So google is supposed to pick ads based on all the stuff they know about me from watching everything I do online, which makes it kind of weird when I get these on YouTube:
Seriously?
I mean, come on! Say what you want about Obama, but telling YouTube commenters (also known as the worst breed of human to have ever existed) to vote for blaming him for the oil spill is insane! By what logic does that even make sense? What do they think he did, dive into the gulf and break the well himself? The “Obamacare, stop him!” ads were pretty annoying, but at least he was doing health care reform then, this just feels like pure desperation to me.
Naturally, the song of the blog is: The Impression That I Get
I’m your host, Baffled Bjørn, and you are now annoyed, for some reason or another.
Hey there, young one. Do not fear, it is you from the future. I have perfected an awesome time machine, and come to give you some advice on your journey into adulthood!
You are about to embark on a journey through an inferior school system. You live in Norway, one of the worlds richest countries for reasons you don’t quite understand. Something about how black goo is awesome, but black people suck. Don’t worry about that, when you get older, your mind will tend to wander.
You will enjoy sports with your fellow classmates. But as you grow, you will realize the hierarchy in the school class. There is the alpha males and females (usually 2 or 3 of each), the gang that follows them like cattle (part of the cool gang), and the rest, who for all intents and purposes are known as loosers. You will be a socially awkward, weird-smelling nerd who nobody seems particularely interested in talking to. Except others like you. This is going to bother you somewhat, yet you will ultimately accept it.
At one point, you will start playing World of Warcraft. I’m not going to say don’t do it, because some of the people you meet there will change your life forever. Just be careful, and when your mother wants you to get away from the computer screen don’t bark at her and keep playing. She just cares for you.
As you grow, you are going to make many mistakes. You will do cruel things to people, you will steal, laugh at other peoples misfortunes, and not give a crap about anything. At one point, you will have a political epiphany and join RU. It’s going to change your life drastically. I only have one tip for you: When you get invited to join the SST, do it. Don’t wuss out. Your reasons for staying in Bodø are bogus, you will leave the town that same year anyways.
You are going to fall in love. Oh, how you will fall in love. It’s going to be magical. I’m not going to tell you when you first end up in a relationship, I will only say that it’s going to take alot longer than what you see around you. When it finally happens though, you will be happy. Briefly. You will be hurt, you will cry and you will try to drown your sorrows with homebrewed booze. My only tip for you, don’t get carried away. Do not trust blindly.
It’s going to be a long journey for you, little one. Your 19 years in Bodø will be filled with bad memories, good memories, laugher and crying. Good luck.
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I got the idea for this from Elizabeth, a while ago she blogged about a letter she had written many years ago to her future self. This is a modification.
What would you tell your younger self, if you could?
I have a confession to make:
I love cheesy duets from the 1980’s.
Come on…you know you do too. Just admit that when you’re listening to the radio and you hear that cheesy synthesizer intro, you cannot help but sing along. I have decided to make a list of what I deem the ten best 80’s duets ever.
After careful deliberation:
10. “Somewhere Out There” -James Ingram/Linda Ronstadt
9. “Up Where We Belong” -Joe Cocker/Jennifer Warnes
8. “You and I” -Eddie Rabbitt/Crystal Gayle
7. “Almost Paradise” -Mike Reno/Ann Wilson
6. “The Next Time I Fall” -Peter Cetera/Amy Grant
5. “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” -Bill Medley/Jennifer Warnes
4. “Ebony and Ivory” -Stevie Wonder/Paul McCartney
3. “Under Pressure” -Queen/David Bowie
2.”Islands In the Stream” -Kenny Rogers/Dolly Parton
And finally *dun dun dun*….
1. “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” -Michael Jackson/Siedah Garrett
Get off my man, ho!
Some of the other close contenders:
“If I Close My Eyes Forever” -Lita Ford/Ozzy Osbourne
“Friends and Lovers” -Gloria Loring/Carl Anderson
“Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” -Stevie Nicks/Tom Petty
“The Girl Is Mine” -Michael Jackson/Paul McCartney
“Tonight, I Celebrate My Love For You” -Peabo Bryson/Roberta Flack
Leave a comment telling me what your #1 would be!
Hi again!
I promised you a final blogg about my HTC Legend. Well, Initial reaction:
Finally. I have a phone with Spotify. With awesome apps. With Android!! With
Wait..
What’s this?
Unable to start Wifi. Unable to start Wifi. BLARGH!!
[calling] Hello? Can you hear me? Dude, you’re just giving out a bzzzzzzz sound [/calling]
So i have to send my phone back, and get a new one that hopefully works. Having to do that really makes me mad. When I cash out for a brand new top-of-the-line phone, i expect it to be able to make phonecalls and wifi without throwing a fit. Durr!
Vegard
As a tribute to mine and my family’s cat, Snurre, I would like to dedicate this entry to him, and them!
This cat was truly a good, and rather special, companion through the past 5 years. Through my childhood and youth, my parents have taken cats from outside into our warm friendly home, connected with them, and become good friends, even though every cat we had, suffered the same outcome at last. Killed in traffic. Such a tragedy happens to a lot of cats here, and everywhere with traffic, I assume.
Well, the tales of this one last kitty are many, and this cat has barely survived through a short but colorful life. Many times we’ve sat in the living room stumbled by this cat bringing its prey for the evening home, or hunted birds in our back yard, to the amusement of our utterly weird but amazing dog. This cute little thing would hide in spots people would never even imagine looking, it would mew over noting, and mess with our dogs mind, and play games with it, letting the dog chase him, and then disappear, only to make the dog completely crazy by not finding the cat. This Changed, even though our cat never was the kind of guy to be lying in our lap, we easily saw his mind was changed after the one time he disappeared for 3 to 4 months or so.
A few times before, he’d be gone a while, and whilst on vacation in Trøndelag, we had to leave without him. Then one day, this young boy called the number on his collar, and my dad picked up. The kid asked where he’d come, and my dad said Bodø, and the kid just barely believed him, since this is 700km away. Snurre got a taxi drive from Trøndelag the next day. But this one day he was gone, we waited, and waited, but Snurre never came. After a couple of weeks we assumed the worst, and got through the grief of losing our friend. After 3 months we saw him 6km away from our house, but didn’t stop, because the cat couldn’t be this far away. A month later we got a call by a woman seeing one of our old posters. She had a black cat, that looked like he was lost, our cat was, so we naturally went to see him. It was him.
By that time he changed a lot, and he had lately gone back to a normal state of mind, though he was the weirdest pet I’ve ever had. If you let him out one door, he would walk around the house, and mew to get in, only to go out the same way he did last time. Sometimes Snurre made me fucking crazy. Hunting birds he stuck one of his teeth’s to his lip wile falling from a tree. Later he disappeared again, and someone came by and said they found this female cat in the ditch after being struck by a car. I saw the cat, but didn’t have no female pet, so I said sorry, and they went along. A week later my sister saw a poster, and we got our cat back, again… He was hurt badly, but survived. This time, he changed even more, and reacted to our dog, never played, and avoided everyone but my sister. He slept in her bed. Now this last incident happened, yesterday that is. Again, he was run over by a car, destroying his leg. The damages were too severe. At least the driver stopped after seeing him running into our garage, and informed us of this. He bled, and mewed a lot, until he went to the vet. After that, silence. I will never forget the look in my sisters’ eyes when she told me.
Thank you, for being a good friend, a soft pillow, the weirdest cat I ever knew, and the cute little kitty we had.
As you were, soldier
Steinar