somewhat slightly interesting

17 January 2013

How the Scandinavians shaped England

Exam time is coming up, that means it’s time for another verbose blog entry about the history of English stuff – in this case, the vikings (yes!). English, though rooted in the West Germanic family, has had significant influence from the Old Norse language (part of the North Germanic language family). So much, that a Norwegian professor even claims that English is a Scandinavian language. That’s of course ridiculous, you could just as well claim that English is a Romance language because of its huge amount of French influence. But the language is still very Germanic at heart. As Bill […]

29 July 2007

Dexter

Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce you to Dexter Morgan, who works as a forensics blood expert with the Miami Police Department. He loves his job, and not only does he help his coworkers a lot with his analyzing of the blood splatter on crime scenes, his instincts about killers are always dead on. Why is that? Because he moonlights as a serial killer himself and is a true perfectionist at his little ‘projects’. But he doesn’t just kill randomly – he only kills those who deserve it, people who have killed other people without reason. In their final minutes […]

12 July 2007

Swedish Music (Musik Non Stop)

A little post about (for normal people) unusual music, inspired by my own ramble about the world and how it needs more singing and by Michael’s posts about cover versions of songs. This my small ramble about unusual music in Swedish language which is nevertheless pleasant to listen to. Unfortunately the sample songs are not always my personal favorites, but most of them are good anyway. To listen to the sample, just click on the small arrow! Dia Psalma – Balladen om lilla Elsa Best of Album: Psalmade Psalmer Dia Psalma are a Folk Punk band – their music is […]

30 March 2007

Everything you always wanted to know about time zones but were afraid to ask

Some time around last Tuesday or so I had this idea to make a wallpaper for my desktop that shows a map of the world divided in it’s time zones (having relatives all over the world and stuff like that). I’ve tried searching the web for something nice, but unfortunately I couldn’t find anything, so I just started doing it myself. I took a time zone map I found on the net and the started drawing paths of the time zone parts of the continents, and once that was done I drawed paths of the lines between the zones, and […]