Monday 6th of February 2012, week 06

Reflection

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5
Oct 09

Who will take care of all the brats?

I WAS HOME this weekend with a bad cold which led to me spend alot of time in my sofa infront of my tv. Let me start by saying that I am not a big fan of reality-TV or the programs that are beeing sent as “prime-shows” today. I am more of a person who buy a full season (need I say that I live in a rural part of the world which has not yet recieved any TiVO? ) of whatever show I like which has an actual script and watch it in whatever order I feel like. But whatever, I felt ill and I craved for some entertainment so I turned to the tv.

THE SHOW that really got me going was ‘My Sweet Sixteen’ aired on MTV. For all of you who haven’t seen this show it is spoiled brats with bad parents throwing parties to show the world which douchebags they really are. The goal of the entire party is to spend as much money as possible and try to build up an image of a young person who would loose a leg to get their fifteen minutes of fame. Now you may say that the show is all free to watch and if I don’t like it I should just keep away and sure, I could. But I didn’t and now I’m here. It was just like when you are about to see something really awful. You know there will be bad dreams if you see it, but you can’t really turn your head either.

BACK TO THE EPISODE I was watching. This girl in the episode of the show was planning her party and was with her parents to a store to shop for a car. She picked one out but after hearing that it cost only about $40’000 she blew out of proportions and started to yell at her parents to pick a ‘more expensive car’. That’s right, she didn’t want a prettier car, a car of another color or even a cab. The only thing she wanted was a more expensive car and by refusing to give her this, the parents showed her that all they felt was utter hate and dispise of her. In her own words. And guess what – nobody want a screemy and spoiled teenage kid, so she freakin’ got it.

THAT WAS THE CUE for me to turn the tv off and go read a book instead. I have been raised to appreciate what I got and to do my best with what I have. I wonder how the kids of the newly rich of today will coop with the fact that real life someday catches on and everything is no longer all cuddly and fluffy. Who will take care of the brats when the stupid parents are no longer around?

ACCORDING TO a New York Times article the show reached 24 million viewers between the age 12 and 34 in the second quarter of 2008[1]. Now this is an amazing number of viewers one might think, another way of seeing it is that there is 24 million people out there with absolutly no brain. And for that last rant I sadly have no reference.

References:
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/arts/television/23mtv.html

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19
Aug 09

What? No money? But I want death-rays!

stewieI don’t know if you heard but it’s all over the internetz at the moment – The Financial Crisis! Everywhere companies go bancrupt and families are in a struggle to get the accounts to stay on black numbers every month. But there is light at the end of the tunnel!

Just when you thought that a big thing in the entire world like this might unite people and nations the US just gave the go-ahead for spending three million dollars on…

Death-rays!

So I guess that the so called crisis can’t be THAT bad.

Read more about the real-life super-villian-weapons-of-mass-destruction over at Techradar.

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5
Jul 09

Coffe and me

sbSay what you want about coffe and it’s health-effects on your body. I do drink coffe but try to keep it to one or two cups a day on a regular working day. So, vaction is over and I’m back at my workplace, picking up a cup of cappucino from the coffe-machine we have here and settle down to drink my cup of good-morning.

Holy freakin’ spagetti-monster the coffe in these machines taste like crude oil mixed with sewer-water. Usually one get used to the taste and therefore it works out fine to drink it but after a couple of weeks of good coffe (the one where there are actual coffe-beans involved in the making, not just something with a characteristic of coffe) it is almost undrinkable. If it was not for the fact that I don’t have anything else to drink around here, I would not have drunk it.

But as I said, I don’t have any alternatives so…
Cheers.
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28
Jun 09

Back from vacation

So I just returned back to Sweden after a three week and a 7500km trip which have taken me from the western part of Russia all the way to Beijing, China by train. I have done something that I’ve always wanted to do; I traveled the trans-Siberian railway together with my camera and a few of my great friends. About a thousand pictures later I am back home.

All in all the trip was truly amazing and it gave perspectives on both our western style of living and also memories of places I will never forget. I will publish a breakdown of the trip in the time to come but I will start with a general conclusion of the entire trip.

transmongolian-railway

Our travel-route from Moscow in west to Beijing in east

First of all we chose to travel the path also known as the Trans-Mongolian railway. In short the railway bring you from Moscow, Russia to Beijing, China by traveling straight through Russia until one reach the Mongolian border where it takes a turn to the south and then pass through Mongolia (and the Gobi-desert) into China. Our main reason to chose this route instead of the route Moscow – Vladivostok was that we feelt that we wanted to incorporate Beijing in the trip to get a real taste of asia as well before returning back home.

As a guide we used the book ‘The Transsirberian railway’ from Lonely Planet which I have to say was good in some ways but did also really lack in content in quite alot of places. We have started to write a description of errors we encountered which we will send to the publisher and I would not really recommend the book for soon-to-be-travelers of the route until a new review of the book is released. The trip itself was booked with help from  a Swedish travel-agency where we got help filing for visas and tickets in the different countries. Much of the tickets could have been bought on location but due to the fact that they seem to be sold out now and then it can be much worth it to have the tickets already when leaving home.

Keep an eye out on the blog for the first part of the breakdown, Russia!

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13
May 09

Windows 7 near release?

So, the news today seem to ooze of the information allegedly straight from Microsoft about Windows 7 being released between summer and christmas. Almost the same amount of people have heard summer as those who heard christmas so I think that we all can agree upon that it’s all just a bunch of rumors.

Anyhow, whether they release summer, winter, fall or spring. I will so get me a mac the next time I upgrade anyhow. I have given Microsoft about ten years now (before then I was on Mac OS) to prove that they have a clue but I was let down. The only bright spot on the Microsoft OS front was XP, really. I raise my finger for Windows 2000 which did work really smooth after a bunch of service packs but if I remember correctly there was quite too many crashes on that system as well.

To conclude, Windows – you had your go. I’m going home to Mac again.

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