beta version of an idea

Could someone tell me does this t-shirt idea make sense in English grammatic?

dude, It's all uphill

New Finnish saying:

Only time always rolls uphill.
And it's even accelerating.

chew on the Newton!

only in america

I know that phrase is over used but this next video clip can only be broadcast in america


the next thing doesn't really refer to the heading but it's a good clip. The first 9 minutes is a good reminder of foreign policy of USA in Middle East. At the end is a good interview of Obama.

VC (video clip) of the day

Bush being funny with a blind guy


Damn I have my first technical difficulties with my mac. My flash player doesn't work properly.. It might be fault of my new Adium 1.1 messenger..

Other thing that I found quite funny, not so high-profile thing.. I was with my bike going to buy food and when I was stopping I saw few girl and started thinking what is the coolest way to stop my bike?! I stopped like I always stop my bike and just started laughing by myself for thinking of a COOL way to stop a bicycle.

Things I've burned..

..in my kitchen. I've burned them all big time! Not just little brown, I mean black as black hole.

- porridge
- "Boiled" eggs, about 55 minutes, at the end there was no water in the pot
- bread
- Plastic container on the stove (don't ask). The smell was awesome!
- rice
- pizza (yesterday)
- karjalanpiirakoita (today)
- my hands (today)
- Nothing, I left a gas stove on for 4 hours while going to school in Spain.

Most of these things happened here in my big flat (24 square meters) where my living and bedroom is the same as kitchen..

Nature photos

Photos from the last 7 days. All the photos are in a new photo gallery. By right-clicking over the large image you can open it in a new window if you want to view the photo in an even larger version.

useless links of the day

loose pants ban

How to waste time

There is a hole in the universe this one is actually interesting

and the worst swing in the world

Bulls on parade!

So you don't like bullfights or matadors. That is fine. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. But before you make your opinion you should always know the facts. I admit, I've had many stupid opinions in my life but when you learn new stuff you change your opinions. Stubborn people stink! Everyone should try changing their opinions every once and in a while.

So about bulls. Did you know they have been worshipped in the Mediterranean land without a break from the earliest times. Together with the horse, bull is the animal most frequently painted by prehistoric man in the cave paintings of France. The oldest painting of bulls dates back 35 000 years. Bulls are also represented on the walls of the ritual center in one of the earliest cities yet discovered located in the Anatolia region which developed around 8 400 years ago. They were the first animals to be worshipped as gods in temples of ancient Egypt 3000 years later.

Next great civilization after Egypt around 3000 B.C was in Greek. There too bulls were worshipped. Athletes took part in rituals in which participants of both sexes vaulted over bulls by grasping their horns. After that the Romans continued the worship in the form of Mithras. The cult in which the killing of the astral bull, the tauroctony, was as central in the cult as the Crucifixion was to contemporary Christians.

Today the last relics of these cults survive in the bullfights of Spain and southern France. So bulls and our relation to them is an important part of our past. It's cruel, I'll admit that but by that logic so is killing any animal (chicken, cow, armadillo). How do you compare which is worse, killing 50 million chickens or 500 bulls a year (don't know the exact number). At least bulls are treated well until at the end. But hey, death comes and goes. Is it not more important how animals live, not how they die?

Wars are so last season

Why bother conquering the world with arms and ammunition when there are so much more easier and cheaper ways to achieve it. If I was George W. Bush or Putin I would do it trough treavel industry and culture.

Through out the times great explorers, like Columbus and Marco Polo etc., have been the pioneers that have left their signature to our history. It's often left unrecognized that they also left behind the, not so nice, seed of change. In the recent history backpackers have been our seeders. I call them the 'First wave', the Scouts if you like. Often they are young people that want to explore the world to make some sense to it. They want to see the world and for them leaving the rat race is the only way to go. When they come back from their journeys from far corners of the world they tell tales of wonderful virgin beaches that are untouched by pollution and noise. They tell stories of delicious foods, beautiful people and of a rich culture that we should learn from. Everyone else are impressed of all this and they feel attracted to these adventures.

This returning 'Hippie' launches a chain reaction that can't be stopped. More and more people come to these remote parts of the world every year. Eventually new hotels and restaurants are built because of the demand. Someone gets a great idea to write to a magazine of this wonderland. Someone makes a TV program. Then it all explodes, people start travelling to these destinations by the thousands. The name appears in every newspaper and magazine. The second phase,'The invasion' has began.

When mass tourism comes to town everything changes. People are no longer feed the local specialities. Instead McDonald's are being build to keep hungre away. Chicken curry comes from the freezer and local drinks are replaced with Coca Cola. Local people are starting to adapt to serve their new masters. People might think that travel 3000 kilometers is exotic but they still want the air conditioning, cold Heineken, swimming pool and a Ford Transporter for their family.

So all you world leaders out there, especially in the western world. You had a good thing going on and you were on a way to a certain victory before you regressed and started shooting around. Invasion by implementing your culture with someone else's is quite easy. Who ever gets to the point in their society where they don't have to earn their everyday living could start concentrating on cultural invasions. Just put enough tourism to some part of the world and they will follow you. It's been done before and can be done again. Just look at some parts of Africa, Asia or Middle-East.. After a while your culture will become a solid part of the other nations culture and if you keep pushing it they will become part of your army. Example? Japan.

Think of Iraq. How much has the war on terror cost the western world? Billions and billions.. What if instead of sending troops down there we had sent tourists there? Thousands of tourist crawling around Baghdad and Teheran. Some change would bound to happen. USA could have paid part of those trips helping these cities come more wanted. This could all happen by itself if you would have a little patients but some financial aid could speed up things a bit. Sounds ridiculous? It's already happening! My Spanish roommate was about to visit Israel and half of the trip was sponsored by Israel (a.k.a USA). Two weeks vacation included buss trips around Israel visiting many politicly and culturally important sights. I could have applied for the same trip with him. Now what you think about that? In Israel all this of course works a bit differently. They've turned my theory around and are letting people invade their country. I THINK their intention deep down is to get some compassion for their political decisions by telling as many people as possible, their side of the story.

We unintentionally invented this thing called the Globalization. It's the last piece of the puzzle. If something doesn't break this puzzle we are all bound to merge into a huge mass of people without any true identity or culture. It's already happening in music in the form of Pop music but that's an other story all together.

Next time I go travelling I'm not going to tell stories of beautiful places or great sunsets or even tell where I was. All you hear from me is of the pure culture, that is if I am able to find a place like that.

Maybe the the first piece of the puzzle, the backpackers, can break the puzzle and shuffle the pieces again. At least I feel that few pieces didn't go to the right spots.

Sharing would be nice

My silly idea of future:
Since the human race always want to get some new gadgets and cars and boats and so on, you can't expect us to stop wanting those things. It's just not going to happen in the near future. As long as there are natural resources, such as iron and oil, to build wonderful things that we don't really need people are going to want them.

So I suggest we start sharing them. Which is wiser: to buy a 100 000 euro boat or find 4 other people that want the same thing? In this hectic productivity oriented culture we'll never have more than 2 weeks a year to navigate that damn thing. So let's share the boat so that every one can use it 2 weeks a year. That makes 10 weeks a summer and surely we can make a excel table where everyone can mark the week they want to use it. We are extremely organized so I'm sure that we can reach a timetable that suites for everyone and so minor schedule fights can be solved.

So now we're sharing a boat. Next we can share a summer cottage. Well that is already happening so we just have to expand the system. That is solved. Next we can share cars. In this we need the government to provide the nation with cars. They can buy cars from consumers and after that start renting them for citizens for a reasonable price. And I don't mean 200 euros a day, that's just stupid. The price just has to be a bit more expensive than public transportation. So now everyone can rent cars when needed. It sure is going to be more cheaper than buying one and after that there won't be that many cars on the roads = less accidents. Great! People save thousands of euros a year to other things thus spending more money on different kinds of services. That means more jobs. Much more jobs than will be lost when the car rental companies and car sales companies go bankrupted.

We can also share motorbikes, ATVs, ski doos.. you name it. The next step after that would be to share services: you fix my TV and I'll do your garden. I'll do your taxes and you will let me use your boat for a weekend.

Let's start sharing! Is that sosialism...? hmmm.. I prefer shareism.

Hunting season started

Every year the same "problem".. the weather is too good. The sun is shining and hardly any wind. Sun means no clouds which means ducks fly high which means they are hard to shoot. No wind means they hear you from mile away which means you're pretty much screwed.

I might be writing line or two about vegetarians but now just for the record. The day I can't shoot a duck or rabbit that I'm going to eat I'll turn in to a vegetarian.

This weekend my catch was 10 liters of cowberries/red whortleberries??,a nice little flue and few photos.

I really don't like putting photos straight to blogger since it somehow cuts down on the colors that I upload here. They become really flat so to speak.. When I get an energy boost I'll start photoshopping and downloading my photos to some other place.
I invented a new desert, banana + some berries and 20 minutes in fire!
Storm coming
Lillies

Nice tittle for a job

Selailin kuukausi sitten Helsingissä työpaikkailmoituksia työkkärissä. Tämä ilmoitus vei voiton!

Kaikesta ei voi saada mediaseksikästä vaikka yritys on kyllä hyvä, tai no oikeastaan ei edes ole...

Fat of the Land

I wonder why only humankind suffers from obesity? Well of course there are the animals that people make fat against their normal behavior like cats, dogs, cows, sheep, ducks, salmon, (rice, soya, tomato) etc. If over eating is sickness why don't other animals suffer from it.

Already in ancient Rome they used to eat all day long and then put their fingers in their throats to make some more room for smoked big and wine grapes. But I guess fat people were around before that. Can someone tell me at what point of our short history fat people started walking amongst us?

Just do it!

This is the mess that phrase got me into today..

I've always been afraid of high places, I mean I honestly don't like watching down from any place that is higher than 3 meters.

My "say yes to everything" got me today 10 meters above water level and there was only one way down. The good thing was that if I was to crap my pants I would be able to wash them immediately.

I started with 3 meters. didn't like it. Then I moved on to 5 meters. I felt dizzy but jumped. Next 7,5 meters. Shit it felt high. Finally I decided to see what the world looks from 10 meters. I looked scary! After few minutes of thinking I took a small step which felt like one of the hardest step of my life. The force of the impact hurt a bit but the adrenaline kept the pain away.

Before today I was sure that NO WAY would I jump down from anything higher than 5 meters but I did it.

Note: My previous record of jumping down to water was 3 meters and it happened when I was about 10. So about 15 years later I more than tripled my record!

I have my moments of wisdom

It's nice when your predictions go right even sometimes. If you remember my old blog entry concerning iPhone. I said iPhone would be a success and it was or still is.

"68% Approximate increase in Apple's share price, to as much as 145 USD since the iPhone was introduced in early January." -TIME, August 6, 2007.-

Damn I'm smart! I just wasn't smart enough to buy their stocks... I've never owned any stocks but maybe I should start buying.

Forget expensive banks for advices, just ask me.

This months free tip: Buy shares of companies that make beer. The prices of beer are going down in Finland but I'm quite sure we are still going to consume the same amount of soft alcohol or even more since cans are replacing glass bottles. The increase comes from the fact that now everyone is starting to buy 0,5 liter cans instead of the regular 0,33 liter bottles. OLVI would be a good company. They make Sandells beer which is the next Karhu. Trust me! Have I ever let you down!?

First night ever without TV

I've thought long of getting rid of my TV.. It's not as easy as it sounds but now when I moved back to East I saw an opportunity rising. When I moved all my stuff to my flat I left the TV downstairs and threw it away. Finally I'm free!!! The question is: What the hell am I going to do now???

Not my future ex-wife

Hectic day but I'm back in East at "home".

On train heading east I heard a young woman talking to her cell phone. I listened 30 seconds of her call and knew that she's not going to be my future ex-wife (without even seeing her, can you imagine!!). the conversation went something like this.

"Hi"
....
"Listen. Buy me a Iltalehti (newspaper, so to speak..). I'd like to read it. Yes Iltalehti, not Iltasanomat! I want Iltalehti."
.....
"And buy ice cream! I want ice cream as well when I get there."
....
"bye!"

Well raised girl... She sure knows what she wants. ´Please´ is just not part of her vocabulary.