Just to memorise....

I've been priviliged to be working in a same room with Tero-Markus for some time now.... We have had numerous great discussions (and even more not so great but with hundreds of good laughs ;o) during the last past year. We have a habbit of writing the "best" of the resulting thoughts to our whiteboard - some of them are just "funny" but some have some ideas behind which really make you think how different life is for all of us:

"Joskus on hyvä pysahtyä kysymään miksi - Sometimes it is good to stop and ask why" presenting quite a sort of wealthy western thinking and problematics ?

"Kun ei aina tarvitsis kysyä miksi - One just wishes that one would not be forced to constantly ask why" presents the thinking and problemtics of somebody who's been living in war area (ex Yugoslavia ?) for last 15 years...

Egotrippi... again

Pekka brought me today some new (=old) EgoTrippi's CD's.... shit - I have been missing so much :o(
but better late than never. I logged into CDON.com I bought them all ;o)

Tänään ei kukaan vastaa, älä soita uudestaan
Me ei palata koskaan, jätä viesti vastaajaan
Älä soita uudestaan...

(From SuperEgo)

New York...

We did 4 day trip to NYC again like last year this time with Vili as his birthday present (we were there also last year with Otto and in both times the trigger was rock bottom prices from Stockman's Hullut Päivät ;o)...
Very nice trip again ! I sort of love NYC - everybody can be an insider and an outsider at the same time ?? Just walking around all day is an ever chaning experience.
Anyway.... It's propably me getting older ;o) but again (besides enjoying just simply walking around the city observing the life and the people) the trip raised lots of thoughts about how different worlds we are living in different parts of world. Eg to me the way that society seems to really be divided to people who are doing really (what to Europeans seem to be) totally irrelevant/meaningless jobs, earning 5USD (?) per hour and having absolutely no possibility to participate to official mainstream life (??) of overwhelming consuming (?) and to officially promoted world with happy people buying their everyday "Gourmet Pannini with NY Pastrami and medium size Latte" from a deli (worth of 8-10 bucks) ... capable buying their own way to happiness ? Well, on the other hand eg the Skandinavian system (where if you don't have a job available which to you are being trained for you are "entitled" to stay unemployed and still get paid sufficiently to live ~OK) might seem equally ackward as the US system to me.
Another thing is the amazing waste of energy which can be seen overwhelmingly everywhere. Eg cars everywhere are pretty much ~all consuming I guess about 2-3 times more than typically the models used in Europe would consume.... For no reason really.
Also I personally hate tipping "culture" in it's US format - it's really mandatory and not realated to any special will to reward good service. The tipping "culture" in US is nothing but additional "tax" where the employers/business owners instead of paying fair salaries to their employees (and putting the correct price to the eg menu) they saddle their customers with those expenses.
Another thing is the size of everything - why the ---k has everything to be so big ? Really I'm a relatively big guy (189cm - 92kg) but the portions are in general always beyond anything I could rationally even think of eating - why oh why ? Humanly reasonable sized portions with even maybe slightly lower price would make everybody much better in the long run ? ;o)

Well, as I said I admit I'm a slave to my own culture and perceptions - things in EU seem to equally strange in here to US citizens ?

Samuel Adams rocks anyway !!! ;o)

Testing Photobucket slideshow to Blogger....

Pictures from last Fiskars trip..... seem to be coming as they are to Blogger.



OK ... it just send the pictures as they are to the blog.
(I Did some resizing and deleted most of them and left just one as proof that it worked ;o)

Photobucket

This is a test post from Photobucket.com

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Yep... testing out the service. After some learning I think I sort of am getting it. Seems to be pretty neat way of creating photo albums which you quite conviniently can then place directly to your blog (seems to be working well ... it's made easy). The other way of using the service is to get (2 types of) html code generated from the albums which you can then place on your pages... sort of Flickr badge style ;o) I'm still missing at this phase the "thing" which makes it better than Flickr (if that _is_ the intention?) and it's badges but I hope to find it...

Next I'll try to post a show to Blogger.

New toy ;o)

Just got my new toy Ozone Access 10m2 kite 2006.... (http://www.flyozone.com/ozkites/kframe.htm)
It should be good for me for some time and then the boys hopefully can used it .
Once I get over the flu I have at the moment it's time to get humiliated again by the forces of nature again ! With my "skills" and luck I'll propably somehow manage to break the kite (or myself) during the first hour :o( Let's see - I'm totally excited anyway and barely can wait to go on ice with the board !

Tallinn...

The teachers in Meidokan Espoo did a next season planning trip to Estonia's capital Tallinn. I was well prepared mentally for the trip ready to enjoy "few" quiet ones, a relaxed dinner in good company and good karate discussions. I even did remeber to take my passport with me ...which was actually outdated autumn 2004 . A funny moment though when the customs the officer looked me and "Ja tälläkö meinaat matkustaa ??" - "And you intend to travel wtih this ??". Luckily I had my new ID also with me so I got onboard.
Lot's of good (and later less impressive) discussions on the relevant issues relating to our club'c style issues - went to bed way too late and after way too many beers.
Next morning 9am Nikke knocked the cabin door and woke Are and me (as obviously agreed sometimes during the night ?) for a visit to Tallinn. Nikke kicked us out from our beds, and off we marched to Tallinn.
I had completely forgotten how beautifull the old city is. Impressive work on renovations !!I must really visit the city regularly in the future - it is so close to Helsinki.
I envy (and joy with) you Estonians for your beautifull capital ;o)