Category Archives: Kussa mun hopoti?

Had some doozies in the past couple of nights.   On Tuesday night, I dreamed that I had the day off work for some reason, so I went into Helsinki or Vantaa or some place where they had finished building … Continue reading →

  I had a dream this morning, just before the alarm clock went off. The premise of the dream, unstated but quite obvious once I put some actual thought into it, was that at some point in the past, the … Continue reading →

  So, I don’t know if this goes in the "you have a really dull job so anything is inappropriately funny" file (see my earlier entry about unangebracht freude), but a couple of weeks ago I spotted a bird stuck … Continue reading →

  Our mission statement: To build a windmill.   Our values: Four legs good, two legs bad.   Our history in brief: Old Major founded the business unit in the late 90s, passed away in a tragic departmental team-building accident, … Continue reading →

  The trip back from Australia was an absolute nightmare and I still have a cough, although it is fading and soon I anticipate actually getting a full night’s sleep.   The trip itself was fun, but I don’t know … Continue reading →

  There are some dramatically overpaid marketers out there.   For Exhibit A, we have a wine called Pasqua.   This is fine – I believe it is a word for "Easter" in some language or other, and it is … Continue reading →

  Heading to work today, walking from the bus station to the office and hoping not to get rained on (I got lucky, no rain even though it was bucketing down just before I left the house), I had one … Continue reading →

  So, Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, died today. Killed, they say, by an acute case of stingray chest.   Of course, the first instinct is to laugh and say it’s a joke, but even before checking the Wiki, you … Continue reading →

As most people know by now – and certainly everybody in Finland not living under damp rocks, and even a few of them have heard – Lordi won the Eurovision Song Contest and the hearts and minds of hundreds of … Continue reading →