Well maybe it's just me...


Tampere is great ... I like it more every time I visit it. The view from the room in the 15th floor in the Hotel Ilves was nice. Specifically love the fact that there is still a working factory with all that steam bursting into the air. The lakes everywhere...

Copenhagen...

I had the pleasure to speak for Nordic Broadcasters in Copenhagen about "Web2.0" and WidSets... I was there already around 10am so I had _plenty_ of time to wander around in the very beautifull&charming Copenhagen. On the way to downtown from the airport I only just could admire the Danish modern architecture - as far as I am considered they are the best by far - all those sculpturelike new office buildings !
... well I arrived to downtown, sat myself down first for 1.5 hours to a very nice cafe called Europa, drank a liter of latte and finalised what I thought was a pretty nice presentation about what all "web2.0" means for different people. (I found later from Flickr (thanks to HeGe) that "Guy from Nokia partner Widsets talking about web 2.0 or something. " Web2.0 or something ? so obviously my presentation was not that cool nor clear after all ;o

I spend several hours wondering around the beautifull city taking pics...

















Great toilet in Cafe Europa... carefully crafted from steel L-bars ;o)

New friend in Finnish beer scene...

Rokrammi Pils...
Well done Saimaan Panimo !

477 000 shootings last year

477 000 shootings in US last year - 50% increase compared to year before. Scary.

The world from our the roof...and the moon

I had to clime to our roof to get rid of the dirt around our roof windows (the reason for some water leakage)... world looks slightly different again from 12meters high up... rising autumn moon was a nice bonus

Vili making his point...

"Dad - here are the instructions for what I wish you would do...soon":

Less than 800€ to Melbourne ... Florida

For long time I've been dreaming to go and visit Pasi in Melbourne and Ken & Carl in Wellington... finally I got into action and found a really "amazingly cheap" tickets from Helsinki to Melbourne. I went and purchased them and was so happy for making the decision to go (and oh it was so cheap). I let proudly Pasi know that I'm really coming ... and LUCKILY he was reading his emails - he noted me that I've a actully managed to buy tickets to Melbourne, Florida. ---T !! I called Matkaporssi.com immeaditly and YES !!! they were kind enough to relieve me from my agony - they had just received my order and were able/willing to cancel it.

I would most likely have had noticed it only when stepping into 737 in Miami and wondering that "This thing cannot possibly fly all the way to Melbourne".









The search continues ;o)

Mökki talvikuntoon... vesi ennätysmatalalla

We had now alomost a traditional sister-brother weekend to make the summer cottage ready for winter ... (with Valtteri this time)

2 x 16m2 of soil to be fixed and grass to be planted....















Water level was all time low...















Some aching backs...














and beautifull autumn colours everywhere....