The comic that changed my view on comics

I've been reading comic books for ages; I can't remember when I started, but I sure haven't stopped, a fact to which one of my shelves at home bears testament.

A few years ago, when I was a freshman in senior high school, I discovered a comic book that would change my outlook on comics. Well, I say comic, but really, it was a graphic novel.

The graphic novel in question was called "Death: the high cost of living", and is written by Neil Gaiman. It tells the story of how Death spends a day every century or so as a human.

The way it changed my outlook was this: it made me realize that comics doesn't have to be funny, they can be dead (sic!) serious pieces of heavy literature, and they can broach important and at times touchy subjects.

Ever since, I've loved Neil Gaiman's authorship, and I still pick out my own copy of Death every now and again, in order to remind myself what it was fascinated me.

Oslo Live - WTF???

The city of Oslo has decided to freaking take over the rutting Quart-festival, that recently had to announce it was bankrupt, and wasn't going to happen.

The Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet reports this tonight.

Now, my question is: WHY??? Oslo already has two festivals of the kind; Norwegian Wood last weekend, and the Øyafestivalen in August. Not to mention Musikkens dag Oslo and Granittrock that are free festivals.

What's this? an update? Whoa...

Since it's very nearly been two months since my last post, I thought it was time to write a little.

Since I wrote here last, I've seen not only Gavin deGraw, but also a lovely canadian singer-songwriter called Hayley Sales. I also decided to attend the Norwegian Wood-festival, where I saw Rufus Wainwright and Madrugada. All great fun.

I'v also been playing around a bit with URL-forwarding, meaning that my blogs now are known as http://bloggen.razumny.no (this'un) and http://blog.razumny.no (the technical'un).

I've also kept up with my self-imposed thrice weekly posting schedule, and I've got four weeks' worth of posts written up.

I've bought a bike, a very cool Merida Cruiser, which I had to return for repairs the next day, as the crank wasn't properly fixed.

Also, my couch has arrived! It looks great and is just as comfy as I hoped.

I am planning to post more here in time to come, and I think I'll start to cover subjects such as books, music, movies and so on.

That's all for now

See ya!

What's been happenin'...

I've not posted here for a while, which has a few reasons...

1. I've had a lot to do at work
2. I'm painting my new apartment
3. I've been producing a lot of content for my tech blog
4. I've been trying to spend some time with my friends
5. I've been reviewing stuff for ITPro and X6
6. My job had a kick-off party
   

I've settled on a thrice-a-week update schedule for my tech blog, which, for now at least, seems to be working well. I've got my next four posts all written up, and feel pretty confident I'll be able to keep it up for a while at least...

If you want to get steadier, but shorter, updates about what's happening in my life, go to my Twitter page.

That's all for now, have fun y'all

One and a half wall basecoated

Using up my dad's old leftovers of Jotaplast paint, I've basecoated one and a half wall in my living room. I got another 20 liters of paint yesterday, so painting should be well on its way very soon.

One small step...

For their 75th anniversary, Motorola had a poster created showing the 31260 words in the transcript from the Apollo 11 moonlanding.

This poster is now available as a pdf, and it is in vector format, so you can zoom in as much as you want, or even print it yourself!

Find it here.

Let's go Murphys

Yesterday I took my girlfriend to the venue Sentrum Scene in downtown Oslo to see Boston-Irish punk rockers Dropkick Murphys. These guys are great showmen, and the entire audience joined the band to sing songs like "Amazing Grace" and "Wild Rover" on the top of their voices.

A great concert, and a great time.