Archive for august, 2008
The boys visit Pyramiden
Last week, Chris took me, Andrew and Phillip as field assistants on a trip to Pyramiden to look for invasive weeds. I’ve been to nordaustlandet, been to Kongsfjorden and Ny-Ålesund, been on a scootertrip to the east-coast, been to Svea, been to two coal-mines and also dog-sledding .. Barentsburg and Pyramiden felt like the two things [...]
Posted: 31. august, 2008 i kategorien Blogg.
kommentarer: 2
The Magnussens do the arctic
Friday 15th of august, just after I came back to Longyearbyen after my fieldwork-week at Alkepynten, I met up with my father and younger brother who had come to visit me for the weekend. Superb! They didn’t stay for long, but we still got to do quite a lot of stuff.
After the happy reunion, we [...]
Posted: 29. august, 2008 i kategorien Familien, Mitt liv.
Stikkord: besøk, gruve, pappa, sarkofagen, tormod, tur
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Got .. to .. stay .. motivated!
My field season is definetly coming to an end. My traps no longer seem to catch many invertebrates and yesterday, I ordered a plane ticket back to Oslo. I’ll be leaving on friday the 12th of september and I’m really looking forward to seeing Christiane again as well as my other friends in Oslo. I’ll [...]
Posted: 25. august, 2008 i kategorien Mitt liv.
Stikkord: list, mainland, svalbard
kommentarer: 1
Tore helps die-rollers everywhere!
Download tbatches.zip (~8kb)
Yo fellow batch-nostalgics. I’m releasing my slightly embarassing batch programs in a .zip pack for you to enjoy. If I make more batch programs, I can add them to this archive and reupdate this post.
As you may know, I’ve been trying to get into php and when doing so, I started programming random-number [...]
Posted: 20. august, 2008 i kategorien Programmering.
Stikkord: bat, batch, dice, die, dungeons & dragons, games, programs, random, roleplaying, rollers, tabletop
kommentarer: 1
The quest for good whiskys
Heya!
Since I came to Svalbard, I’ve been working hard to rid myself of whisky-newbdom and to get more tasting experience with the many fantastic scottish whiskys. Longyearbyen - and Karls-Berger Pub in particular - is a great place to try out various whiskys. Alcohol is cheaper up here than on the mainland because of less taxation [...]
Posted: 19. august, 2008 i kategorien Livsnyting, drikke.
Stikkord: highland, island, islay, lowland, scotch, single malt, skye, speyside, whisky
kommentarer: 2
Fieldwork week at Alkepynten
Tuesday 12th of August, I went with my supervisors to Alkepynten, an area on the north side of the mouth of Isfjorden, opposite Kapp Linnè. It was a rainy day. Logistics brought us out by boat and dropped us off at a beach there, not far from a cabin used by employees of the sysselmann. [...]
Posted: 18. august, 2008 i kategorien Mitt liv, feltarbeid, hendelser.
Stikkord: Alkepynten, camping, fieldwork, svalbard
kommentarer: 2
Things to do in Svea
Sometime during the week after Christiane left, I was approached by Graeme. He asked me if I wanted to go to Svea with him ..
Some of you mainland people may not know what Svea is, so I’ll elaborate. In Svea, you find the biggest coal-mining operation on Svalbard. It is run by the Store Norske [...]
Posted: 18. august, 2008 i kategorien Mitt liv, hendelser.
Stikkord: cabin, students, svalbard, svea
kommentarer: ingen
