Last week was lovely, skiing in Norway with friends and colleagues (sometimes they’re both, which makes working nicer, but maybe I would leave the lab earlier if I didn’t have so much fun there). We’ve been doing this for some five years now and it’s getting better every year, with more people joining. K had her first days ever on skies, did really well – she even tried a blue slope for a bit! - but got a fractured leg on the second day and was stuck in the cabin for the rest of the week, jumping around on crutches. I knew that she has a positive attitude but I didn’t realise just how positive she is until then; she didn’t complain even once, her joking kept us all happy. Lovely girl she is.
I fell more in the red slopes than in the black ones.. Maybe I’m too careful in the black slopes, going too slowly. It was nice to see that I’m improving – that’s the good thing about being a beginner, it’s easy to improve. I’ll upload photos once my computer is working again. Still haven’t had time to reinstall everything after the virus, and yes I’ll install Windows again, and no I don’t like it, of course I should use Linux and support open source but wtf, both Linux and Windows works perfectly fine normally, but if something goes wrong, I won’t be able to fix it. So I’ll stick to an OS that I have friends who are competent in. Even though I really, really don’t like supporting Microsoft.
The recent (well, couple of weeks ago now – haven’t written anything for quite a while, combination of the lack of a computer at home and too much work lately) study visit to a brewery in Stockholm was interesting. A couple of years ago I tried to find out if crushed bones from animals are still used in the clearing of beer, to know what types I could drink, so I called two different breweries and spoke to two or three people at each, and they all said different things, so I just gave up and first only had what I knew (believed) was safe and later had whatever I wanted. Now the brewery master assured us that crushed bones are never used in Europe except UK where it’s still used in some small breweries and in some American breweries too. Seems so very .. old-fashioned.
Anyway he also said that expensive beer costs more because the label has more colours, or they’ve had more ads for that beer. Apparently the difference in costs when making the beers is minimal. The next week I went to see a documentary about the straight edge community, if you can say that there is still such a community. And I can really understand why people chose to live like that. Although several sXe people I’ve met tend to judge others, which repels me.
I fell more in the red slopes than in the black ones.. Maybe I’m too careful in the black slopes, going too slowly. It was nice to see that I’m improving – that’s the good thing about being a beginner, it’s easy to improve. I’ll upload photos once my computer is working again. Still haven’t had time to reinstall everything after the virus, and yes I’ll install Windows again, and no I don’t like it, of course I should use Linux and support open source but wtf, both Linux and Windows works perfectly fine normally, but if something goes wrong, I won’t be able to fix it. So I’ll stick to an OS that I have friends who are competent in. Even though I really, really don’t like supporting Microsoft.
The recent (well, couple of weeks ago now – haven’t written anything for quite a while, combination of the lack of a computer at home and too much work lately) study visit to a brewery in Stockholm was interesting. A couple of years ago I tried to find out if crushed bones from animals are still used in the clearing of beer, to know what types I could drink, so I called two different breweries and spoke to two or three people at each, and they all said different things, so I just gave up and first only had what I knew (believed) was safe and later had whatever I wanted. Now the brewery master assured us that crushed bones are never used in Europe except UK where it’s still used in some small breweries and in some American breweries too. Seems so very .. old-fashioned.
Anyway he also said that expensive beer costs more because the label has more colours, or they’ve had more ads for that beer. Apparently the difference in costs when making the beers is minimal. The next week I went to see a documentary about the straight edge community, if you can say that there is still such a community. And I can really understand why people chose to live like that. Although several sXe people I’ve met tend to judge others, which repels me.
