I use two banks, one of them(Helgeland Sparebank) has a really retarded web interface, these are the icons you click to do stuff™ with your account:
If it isn’t obvious, the icons from left to right are:
“view last transfers”
“make payment”
“transfer money”
“view scheduled payments”
“view payment history”
“view account details”
The other bank (Skandiabanken) however had it’s web interface designed by which I can only assume was a team of Bruce Campbell, Data from Star Trek and John Carmack (It’s that awesome):
Icons that actually makes sense, AND text.. It makes the part of my brain which remembers something from user interface design classes back at university all warm and fuzzy.
Now, for a post dedicated to two of my favorite things… Angel and Statistics:
I’ve got all my DVDs registered on my computer, and each time I watch a movie or an episode I give it my personal rating on a scale from 1 to 10 (10 being best).
So without further ado I give you the statistics for Joss Whedon’s Angel:
First, the average rating for each season. And as you can see Season 2 and 4 is awesome =)
Below is a chart of all episodes, click to enlarge:
I think I’m in a German TV commercial for Fedcon 2011, a Sci-fi convention I’m going to in a month (It’s going to be awesome)
Someone recognized me in the video and was kind enough to send me an email (Thanks to Dietrich, which I met at fedcon 2009, he makes all sorts of really cool replicas) I was almost tempted to steal his Grays sports almanac, but I’m no Biff Tannen so instead I got myself 2 magnets for my kitchen (“Main Fridge”, and “Deep Freeze 9″)
Last night a ferret just stood idly on the floor for about half a minute just staring blankly at us. It looked a bit like she was really concentrating, so the first hypothesis to explain this strange behavior was that she was trying to create a copy of herself through agamogenesis (asexual reproduction). This naturally led to the notion of a ferret able to replicate itself once every minute, and seeing that playing with exponential growth is always fun, this scenario deserves some illustrations:
0 minutes one ferret.
1 minute WOW!, did you see that? That ferret just duplicated!
3 minutes Sweet, 8 ferrets. This is awesome.
5 minutes Ehm, I love ferrets but 32 is a bit much.. how do you stop this thing?
18 minutes
Help! 268’000 ferrets just filled and breached the entire volume of our ~200 cubic meter apartment!
23 minutes Neighborhood overrun, time to evacuate.
35 minutes
The blue dot is me, speeding away from the 50 square kilometer sea of ferrets half a meter deep.
48 minutes Despite speeding like crazy I was just overtaken by a huge wave of ferrets, twice the area of Rhode Island and 30 meters tall.. By now there are 281 trillion ferrets in Norway.
1 hour The 1 billion billion ferrets now cover all of Scandinavia with a height of the Eiffel tower
1 hour 15 minutes
Ferrets now rule the earth. covering the entire surface of the planet, filling up all the oceans, in a huge ferret sea 5 times the height of mount everest.
the 37 sextillion ferrets weight about 1/3 of the moon.
1 hour 23 minutes
The ferrets now have the same mass as the earth.
1 hour 55 minutes*
The ferrets now weigh 13’000 times more than our sun, the speed at which they can expand is limited, so the pressure and heat is extreme, this makes the huge ball of ferrets shine more powerful that any star, while a black hole has formed at the center.
2 hours 23 minutes
Ferrets now weigh the same as our entire galaxy, have formed a supermassive black hole and things are starting to get nasty.
3 hours At 30 times the mass of the observable universe, outputting extreme amounts of energy through a geometrically challenged universe, the laws of physics are probably breaking down and fusing together again for the first time since the big bang.. It’s safe to say the ferrets have ruined reality as we know it.
Note: What happens after about 1 hour 30 minutes gets pretty speculative, it’s hard trying to apply the laws of physics to something that is physically impossible
The Norwegian Church (yes, we have an official state religion, which sucks) loves to sign up as many as possible as members, if you’ve been baptized you’re in, if you’re parents have been baptized you’re in. And when the was changing to a new central database they used the census data (everyone in Norway) as the starting point. Many people have had to leave the church like 2-3 times. No wonder 81% of all Norwegians are members, even though only 7% of the population goes to church every month.
I’ve never been baptized or had anything to do with the church, but because of their rather creative membership policies, I found it didn’t hurt to check:
The letter above is from the Norwegian central registry, listing which faith based organisations I’m a member of, the answer: “No information registered”.
To help out with the current situation in Japan, our unbeloved Princess Märtha Louise has done the following to help (quotes from the facebook page of her “angel school”).
“Send the angels to the disaster area to give their light, their frequency, their tone so that mother earth can come to balance as quick as possible”.
WOW.. I frequently get pissed off at her for being a credulous half wit spreading utter bullshit, but this latest crap.. Is she’s deliberately trying to make me puke in my mouth!?
For years she has been spewing out moronic crap about the angels she can see (and for a hefty sum, she’ll teach you to contact your angles). She can also talk to the dead of course, and no crank would be complete without claiming to be able to do healing.
I’ve always despised monarchism, it’s archaic, useless and wastes huge piles of taxpayer money on those <censored>.. Suffice it to say, the Princess of woo does not improve that image one bit.
At least I’m delighted to see the facebook page for that asinine angel school of hers is getting flooded with trolling and negative comments which seems to come from 4chan and lots of Norwegian facebook users who think their actions are distasteful, maybe there is still hope for this country.
On behalf of Norwegians who are not severely delusional, we’re sorry (and embarrassed as hell), some people are just beyond help
In Norway everyone who pays taxes is put in a public database which says how much money they make and how much tax they pay, and which year they are born. This of course is pretty controversial and each year there is a big debate when the new list is released.
Personally I don’t care, but the upside is that this list can be used to find silly/funny/awesome names
2 people in Norway is named Jack Bauer
3 people have Batman as middle name, 1 as last name
Only 1 person has Superman as middle name
3 people have MacGyver as middle name
over 100 foreigners have the last name “Moradi” which in Norwegian translates to “Yourmother”
5 people have Skywalker as the middle name
12 People have Picard as last name (which is why my application to have my middle name changed to Picard was denied.. Since there are so few Picards in Norway, I would have to get a written permission from all of them to use that name)
There is a guy in Norway named Frodo
A 23 year old girl with the last name Stalin
Peter Griffin pays tax to Norway
A guy in Norway is actually named Bruce Campbell
22 people have the last name “Leet”
3 Aragorns
One guy has the following middle names: “Gimli Arn Macgyver Chewbacka[SIC] Highlander Elessar”
3 people have Thrall as last name
4 people are actually have Virgin as their last name
