This guy makes me stress

"Toimitusjohtaja" means CEO.
(the other people in this grave don't have their titles/portraits.)

It seems you have to be a CEO and then you will be remembered and are granted a stone portrait. Cool or ridiculous? I'm quite sure there is only one correct answer to this. Still from time to time I seem to forget it and that is when stress sneaks up on me.

edit: It seems our CEO lived the shortest life of these people if you don't count the little child...

Wake up calls are strange

Why do people lie when somebody calls in the morning?

*ring ring* .... *ring ring* .... *ring ring*

me: "Hi.. What's up?"

caller: "Sorry did I wake you up?!"

me: "No no no. I was just lying in the bed and chilling.."

Why do we always have to lie instead of just saying:

"Yes you did wake me up but it's cool. What's up?"

or: "Yes you did. Call me back when the sun comes up!"

These election videos just keep on coming

I'm sorry but I had to put this video here. First of all,the woman is so funny with her stupid questions and secondly she mentions 4:36 Sweden in strange context.

New party rising?

Would that be a new party rising to USA.
www.ConservativesForChange.com
The name sure is designed for that.

Future of Facebook

Few days ago I saw in the news feed of Facebook a girl writing to her notes about how everything goes downhill for her. I couldn't even remember why this girl was my "friend" but still I could read about her problems (cat is sick, she is sick, too much work etc..). Her written note was in a way call for help/ support and it worked. Many of her real friends wrote to her.

That could be the future of Facebook; creating a support network around us. Still I think the news feed that everyone is reading will turn out to be a message board for different corporations and organizations.

Most of the Facebookers are not to ready share their thoughts of the world online and it's a shame. A real community is about sharing feelings and thoughts, not just what we bought today or who is our favorite musician.

If facebook is one of the worlds biggest online communities and we spend our time messing with Vampire bites and 'I hate the new layout groups' then what does it tell about us as users?

Facebook is not the cutting edge when it comes to online communities in the true meaning of the word. New and innovative stuff is never popular with the masses.
(edit: Don't ask me what the next big thing is. I don't know.)

Conclusion:
News feed = advertising or self expression?
Let's try to keep these things apart from each other. We all have the Diesel t-shirt and Nike hoodie with the cat sized letters. Isn't that enough? Do we have to bring all that online as well?

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McCain's last change (crazy conspiracy)

Bush met the president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, today. Bush was careful not to say any strong opinions about the current financial crisis. Sarkozy on the other hand showed very strong opinion towards examining the whole capitalist system, bringing up few exact examples. His hope was to bring the whole system to 21st century.

Now if McCain can somehow put Obama in the same group with Sarkozy then he could argue that Obama is a radical socialist just like the president of the country that if full of American haters.

This would take some serious advertising/propaganda and the end result would lead to terrible relations with Europe, not just France. With this attack McCain could win.

If that doesn't help...
Well today I watched the movie Gangs of New York. There was this one scene where a top politician said something funny during the election day to this guy in charge of organizing the whole election:
"Don't worry if people vote twice. It's the counting where the winner will be decided."

It's not like it would be the first time that we witnessed this trick in the short history of USA.

yours truly,
-1 Armed man with totally out of control, crazy imagination

we're partying like there is no tomorrow

I watched Die Untergang, the German movie about the last days of Hitler's life in the bunkers of Berlin. The movie is largely filmed from the perspective of Traudl Junge who was the secretary of Hitler. There was something really scary in peoples behavior in those last few days before the final defeat of the Nazi goverment. Of course the whole war in it self was one big tragedy but I just got from shoulder surgery and covering all that is a bit too much with just one hand.

In this movie that was based on facts, many of the people in the bunker knew that the enemy was closing in. They knew that all hope for conquering and ruling the world was over. All the trust they had put to their great leader was about to collapse if not already collapsed. Even thought the collapse of the empire was just around the corner, the future wife of Hitler, Eva Braun organized a party and almost everybody joined him. Not even the closing mortar fire could stop them from drinking and partying. Eventually a bomb hit the building and everybody still alive had to return underground.

Next day it all continued. These people "privileged" enough to stay in Hitler's bunker continued ignoring the reality. Many of them were just drinking all the time. Many of these people knew they would die or at least the ideology that they believed in and to which they had build their whole identity as human beings was going to die. They didn't care about anything anymore or then they cared about things that were totally unimportant and absurd. I guess when a person losses all hope of future no one can really predict how (s)he bahaves.

Here is the part of the post that I'm going to blow over the top. I think we, the western civilization, are in the same situation as the people in that bunker. At the end of the day we're not taking cyanide or shooting ourselves in the head but we are partying like crazy and spending our time ignoring the problems that are happening outside our well guarded bunker.

What I'm saying is that we fail to take responsibility of the things that are happening just around the corner and to admit that many, not all, are caused by our actions in the past. I'm not saying that we should save the whole world. Funny enough is the fact that both Hitler and his party and our current political system have the same core principal, they both want the world to be better place FROM THEIR PERSPECTIVE.

Politicians main worry is to please the people that give them the mandate to stay in power where we as individual people don't have to worry about that. I am in charge of my own life and that is why I can do what ever I want. I can either drink and party until it's all over or I can walk out of the bunker and see what is really going on.

(I don't mean that things are that bad (yet) or that it's the alcohol and dance music that is destroying our minds (I use both of them).

Traudl Junge, the secretary, of Hitler was interviewed at the beginning and at the end of the movie. She was inside the bunker to the bitter end so she saw it all. She was also probably one of the last people that realized that it was all over. She had kept her faith to her leader longer than most of Hitler's “closest friends". At the end of the movie she said something like this:

It's no excuse that I didn't know about the killings and suffering and what they were doing to people. Ignorance is no excuse. I could have found out about things.

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Life after surgery. Past and future goals.

I was in a shoulder surgery 1,5 weeks ago. All went well and now I'm healing my shoulder at home for the next month. It should be healed perfectly in 6 months. I REALLY I hope I wont fuck up the healing process since today I bought one way ticket to Mexico. At the end of January I should be there for the beginning of the semester. The fear factor is that if I hurt my shoulder before it's completely healed it's back to operating table again.

I've dislocated my shoulder many times but exactly year ago I was training for kickboxing match. After almost two months of intense training and no alcohol, few weeks before the match I hurt my shoulder for the last time and decided to put down my boxing cloves.

After that I've been drinking quite a lot. I'd say about once a week + 4 skiing trips that were quite "wet" to say the least. I don't feel like I drink too much. Then again all my friends drink quite a lot as well so I don't actually know if I drink too much or not. (What ever that 'too much' is.)

A year has past from my previous alcohol-free diet. Then my goal was to go inside the loneliest place on an earth, the (kick)boxing ring (at least that is what they say. I wouldn't know). Now my goal is to go to Mexico. It's not the loneliest place on earth but I'm going there alone.

It's funny how easy it's actually to stop drinking when you have a clear goal your aiming for. I think the same aplies to everything in life. Decisions Decisions Decisions.

It's funny how often I feel that everything that happens, happens for a reason.

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My blog predicted the stock crash

I've always said I'm ahead of my time (at least to my self) and here is the proof.
These are the statistics of the visitors to my blog:



As you can clearly see I peeked and crashed before the Wall Street. A clear indication that I'm ahead of time. Through my blog you can see the future! To be fair I guess it was you, the readers who predicted the future. The statistic tools of my blog just showed it..

So you want to know how is this all going turn out? Read the blog. =P

Arianna Huffington and Tim O'Reilly in web 2.0 Expo

Two of my favorite videos in this years Web 2.0 Expo in New York

Watch here the "full screen version if the screen is cropped from the right side.


Watch here the "full screen version if the screen is cropped from the right side.

The dark side of McCain?

Japanese IQ test

Funny Japanese IQ test game. It's solvable. I promise.

Cost of war (in money)

Show me the money

thanks.

decisions decision decisions

That's what everyone keeps telling me. “You have to make a decision between this and this!” And if the others are not telling me that then I'm telling it to myself.

Can't I just be happy that what ever happens, happens anyway. I mean how hard can it be? All it takes for me to change the way I think is one... decision.

Damn it!

(Actually I happy at the moment. I just like to play around with thoughts :P )