guess who´s back

We have a Slovak staying with us for a few days and he brought us a present. hmmmm. Guess this baby will be in the drink´s cabinet till about 2010

Shoplifters of the world unite and take over

Something smells bad in Stinkville. What is "wrong" in this picture?

Argentina

two minute presidential campaign

Wet but not that wild

Been waiting and waiting for a clear blue sky to be able to mowe the lawn. Thought I´d give it a try today. Got half way through and it started raining and i ran out of gas at the same time. Garden looks wild and arty now.




Time to learn Blenda some tricks so she can earn some money for the family.



Damn her is she doesn´t grow up and likes my kind of music.

WOOHOO!! JIM-BOB!!

It is Mr McLaughlins birthday today! Congratulations from the El Slacker HQ´s!
Wish I could come for a drink or 25. Soon I will. Really soon.

spinning Blenda

360
Working from home, every friday starting today.
No biking, just 4 meters to work. I love it.
Now off for the friday root-filling.
Wish me luck.

//I fixed the bad link. Webmäster, Tomas.//

Your million dollar man up north

Yes, I did it. Biked to work today. 63 minutes. I can cut that down 5 minutes cap problem, coz I did a wrong turn in Arrie which cost me more than 5 minutes. I´ll be the fittest man alive before christmas. Watch me jumpstart!

Night before biking.

Rolling out from Norra Värlinge. A field filled with noisy birds.

Along the way...

At work. Sweating it.

Life in the slow lane

Declined the Nobel prize, for the second time!

This dude Grigori Perelman got offered the Nobel prize for the second time and also declined it for the second time. He has been offered various medals and prizes, but declined all of them. Seems to a really cool guy.

"In August, 2006, Perelman was offered but declined to accept the Fields Medal, which is the highest award in mathematics. It is expected that he will also be offered (and will also decline) a share of a million dollar prize offered by Clay Mathematics Institute for solving one of the so-called Millennium Prize problems."

Article in swedish about him:
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=597&a=144147

WHY LATINOS CAN'T BE TERRORISTS....

1. 8:45 a.m. is too early for us to be up.
2. We are always late, we would have missed all 4 flights.
3. Pretty people on the plane distract us.
4. We would talk loudly and bring attention to ourselves.
5. With food and drinks on the plane, we would forget why we're there.
6. We talk with our hands, therefore we would have to put our weapons down.
7. We would ALL want to fly the plane.
8. We would argue and start a fight in the plane.
9. We can't keep a secret, we would have told everyone a week before doing it.
10. We would have put our country's flag on the windshield.

ARE YOU A LATINO? HOW CAN YOU TELL FOR SURE?
1) If you have ever been hit by a "Chancla. "
2) If you grew up scared by something called "El Cucuy. "
3) If others tell you to stop screaming when you are really just talking.
4) If you light a candle to the Virgin Mary on the night before your big test.
5) If you use your chin to point something out.
6) If you constantly refer to cereal as "con fleys."
7) If your mother yells at the top of her lungs to call you for dinner, even if it's a one bedroom apartment.
8) If you can dance merengue, cumbia or salsa without music.
9) If you use "manteca" instead of olive oil and can't figure out why your nalgas are getting bigger.
10) If you are in a five passenger car with seven people in it and a person is shouting "subanse, todavia caben mas!"
11) If whenever you feel under the weather, you compulsively dab on some "Vic's vapor rub" all over your pecho and inside your nostrils.
12) Your mom packs your "lonche" every day even though you've just turned thirty-two. 13) If you call the North Americans "gringos," including Canadians, and call all Asian people "chinos" or "chinitos"and you call the corner store "the chinito's store."

”Hannah visste vad jag gjorde”

Vad vi inte visste om Joachim "The Idealist" Nordwall:

Nu berättar Joachim Nordwall, 29, om rymningen, rånen – och om ex-flickvännen Hannah Graaf.

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/0011/05/hannah.html

Fear not, Music Lovers!

Meat Loaf is back in October with his "Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose"
I won´t even try to explain how high my expectations are for this album...

Famoso por Agosto

The 8th edition of Famous For 15mb is now online. Like it or not.
DJ Alan Lamb (UK), Ausburger Tafelconfect (DE), Cualquiera (ESP), Ergo (USA), Kaburu (SWE), Max Lindgren (SWE), Be Brave Benjamin (ESP/UK), Blood Ruby (USA), Nathalie Nahai (UK).

www.famousfor15mb.com

Se busca el dueño

White caucasian male, last seen very tired on the streets of Gracia with anonymous English man. Our yearly trip to Gracia produced the everlasting statement of yeah-we're-definitely-gonna-go-out-more-in-gracia. But this time we will, really. I swear.

Soon this little man will walk the streets of Swedeland. Sir Pearce made sure to pack him full of lies of what to expect.

buck 65

Saw this dude at Malmöfestivalen yesterday night.
Best concert this year.
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Untilted

The secret key to a successful office life

http://workfriendly.net/

Why I love Asia so much.

Andy, when can i come visit?

Cocaine for the masses

I know you foreign people haven´t followed the last couple of days scandal in Swedeland, with former athletes taking cocaine and all that... I´ll give you a quick brief. After the European Athletics Championships there was a private party where a few ex-athletes decided to get some cocaine up their nostrils. Blah blah blah... of course they were taken by the police and of course it´s been a big scandal. First they denied it, then they admitted taking cocaine. Everybody is talking about how bad role models they are for the young people of sweden. The biggest scandal is that one of these ex-athletes, Sven Nylander, been working activly for an organistaion called "Pure Sport", something something against drugs and stuff....

But the best/worst thing is, here at my office, people are devistated, because this Sven-Nylander were here 4-5 years ago giving a lecture in how to relax. And man, do we all feel deceived? Yes we do! It´s terrible. How can we go on in our lives after this?
I feel confused and without a guidening light.

Pull Out!

Full Hatt!

how many faces¿?

A quick vacation down to Ethiopia

(Akila is tired, not dead.)

You can call it 30-årskris

I call it a new hope for the future.


I bought myself a fancy and fast bike, to bike my way to work. 30 kilometers on the saddle, twice a day. It´ll get me fit as a swiss army knife before christmas. Come rain, come hurricane. I´ll be there swearing at cars every morning at 06:30.

Your dreamer up north, T-bone.

We could all use a little help from our friend Jesus

Get your Jesus is my coach merch here: http://www.catholicsupply.com/christmas/othersports.html

We little people

Storming at the sun.

There's mornings and there's mornings

Yesterday I decided to give myself an extra 20 minutes of sleep this morning. Woke up at seven by some idiots alarm that just wouldn't stop. When my unfriendly phone told me to get up at 07:48 I had had almost an hour of very very strange sleep. As I left the house the alarm was still on and my mood was dark.

Got on the bus and started reading my book just like any other morning. And indeed it was just like any other morning until half of the bus loudly breathed in at the same time and all the south american women I usually travel with, looked towards my direction.
I managed to turn my head to the left just in time to see the ambulance men cover a dead man. From the head a massiva pool of blood just got bigger. The feet where still sticking out from under the thermo blanket. White pop-socks. Another man in a black t-shirt was picking up random belongings around the body. Slowly slowly. Sadly. The bus started again and further ahead people were sitting in parked cars. The police started redirecting traffic.

We continue on and way after I saw the moto he had been traveling on. Honda. Lying so far away it was almost as it had nothing to do with the other scene.

Someone is going to get, or just got, a really sad phone call today.

Exploding field

Watching the skördetröskor pass by. I wish I was a farmer.

Some girls mothers are bigger than other girls mothers

Brothers in arms.


Little ones.

Katalansk kultur från torg till torg

Catalunya all over the place...
http://sydsvenskan.se/malmo/article176441.ece

Merle Haggard - Drink Up And Be Somebody!

Well I gotta keep my reputation I gotta keep my pride.
Can't let you know you've hurt me I can't let you know I've cried.
I gotta make you think I'm happy everywhere I go.
I gotta keep my hurt inside me I can't let it show.
I gotta drink up and be somebody I have another round.
I can't let my troubles find me I gotta keep your mem'ry down.
Can't let you drive me crazy can't let you win I gotta drink up and be somebody again.

Well I can't spend my whole life grieving I gotta find myself.
I gotta put me back together I gotta find me someone else.
I don't make you think I'm happy everywhere I go.
I gotta keep my hurt inside me I can't let it show.
I gotta drink up and be somebody...

The will to beach

Weekend all over again. And vacation all over again. The endless summer.
Greetings from me to you.

Impulse! Night!

Tonight (Wednesday, August 2). 11pm-2am.
Gusto. c/Francisco Giner, 24 (Gracia).
Free entry.

Power

Heavy thunder and lightning. Raining. I love it.

Cursed sleep

Life After Earth: Imagining Survival Beyond This Terra Firma

If it´s not the peak-oil, it´s the end of the world in some other horrible way.
Yours faithfully, Tomas.

Cut from NY Times.

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The Alliance to Rescue Civilization differs from other so-called doomsday projects. It envisions a lunar base where, in the event of global catastrophe, humans could carry on, protecting DNA samples of life on Earth and maintaining a bank of human knowledge.

When the dust settles after World War III, or World War IX, humanity will still want to grow pineapples, rice, coffee and other crops. That is why in June on the island of Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic, all five Scandinavian prime ministers met to break ground on a $4.8-million “doomsday vault” that will stockpile crop seeds in case of global catastrophe.

While it boasts the extra safety of Arctic temperatures, the seed bank is just the latest life-preservation plan to reach reality, joining genetic banks like the Frozen Ark, a British program that is storing DNA samples from endangered species like the scimitar-horned oryx, the Seychelles Frégate beetle and the British field cricket.

To a certain group preoccupied with doomsday, these projects are laudable but share a deep flaw: they are Earth-bound. A global catastrophe — like a collision with an asteroid or a nuclear winter — would have to be rather tame in order not to rattle the test tubes in the various ark-style labs around the world. What kind of feeble doomsday would leave London safe and sound?

Cue the Alliance to Rescue Civilization, a group that advocates a backup for humanity by way of a station on the Moon replete with DNA samples of all life on Earth, as well as a compendium of all human knowledge — the ultimate detached garage for a race of packrats. It would be run by people who, through fertility treatments and frozen human eggs and sperm, could serve as a new Adam and Eve in addition to their role as a new Noah.

Far from the lunatic fringe, the leaders of the alliance have serious careers: Robert Shapiro, the group’s founder, is a professor emeritus and senior research scientist in biochemistry at New York University; Ray Erikson runs an aerospace development firm in Boston and has been a NASA committee chair; Steven M. Wolfe, as a Congressional aide, drafted and helped pass the Space Settlement Act of 1988, which mandated that NASA plan a shift from space exploration to space colonization, and was executive director of the Congressional Space Caucus; William E. Burrows, an author of several books on space, is the director of the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program at N.Y.U.

President Bush has already proposed a Moon base. “He just needs to be told what it’s good for,” Dr. Shapiro said. Dr. Shapiro has written a number of books on the origins of life on Earth, as well as “Planetary Dreams: The Quest to Discover Life Beyond Earth,” where he unveiled the civilization rescue project.

In 1999, the same year the book came out, Dr. Shapiro wrote an essay with Mr. Burrows for Ad Astra, an astronomy journal. There, they formally laid out their plan for the rescue alliance, beginning by warning that “the most enduring pictures to come back from the Apollo missions were not of astronauts cavorting on the Sea of Tranquillity, nor even of the lunar landscape itself.”

“They were the haunting views of Earth, seen for the first time not as a boundless and resilient colossus of land and water,” they continued, “but as a startlingly vulnerable lifeboat precariously plying a vast and dangerous sea: a ‘blue marble’ in a black void.” A conversation shortly after the essay was published, Dr. Shapiro recalled, resounded with the earnest imagination of science fiction drama:

Dr. Shapiro: “We’ve got to use space to protect humanity!”

Mr. Burrows: “By God! Yes!”

The concept is not new, but there is some fresh momentum. Mr. Burrows’s new book, “The Survival Imperative: Using Space to Protect Earth,” is due out this month. And the physicist Stephen W. Hawking, who is not part of the group, began arguing this summer that human survival depends on leaving Earth.

The mission of the Alliance to Rescue Civilization has also attracted the support of Col. Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, who now devotes much of his time to the idea of Martian colonization.

“It takes a big reason to go to the Moon, because, frankly, it’s a lousy place to be,” Colonel Aldrin said in a telephone interview. “But this is exactly the kind of planning as a human race we need to secure our future.

“But the A.R.C. idea isn’t ahead of its time because it’s needed right now. It’s a reasonable thing to do with our space technology, sending valuable stuff to a reliable off-site location. NASA is certainly not bending backwards to do it. It’s the private people like A.R.C.”

Born and raised within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo — and he walked that distance often — Dr. Shapiro developed an early interest in biodiversity. He frets over the frailty of civilization and the planet, but he is not a pessimist. He compares the Moon-base idea to a safe-deposit box.

“It makes sense to protect the things you value,” he said. “But we, as a civilization, we don’t have anything like that.” The trouble with doomsday, Dr. Shapiro argues, is that it is almost always rendered in popular culture as grandiose, though in reality, many minor incidents present substantial everyday threats.

In 1918, an influenza strain killed some 30 million people; a possible new bird flu strain spurs contemporary panic. In January 2003, a computer virus shut down airlines, banks and governments. That same year, a tree fell on power lines outside Cleveland, resulting in a blackout for much of the Northeast. Doomsday can be understated.

“But I’m not here to predict doomsday; I’m here for sanity,” Dr. Shapiro said. “When we’ve gained what we’ve gained, we should fight to keep it.

“And, worst-case scenario, if it’s all for nothing, we’ll have a nice museum.”