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found while perusing Gas Town’s prompts for the refinery, to steer agents to fixing things. yoinking that

I hoped to be blazing new trails professionally and not because I was dropping the niece off at daycare after 10-20cm of snow (the wind drift makes it hard to estimate)

Went over. Applied pressure. click “oh, that’s all?”

I love the transparency and setup of their page explaining how long it should take to process my application, there’s a goal (7 working days), and which applications they’re aiming to process this week (those from 14-19th of October). Wish more gov’t services did this. eyes Försäkringskassan

also TIL, in Singapore you only need $1 as starting share capital and in SE it’s a minimum of 25,000 SEK (~3,500SGD)

(I really don’t feel I get this from Claude, but maybe my personal base prompt helps there?)

I ended up getting a very contemporary author and one very much not. I read Backman’s blog back before he got his first book published, so I knew how funny he was and I read half of Beartown yesterday, he’s really nailing the storytelling. I had a hard time putting the book down.

Strindberg is famous and I haven’t ever read or seen anything by him (that I know of), so why not. I suspect it’ll be a harder read in many ways. It was a very random pick, because I just strolled around the library (second library card down, now I can use Libby from my Kobo), and I totally picked it because Ghost has a song called Spöksonat, so why not…

I can now get a convenience store membership since the systems can look me up 🙄🥳

today I found a shop that has specialty coffee Krukmakeri Hemjord (amongst other things) in Kristinehamn, and the owner has the same name as I do and is a proper coffee nerd.

He’s been telling me about the coffees as I was planning to sit here a couple of hours, and we ended up with Ethiopian coffees, and I am now trying an anaerobic Ethiopian. While I have tried this in the past I haven’t known what to expect of it properly, and now that I know the citrusy/acidic is the point of this it’s quite nice as I like sour/acidic. Before this cup I had a similar but washed, and it was very tame in comparison. Very nice, and coincidentally they’re even brewing with the Clever Dripper (which I got recently), so I have some practical ideas for how to repeat at home.

Also, seems I have to apply to be allowed into the UK now 🤷

Update: okay, I got an email after 5m that I was approved.

rapid unscheduled disassembly

something went boom

unscheduled unauthorised backup

data leak

Now, what email should I setup for that domain? me@? ba@?

update: whoo, on the computer I could get it sorted on the DHL site and it was 3x the price, so I’ll see if I can get it sorted with Postnord instead because I can’t justify the price difference.

In comparison, I rarely bought stuff in a store in Singapore, because it always felt so expensive and the quality felt way more questionable on the cheap stuff (mostly the tiny shops in Sim Lim or so), not sure if that was a fair assessment most of the time. And I generally felt waaay more uncomfortable with the quality for the cheap things there. As an example, I bought a C7 cable with a euro plug (standard power cable for things like DVD players, and in my case, a charger) from Lazada from some small local shop, very flimsy, low quality, and cost me something like $12 with shipping. I bought one of those at Clas Ohlson for 69 sek (~SG$9) and it’s much higher quality.

It reminds me of talking to a distributor when I was working at DollarStore, he told me that it’s cheaper for them to sell us quality at a lower margin because then neither of us have to deal with returns and unhappy customers. Because a big batch of things that don’t work means you’ll have to scrap the whole shipment, and that’s too costly when you buy container loads of things. I bet that’s true for Biltema as well.

…I feel the need to point out that the “You’re the best” coffee mug is the apartment’s.

It’s all a big misunderstanding. The kind like when someone gets, say, a frog from someone and keep it on their desk. Then people think they like frogs and they get more. Suddenly, all gifts are frogs. You’re the frog person. I’m the chicken video guy.

It all started innocently with Chicken Techno:

through the algorithm I then learned of New Bibi Hendl (a Japanese man yodeling and singing in Swiss german about a chicken):

Then as luck would have it, Takeo Ischi had another banger out: Chicken Attack

At this point we’d created the “Friday Playlist” where everyone from the office were putting in weird songs, that’d we’d play the last couple of hours on Friday. Then until tonight, this was the last song, which apparently is just a bunch of onomatopoeia in Chinese: Wang Rong Rollin - Chick Chick

And that was until tonight when the algorithm sent me a weird cover of “I will survive” from the point of view of a chick:

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Full circle. A snake eating an egg.

…yeah, don’t eat these flugsvamp if you find them in Sweden, they’re poisonous. Even if supposedly viking berserkers would eat them to help ’em… berserk, so if feed up enough about something maybe it’s worth it…

Famous rather than infamous. Aaaand now it’s time to have a nap…

(one person asked “is this throw-up on pizza?” 😅)

I just came to Sweden yesterday, after five days in Bengaluru, India, where I sat in the front passenger seat (i.e. the Swedish driver’s seat). I was positioning the car like I had been sitting in India (fast thinking?).

So I decided to go back to the driveway, because I’m not putting someone else at risk when I haven’t driven for a while and I’m getting a weird feeling.

As I went back I reflected that I know it’s right-hand drive in Sweden (slow thinking?), but I had mostly experienced sitting in that seat as a passenger in left-hand driving countries (Singapore for more than a decade, and just days before, India). I was 95% sure it meant I put myself so I’m closer to the middle of the road.

As I looked it up online: yes, I’m supposed to be towards the middle of the road when driving. I didn’t hit anything. And the sense of the car started coming back after a couple of kilometers. Just like riding a bike 😉

…I really think it would be slightly better with some pineapple, though 😉😇