Monday, June 9, 2014

My surroundings

Having finally squeezed out of the Internet all the entertainment I could stand, I decided to spend yesterday driving a bit around, just taking in the local sights. Prior to getting a teaching job up here at Dokka, I hadn't really been to the area in around 30+ years. I have some vague memories of a childhood car trip with the parental units, but that's all.

So I first set out for the field of rock carvings some locals had told me about which were just west of town (I use the term town liberally). I never got to see the carvings because the area leading to them was flooded, but I got some purdy photos of the waterfall immediately to the south of them, called Møllerstufossen (Miller's cabin falls).

I'll make a second attempt when things have dried up in July, I pwomise.
You can view all the pics here.

There are some tables and the area looks perfect for a picnic. Iffin you have someone to go there with. *wipes away a silent tear*
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Purdy flowers. I believe the blue ones are known as Common Hepatica or pennyworth in English, while the yellow ones are a type of buttercups. Really, my knowledge of flora and fauna is atrocious.
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Dramatic crashing of water against a rock.
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View downstream. The river, called Etna, is really a very handsome body of water.
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View upstream.
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Quote of the Day

Ariel: How's your marriage?
Andrew: My marriage is fine.
Ariel: Ya?...
Andrew: It's not working but it's fine.
- Woody Allen in "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

Sunday, June 8, 2014

Quote of the Day

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence; it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
- Bertrand Russell

Saturday, June 7, 2014

Quote of the Day

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
- Bertrand Russel

Friday, June 6, 2014

Quote of the Day

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
- Bertrand Russell

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Quote of the Day

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
- Bertrand Russell

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Quote of the Day

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
- Bertrand Russel

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Quote of the Day

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
- Bertrand Russel

Monday, June 2, 2014

Quote of the Day

When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.
- Bertrand Russell

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Quote of the Day

If you don’t think that logic is a good method for determining what to believe, make an attempt to convince me of that without using logic. No one has even bothered to try yet.
- Brett Lemoine

Saturday, May 31, 2014

Quote of the Day

Programming is like sex; one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
- Michael Sinz

Friday, May 30, 2014

Quote of the Day

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
- Cato the Elder

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Quote of the Day

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Quote of the Day

It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
- Tacitus

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Quote of the Day

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
- William Hazlitt

Monday, May 26, 2014

Quote of the Day

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Quote of the Day

I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation’s attention from the rest of the service.
- Andrew Carnegie

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Quote of the Day

Football is not a contact sport, it's a collision sport - dancing is a contact sport.
- Vince Lombardi

Friday, May 23, 2014

Quote of the Day

Love conquers all - except poverty and tooth ache.
- Mae West

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Quote of the Day

I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.
- Mark Twain