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time for cynicism
Hey, dear readers of my random thoughts and analysis! This is the time of the year when you can get cynical – Christmas is not quite here yet, and if you were to achieve anything special this yea the time…
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High flying crap
Ah, seems like I have become a hate object for some! Here is what one guy send to Universitas through his mobile: Forsøkte å lese kronikken til wilm. 1/3 sa hvorfor han skrev den 1/3 presenterte kandidater 1/3 ??? Noe…
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The Left Alliance grasping for media attention
For those that don’t know t yet: The Left Alliance is a student party which we started last spring and ran for seats in the student parlament. We are the smallest of all parties with our 9 MPs, but that…
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fixing a bike in the dark
OK OK, so I was lying. I didn’t fix it in the dark. First of all, I took the wheel inside once I had removed it from the rest of the bike, and secondly, it’s still not fixed! Well, it…
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Come on Baby light my fire!… A new fire up and ahead?
It is not many weeks ago that I complained about the way I look like this 1968-alike dinosaur among my fellow students all of who have no relation to the protests in Prague (2000), Nice, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, etc. which have…
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Telecrapper 2000 & other pranks
Ok, I admit it, this one is _old_… but hose of you who haven’t listened to it yet, you really should. The Telecrapper 2000 is an invention which will let a computer answer calls from telemarketers – by playing a…
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You are [FILL IN THE NAME OF YOUR COUNTRY]!
An interesting issue for Marxist social anthropologists is the way nationalism seems to survive as an ideology – despite quite a lot of factors that one might think would go against it. Most of all I’m thinking about the increased…
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Free Movies!
It started snowing here in Oslo about 2 days ago. So forgive me for some of my more sentimental comments lately, but I have been sitting in the dark looking at the snow on the trees outside my windows the…
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My neighbor…
has been real nice to me lately. About two weeks ago I send her a two page letter. Or rather I left it on the kitchen counter after cleaning both bathroom and kitchen real throroughly (thought I had wirtten about…
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Johannes in Educational Dreamland once more
Last night I had another dream that I believe had some kind of significance, and interestingly, it was again a night before I was to go to a conference of the Pedagogy Students. However, I happened to miss the bus…