Elvepadling!

Det er utruleg artig! Dette biletet vart teke i Begna, for eit par helger sidan. Eg er visst på veg ut av bølga, men du verda så morro det var så lenge eg var på "parketten."

Om frisørar og taxisjåførar

Kvifor spør taxisjåførar om du vil at dei skal køyre pilestredet eller ullevålsvegen? Det er jo dei som veit korleis trafikken er, eg gir blaffen i kva veg dei tar, så lenge det er den beste!

Kvifor spør frisørar om dei skal bruke saks eller maskin? Eg kan då ingenting om hårklypping. Det er dei som har greie på dette, og så spør dei meg om kva utstyr dei skal nytte? For meg må dei gjerne bruke hekkesaks, det er resultatet eg er opptatt av.

USA-tur

Ja, då er dei to vekene mine her i Niskayuna, like ved Albany, hovudstaden i staten New York, snart over. Ta gjerne ein titt i kartet over området. Her har eg vitja GE Global Research Center for å lære meg litt nye ting i tilknyttning til jobben.

Det har vore artig å vere her, med mykje jobbing, mange å bli kjent med, og litt elvepadling. Eg har hatt ein forholdsvis sprek liten leigebil som har blitt nytta til uøkonomisk køyring. I dag var eg på ein av desse enorme kjøpesentera som dei kallar "Malls". Det var salg på surfesjappa, så eg kjøpte tre shortsar og tre t-skjorter til same prisen som ein shorts i Noreg. Det er ein grei deal, tykkjer eg. Særskilt når den eine t-skjorta har John Deere-motiv.

Nye Svalbardbilete

Eg har framkalla svalbardbileta på ny. Det er ein del fine bilete der. Klikk på biletet:

Norsk

Eg går over til å skriva norsk. Det er ikkje så mange utlendingar som er inne på sida mi.

Visiting my grand parents

This weekend my sister and I are traveling to Bergen to visit our grand parents. She has not yet got a driver's license, but she is testdriving with me. Scary!

Trip to Svalbard

Inge, a friend of mine and I went to Longyearbyen on Svalbard during the weekend. A mew photo album from the trip can be found here. Unfortunately I experience some artefacts on some of the images, but I hope to fix them soon.

Holmenkollstafetten

I participated in Holmenkollstafetten for my department on saturday! I had lap 13, and used 4 minutes and 45 seconds on 1330 meters. For comparison the fastest lap time among all competitors was 03.31, which is quite impressive. We got number 96 out of 230 in our class. We hoped on a total time below 70 minutes, but did not make it. Next year, we will... I have attached my heart rate during the race, since people seem to want to know more about my general state. As you can see, I had a maximum rate of 195 bpm, so nobody can complain about my effort. I felt quite exhausted when i passed the crossing line, and my vision was quite blurred, like running in a tunnel. You can also see the height profile, but note that I did not calibrate my monitor, so the absolute height is not correct, only the relative height.

This picture is taken on Valdresflya last sunday. Incredibly nice weather, but a bit too weak wind.

Annoyances

Today my harddisk crashed for the second time since I bought it! Argh. Why can't they produce disks that last?

Non returnable refugees

"Citizens of no country, carriers of no ID. The non returnable refugees in Norway are victims to violation against the human rights. Being rejected asylum seeker you remain without permission to work, shelter, food, and medicine."

This is the headline of a site for the support of non returnable refugees in Norway, created by my brother. Please give it a visit: www.ureturnerbare.org

Here's another top, called Litjdalsnebba.

And here we see that the snow profile is not always accurate.

Here, Inge is studying the snow profile to see if it is safe...

It's a good deal of walking uphill on these trips...

Here are some pictures from my easter on Oppdal in Trøndelag 2005. We had several good trips in the mountains around Sunndalsøra.

This is a picture from my first time kiting, ever! We were at Høvringen in pretty gusty wind, and I got a bit hurt during this weekend.

Here we go!

Then I have finally been able to create my own blog! I should really be working right now, but most of the work is handled by the computer these days. Right now I'm working on a conference abstract for the IEEE UFFC conference this fall. Hope I make it...