Here are some funny signs and stuff I saw when I was in Nice, France a couple of months ago. And a funny sign from Hvar, Croatia.
No cuteness allowed
I wonder if a trekker has ever run into a Picard store screaming “KIRK RULES!”
In this particular street in Croatia, you should not put your bricks and washing machines.
Well.. at least this restaurant does not suffer from illusions of grandeur.
I got back from Croatia over a month ago just haven’t gotten around to completing this post until now 
Me, Stacy and 2 other couples we know went to Croatia the 15th of August, and stayed there for a week.
We rented a Bavaria 36 sailboat that we lived on and used to sail around the Adriatic coast.
day 1
We started in Trogir, and after a pretty long and boring checkout from Ecos Yachting, / Nautilus Yachting, we where on the way at around 17-18 o’clock. We had 2-3 hours of sun and made it to outside maslinca before night came. Luckily we decided to not stop there, but sail straight for the island of Vis. There was actually a full moon when we started, but during our 7-8 hour trip there was actually a lunar eclipse
And while in the middle of the ocean in them middle between Maslinca and Vis, we saw the most spectacular clear sky with thousands of stars incredibly bright. None of us had ever seen the stars so clear and bright before, and it was quite the sight
We arrived sometime after midnight, and anchored up in a cove, right outside the small town of Komiza.
day 2
We started pretty early and headed out to the island of Bisevo, which is around 1 hour away from where we spent the night. There we anchored up outside ‘the blue cave’ where we all went inside with the dinghy to see the cave light up with blue light, reflected from the bottom of the cave trough a submarine opening in the mountain.
We then sailed to Vela Luca, where we anchored up inside the harbor, and went into town in the dinghy (special thanks to our dinghy-pilot Andreas)
While in Vela Luca the dingy once ran out of fuel, and once got a plastic bag stuck in the propeller, and waves made sure nobody got ashore dry 
day 3
We started out pretty late (which in retrospect we should not have done), and set sail for Hvar..
“The sea was angry that day”, 24 m/s wind, and some waves. This of course led to the dingy tearing away (damn you, cheap Croatian rope!!). Anyway, we got a hold of it after a while and could sail onwards to Hvar.
When we got to Hvar the damn harbor was filled up, so we had to anchor up somewhere. We tried one place but had to move to a better place, it was extremely dark, so judging distance was really hard.
Also the navigation lights where out (the light bulb was toast, as water seemed to have found it’s way into the lamp), but we finally found a place to anchor up.
Seeing that we’re in a 150’000$ boat and sharp rocks where around 50 meters away. We found it best to play safe and have someone on guard in the night. I remember being a bit tired, playing Mahjong on the Nintendo DS and bats where flying around the boat… (It turns out they were actually swallows, but they sounded like bats! I should have asked about their unladen airspeed velocity)
day 4
We went into the ACI marina outside Hvar pretty early, We did some bathing on a exceptional clear beach on the same island, and got some snorkeling done. We took the taxiboat in to Hvar town and I have absolutely no recollection of what we did there. I do remember that a bunch of noisy swedes had a hell of a party in the marina that night.
day 5
We went to Split, and having learned from previous mistakes we hit the harbor pretty early and got a nice spot. We went bathing and then went into Split for some shopping.
day 6
We sailed from Split and went back to Trogir where we started the trip.
day 7
We sailed out from trogir and anchored up, on the northern shore about 30 minutes out from Trogir. Here we did lots of bathing, played miniature golf (I won ) drove water jets and a banana boat (warning climbing up on a banana boat after you’ve been swimming alot and got tired arms sucks).
We then filled up the boat with disel, went back to the harbour for checkout. And took a cab to the airport for the flight back to Trondheim.
I’ve had this post as a Draft ever since I came back from Austria (which is a weird-ass country by the way), mainly due to the fact that I managed to change ssh port on my server without changing the firewall
So I finally connected a keyboard and screen and set everything up the way they was, which meant I could commit the changes I did to the Trekwar game to the server, and get them on this computer and grab some screen shots.
Friday
It is now possible to move your fleets around the map, Client allows you to press the tile the fleet should move to and then tells the server to move the ships.
Saturyday
Fixed a bug where the local copy of the move orders where not updated properly, implemented the starsystem controll window:
Sunday
Implemented build orders, now possible to build structures on planets. Queue not implemented yet.
Airplane
On the airplane back home I implemented the asteroid belts (high-altitude programming is fun).
Notice the beautiful asteroids drawn in mspaint on my laptop’s touch pad
I’ve invited some friends (including Stacy) to go sailing in Croatia August 15th 2008.
We’re going to rent a Bavaria 36 (We wanted a 39, but we were pretty late ordering), 3 months in advance is a bit late apparently
We’re flying to Split on the 15. then staying one night in Trogir, before we’re handed the boat. Then we’re going to sail down to the island of Vis the first night. Then make our way back to Trogir, stopping by Bisevo, Vela Luka, Hvar, Bol, Brela, Supetar and Split.
We’re all looking forward to it, and it should be a very nice trip
Last weekend I was in Asker, and got my Sailing Certificate, during a 4 day sailing trip around the Oslo fjord.
Thursday
I took the airplane to Oslo today, 12:00 so I did not have to get up so goddamn early. After taking the airport train all the way to asker, I had to wait there for 4-5 hours until the course actually started.
Once started they went over basic navigation, and when dusk hit we started sailing from Asker down to Soon, navigating by lighthouses. We arrived in Son around 02:00-03:00 and went straight to sleep.
Friday
We woke ut at 08:00 And had some more theory, following sailing from Son downwards to Engelsvik. Not much wind today, so several time we had to use the engine.
Saturday
Very favorable wind today, 10-12 m/s.. We sailed out to the exit of the Oslo fjord, then turned and sailed downwind past Tønsberg, and a bit up the Drammen fjord to Holmsbu where we stayed the night.
Top speed was at around 8.2 knots
Sunday
We sailed back to Asker today, pretty good wind conditions, and we arrived on schedule. Took the plane back to Trondheim and arrived back home at around 00:30
I was in bergen two weeks ago, doing part 1 of getting my sailing certificate.
Friday 06:00
For a man who woke up at 04:15, I feel remarkably… like myself
The buss from the city to the airport took around an hour, I’m now at gate 41, and got like 10-20 minutes
before boarding starts.
bah time for boarding.. I barely had time to start up eclipse…
Friday 09:00
The flight only took an hour, and the buss in to the city took 30 minutes.. then 15 minutes to find the hotel.
Would only have been 4 minutes If I had brought a compass
Friday 13:00
The hotel is pretty nice (P-hotels.no), and I just slept for a couple of hours (which I sorely needed), and woke up
at 12:00 by the pizza being delivered to my room.
The sailing doesn’t start until 17:30, the only thing I have to do by then is to buy some shoes I can sail in
I only brought my flipflops, and thankfully the weather report seems to be accurate, and the whole weekend
should have sunny weather.
The hotel only has unsecured wireless network, so I’m currently ssh’ing to my server and using bitlbee + irssi
to be on msn. Thank thor gmail is availible trough https
Friday 22:00
Just got back from the sailing, it was just a quick run outside bergen where we got to know the boat and
did some basic stuff like setting sail, and such..
Now I can stay in bed and watch an episode of Six feet under at the same time as stacy watches the same episode
back home
Saturday 20:00
I got to the sailing at 10:00, and we practiced parking the boat by the dock a few times, then we
headed out and did some sailing outside Bergen..
Sunday
Today we got some wind and where probably sailing at around 5-6 knots at the top.
When I got back to the hotel I had some pizza for dinner, I bought it from an Italian place just next to the
hotel, and it was 10 times better than the pizza I had last night (and 1/4 of the price). Dolly dimples sucks
like a neutron star.
I hit the sack pretty early, as again I had to be up at around 05:00 for the flight back to Trondheim.
My employer took all of us out to drive snowmobiles in Åre, Sweden, this weekend. We drove around forests, hills, frozen lakes, and all sorts of scenery (not that we got much time to study it, due to high speeds) for a few hours.
We drove 150 km, and the rough terrain made it hard to stay on the snowmobile, having to use all our muscles to cling to the vehicle, all of us where pretty beat up afterwards. But still, it was very enjoyable.. Nothing like driving across a frozen lake in 110 km/h and hoping the ice is thick enough
I went to a local shop today hunting for birthday presents for Stacy (her Birthday is tomorrow), and WHOA! Silent hunter 4, I did not expect to see this until Friday, Installing it now, hope my computer got enough power to run it halfway decent.
