Poem replay again (what can I do when they run out?)
Carrot Juice
You do not understand this poem.
This poem is not directed at you.
The poem is written in a secret language
and has a secret message.
That you think you read something
with some kind of sense
the ordinary, clear, Swedish
is perhaps just a coincidence
or so is the imagination
that plays you a trick.
It has anyway nothing
with the true meaning to do.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
What Would Cause Dizziness For 12 Hours
Salvaging The Home Page: Part 4. Announcement & McBain
Ok, sometime in the Near Future my old GeoCities page Will Be online again, at http://hem.passagen.se/rawanimal .
For reprint preview content, this little piece about someting Ed McBain books is as good as anything I guess. Or not too much Worse at Least:
Ok, sometime in the Near Future my old GeoCities page Will Be online again, at http://hem.passagen.se/rawanimal .
For reprint preview content, this little piece about someting Ed McBain books is as good as anything I guess. Or not too much Worse at Least:
Just finished "Fuzz" (or, in Swedish, as I read it, "Deckarna") by Ed McBain,
a book about the 87th precinct. There are quite a few more such books,
and some of them I've read, and liked.
Tadaaaa... List of 87th books I've read so far (may be updated),
in the order I happen to think of them:
eng / swe
Fuzz/Deckarna
A bit of a lightweight book, maybe, but still nice reading, especially for
a lover of cool villains such as myself. This is, nehmlich, the second appearance
of the horrendous "deaf man", and the first one I've read.
If possible, you should probably read the first book where he appears, named
something like "The Deaf Man" (Den döve... detta är den riktiga svenska titeln,
men den engelska vet jag inte.) before this one. I didn't, but...
And oh, it's a really cold March. McBain never lets you forget the weather.
Ice/Is
The English titles of mr. McBain's works often involve rather clever use of
double meanings, but to my knowledge he has never integrated this so totally
with the story as in "Ice". The detectives of 87th know, in this book, that
people have been killed because of ice, but ice can mean a lot of things...
McBain gets something fairly interesting out of this. However, I suppose I
should tell you that it's not an Agatha Christie type of intrigue we're talking
about (as the talk of "ice can mean a lot of things..." might indicate). There
may be McBain books with such stories (I wouldn't be too surprised) but I have
yet to read them.
And of course, it is Winter...
Bread/Kulor
I really like this one. It's thinner than most of them, although that may just
be the printing (a pocket book) I have. The theme, "bread", cash that is, and
what people will do for it (all sorts of people) comes through nicely, without
making the story feel constructed. It's rather cynical, maybe, but it has a nice
feeling. Drugs and filthy real estate deals is the name of the game,
and I don't remember the weather.
Give the Boys a Great Big Hand.../Handen
In heavy rain, rain that keeps pouring through most of the book, a constable
picks up a parcel that reveals itself to contain a human hand... And the boys
take on the challenge, what else can they do. They're paid for it after all...
A lot of "There are nicer things to do than to chase after a body minus one hand..."
Nocturne/Nocturne
"The nightshift book". So it's about half "the city has another face in the night,
other people, other creatures, come out, other business is done...", half
"I need some sleep...". By the way, I need some sleep.
Just gonna list the rest by name for now and fill out the details later.
Vespers/Aftonsång
Priesticide. Satanic cult involved.
Calypso/Calypso
First one I read. Has a serial killer of the really ugly kind.
King's Ransom/Hotet
One of the more interesting, quite dense. The gardener's boy is kidnapped
instead of the heir to the King fortune - but the kidnappers still demand
ransom. Heated discussions, moral dilemmas (?), interesting portraits of both
the kidnapping gang (with its own internal conflicts) and the members of the
King household.
Killer's Payoff/Hämnden
Extortionisticide investigation with lots of dead ends (or are they?), där everyone the detectives talk to gets to ask quite a real person (even if do Do They Prove to Be a Dead End). This is true about most of the books, but i think Particularly so about this one. 'Til Death / Hatred Do not read this The Day Before Your Wedding. Or maybe, do. It Might Be Fun. I think I'll try it if I ever marry. I Can recommend them all. But of course, only to people who like this sort of thing ... with love (as usually), MHO
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Aluminum Zirconium Octachlorohydrex Health Risk
Something about the Swedish Wiktionary
... I have long thought that I would write, but it has not happened. One reason has probably been that I wanted to do the subject justice in any way, wanted to do anything of it. Let's get down to what it is ... I can always return to the topic once I've introduced it.
What is Wiktionary , to begin with? Let's see what the Swedish Wiktionary "Main Page" (see link at the beginning of this paragraph) has to say under the heading which reads just What is Wiki? : "Wiki is a project, open to all to attend, with goal of creating a free dictionary for all words in any language, with explanations, pronunciation guidance, pedigrees, synonyms, antonyms, examples, translations and more. Anyone can create new entries as well as inform and expand the entries already in the dictionary. Right now there are 98 317 articles in the Swedish-language edition, which began on 2 May 2004. Full text in Wiktionary published in Creative Commons BY-SA and GNU FDL , which means you may use the text freely, as long that they remain free under the same license. "(The links from the original text. The number 98 317 is of course linked to an automatic counter and will be changed. To To test this, I have now put a lot of time creating Valentine and while I was doing it has had time to create the second update , update and wing - and afterwards also central defender - who is currently You can see the http://sv.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Senaste_% C3% A4ndringar , and the calculator has taken up to 98 324, which must mean that the have "found" some new words too old, or so.)
Yes. I do not have time to write much more today, but I'll add that there is a link to Wikipedia (Wiktionary is one of the so-called "sister projects", and began almost as a avstjä ; lpningsplats for clean "dictionary definitions" that people did not think belong in Wikipedia), and as is the case with Wikipedia, there are a very much larger English-language project and a lot of other lan kversioner some of which also are quite large . And so this is obviously a dictionary, sometimes right useful, while there is a project to build a dictionary. But, there is a Swedish dictionary as so far no spreads that manage , circumstance and lap (see Wiktionary: Project / Wishlists / Swedish / Preferred ) - so there's plenty of room to help build on! And we are very grateful. And I say we. My first edit as a registered user (under the name Ever wonder ) I made May 25, 2006 (was not that long ago?) And it has had time to get a few pieces (where's the Now you see the number?) since then although I have not been as active throughout time. I'm much, much more a part of the "Community" in Wiktionary than Wikipedia. Yes, I am even Administrator , indeed. Heh.
Ok. Wiktionary. Fun stuff. I highly recommend a closer look. And as mentioned, may perhaps return to the topic at some point.
... I have long thought that I would write, but it has not happened. One reason has probably been that I wanted to do the subject justice in any way, wanted to do anything of it. Let's get down to what it is ... I can always return to the topic once I've introduced it.
What is Wiktionary , to begin with? Let's see what the Swedish Wiktionary "Main Page" (see link at the beginning of this paragraph) has to say under the heading which reads just What is Wiki? : "Wiki is a project, open to all to attend, with goal of creating a free dictionary for all words in any language, with explanations, pronunciation guidance, pedigrees, synonyms, antonyms, examples, translations and more. Anyone can create new entries as well as inform and expand the entries already in the dictionary. Right now there are 98 317 articles in the Swedish-language edition, which began on 2 May 2004. Full text in Wiktionary published in Creative Commons BY-SA and GNU FDL , which means you may use the text freely, as long that they remain free under the same license. "(The links from the original text. The number 98 317 is of course linked to an automatic counter and will be changed. To To test this, I have now put a lot of time creating Valentine and while I was doing it has had time to create the second update , update and wing - and afterwards also central defender - who is currently You can see the http://sv.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Senaste_% C3% A4ndringar , and the calculator has taken up to 98 324, which must mean that the have "found" some new words too old, or so.)
Yes. I do not have time to write much more today, but I'll add that there is a link to Wikipedia (Wiktionary is one of the so-called "sister projects", and began almost as a avstjä ; lpningsplats for clean "dictionary definitions" that people did not think belong in Wikipedia), and as is the case with Wikipedia, there are a very much larger English-language project and a lot of other lan kversioner some of which also are quite large . And so this is obviously a dictionary, sometimes right useful, while there is a project to build a dictionary. But, there is a Swedish dictionary as so far no spreads that manage , circumstance and lap (see Wiktionary: Project / Wishlists / Swedish / Preferred ) - so there's plenty of room to help build on! And we are very grateful. And I say we. My first edit as a registered user (under the name Ever wonder ) I made May 25, 2006 (was not that long ago?) And it has had time to get a few pieces (where's the Now you see the number?) since then although I have not been as active throughout time. I'm much, much more a part of the "Community" in Wiktionary than Wikipedia. Yes, I am even Administrator , indeed. Heh.
Ok. Wiktionary. Fun stuff. I highly recommend a closer look. And as mentioned, may perhaps return to the topic at some point.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
How To Ask Yourindian Mom For A Bra
The Songs of Martin H. Olsson, Probably Part 9: For Somewhat completer Completeness Sake
Anyway I imagine it's meant as a song. Or note. Old, Old scrabbling ...
Morning Tale
A morning wind
Richard Coggum woke up and he
Asked IT
"Morning wind,
where do you come from?"
And the wind answered
without magic
without mind
and mr. Coggums wasn't interested.
A morning wind blew
past a man in a tower,
a man who was already awake
with a big heavy hat on.
The man asked:
"Morning wind,
where do you come from?"
Again the wind answered
without mind and
without magic
without one kind of reason
with another
And the heavy-hatted man began to write
"The wind is coming from the East.
Hm, that's where Richard Coggums lives.
I wonder how he is."
A heavy-hatted man
woke Richard Coggum up
and Richard asked him:
"Bighat man,
where do you come from?"
And the bighat man did answer
with his mind and his magic:
"I am coming from my tower
just to ask you how you're feeling,
old chum."
And Richard could impossably have cared less.
And the hatman did return
to his tower that the morning wind had blown down.
He moved in with mr. Coggum
who was a very kind man
and who shot him
in the morning
three years later
by mistake.
Richard Coggum made his tombstone
in the Morning
very slowly
'cause he was a very lazy man
But he felt like it.
Anyway I imagine it's meant as a song. Or note. Old, Old scrabbling ...
Morning Tale
A morning wind
Richard Coggum woke up and he
Asked IT
"Morning wind,
where do you come from?"
And the wind answered
without magic
without mind
and mr. Coggums wasn't interested.
A morning wind blew
past a man in a tower,
a man who was already awake
with a big heavy hat on.
The man asked:
"Morning wind,
where do you come from?"
Again the wind answered
without mind and
without magic
without one kind of reason
with another
And the heavy-hatted man began to write
"The wind is coming from the East.
Hm, that's where Richard Coggums lives.
I wonder how he is."
A heavy-hatted man
woke Richard Coggum up
and Richard asked him:
"Bighat man,
where do you come from?"
And the bighat man did answer
with his mind and his magic:
"I am coming from my tower
just to ask you how you're feeling,
old chum."
And Richard could impossably have cared less.
And the hatman did return
to his tower that the morning wind had blown down.
He moved in with mr. Coggum
who was a very kind man
and who shot him
in the morning
three years later
by mistake.
Richard Coggum made his tombstone
in the Morning
very slowly
'cause he was a very lazy man
But he felt like it.
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