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Monthly Archives January 2010

Best remains the best

If I had to choose the best piece of music ever, it would probably be different depending on just when you’d ask – but one song that remains at the top of my list would be Shine On You Crazy Diamond. How can you not love a song with an intro that is about three times as [...]

| Posted 25 January 2010 | Antti | Random stuff | Comments Off |

Dumb quotes

You’ve seen Forrest Gump, right? So you’ll know this one: “Life is like a box of chocolate – you never know what you’re going to get”. Well excuse me, but that’s just retarded (pun intended). It says right there on the box what’s in there, so unless you’re a total moron you know damn well [...]

| Posted 19 January 2010 | Antti | Books, Flicks and Music | Old crow whining | Comments Off |

It’s good to have smart leaders

December 9th 2009 – that’s one month and four days ago – there was an article in the news about Helsinki closing down libraries to save money. Today there’s an article about Helsinki building a new main library, at the cost of 56 million euros. What’s wrong with you people? Are you being stupid on [...]

| Posted 13 January 2010 | Antti | Random stuff | Comments (2) |

Perpetual growth paradigm

In another news this morning there was talk about the economic situation. Some all-important pompous ass was saying something along the lines of, now that the worst would appear to be over we need to focus on strengthening the economy, and to bring it back on a growth track. Can’t say I agree with that. [...]

| Posted 12 January 2010 | Antti | Cynical conspiracy theories | Old crow whining | Comments (1) |

Sad, sad world

Ijust read a news article about artists in Denmark cencoring their own work because of fear for retribution by extremists. That makes me very, very sad. Violence and narrow-mindness wins over openness and peace every time, it seems. We, the human race are pathetic beyond belief.

| Posted 10 January 2010 | Antti | Random stuff | Comments Off |