I Am Sailing
My dad’s a member of a yacht club in order to have sheltered jetty space for his motorboat. It’s not a fancy affair, most of the boats being small and decades old. But many of them are sailboats, and...
View ArticleLondon Weekend With Both The Young Dudes
Spent Friday though Sunday in London with Junior and his buddy, both 14. My original plan had been to find a gaming convention with both a video game track and a boardgame track. But failing that, I...
View Article800 Hidden Plastic Jars
The other day somebody hid a geocache a short bike ride from my house at a spot where, I now know, an orienteering-themed fraternal order was founded in 1930. Today I rode out and became the second...
View ArticleWeekend Fun
Here’s what I wrote in 2009 about weekend fun. The way I like to lead my life is basically Epicurean: “Epicurus believed that the greatest good was to seek modest pleasures in order to attain a state...
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Weekend Fun
New Thing — great Stockholm funk band! Here’s what I did for fun this weekend. Went to local bands night at Göta Källare (where I saw the Super Furry Animals and the Soundtrack Of Our Lives back in the...
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Weekend Fun
One of four grotesque male faces on a 17th century object in the Tre Kronor castle museum. The piece looks like a little baptismal font, but the label says “possibly a kitchen mortar”. Neither function...
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Weekend Fun
Space Whale The past two weekends were a lot of fun. The Royal Technical College’s orchestra and several combined student choirs from Sweden and Finland performed Giuseppe Verdi’s 1874 Requiem, an...
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Weekend Fun
Edmund de Waal at Artipelag It’s been a fun weekend! Here’s what I did. Watched Jrette’s dance show, snappy and lively! Inspired by Kate Feluś’s fine recent book Secret Life of the Georgian Garden, I...
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Hiking In Abisko
Abisko national park is in the mountains of extreme northern Sweden, Sámi country, reindeer country, where half of the year is lit by constant sun and the other half is frigid darkness and aurorae....
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WorldCon 75 in Helsinki
The 75th World Science Fiction Convention took place in Helsinki and seems to have had the second-highest attendance ever: more than 7000 people in the Messukeskus convention centre, 2000 of whom had...
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