LO fuckin' L

I got Californication from Daniel (legal copy of course) and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. I don't think I've enjoyed a series this much since Deadwood and one of episode 4's themes hit right on a sore spot for me lately. Blogs and the rest of the Internet have really hurt the art of writing. Look at online newspapers today whose journalists have turned into idiot translators without any respect for fact checking at all. In Norway they've perverted the language so far that "karakter" no longer means a grade, it's now been anglicized into personality (from character). People don't take time to write properly anymore, to sit down and read over what they are trying to say and gather their thoughts in any sort of structure. I don't mean to say that I'm a good writer, but at least I try, pouring a few hours into my Less is More paper which to date has gotten not a single productive criticisms, probably because it's more than 2 paragraphs long.

My old BBS, fix.no, no longer has any articulated discussions like it did back in the old days and online I can only think of a handful of sites which don't simply reproduce Reuters tidbits or have been disintegrated into a list of "first" comments mixed with error laden troll posts. Information is moving too fast now and scanning an RSS feed doesn't do it for me. I want less, but better information instead of Google News. This isn't just a rant from some 30 year old about the good-old-days, I really do think we are providing a setting for making people more stupid.

Snow!

Today I woke up to falling snow. The Norwegians (the real ones, not like me) where all pretty unimpressed by it, but I found myself standing like an idiot at the bus stop watching it fall for 10 minutes, amazed at the fact that this stuff just falls out of the sky. Can't wait till I get back on a board again!

Speaking of busses I bought my first monthly bus-card yesterday. 720 kroners! For 1500 pesos I can probably hire someone to drive me back and forth to my job on their car every day for a month. This place is so expensive it's silly.

It's dark!

I have yet to see the sun in Norway and I'm starting to think the big golden globe in the sky just packed up and left this godforsaken land. I hope I can soon get used to this climate because it's a little before 5 p.m. and I feel like it's 9-10 at night.

I'm getting things into swing here now with several leads and mini-projects getting off the ground. My only problem is that writing a quick proposal takes forever due to the fact that my Norwegian sucks even more than it used to. I think I might need to take some classes together with my wife when she gets here next spring.

I'm a tourist

Today I managed to get off the bus two stops past where I should and had to walk back. I feel like a total tourist in my own country where people just talk in and out of the office without saying hello and some bread, ham and cheese sets you back 400 pesos!