Googlism

http://www.thechurchofgoogle.org/Scripture/Proof_Google_Is_God.html

Counting Crows - Mr Jones

I was down at the New Amsterdam staring at this yellow-haired girl
Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation with this black-haired flamenco dancer
She dances while his father plays guitar
She's suddenly beautiful
We all want something beautiful
I wish I was beautiful

So come dance this silence down through the morning

Cut up, Maria!
Show me some of them Spanish dances
Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
Believe in me
Help me believe in anything
Cause I want to be someone who believes

Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales
Stare at the beautiful women
"She's looking at you. Ah no, no, she's looking at me."
Smiling in the bright lights
Coming through in stereo
When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely

I will paint my picture
Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray
All of the beautiful colors are very, very meaningful
Gray is my favorite color
I felt so symbolic, yesterday
If I knew Picasso
I would buy myself a gray guitar and play

Mr. Jones and me look into the future
Stare at the beautiful women
"She's looking at you. Uh, I don't think so. She's looking at me."
Standing in the spotlight
I bought myself a gray guitar
When everybody loves me I will never be lonely
I will never be lonely
Said I never gonna be..lonely

I wanna to be a lion
Everybody wants to pass as cats
We all want to be big, big stars, but we got different reasons for that
Believe in me, because I don't believe in anything
And I want to be someone to believe, to believe

Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women
"She's perfect for you, man, there's got to be somebody for me."
I want to be Bob Dylan
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky
When everybody loves you, son, that's just about as funky as you can be

Mr. Jones and me staring at the video
When I look at the television I want to see me staring right back at me
We all want to be big stars, but we don't know why and we don't know how
But when everybody loves me
I'm going to be just about as happy as I can be
Mr. Jones and me: we're gonna be big stars...

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18.7km run to Ganddal

on a Sunny Saturday morning in Norway! Almost a half marathon. 60m altitude spread.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3708696

Earth Day

Celebrated Earth Day today by cleaning up Håholen woods near our home.
Picked up 8 bags of trash and 3 bags of recycling in about an hour and
a half. Apparently Earth Day isn't celebrated here, or even known
about. Maybe we'll recruit some volunteers next year.

2010 Orienteering Results - Race 3

http://www.bisori.org/
Sweet!

Pictures from Iceland

http://www.boston.com/

Road tolls coming to 40X highways?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/

Sandnes 150 Year Anniversary

http://www.regionstavanger.com/
We went to the Sandnes 150 Year Anniversary festival yesterday after orienteering. The Queen was there to give a speech, and entertainment consisted mostly of some aerial acrobatics and music. We froze our butts until 10:30 and then biked home.

2010 Orienteering Results - Race 2

http://bisori.org/resultater/2010/res0414/HT.HTM
I think the winner should move up a category.
After him, it's a smooth progression of times.

Daily News Update for Norway

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/icelandvolcanobritainaviation
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/04/14/iceland-volcano-evacuation.html

2010 Orienteering Results - Race 1

First race of the 2010 season, and I'm in the 'trim' category (training level). Ended up 18/71 (5 disqualified) in a time of 25:19 (7:49 behind the leader). Annoyingly, if I hadn't gotten lost on one post and lost about 5 extra minutes, I would have come about 4th. Mel also participated in yesterday's race and will hopefully be racing the rest of the season too.

http://www.bisori.org/resultater/2010/str0407/CLASS.HTM

Is it "fair" to pay everyone in an organization the same wage, regardless of individual performance?

New Project

I just started working on the Valhall Redevelopment Project (VRD).

http://www.nexans.de/upload/objects/20060623/200606_valhall_platforms.jpg