Monthly Archives: June 2007

Multirant

Instead of posting one here and there, I thought I’d get rid of them all in one fell swoop. Here’s an assortment of things that annoy the hell out of me at the moment.

People who scream “in the hole!” at golf tournaments.
The fact that you can’t get just one specific cable TV channel that you [...]

Sicko

I downloaded Michael Moore’s latest documentary Sicko yesterday and watched it this morning. I think I liked Bowling for Columbine better, but it was still a good film. As usual with Michael Moore, you have to take everything with a grain of salt and he has a tendency to “overdo” everything, but the film clearly [...]

DRM rears its ugly head

Yesterday, I downloaded my first audiobook from Audible.com. Following a tip from Leo Laporte of TWiT fame, I used audible.com/twit to sign up and get a free first book. The book I got was “On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines” by Jeff Hawkin.
As [...]

Formula 1 strategy

Is it just me or does qualifying with a very light fuel-load and getting a good position on the grid always a good idea in Formula 1? At least for the top 3 or 4 teams? In my opinion, there’s absolutely no point in doing more than 20 laps in the first stint on a [...]

Vacation suggestions

The future Mrs Rickard Andersson and I are already starting to consider our options for the honeymoon next spring. We’ve considered going to some exotic island in the Caribbean, but I’m not so sure about that. I think we’re aiming for something that’ll be more of an adventure. The latest plan is to fly to [...]

Aborted swing

If I had done this, I would have ended up going to physical therapy for a decade.