Hesari... more than just a newspaper

One of top rituals I have nowadays is reading Helsingin Sanomat - the real paper one - on Saturday and Sunday mornings with Nina. Sleeping long, waking peacefully up in no hurry, fetching the paper, cooking a pot of tea and diving into Hesari for 1-1.5 hours. This summer that was even doable at the balcony almost every weekend we were in Espoo - triplefermented great ! Even though it's a shame that kids grow up so fast it has it's benefits too - this Hesari heaven has been possible since even Valtteri has started to take care and enjoy the no-fuzz-weekend-cartoon-mornings.

Hesari is Rock'n'Roll. Loads of new things constantly especially in foreign section and special sections.
Btw, paper as media is giving a unique way of actually feeling it all at one time - first quickly browsing the whole section, positioning and evaluating the stories, thinking about "What might that really be about", "hhmmm that looks interesting", and then diving into each story by sometimes just getting a bite of it before moving to next and then coming back to previous and eating the whole story with a sip of tea. Total experince which is just simply not replaceable to me by Internet's effective news feeds and shortened summaries ;o)

An memorable excerp from this weeks Hesari (just a shame that however interesting stories I will forget them too soon... like good jokes)
This weeks science section:
"Strange Mathematical Genius Perelman"
"We are going back to moon"
"The hole in Ozone layer above the Antartic is not widening anymore"
"The ice layer of Greenland keeps melting away" - 7 meters sea water level increase to expected"
"Spiders from Amazonas... first ones to known to hunt in groups"














In culture section there was also an interesting story about the English professor's book about Finland and it's history. "Researcher breaks the myths of Finns".














Hurraa Hesari - hurraa vanha kunnon sanomalehti !

About Google... or actually what

Interesting story about Google in today's Helsingin Sanomat. The story was about how "Tiny and harmless Google has become scaringly strong company" which "Is feared by both many small and huge competitors to be spreading to new areas like a locust cloud." Nothing new really actually.

However, there was a particular sentence which made me think again. Google is supposedly still following something which many companies seem to be thingking is the worst thing one can do - "Engineers first think how a problem could be solved. Only later, if ever, they start thinking how the invention could be used to make money.".
It seems that most of the companies nowadays are increasignly obsessed with the opposite - "Looks neat but show me the money, where is the money"-attitude.
Maybe it's when the career inside dictates your actions more than the future in the outside world when the possibilities become "threads" and "minimal risk to fail" becomes the key criteria to enter anything ? Maybe it's always easier to say no the new uncertain things when the future of your career inside of the company is the only thing to worry... or maybe not.

Google is claimed to be still thinking that "Money will flow in as long as the idea is good." -Maybe this is the rule for the ones with real eye and guts for making things happen.... or maybe not.


Maybe... or not.

Loaded Friday

Memorable Friday ... Outi got tickets for herself and me to Mahler's 8th - symphony of thousand in this year's Helsingin Juhlaviikot. The symphony got it's nick name from being first performed by over 1000 musicians (1028 ?). Esa-Pekka Salonen condunting, 2 orchestras and 3 choirs all together 400 musicians in this performance. Could not help the shivers and some tears during the last moments of the symphony. Amazing music - amazing performance. Actually sort of difficult to understand why we as a nation of 5M people have such large number of talented musicians.
Lucky that there were other values besides global economic effectiveness when it was composed - nowadays nobody could compose anything like that since it would be economically totally stupid. Just makes you think what will be missing, what is left to unfound, what things are not invented since everything is dominated by shere money....

After the concert Outi drop me to Eiranranta were I had rendez-vous with Nummi family and our gang. They picked me up to the boat from Kompassi, and we headed to right front of the Hernesaari were the Finnish fireworks championships was taking place. With Markus's defined instinct we ended up into just perfect position... fireworks looked bloody amazing from that spot ! And it was like all the boats in capital region were there - looked great. Made me think Egotrippi way (again) "In these hours there's something I'd like to own".

Lyrics... again

From Egotrippi's (again) Helsinki-Hollola Cd the song Lennokki:

"Näissä tunneissa on jotain mitä haluaisin omistaa,
ei mikään liikahda
pölykoiratkin pysyttelee kopeissaan
ja tietää mihin luottaa
kun luottaa tällaiseen paikkaan"

" In these hours there's something I'd like to own
nothing moves
even (well not the most perfect translation :o) dustdogs stay in their doghouses
and you know what to trust
when you trust a place like this"

I think this is just perfectly "tiivistetty"/said about those moments which you somehow feel are totally unique, you just simply know that you'd really like stay in that moment, you'd like to remember and come back to it - you'd really like to store into a bottle to be enjoyed also later.

That same song amazingly has another really great phrasing about thoughts:
" Ajatukset ovat kuin lennokki
kun ne saavat ilmaa allensa
kaikki tuntuu lapsen leikiltä
kai se kasvattaa"

"Thoughts are like a model plane
when they get air under their wings
everything feels like child's play
guess it matures you"

1 song - 2 great summaries





The same record has another great song with lyrics that I have really not managed to sort out what they mean. This is bloody great since I find myself always singing along and thinking what could this mean in the car whenever I'm listening the song.

"Kerro minut viidellä niin saat
noin viisi kertaa surremman kuin nyt
kerro minut kuudella niin oon
silloin se joka suoristaa
tätä mutkaa jossa aina kyyristelen

Silloin hengittää
kaikkea tätä turhaa
ja silloin hengittää
vaikka käytettyä ilmaa
eikä keuhkot lyö lukkooon
ei sydän lakkaa
olemasta juuri sitä mitä mieli kaipaa"

"multiply me with 5 and you get
about 5 times bigger me compared to now
multiply me with 6 and I'll be
the one who straighthens
this bend where I always crouch

and then you breath
all this which is vain
and then you breath
even used air
and your lungs will not break
your heart will not stop
to be what your mind yarns"


Brialliant as they would say in Fast Show...

Concept of joy ... 11 years vs. 41 years

What can you say more ?
Things change ....

Scaringly red moon ....

Couple of days ago ago there was a full moon up in the sky which was totally red. Red moon if I remember correctly was thought to mean pretty bad things according according to our ancestors ?

I tried to capture it with the camera and failed ....BUT thanks to social SW somebody got it ;o) aka I got it !

Thanks aixcracker ! http://www.flickr.com/photos/aixcracker/211215472/

While trying to find out next day if anybody got it I also bumbed into this which I think is totally amazingly nice pic from Helsinki Fireworks competition .... hooray Social SW 2nd time. http://www.flickr.com/photos/81303499@N00/200291358/
























And the fact that this pic is about 1 year old and I stil found it and it gives me great plaesure scores the 3rd hooray for social SW !

Umbar also captured "my" red moon in a great way ... Great !
http://www.flickr.com/photos/81303499@N00/210991426/

I failed - Social SW fixed my fault ;o)

Hey - these are actually my pictures !

Done...

Finally done....
My capability to underestimate the time needed to do stuff eternally surprises me (both personal and work/project related). However, I have to say (knowing that Nina will never read this ;o) that Nina is even worse in this.... if I would not know her estimations for time required to move from place a to b in the city I'd be tempted to say that she trusts in my comptencies to build things ;o))