onsdag, juli 01, 2009

Penguins and other animals

I've sort of written about this before, but here is more:

Confirmed: God is slightly gay
Just ask the animals. As soon as they stop having all that homosexual sex

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

I am sitting here right now smiling just a little, fondly recalling that famously controversial children's book, the one about the gay penguins.

Remember? That positively adorable pair of them, at the Central Park Zoo, who had adopted an abandoned egg and then hatched it themselves and were raising the chick together as a couple, even though the chick was clearly not theirs -- though of course how penguins can actually tell whose kid is whose is still a question. Never mind that now.

The best part: the story was absolutely true. The book, "And Tango Makes Three," was beautiful and sweet and touching in all the right ways -- except, of course, for the fact that it was also totally evil.

For indeed, the penguins in question, named Roy and Silo, were both males. This meant they were clearly in some sort of ungodly, aberrant homosexual relationship, mocking natural laws and defying God's will that all creatures only cohabitate with the opposite sex and buy microfiber sofas from Pottery Barn and eat their meals in silent resentment and never have sex.

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Behold, the ongoing, increasingly startling research: homosexual and bisexual behavior, it turns out, is rampant in the animal kingdom. And by rampant, I mean proving to be damn near universal, commonplace across all species everywhere, existing for myriad reasons ranging from pure survival and procreative influence, right on over to pure pleasure, co-parenting, giddy screeching multiple monkey orgasm, even love, and a few dozen other potential explanations science hasn't quite figured out yet. Imagine.

Read the rest.


(Emperor Penguin Photo by Chris Dunham)

tirsdag, juni 30, 2009

Walkman vs iPod


This is a great read: "Giving up my iPod for a Walkman" (BBC Magazine)

When the Sony Walkman was launched, 30 years ago this week, it started a revolution in portable music. But how does it compare with its digital successors? The Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week.

My dad had told me it was the iPod of its day.

He had told me it was big, but I hadn't realised he meant THAT big. It was the size of a small book. Read the rest here!

tirsdag, juni 16, 2009

Medieval helpdesk

This sketch is brilliant!

søndag, juni 14, 2009

June 2008: bird watching and crab fishing

In June last year we went bird watching and crab fishing in Syltefjord! Here we are getting ready:


Unfortunately my compact camera didn't do the landscape justice at all, and the birds ended up being tiny dots... But we (me and the wife) tried! Next time we'll bring the big camera.


This cliff is packed with nests:


Some birds - don't remember the name:


Then we went hunting for crabs! We caught some big ones:


Most of them ended up on the table:

They were delicious!

It's strange to think that our two years in Båtsfjord are almost over. We've had a wonderful time here, and met some really lovely people. As you probably can tell by looking at all these photos! I had hoped to blog a bit more often, but being a headmaster is busy. Busy, but interesting! I've really learned a lot, both about myself and school life.

Before we moved north we planned to stay 1 - 2 years, and then move back to Trondheim. That's not going to happen, though.

fredag, juni 12, 2009

June 2008



More to come!