Happy birthday Hubble!

The Hubbletelescope has now been in orbit around Earth for twenty years. Thank you, dear friend for the fantastic images.

Sic transit gloria

Do not all charms fly
At the mere touch of cold philosophy?
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:

I once travelled to Varanasi by train

I once travelled to Varanasi by train. We arrived in the middle of the night. The plan to spend the rest of the night at the train station was quickly abandoned when we realized that every square inch of the floor was already occupied by a countless number of sleepy travelers.

Life is but a dream

For some reason this world famous nursery rhyme came to my mind.

Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily

Beautiful Mini by Boontje

For months I’ve been working on a borrowed HP lap top since my old LG broke down. I really liked everything about my LG and tried to find a similar but new model. Turned out it was impossible.

Spring haiku

I experimented a little bit with the Japanese short poem form of haiku, using the 5-7-5 rule. I have no idea if I’m doing it right or not. This is the result anyhow.

Det gamla huset

Hur nya ögon se på gamla tider
likt främlingar som intet hjärta ha…
Jag längtar bort till mina gamla gravar,
min sorgsna storhet gråter bittra tårar

Soulful

This house is just unbelievably cool, it’s not often one encounters a house with such a piercing soul like this. It bears the poetic name Clingstone and is situated in the Narraganaset bay of Rhode Island.

Nestbeschmutzer

Nestbeschmutzer is a German word. We don’t really have any similar to it in Swedish and I don’t believe there is one in English either. I found it when I was reading about Thomas Bernhard on Wikipedia. I’ve been talking about this for years but I never found the right word for it until now.

Einstein and Bohr

I kind of like this picture of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. Two of the world’s greatest physicists of all time trying to look relaxed in their woolen suits.