BareBente
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a kindle of kittens
It is cold these days. Sometimes down to Professor Celcius´ blue twenties, minus four for Mr. Farenheit. I stay snugly warm inside. The rescue shelters are all full of cold animals, some with ears frozen off, tails frozen stiff. One horrific story today of a grown Tom frozen to the ground. Being homeless is not a game.…
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theft. educational kings of incompetence
The story of how my alma mater, University College Østfold broke the intellectual property laws, stole my work, refused to pay, notify, credit or apologise.
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anthropomorphism – you are like me
Anthropomorphism is any attribution of human characteristics (or characteristics assumed to belong only to humans) to animals, non-living things, phenomena, material states, objects or abstract concepts (Wikipedia). It is human to see human responses around us, and we have the ability for abstraction. So we apply human patterns to animals and objects. “An evil wind blows..”
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noble genealogy
I was at my sisters place over christmas, and was reminded of my grandmother by this oilpainting of her (painted by Ragnhild Thrane in 1904). Her mother and father both had unusual family names, and for a laugh I thought I should see what I could find on that grand internet of ours.
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a shelter life
Life at the SPCA shelter. That people lie are not surprising. What is surprising, is that they are so bad at it. Someone mailed the shelter, asking them to take a kitty back or have it put down, as it was catching mice.
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crime and punishment
My next-door neighbour is the guy responsible for the bomb in Oslo and the massacre at Utøya. It is a prison. But there is an ironic twist, that he is incarcerated at Ila Landsfengsel. During the occupation of the second world war it was only known as Grini, the first concentration camp in Norway. It…
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the mysterious case of the dead dog
An insane man have placed poison around Oslo, hidden in little piles of sawdust, to murder dogs. I woke up yesterday, to a flood of warnings on facebook, telling me about this deeply disturbed individual, and that several dogs had already died. Even in my grumpy pre-coffee morning haze, something smelled a little off.
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earth, wind, fire
I went to a little talk today, held by Mano Mark, senior geo developer at Google, for whoever at the Smithsonian who wanted to come. I learned some interesting things…
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back to squirrels & bones
Back in DC. Back to the bones, the squirrels and the schnapps.
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oscar-yankee-alpha-zulu-charlie
oh, what joy!
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oslo mysteries
If you walk slowly enough, you see little things in Oslo. I came across a couple of mysteries.
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up in the air!
My brother got his pilot licence; time for a spin above frozen denmark