Sunset over the Gulf of Mexico, on Clearwater Beach, FL. Quite pretty. Hmm, the slight tilt is accidental, but I rather like it.

This is a 190 degree view from the deck of my parents’ house in Hønefoss, Norway. If not stunning, it is at least pretty. You can see my sister Cecilie sunbathing to the right. The wall on both sides of the panorama is the same wall. This is from 2006; it has just taken me a while to post it.

That’s a no brainer, but seriously, don’t do it. This is nothing to be proud of, but where better than to humiliate yourself than on the intertubes, for all to see. Jenna and I have missed our flight three times now. Three! How is that possible? Border crossings, traffic, parking trouble, but most of all, we only have ourselves to blame. Here’s what transpired and the result:

• Flying to Lima, Peru, via Houston from Detroit with Continental: it took an hour to park the car and get to the terminal. Missed our flight to Houston by 10 minutes. The very kind people of SkyTeam put us on a Northwest flight to Houston that left 20 min later and we caught our connection to Lima.
• Flying to Oslo, Norway, via Detroit and Amsterdam with Northwest. We were just late. Checked in 30 min before the flight, security took an eternity. I arrived at the gate 5 min before it was supposed to leave. They wouldn’t let me on, said there was nothing they could do. I pleaded with them. They did some computer wizardry. Then they said, “go, board the airplane. Just go!”. And we did.
• Flying to Tampa, Florida, via Atlanta with Delta. The border in Buffalo took forever and parking too. Missed check in by 5 min. Ran for the gate, with our luggage, but the people there would not do the same wizardry as last time. Flight missed. We rebooked our flight for $50 each and it took 7 hours longer and a lot of stress to get to Florida.

Need I say that this will never happen again?

A pelican getting ready to dive bomb an unsuspecting fish. Again and again I tried to catch a pelican the moment before they hit the water, and I was foiled each and every time. Just not quick enough. Have a couple of almost half-decent ones, but they’re a little blurry and the bird is half submerged already. Not this time I guess, but I still got some good pelican shots.

Well, his name might not Henry, but Jenna remembered a pelican on this pier from about 10 years ago, so it could be the same one couldn’t it? He was cool, just sat there to be photographed.

Update: apparently, it is the same Henry.

I’m in Clearwater Beach, Florida for five days. It’s so nice here! Everywhere is lush and green, and the beaches are like pure, white powder snow. Nice to get away and relax for a few days.

This picture taught me somthing about circular polarisers and vignetting. The vignetting was not as bad as seen in the picture, but where it occured, it was completely opaque. I exaggerated it. I must figure out how to avoid this in the future, and if necessary, buy a more expensive CPL.

I guess I’m going to the University of Waterloo then! I accepted their offer today. I’m slightly overwhelmed with work right now (papers, exams) so more information will follow later.

Newsflash :P I know, I don’t use my website for that much. I realise a lot of people prolly don’t know what’s going on in my life (that is, if anyone actually care).

Anyway, I was accepted to do a master’s degree in Global Governance at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, not Belgium :P). I haven’t decided whether I should accept yet. We’ll see whether I’m accepted in Toronto, but I still like the Waterloo programme better I think. Stay tuned.

Here’s the programme website: http://globalgovernance.uwaterloo.ca/

I finally got through some of the backlog. Enjoy some albums from this summer.

This is a part that was left out of SICKO because it would just sound too otherworldly….that’s right, because people won’t believe it….

Is Norway truly that good? It’s not utopia. Having lived in Canada and visited many countries, I know every place has its good sides and its bad sides. Norway is no exception. And it may not sound completely fair to know that we’ve accomplished all this with oil revenue. The party has been free, but it won’t last forever.

Sorry, I never seem to get done, do I?

This time I’m trying to integreate a Lightbox into the photoalbums, and it hasn’t been going very well. Lightbox = more eyecandy and shorter load time for each individual picture. I’m determined to get it to work though.

In case everything is messed up when you get here, please come back later, hopefully it’ll work then.

Another fall picture from Brock.