10.27.05
Posted in Personal at 17:01
So, now I’m a member of Greenpeace. I should’ve known it was just a matter of time, hanging out with fundraisers all day is bound to get you suckered for some of your money eventually. Well, they said I only had to pay 25 kr. each month, but I have a pretty good savings account and it’ll only get larger as long as I live at home and work full time, so I figured I might as well give them 100 per month. That got me pretty popular. They signed me up for “Action Support” which means I get a crapton of reports on their activities and what-not. I can always decrease the monthly fee to 25 kr. when I get my own apartment and become broke. And then increase it to 100,000 when I become the co-owner of Off Topic Productions and get filthy rich.
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- Mood: Bouncy
- Music: Metallica - One
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10.23.05
Posted in Personal at 21:26
Beware the hawtness.
- Mood: Silly
- Music: Disturbed - Just Stop
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10.20.05
Posted in Personal at 18:31
So, now I’m a terrorist. No really, I am. Well, at least I work for a terrorist group. Called Greenpeace Nordic.
I shit you not, a little while ago a court of law condemned them to pay a fine of 300,000 kroner for terrorist activity because some of their civil disobedience actions fell under the new terror law. And this is where the government has placed me to serve my military duty. Interesting, no?
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- Mood: Productive
- Music: Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
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10.15.05
Posted in Music, Personal at 13:54
Bah, I bought a new CD yesterday. After my meeting at the Planetarium, I called my mum at 11 am to hear if she wanted to go out for lunch. Unfortunately she’d had breakfast an hour before, so she suggested I pick her up at noon. This left me with an hour’s time to kill, so I took a walk down Strøget, the central shopping street of Copenhagen. On the way, I first dropped into EB Games, which had no interesting games except Fahrenheit which I plan to buy when the price has dropped a bit, and then the music section of Fona 2000. I found no less than three albums I wanted to hear: Ten Thousand Fists by Disturbed, Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Vol 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness by Coheed & Cambria (good lord, what were they thinking when they came up with that title!), and Dark Light by His Infernal Majesty.
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- Mood: Dorky
- Music: Disturbed - Stricken
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10.13.05
Posted in Personal at 22:24
Jesus on a bike, where to start? After 4 months of doing nothing, yesterday was like an explosion of activity.
I thought I wouldn’t be back until tomorrow, but luckily the intro course was really just 2 days at the administration plus 3 days to find a good place to work. After the general dispensing of rooms and the introductory speech by our consultant (with simultaneous consumption of Danish pastry and coffee or tea), I quickly singled out four interesting places that I narrowed down to 2 after a bit of consideration. The music house “Pumpehuset” was quickly eliminated when the consultant tipped me off that I’d mostly be cleaning the place. The theater “Kanonhallen” was returned to its folder when I realized it would primarily involve carrying things around and working in the wardrobe in the evenings. That left the Tycho Brahe Planetarium and the Danish Greenpeace. The former because the work sounds (comparatively) interesting, the latter because of the ideological beliefs I share with them - saving the Earth, not necessarily by sailing small boats in front of large supertankers… but eh, whatever works.
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- Mood: Determined
- Music: Death Cab For Cutie - Soul Meets Body
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10.11.05
Posted in Personal at 16:47
This is ridiculous. 11 days into October, and the thermometer outside my window is showing 26 degrees. Granted, it’s not really 26 outside, the thermometer just happens to be in direct sunlight right now, but it’s warm enough that my mother and I sat outside in the garden and played Scrabble until 4 pm. Does this look like Denmark in October to you:
That’s a photo of our garden, taken not 5 minutes ago. I awoke at 10 am this morning after 8 hours of sleep, had a nice refreshing shower, and went out for brunch with my mum. We found this nice sidewalk café in Valby, it was a little crowded but the food was good. Afterwards, we took a walk through Frederiksberg garden. It’s pretty nice for a park, not too orderly and with water winding its way through it. Oddly it was the first time I’d ever been there, and the perfectly temperate weather combined with the beautiful colours of autumn really left a good impression. It’s just a shame that I didn’t bring my camera, but I will next time.
Great way to end 4 months of holidays. It scares me a bit, knowing that this week I must choose what I’ll be doing the next 4 months, but I’m also pretty excited to get started. Having nothing at all to do gets old after a while.
- Mood: Peaceful
- Music: Kaizer's Orchestra - Maestro
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10.08.05
Posted in Other media, Personal at 14:49
I went and got myself an inflammation in my left eye. It doesn’t actually hurt, but annoying side-effects include having quite a hard time getting out of bed this morning because I almost couldn’t open my left eye, seriously hindering my process of waking up (sad but true), and looking pretty much like this: o_-
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- Mood: Lazy
- Music: Metallica - Unforgiven II
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10.05.05
Posted in Game design, Games at 01:45
Sorry, but I like to talk about computer games. I’m training myself to get an analytical approach to computer games, and naturally the byproduct is a lot of random thoughts; this is an excellent place to vent them to nobody in particular.
I finished Half-Life 2. I must admit I liked it a lot more than I’d expected when I bought it; if I’d known it would be this enjoyable, I would’ve probably paid full price for it when it was released. But instead I got it very very cheap later without knowing what I was missing in the mean time, so that works for me. I will list three major reasons why Half-Life 2 surpassed my rather low expectations by far:
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- Mood: Content
- Music: Velvet Revolver - Loving The Alien
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10.01.05
Posted in Music at 14:39
I picked up Velvet Revolver’s “debut” album, Contraband, yesterday. For those of you who don’t know of VR, I put “debut” in quotes because the band is basically Guns ‘n’ Roses with the frontman from Stone Temple Pilots. But anyway, it’s a remarkable album, I downloaded it via a bit torrent about half a year ago when it came out just to hear if it was any good. I only really liked their first single, Fall to Pieces, but there were a couple of other interesting songs, so I pulled all three songs onto my MP3 player and left it at that.
When my harddrive died on me a few months ago, I lost all the songs I didn’t have on my MP3 player. By then I’d actually grown to really like the other two songs as well, Slither (which became their second single) and Sucker Train Blues. So yesterday I figured I liked those three songs enough to justify a purchase of the album, and I dropped by Fona to get it. Today I’m pretty hyped about the whole album. Fall To Pieces sort of unlocked the two other songs for me, and then I could suddenly understand the entire album. I don’t think there’s a single song on it that I don’t like a lot now. Especially Big Machine and Loving The Alien have joined my favourites.
So now I’ve listened to this CD on random/repeat for several hours straight. Now comes the next stage in my consumption of the album: Attempting to rip all the songs to my MP3 player. Finding a copyright protection which puts skips in my songs would kill my good mood with great efficiency, so they better not try any funny stuff. But I have no reason to think they’d be so stupid. Yet.
- Mood: Satisfied
- Music: Velvet Revolver - Headspace
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