I Take Pictures

I take pictures
Photographic pictures

Vince Clark, Photographic, Depeche 1981

Had a great session with Mr Olympus yesterday. And I keep posting the images on every availible channel I have. They are now availible at facebook, bilddagboken, forumet and most recently blogger :) So what do I make of this ....
well, I really need a flickr account. Read their homepage that 6,105 photos was uploaded in the last minute.

2008.03.09 Skøyen

Teddybjörnen Fredriksson
hans nos den var av garn
ja han var min bästa vän
när jag var ett litet barn..

Lasse Berghagen

The "irony" of this image is that I can actually see my office in it. It gives the picture an extra dimension. And writing this I get a message saying that my stepsister has given birth to a baby, a Håvard. Needless to say, I know what to get him for his baptism.

Jack is Back

I have up to today only seen the first three seasons (six released per today) of this masterpiece that is known as "24". That means 72 episodes of pure mean raw Jack Bauer-ish action. A man famous to go his own way and having a slight problem with authority.
When the series first came (late 2001) it was quite groundbreaking having a show that was played in "real-time". That is a minute in the show is a minute in the characters lives. When the first three seasons were out I had the "privilege" to work 16h night shifts out in the middle of nowhere watching some containers during my time working @ Securitas. I remember spending three nights in a row watching the first three seasons, and wasn't bored a second.

The show IS Kiefer Sutherland and his impersonation of the Counter Terrorist Unit-agent Jack Bauer. I think they have (or will) change most of the other persons in the cast but without Jack it would just be weird.

The first four seasons in short.
S01 - Jack is set to protect Senator David Palmer on the day of the Presidential Primaries
S02 - Jack has to stop a nuclear bomb set to go off in LA and help the new president Palmer prove who's guilty
S03 - Jack must stop a deadly virus from being released while struggling with a heroin addiction he caught while working underground.
S04 - Jack, now off-duty from CTU working for Secretary of Defense finds his new employer kidnapped in an event linked to an internet attack and a train bombing.

What I love about the show is that it doesn't soften up, the don't cheer it up and make it rose-tinted. Jack has been quite deep into heroin, shot terrorists during interrogation. Chopped the arm of his daughter's boyfriend. And the other characters aren't much softer. During his kidnapping the Secretary (S04) finds it better to try kill himself than letting the terrorists broadcast his execution et cetera.

Much similar to Mr Bauer is the Texas Ranger-actor Chuck Norris. Surrounding both Jack and Mr Norris is a small (huge?) internet hype. Based on the listings of facts like
www.jackbauerfacts.com, www.chucknorrisfacts.com

Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.
America is not a democracy, it is a Chucktatorship

Today's LG is along the same lines

....on the seventh day Jack said, "I'll take it from here."
A standard deck now contains 48 cards.
-Too many people were getting hurt for trying to play Jack.
Jack Bauer can talk about Fight Club.

I have taken my side

Well well. Can't spend more time here. Got 67 episodes to see before S07 is released this autumn.

Save the Cheerleader - Save the World

Gotten around to see the full first season of the TV-series, Heroes. It took me little more than a week and of course some 15h on a bus to Stockholm and back helped make that possible.
Long time since I have been dragged in to a show like this. I get the same fresh feeling I got when I saw X-files for the first time. But hard to compare it in other ways since back then seeing an whole seaons over a week wasn't really an option.


The story and the plot is well known. Some indivuals find themselves with superpowers. A force is working against them. A greater good is to be reached and a villain is to be slain. Add some X-files-ish conspiracy theories about men with power working behind the curtains and you got the recipe all set.
All in all I can't really see much new it brings, can't put a finger on where it excels over other series. But it do indeed, the sum of all ingredients brew quite a tasty soup. I have found myself curling up in the sheets seeing through 3 episodes straight (some 2h) before finally being able to bend my fingers of the videoplayer to get some much needed hours of sleep. I found myself going back to the office 9 PM Sunday evening to be able get to see the last twenty minutes of the last episode since the batteries died at a very inconenient time.

Thank you Sandisk, thank you Tim Kring (creator of the series)


The player is proven to be able to play through 6.5 episodes on a full charge, or close to 5h for those who go by regular hours.