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Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Stockholm Style Tips Part III
And to quote an American friend of mine who has lived in Sweden for several years, "there is no bad weather, only bad clothing."
This is true, in most cases. There is a fashionable (or at least reasonable) solution in the falling instances:
Warm + wet = Wellingtons
Cold + dry = långkalsonger
Now, can somebody please tell me the fashionable way out of the following scenario:
Cold + wet = Curiosa flat on her ass
Worth Checking Out
Monday, January 30, 2006
Jävla en och ett
Jag läste, "Do you want to have a victim?"
"Now that's a very strange thing to have on your website," tänkte jag.
Då slog det mig att ordet "offert" var en svenskifierad version av det engelska ordet "offer," såsom "erbjudande."
Så "ett offer" är "a victim" medan "offret" är "the victim" och "offren" är "the victims." Samtidigt är "en offert" "an offer"på engelska, medan "offerten" är "the offer"och "offerter" betyder "the offers."
Och nu tittar jag på ordet "offer" på engelska och undrar om det verkligen stävas så.
Har ni huvudvärk än?
EDITED TO ADD: I stand corrected by Mia that the original root of "offer" in both Swedish and English comes from Latin, and "offret" is probably a swedified version of the French "offerte" or the Italian "offerta." Still, with the
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Mark your calendars
I should introduce you to the Guy from the Office who Hath Not a Clue About Anything Involving Interaction with Other Human Beings. Today was the annual celebration of Guy from the Office who Hath Not a Clue About Anything Involving Interaction with Other Human Beings Asks Curiosa On a Some Kind of Strange Date By Email.
The same thing happened around this same time last year, and around the same time the year before that.
This time he offered to "show you my newly acquired apartment" OR "to go to the movies next week." I must say, although I am a girl who likes to have a choice, neither option is particularily attractive. Rather, the opposite.
I am NOT being mean. Some people just don't get it. At all.
Today we had a seminar. We have a seminar once a week. Every week, we get to hear about how he would do the study if he were actually doing the study under discussion even though it's not HIS study to do. When his mouth opens, everyone, including the professors, hits their mental mute button and starts humming "It's a Small World" to themselves. Believe me, it's a more productive way to spend your time.
This is the THIRD apartment he has invited me to see. This is the THIRD time I have ignored his invitation. Ever heard of three strikes, you're out?
I know, you can't blame a guy for trying. Once.
Twice is overkill.
Thrice is asking to be beaten to death with a fermented herring.
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
The Battle for the Planet Aquarius
I have to admit that now I have started to get into it a bit. I think I'm rooting for the Nordens to beat those pesky little Mangas, and am curious as to whether or not the Tankers will succumb to the nasty computer virus planted in their network.
My favorite line: "Hey! Don't hurt the fish!"
I'm not entirely sure what that means, but I like it anyway.
Hello?!? Part II
She answered, "Hej, det är Emma!"
I heard, "HEDEAREMMMMMM!"
I said, "Ursäkta?"
She repeated, ""HEDEAREMMMMMM!"
I said, "Huh?"
She repeated, ""HEDEAREMMMMMM!"
Switching languages, I said, "Ummmm, who am I talking to?" even though I was pretty sure I had called Emma.
"Good! Just the person I was trying to get in touch with."
That was ten seconds of my life I'll never get back. We were supposed to discuss some articles she is using for a book chapter she is writing, and I'm pretty sure she thought she was talking to an individual who was unable to put together a coherent sentence, let alone offer any useful advice on academic writing. But the whole situation could have been avoided if she had just answered, "Hello?"
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
I find many things in Sweden to be rational, so why is it the case in Sweden that the person answering the phone says his or her name? I would think it would be the other way around. Presumably, especially if you are calling a mobile number, you already know who you're calling, and it should be your job as the caller to introduce yourself. (Most mobile numbers seem to be personal phones anyway, i.e. used by a single individual, except of course in the case fo snoopy signficant others who are curious why your phone is ring repeatedly at 3 am.) As the callee, it cannot be assumed that I know who is making my phone ring. When I say "hello," that greeting is followed by a question mark, as well as an implicit "With whom am I speaking?". I want to know who is on the other end of the line before I give them my name.
Gotta go. It seems I have a phone call.
Is this a university or a pre-school?
I'm sorry, I know that Sweden is a very child-friendly country, set up in such a way that women are able to combine motherhood and working life, and that's one of the things that I appreciate about living here, but THERE IS A TIME AND A PLACE, and a lecture hall filled with 100 other students is NOT such a time and place. Ever heard of a babysitter?? Either Swedish universities need to set up some kind of childcare facilities on-campus, or leave the kid at home with dad or grandma. Or pay your 16 year-old neighbor 50 SEK an hour to watch the midget.
Maybe I would have a different attitude if I had kids of my own, but it just rubbed me the wrong way. It's obvious that my biological clock hasn't started ticking yet. I really don't mean to be insensitive, but if it's okay to bring your noisy baby to class, maybe next time I'll bring my cat. If the person next to me is allergic to cats?? Too bad! Maybe I'm allergic to babies!!
Early bird gets the worm
Monday, January 23, 2006
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Smilin' Scandinavians
The name 'Smilin' Scandinavians' was inspired by both The Happy Norwegian Myron Floren (of Lawrence Welk Show fame) and pioneer polka performers The Six Fat Dutchmen. Many people find the notion of smiling Scandinavians odd since Scandinavians have a well-deserved reputation of dour stoicism. The band does all it can to show just how much fun Scandinavians are capable of.Since when were the Six Fat Dutchmen Scandinavian?
This is a good example of what I call the Where-are-you-from-syndrome. It's an ailment that is common in countries with large (historic) immigrant populations. A sure sign of this illness is if you're a Swede in the US and you meet Americans who proclaim, "Wow, you're Swedish, so am I!" Be sure, in Seattle you'll find Americans who are more Swedish than the Swedes themselves. And lutefisk to boot.
American Dating and Mating
But, I'll throw out the following out for discussion's sake. Although I probably don't need to mention this to my more discerning readers, please note the obvious tone of cheekiness.
American guy says: Can I buy you a drink?
American guy means: How many cocktails is it gonna take before you'll go home with me?
American girl hears: Can I buy you a drink? Great, free alcohol.
Swedish girl hears: Now you have to sit here and talk to me for the rest of the night. And by the way, are you a member of the Swedish Bikini Team?
Swedish guy says: silence¤¤
¤¤ either because a) the drinks are so expensive he can't even afford to buy one for himself, and hence why he came to the bar already plastered from the pre-party; or because b) we live in an age of equality, damn it, and he doesn't see why she shouldn't be the one buying him a drink.
Starring Sir Ullrick the Wonder Cat
I can see you, can you see me??
Not staged at all. Really. I promise.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Favorit Stockholm ställe
EDITED TO ADD: Och jätte gärna restauranger! Och saker som man kan göra grattis, kanske.
God no, a ski slope!
Scandinavian Neighbors in Exile
Monday, January 16, 2006
Guest Entry: Adventures in a Swedish Apartment Block
Normally the phrase signifies dissatisfaction regarding a domestic issue, as in: "I think it will be best that you turn the, er, thing up to, er, three when you are using the thing so that there will be no smell." (I think that he was referring to the fan over the stove). That was until last Saturday's variation: "I think it will be best that you do not come to collect the keys from me. I think it will be best that I come and let you in. But I am very busy. I can not do that now. I can not do that until at least about five."
In regards to this particular event, it was an indication of a far deeper dissatisfaction that I had managed to lock myself out of his apartment, seemingly regardless of the fact that technically it was him who had locked me out of his apartment, by leaving and locking up while I was in the laundry room, diligently doing my bit for Swedish Society by moving marker 17 into column 18, row 19.00-22.00.
In retrospect, maybe I should have taken my door keys to cover all eventualities, but the laundry room is only down a small flight of stairs from the apartment, and I told Herr Fin where I was going, asked him for the laundry key, and left him sitting at the computer and the front door unlocked. This was 11.00 am.
Attempting to re-enter the apartment a mere three minutes later, I discovered the front door to be locked and the hallway (through the keyhole) to be dark and silent. Herr Fin can be fairly elusive at the best of times, so the first thing to cross my mind was that he might be crouching in a corner quietly.
After sixty seconds of doorbell ringing, an uneasy panic began to set in. The paranoid Londoner in me began to wonder whether Herr Fin had died suddenly as result of a carefully-concealed drug habit and was now possibly being eaten by the cat, or whether he was carefully practising the signature on my credit cards while flogging my laptop and Vivienne Westwood pirate boots on E-bay.
Then I shook myself and remembered that I was in Sweden.
This meant that there were 3 realistic possibilities:
a) Herr Fin was out buying herring
b) Herr Fin was out playing bandy
c) Herr Fin was out working at his office
I concluded that none of these activities were likely to take all day, so to fill the time (and keep warm) I ran around Norrmalm for 45 minutes. I arrived back at noon to find that the situation remained exactly the same.
Helpless (and now rather sweaty and unpleasant) I sat in the corridor for 3 and a quarter hours. It was freezing cold and I huddled against the solitary radiator, twisting and contorting in order to try to attach as much of my surface area to it as possible. I asked passers by if they knew Herr Fin, or if anyone might have his number or even a spare key. No one had ever seen Herr Fin before, which didn't surprise me very much. Both of my immediate neighbours, whose doors I knocked on, turned out not to be entirely with-it, and both sung and shouted at me in Swedish for a length of time before retreating back behind closed doors (Editor's note I: It seems that some people believe the louder you shout in a foreign language, the more likely it is that there will be a miraculous repeat of theTower of Babel and the person you are yelling out will suddenly understand everything you are saying).
By 15.15, I had been adopted by an elderly alcoholic couple from the third floor. In situations like these, being blonde with large blue puppy eyes and the distinct appearance of a cute 5-year-old can prove to be advantageous. I politely refused offers of beer and wine but opted instead for a cheese sandwich and a cup of tea.
It was 15.30 by the time I finally managed to contact Herr Fin (an eccentric mathematician on the second floor lent me his internet connection and I retrieved the mobile number from my email inbox). Herr Fin seemed distressed at my suggestion that I walk to his office and collect his keys, and insisted that this was not possible and that I would simply have to wait until it was time for him to come home. So it was 17.40 before I was allowed back into the apartment. The explanation (when probed) for his unexpected departure that morning? He was worried he wouldn't be on time. In other words, late. To get to the office on a Saturday.
Lesson learned? Never do anything so foolish that it threatens to interrupt a Swede's timetable, as consequences could be potentially catastrophic for all concerned.
Editor's note II: I think it will be best that Miz ColdFeet never leaves the apartment without her keys again.
--Miz ColdFeet¤¤
¤¤Aforementioned pseudonym chosen not because said guest author is having second thoughts regarding any particular aspect of her life (except perhaps her decision to leave her apartment without keys), but simply due to the fact that her lower extremities have been quite popsicle-like ever since her arrival in Stockholm.
Dating in the Blogosphere
On a similar note, check out "Dating a Blogger, Reading All About It", by Warren St. John, published in the New York Times in May 2003.
An excerpt:
The proliferation of personal bloggers has led to a new social anxiety: the fear of getting blogged.
'It's personal etiquette meets journalistic rules,' Mr. Denton, the blog publisher, said. 'If you have a friend who's a blogger you have to say, `This is not for blogging.' It's the blogging equivalent of `This is off the record.'
Jonathan Van Gieson, a 29-year-old theatrical producer from Brooklyn who sometimes writes about friends on his site, http://www.jonathanvangieson.com/, said he gave his friends pseudonyms 'to toe the line between simple harmless betrayal of trust and nasty actionable libel.' Before starting his blog, Mr. Van Gieson said he drew a comic strip based on his friends for his college newspaper, and in describing their predicament he summed up the current lot of many in the age of blogging.
'My close friends are used to having their lives plundered,' he said.
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Mother Knows Best
"Hi, what are you doing?" as if I wasn't calling with an ulterior motive.
"I'm having dinner at the Outback with your uncle."
"UNCLE BILL!" I screamed into her ear.
Uncle Bill is my dad's brother, and one of my favorite people in the whole world. The Outback is a steakhouse with an Australian gimmick, and everytime he comes through town, we have dinner there. We have the same sense of humor, and our conversations often border on the absurd. He does a fantastic impression of the Swedish chef.
Turns out, I had a brief fling with the former manager of the Outback last January, during an extended stay back home. I asked about their waiter.
"He's a young kid, very good-looking."
Then I overheard my uncle add "and very glib!"
Well, there can't be too many good-looking, glib waiters who work at that particular Outback, so I told them to look at the bill to find his name. Sure enough, it was the Chicken Shit himself.
(I should mention, Chicken Shit earned his moniker by breaking up with me by text message, very much like Berger broke up with Carrie on a Post-It note in an episode of Sex and the City, in the hope of "avoiding a scene." Please note, that text messages can be forwarded en masse, very much like an email, to all of her girlfriends, as well as her friends' friends, and this is probably not the kind of reputation you want to earn in a small town with very slim pickins when it comes to eligible bachlorettes that a good-looking, and glib, waiter would actually want to date.)
This is the type of situation that is an perfect example of what I call poetic justice.
"Does Uncle Bill know the story?" I asked mom. Mom and I are close, so she had been privy to the sordid details of the surmise of our brief relationship.
"No, but why don't you tell him," she said, handing Uncle Bill the phone.
"How's my favorite uncle? So, how was the service tonight?"
"Well, just fine, but I've been giving him a hard time."
"Do you want to give him a really hard time? I dated him last year, you know."
Silence. Then a timid, "Hello?"
OH SHIT. They put him on the phone. OK, I figured, it's best to just go along with it, and then kill my family later.
"Do you know who this is?"
"Uhhhhhh, no."
"It's the Swedish girl."
"Uhhhhhh, ummmmm, hi. How...um....are you?"
"I'm good. I'm in Sweden right now. Guess you just waited on my mom and my uncle, and I called at just the right time."
"Oh, your mom...." His voice trailed off. He had never met her while we were seeing each other, even though she had waved to him several times from the front door when he came by to pick me up.
Now, unfortunately, I didn't have the pleasure of seeing the expression on his face, but I got enough of a buzz off the account my mother gave me later. But his "eyes got really wide," all the while my mother was sitting there, grinning like an idiot. (This is one of those situations where he knew that he had handled the situation very badly, so there was nothing left to do but be embarassed when reminded of his actions.)
"Ummm, I think your uncle wants to talk to you again. Ummm, bye."
Mom is laughing hysterically in the background. "Uncle Bill, I can't believe you put him on the phone," I admonished. "This whole situation is just bizarre."
"What? I can't hear you."
That man is always pretending to be hard of hearing. To the others (being my mom and Chicken Shit), he announced, "I think she said, 'I'm taking off my braissere.'"
At which point, Mom's laughter becomes uncontrollable.
"I think we'd better end this call now," I said. "It's getting out of hand."
Tsk. Tsk.
Thank God!!! there is a whole ocean seperating me from this family fiasco. I swear to God, I'll never, ever do things like that to embarrass my children.
But at least the Chicken Shit was scared shitless, during a brief moment of sweet, poetic justice.
Saturday, January 14, 2006
During my first week in Sweden, after coming back from the restroom disgruntled at having to wait so long, I grumbled, "Det finns en länge kön i toaletten."
My Swedish friend replied, snickering, "Which bathroom were you in?"
Friday, January 13, 2006
Cat blogger
Carnivores R US
Coming soon: Sizzlin' Sounds for your CD player. Featuring the melodious sizzle of bacon and eggs accompianed by soft instrumentals. Together, Funky Fresh and Sizzlin' Sounds provide the complete sensory experience of the most important meal of the day, without all the calories!
Note: Described as a "gag gift." Gag is right.
Perhaps a Swedish entrepreneur could make a fortune by marketing an air freshener that smells like surströmming.
Det finns redan en www.curiosa.se men inte www.curiosa.com. Fast det verkar kostar typ $3900. Hur då? Det går självklart inte.
Annars är curiosa.org en annan möjlighet.
Jag känner mig plötsligt dator-illiterat.
The Short List
2) Odin
3) Just Ullrick
4) Loki
5) Putty Tat
We're both leaning towards Number 1.
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
The Wet Cat
Picture source: http://www.marinaomi.com/
Guest Entry: Tails from the Tub
I have to share some images of my fellow felines who met the same fate since Curiosa's camera is DEFINTELY not waterproof.
She came home from the pet store with a big bag of what I thought were treats. There were treats, but it was really a great big gigantic farce to lull me into trusting her. She also had kitty shampoo. Dum dum dum.
First she tried the kitchen sink. Yeah, right. At first I thought she was just doing the dishes, but then again, she never does the dishes. She hates doing the dishes more than she hates cleaning out my litter box.
I didn't really believe it was happening. Surely, Curiosa wasn't really trying to put me into the sink with water in it. It had to be some kind of a misunderstanding.
I had enough of that after just getting my tootsies wet. I was outta there like a bolt of lightning. A sopping wet bolt of lightening.
I clung to Curiosa because she couldn't really have meant to put me in the water-filled sink. It must have been some kind of mistake. Surely she wouldn't try it again.
She wrapped me in a towel and carried me to the bathroom. Oh good, I thought, now it's over, and we can just put this whole bathing incident behind us. Wrong again.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
This time, we BOTH took a bath. Or rather, a shower. And so did the rest of the bathoom.
She got me, she did, but I made good and sure that Curiosa was as wet as I was.
Then, of all things, the silly girl thought she was going to blowdry me. I was having none of that! Now I'm hiding under the couch, glowering, and blogging. I pray to St. Gertrude, this never happens EVER again.
Welcome home!
Now there's the little problem of what to name him...
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Monday, January 09, 2006
Stomotol's Next Top Model
Overheard at the ICA checkout:
Tjej: (peckar på ett paket tuggummi) "Mamma!! Kan jag få den?"
Mamma: Nej, men kom nu.
Tjej: Men man får vita tänder!
Mamma: (suger)Kom nu.
Tjej: De ljuger ju inte! En gång hade vi det och sen kollade jag i speglen! Det är sant!
Mamma: (nedslagen) Okej då.
Final Score: Mamma 0, Media 1
Swedish Word of the Day
The list is, for the most part, in two columns, one for English and one for Svenska, although for awhile it was expanded to three columns due to the enthusiasm of the Finnish exchange student who lived next door. Thanks to him, the Finnish words for afterparty, toothbrush, and hat are forever burned into my memory (jatkot, hammasharja, and pipo, respectively).
The very first word on the list is lördagsgodis, roughly translated as "Saturday candy." It reminds me of Dr. Style, who was forever running down to 7/11 to restock her supply of goodies, and NOT just on Saturdays, mind you. I remember thinking that Sweden must be a cruel place to be a child, when Dr. Style tried to explain the concept of lördagsgodis, if you are only allowed candy one day of the week.
Then there are several practical additions to the list, including portkod (door code) and osthyvel (cheese slicer), which are of course indispensible for day-to-day life in Sweden. (God forbid you should use a KNIFE to cut your cheese!!)
Then there was the chicken soup incident, which prompted the words klumpig and pinsam to be scribbled on the ever-growing list. The chicken soup was not klumpig, I was klumpig due to the fact that I spilled a pot of boiling broth all over myself and the kitchen. Needless to say, the entire event was rather pinsamt.
And then came November and with it new word benvärmare as well as SKITVADER! (appropriately scrawled in all capital letters followed by an exclamation point). Brandsläckare (fire extinguisher) and sur (grumpy) also made the list, the former possibly referring to an incident with a candle and a table cloth, the latter likely describing my mood before 11 am.
And you can't forget about romance. Thanks to that list, I also learned the words hjärta and hjärna (presumably my heart and my head were saying two different things) as well as mysa and gosa (to cuddle). I think I had already learned the more x-rated versions of words of a similar genre BEFORE arriving in Sweden, thanks to a very talented teaching assistent in my Swedish class.
Let's not forget the wonderful challenges of pronunciation of Swedish vowels! You try and make bi (bee) and by (village) sound like two different words with an American accent and see how well you do!
Mmmm, that was a fun trip down memory lane. Now I should say god natt and go and lägga mig.
Swedish word of the day: gäspa. That means to yawn.
Saturday, January 07, 2006
Curiosa, Wild Child, and Miz ColdFeet strike again
I must introduce a new femme fatale to the cast and crew of Kommissarie Curiosa. Miz ColdFeet, a 20-something fashion design student from London, is blessing the capital of Scandinavia with her lovely presence for the next three months while doing a placement with a Swedish fashion designer. After reading this blog, I think she's a little terrified that all the Swedish men she meets will all be terrified of her.
Wild Child escaped Norrland and spent a few days camping out at Casa Curiosa. Turns out, Wild Child still "has it." In fact, she still has more of it than I've ever had.
We had a girlz' night out, showing Miz ColdFeet the southside of Stockholm. We spent the first part of the evening sipping our pear ciders and trying to explain how "mating and dating" works in Sweden. But Miz ColdFeet has one advantage over her Swedish sisters in that she can play up the exotic factor.
So for the evening, Wild Child was from California (she's got a perfect American accent when she wants to), I was only temporarily in Sweden, and Miz X starred as herself. Miz ColdFeet was the only one of the three of us who didn't have to employ some kind of deviousness in order to hide her true identity.
Wild Child broke the ice. She approached a big group of lads who had just been to a hockey match. "So, do you guys mind if we join you?" she politely interrupted.
Of course they didn't.
Miz ColdFeet and I proceeded to interrogate two of the boys on "dating in Sweden."
"So who would make the first move?"
"So why are Swedish guys so shy?"
"How do relationships happen here in Sweden? (No, I'm not talking about sex here. I KNOW how that happens. I learned about the birds and the bees when I was ten)."
"Would you ever buy a girl a drink as a way to meet her?"
"Who pays if you go on a date?"
By the end of our own version of 20 questions, I think the poor boys were feeling a bit bedraggled. But they did confirm some of our initial hypotheses, "If you girls were Swedish and came over here to sit with us, I'd assume you just wanted sex. But since you're foreigners, I don't know."
If only they knew.
Meanwhile, Wild Child was busy speaking (almost) perfect English with Sven Svensson. I cringed when I heard her say, "And then there is a Christmas tree down in our trappgång.."
I leaned over and whispered, "Wild Child! American exchange students DO NOT say trappgång!"
Ooops, but I don't think Sven caught on anyway.
Then the boys made the mistake of thinking that Swedish was a secret language. Okay, this was not ENTIRELY their fault. (After grilling him, I "innnocently" asked one of them to give me a Swedish lesson. Blink blink.) They didn't say anything too revealing such as was the case during this incident, but still, we knew exactly what they were saying even though they thought they were safe.
"So man, looks like we've got a mission tonight!"
Sven II leans across the table and whispers something (in Swedish) to the guy I'm talking to.
"You don't need to whisper. These girls don't know what we're saying."
Curiosa snickers and winks at Wild Child.
Then I crossed the line, but just couldn't help myself. "So what would you do if I just broke out into fluent Swedish?" I asked him.
"I guess that's a chance I'll have to take."
Curiosa snickers to herself. Again.
Time for a trip to the ladies' room to give Miz ColdFeet a report on what I had just overheard, and how evil I'd been.
Wild Child then heads out for a smoke break, and engages in a conversation with the bouncer. He informed her that he was wearing black, lacy stay-up thigh highs, and a woman's thong because it made his job "much more interesting."
"When the bouncer tells me about his fetish for women's underwear, I think it's time to call it a night."
So we take our leave, and leave Sven I, II, and III a little confused. Mission aborted.
Sometimes it's so much fun being evil.
Scandinavian Minimalism
"They don't shave what? Like, their faces?" I replied, slightly surprised.
"Like, they don't shave their, um...upper body?"
"Why would you shave your upper body?"
"Why would you not shave your upper body?"
Clearly, if you are in the same kind of woolly predicament as Andy Stitzer in The Forty Year Old Virgin, some kind of hair removal might be in order, but this is not necessarily necessary if you only have three chest hairs to speak of.
Don't get me wrong. I'm definitely not against a little hair maintenance, especially when it comes to trimming certain nether regions, but it seems to me that head-to-toe hair removal is just a really bad case of whisker burn waiting to happen, unless you are really, really diligent in your daily shaving rituals.
Men are supposed to have a little hair. As I said, I don't mean that I want to curl up with Yogi the Bear every night, but really, I don't really mind a little fuzz here and there.
Apparently, head-to-chest hair removal (please reassure me that Swedish guys don't normally shave their legs) is quite a common phenomenon among the Strong, Silent, Nordic type. Wild Child has gotten reports from several men's locker rooms that this is indeed the case among many Swedish males.
Now I have to ask: isn't this taking Scandinavian minimalism to an entirely new, and inappropriate, level?
"Honey, can you please pass me the razor?"
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Oh boy
Please remember that it wasn't ME who said that Swedes were cheapskates. I said no such thing.
Drunk dialing
It's something many of us are guilty of, but it's much more fun to be on the receiving end of such a call than it is to wake up hung over (the next afternoon) realizing you racked up $200 worth of international phone calls in the wee hours of the previous morning.
I awoke to the sound of my phone ringing this morning. It was Tonto calling at 2 am his time from his father's mobile.
"Buenas dias, senorita!"
I'm not sure exactly how much it costs for a ten minute mobile-to-mobile call from Mexico to Sweden, but I'm guessing it probably would cover the cost of a train ticket from Lund to Stockholm.
For Tonto's sake, I'm going to pretend it was la cerveza and la tequila talking. I'm also leaving out several of the not-PG-rated things he said to me, both for his sake and for mine. It was highly amusing, but I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who remembers the conversation, at least the part of it that may any sense whatsoever.
"You're going to hate me, aren't you?"
"No, but I might blog you."
I believe there was also a marriage proposal somewhere in there as well. I don't believe, however, that I gave him an affirmative answer, although he might think otherwise, as the the tequila seemed to be making him hallucinate.
¡Dios mio!
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Kids say the darndest things
Barnvårdare: Men på dagis pratar vi svenska.
Tjej 2: Jag kan säga 'Bye bye!'
Barnvårdare: Och vad är det för språk?
Tjej 2: (fundersam) ...Australisk!!
Monday, January 02, 2006
Happy pets
Shall we play dress up with Mommy's jewels?
No comment.
Sunday, January 01, 2006
Swedes and their holidays
And for each holiday, there must be one or two other holidays to go with it. For example, Christmas by itself is not enough. In addition to "Julafton" and "Juldagen," you must have also have "Annandag Jul" (the day after Christmas, known to the Brits as Boxing Day) and "Trettondedag jul" (Jan 6, or 13 days after Christmas).
I got into a discussion about this last night with a Swedish guy at the dinner party I attended. Much to my horror, he told me how they had held a celebration combining Halloween and Thanksgiving. Why their office was celebrating Thanksgiving is another question, and one to which I do not have an answer.
But anyyway, the point is that these two days are entirely INCOMPATIBLE. THERE IS NO CONNECTION.
The combination was bizarre. It consisted of Halloween decorations with Thanksgiving food. This would be like me trying to combine Lucia Day with Midsommar, which are probably two of the most "Swedish" holidays. I'm going to show up for the strawberries and sill wearing a wreath of candles.
To begin with, Swedes have a very strange relationship with Halloween. They can't seem to decide between the American-style holiday held on October 31 and their own "Alla Helgons dag" (All Saints Day) on the following Saturday.
There is a collective crisis: Which one should we dress up for? When do we go trick or treating? And the pumpkins, what do we do with the god damned pumpkins?
I think the pumpkin can be blamed for the confusion between Halloween and Thanksgiving. Let me simplify it for you:
This is a Jack O' Latern (left). You carve it for HALLOWEEN.
This is a slice of pumpkin pie (right). You eat it for dessert on THANKSGIVING. With whipped cream. After the turkey, the sweet potatos, the green beans, the mashed potatos, and the cranberry sauce.
To be honest, I really don't care what you do with Halloween, but Thanksgiving is sacred. It occurs on the fourth thursday of November. Not the second, not the fifth, not the first Saturday, the FOURTH THURSDAY. It's about giving thanks and being with family and friends. And you know, all the stuff about the Pilgrims and the Indians.
After all of this lecture, if you really feel the need to combine Thanksgiving and Halloween, feel free to dress up like a turkey on Halloween, but please continue to celebrate Thanksgivng on THE FOURTH Thursday of November. If you don't, I'm going to take the biggest herring I can find and beat you with it.
Two thousand and six bottles of beer on the wall
For a brief moment, right at midnight, it no longer matters who you are, who your friends are, or where you come from. Differences fade away and people turn to whoever is next to them, giving out hugs, sharing champagne, and wishing everyone a fantastic year to come. As I walked down Götgatan last night on my way home from the party, three or four different people smiled at me and wished me a "Gott nytt år!" That, combined with the powdery snowflakes flowing down from the sky, made for a very cozy, and surreal, evening.
Unfortunately, a few hours after midnight, after the revelers have finished off the last bottle of bubbly, the merriness is overtaken by an extreme state of intoxication. For some, a little alcohol only increases their well-wishing, but for others, it unfortunately results in various forms of obnoxious and inappropriate behavior.
This includes the gang of teenage boys who decided to serenade the entire train car on the blue line all the way from Solna Centrum to T-Centralen. (The Backstreet Boys they were not.) It also applies to the woman who consumed so much liquor she was entirely unaware of the fact that she vomited all over one of her fellow passengers somewhere in between Slussen and Medborgareplatsen.
And I must say I also felt a bit sorry for the sorry for the pre-teen girls who were trying to wade their way through the slush in their kitten heels and miniskirts. I'm glad I learned that lesson in high school (after an ill-fated prom date); it doesn't matter how pretty the shoes are, it is NOT attractive if you walk like a Chinese princess with bound feet, or WINCE with every step you take, like the piercing-sword feeling the little Mermaid experienced when she traded her fins for ball shoes.
Not that I let such events ruin my entire evening (it might have, had I been the fellow passenger who was vomited upon), but it certainly took a little pleasure out of the journey home. Maybe it's time to award myself a few "grown-up points" since I no longer understand the joy of public displays of drunkenness.
I think the best New Year's Eve's I've had have been the ones for which I had the fewest expectations. It always turns out better if there is not the pressure to have "the perfect night." It also makes me think back to previous New Year's festivities, which include barhopping in Idaho last year, celebrating the year-before-last with two of my best friends from college in our nation's capital, Washington D.C., and of course dancing the ceilidhs (pronounced kayli) with Scottish guys in kilts at Hogmanay three years ago in Edinburgh.
It also makes me remember a few New Year's make-out sessions. As I watched some of my friends ring in the New Year with a kiss from their beloved, I have to admit I was a bit jealous. Although I'm sure he was having a fantastic time partaking of tequila and catching up with his family, I wish that Tonto would have been there with me.
I know that our time will come; that this is just the beginning of rather strange relationship. I'm looking forward to exploring it together with him.
So here's to the first day of a brand New Year!

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Villarreal CF is one of the clubs that best promotes and contributes to women's football; giving girls and women who want to play football the chance to do so. The club offers its excellent infrastructure, facilities, formation, education and all the fundamental services to make this possible. Villarreal CF has been working with the Ladies teams since 2000, for more than fifteen years now. At that time, the club started its journey with the Ladies team by creating a singular, senior team, which consisted of players ranging from 12 to 30 years of age. Nowadays, the infrastructure has changed considerably since then and our Villarreal Ladies have now become one of the best women's football academies in the Valencian Community.
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Every minute, 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube.
Every day, hundreds of millions of hours of video are watched on YouTube.*
I know I'm stating the obvious here, but that's a lot of video. Modern smartphones paired with YouTube, Vine, and now Periscope and Meerkat, give people an easy way to quickly share videos. Why are so many people doing this? Simple. People connect with other people through eye contact, voice tone, and body language. Plus let's not forget that old adage, "a picture is worth a thousand words."
Should video matter to businesses? Yes, but only if those businesses enjoy connecting with their customers and making sales.
Video has the power to communicate in ways the written word never can. Even photos with the most thorough descriptions can be confusing. For example, I wanted to restring a pearl bracelet so I performed an online search. I clicked on the first link but it only contained text and photos. It made perfect sense when I read it through. I made several attempts to follow along but couldn't figure out the most important instruction – tying the knot so it pushed all the way up against the pearl. This is no easy feat! So I went back to the search results and clicked on the next link. This page presented a video and wouldn't you know, I now have a freshly re-strung pearl bracelet with tight knots.
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June 17, 2005
World Boxing Organization junior welterweight champion Miguel Cotto (24-0, 20 KO) is still celebrating his ninth-round TKO win over his former amateur nemesis Muhammad Abdullaev (the 2000 Olympics gold medallist at 139 pounds), but that doesn't mean Cotto's people aren't plotting his next move.
Cotto's promoter, Bob Arum of Top Rank, dropped a bomb on boxing reporters at the post-fight press conference following Cotto's victory when he revealed that he'd like to see Cotto fight Oscar De la Hoya next. Arum, in that way promoters have of grabbing the brass ring, even offered a date (Nov. 12 of this year) for said match-up.
It's a scene we'd all like to see, even though the very idea of a fight between the two flies in the face of all boxing logic. Logic, of course, has little to do with boxing. Boxing is not about what fight would be good for a fighter or what fight is mandated by a boxing organization. Boxing is about making money, so fights are made on the basis of how well they might sell on TV, particularly on pay-per-view TV.
"There has been talk about De la Hoya and if they can make the fight, I'm willing to fight him," said Cotto, who is coming off his third successful title defense after stopping Abdullaev with 2:03 remaining in the ninth. "I'm all for it. I'd love to fight De la Hoya. But if it doesn't materialize, I'll take on the rival that Top Rank selects next."
A fight versus De la Hoya would mean a move up in weight for Cotto, who has campaigned his entire pro (and amateur) career at 140 pounds. De la Hoya lost his last fight at middleweight (160), getting knocked out in the ninth round by Bernard Hopkins last September and has said he'll go back to 147, the weight at which he fought Felix "Tito" Trinidad.
The economic success of the Trinidad-De la Hoya fight back in 1999 should not be overlooked here. Their September 1999 fight is still on the books as the fourth-biggest boxing payday in pay-per-view television ($62.4 million). It was the first non-heavyweight fight to draw that kind of revenue and set an industry gold (or Golden Boy, if you will) standard.
De la Hoya still gets a lot of the credit for the financial success of that bout, even though he was deemed the loser (majority decision) by the judges. But according to HBO figures, De la Hoya is HBO's golden egg-laying Golden Boy. In seven pay-per-view fights prior to the Trinidad bout, he generated $150 million in revenue. Not that Trinidad should be left out of the equation. His loss to Bernard Hopkins drew $20.4 million in pay-per-view revenue.
Arum obviously sees the financial potential of a Cotto-De la Hoya fight. Arum knows Mike Tyson is no longer a heavyweight draw, and his loss to Kevin McBride last Saturday night was the final death knell, despite the perverse amount of media coverage it generated (Tyson, even looking as bad as he did Saturday night, elbowed Cotto right out of the sports pages with his post-fight retirement announcement).
Arum is also aware that De la Hoya is still a draw, despite his loss to Hopkins. He certainly knows Cotto's marketing potential. He knows that Trinidad is out of the picture (retirement) and that Cotto could step up. That is one reason he had the Caguas native fight in New York's Madison Square Garden (New York being home to 4 million Puerto Ricans, the same number as live on the island). It was no accident that Arum put Cotto on HBO, a chance to see the young fighter for "free" in the hopes that in the future, fans will pay to see him on HBO's pay-per-view.
Furthermore, Arum orchestrated De la Hoya-Hopkins, corralling the Philadelphia native in a way that even Don King couldn't (Hopkins has a four-fight deal with HBO for 2005-2006). Finally, even though De la Hoya is no longer under Top Rank's management, the two reportedly maintain close ties, opening a door for Cotto.
As I said before, De la Hoya might not be the most logical step for Cotto, who had a door opened wide for him at 140 with Kostya Tszyu's loss to Ricky Hatton June 4 (Tszyu quit after the 11th round). The junior welterweight scene is not shaping up neatly at all. If the sport's promoters had anticipated a Tszyu victory to set up a future fighter versus the winner of the upcoming Floyd Mayweather Jr-Arturo Gatti (the WBC champ) matchup, they were disappointed. But the fans won't be. Newly crowned IBF champ Hatton is a tough fighter (maybe even a bit much for Cotto just yet) and the Gatti-Mayweather fight (on pay-per-view) promises to be a big draw. The 140-pound scene offers plenty for Cotto, who could take a stab at unification before moving on.
Or not. It's no secret in Puerto Rico that Cotto has trouble getting down to 140 for fights. His uncle and trainer, Evangelista Cotto, has repeatedly said that eventually Cotto will move up in weight class, although he could not say precisely when. Fighting De la Hoya would be a perfect way for Cotto to test the waters at 147. With the blessing of the WBO, the two could fight a non-title matchup.
If nothing else, it will give all of us something to talk about now that Trinidad has officially retired.
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A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) vapor-jet pump for vacuum generation in miniaturized analytical systems, e.g., micro-mass-spectrometers (Wapelhorst, E., Hauschild, J., and Mueller, J., 2005, "A Fully Integrated Micro Mass Spectrometer
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Schematic diagram of a macroscopic diffusion pump
Schematic drawing of the nozzle-sidewall region of the micropump (top view). See Fig. 4 for the location of this region.
Ultimate pressure as a function of water vapor and nitrogen gas supply pressures (5deg sidewall angle, d=125μm)
Pressure generated by the heater from Fig. 5 as a function of supplied electrical power
Temperature of the heater as a function of supplied power
Voltage-pressure characteristics of two pirani pressure sensors with different gap widths (Vinconst=5V, bridge geometry: 8×100μm2)
The complete micropump consisting of the systems from Figs. 4, 5
Sectional drawing of the micro vapor-jet pump (side view)
The pumping unit (top view). The white box indicates the position of the geometry from Fig. 2.
Working fluid transport system and pirani pressure sensor (top view)
Theoretical pressure dependent thermal conductivity for different distances between the heated bridge and the substrate
Ultimate pressure as a function of N2 supply pressure for different sidewall angles
Ultimate pressure as a function of N2 supply pressure p0 for different distances between nozzle and sidewall (5deg sidewall angle)
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Homemade Granola Bars
Prep Time : 10 mins
Yields:12 Bars
Recipe Category: Snacks-Quick Breakfast
Recipe Cuisine: International
Author:Padhu Sankar
Ingredients needed
Rolled Oats-Old fashioned Rolled Oats - 2 1/2 cup
Almonds - 1/2 cup chopped
Honey - 1/3 cup
Butter - 1/4 cup (50 grams)
Brown Sugar - 1/4 cup
Salt - a pinch
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
Dried Cranberries - 1/2 cup
Raisins - 3 tbsp
Mini chocolate chips - 1/4 cup + 2 tbsp
Chop almonds roughly into 3 or 4 pieces.
Coarsely chop dried cranberries and keep it ready.
Line bottom and sides of a 9 inch pan with parchment paper and keep it ready.
Dry roast oats until lightly toasted. Dry roast nuts also separately. You can also bake for 5 minutes at 180 degree C until lightly toasted.
In a bowl combine oats and nuts together.
In a pan, add butter, honey, brown sugar, salt, vanilla essence and cook on medium heat.
Once it starts to bubble, reduce the heat, cook for another 1 minute and switch off the heat.
Add the toasted nuts and oats to the above and mix well until well coated. Leave it to cool for 5 minutes.
Add cranberries, raisins, 1/4 cup chocolate chips and mix well. I had some leftover candied cherries, so I added that also. (As I told you this granola bar recipe is very flexible, you can add any nuts or dried fruits of your choice). If the chocolate chips melt, it doesn't matter.
Transfer the mixture into the prepared pan and press it hard with a spatula or with your hands. If you do not press it well, the bars will not hold together and will fall apart. So this step is very important.
You can scatter the remaining 2 tbsp chocolate chips on top and refrigerate for 2-3 hours.
After 2 - 3 hours, lift the parchment paper, remove the block and cut it into bars and enjoy.
Storage - Store it in an airtight container in the refrigerator for a week.
Note - I halved the recipe above and got 6 bars. You can try it with dried cherries, apricots, pecans, raisins, walnuts, pistachios, unsweetened coconut etc.


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How far may police officers with drug-detecting canines go in sniffing around the outside of a home before obtaining a search warrant? How reliable is a dog's nose in determining probable cause to search a vehicle for contraband? Those are questions that were headed for the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, as the justices prepared to hear two appeals from the state of Florida over decisions by that state's Supreme Court to suppress evidence of drug crimes on Fourth Amendment grounds.
In the first case, Florida v. Jardines, police, acting on a tip from a citizen "crime-stopper," brought a drug-sniffing Labrador retriever to the door of a resident in the Miami area believed to be growing marijuana inside the house. The dog sniffed at the base of the door, then sat down, a signal that he had detected the odor of the contraband drug. Police then obtained a search warrant and found marijuana plants inside. Joelis Jardines was arrested and charged with possessing more than 25 pounds of marijuana and with stealing the electricity to grow it.
In ruling the search unconstitutional, the Florida Supreme Court held that the pre-warrant sniffing at the door was an "unreasonable government intrusion into the sanctity of the home." The court cited a 2001 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that banned the warrantless use of heat-sensing thermal imagers outside the home to detect the probable growing of marijuana inside. Writing for the court in that 5-4 decision, Justice Antonin Scalia said that when the government uses a device "not in general public use" in the surveillance of a home, "the surveillance is a 'search' and is presumptively unreasonable without a warrant."
It surely may be argued that the sensitive nose of a dog trained in drug detection is a device "not in general public use." And it may be a stretch for the state to maintain that bringing a dog to the door of a home to sniff for the scent of an illegal drug is not a search.
Wednesday's other dog sniffing case, Florida v. Harris, is a bit more complicated, involving the search of a vehicle rather than a home. Clayton Harris was stopped by a police officer near Bristol, Florida, because of an expired tag on his pickup truck. Police spotted an open beer can in a cup holder and observed that Harris was acting nervous, shaking, and breathing heavily. When Harris refused permission to search the vehicle, the officer led a drug-detecting German shepherd around the truck. The dog became excited when approaching the door handle on the driver's side and sat down as a signal to the officer. Police then searched the truck and found 200 pseudoephedrine pills and 8,000 matches, ingredients for the making of methamphetamine, a banned substance.
Harris pleaded nolo contendre, maintaining his right to appeal. The Florida Supreme Court voided the search and the evidence obtained, finding that the state had not demonstrated the dog's reliability as a drug detector by showing evidence of his training, certification, and performance, or of his handler's experience.
In an amicus brief filed in support of Harris, 34 law professors argued against what they called "an over-generalized assertion — all trained or certified drug-detection dogs are reliable in the field."
The issue of drug-sniffing canine's reliability goes to the heart of the question of whether the dog's indication of the presence of contraband provides probable cause for a search. In a 2005 case, Illinois v. Roy I. Caballes, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the search of a vehicle after a motorist had been stopped for speeding. Probable cause for the search was based solely on a dog's indication of contraband in the trunk. Writing for the court's 6-2 majority, Justice John Paul Stevens argued the difference between that case and the earlier decision regarding the use of the thermal imager was that the imaging device could also reveal lawful activities within the home that are subject to an expectation of privacy. The sniffing dog's signals to the police would reveal only the presence of illegal substances, Stevens said.
"A dog sniff during a concededly legal traffic stop that reveals no information other than the location of a substance that no individual has a right to possess does not violate the Fourth Amendment," he wrote.
Justice David Souter argued in his dissenting opinion that the reliability of the drug-sniffing dogs was not sufficient to establish probable cause for a search. A study submitted by Illinois to establish the reliability of the dog sniffs, he wrote, showed in fact that in artificial testing situations, the dogs erroneously indicated the presence of illegal drugs from 12.5 to 60 percent of the time, depending on the length of the search. "The infallible dog," Souter wrote, "is a legal fiction."
Both the retired Souter and the deceased Stevens are no longer present on the court to carry on that debate. But other evidence of uncertainty over the accuracy of canine detection has been discovered since that 2005 decision. Writing in Reason.com last year, Jacob Sullum cited a Chicago Tribune study of records of traffic stops in the Chicago suburbs between 2007 and 2009. Police discovered drugs or drug paraphernalia in only 44 percent of the cases in which dogs had alerted them to the presence of contraband. The reasons for the errors may be as varied as poor training, unconscious signals given by the handler, or scents lingering from drugs carried by a previous owner or passenger of the vehicle, Sullum wrote.
The Fourth Amendment's guarantee of the "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures" appears to be broad enough to cover a person in his or her automobile, "movable possessions" being one of the definitions of "effects." The requirement of probable cause for the issuance of a search warrant and the requirement that the warrant describe the "place to be searched, and the persons or things to be ceased," are based on the experience in colonial America of officers of the king, bearing "writs of assistance," subjecting the colonists to random searches for whatever incriminating evidence might be found, whether or not there had been any reasonable grounds for suspicion. That the requirements of the amendment could be negated by the sniff of a dog is something not likely anticipated by the authors of the Bill of Rights.
Yet at least 23 states, Reuters reported, have joined Florida's appeal to uphold the state's searches of both Jardines' home and Harris' pickup truck, calling the drug-detecting dogs "essential weapons" in the fight against the production and sale of illegal drugs. Such a heavy reliance on such uncertain "weapons," however, could pose dangers to both life and liberty.
"If courts are putting their faith in 'certified dogs' that are wrong most of the time," wrote Sullum, "the upshot could be a lot of legally unjustified home invasions."


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Yesterday we travelled about 30 mins south to Oatlands in the southern midlands for an historic skills day. The bullock team was definitely a highlight for everyone. The team were part of a reenactment of taking wool bales to sale and came right up the main street.
There were people everywhere but quite by accident I took these two photos that collage together almost perfectly! There was a major frost in the morning and the temperatures were below zero but as always, a brilliant and dazzling day followed.
These bullocks are trained by Brian Fish, this guy in front is named Major and he is 18 years old.
They are so well trained and handled and Brian has a true passion for this skill set and an obvious affection for his team.
Many farms in the district supplied a bale of wool for the "big load" reenactment carted on this wool wagon built in the 1880s.
The team headed up the lane to the grounds of the famous Callington Mill where there was also a wonderful display of various carting and transport memorabilia.
It is quite probable that this very passenger and mail coach went past our front door regularly back in the 1840s and until the railway saw their demise.
Another valuable piece of Tasmanian history - the cart used by Campbell Pottery of Launceston to cart clay.
Oatlands made the perfect backdrop for the display and because we arrived early with the frost thick on the ground, I managed to get lots of photos before the crowds arrived.
How's this for a piece of branding!
Made by Ransomes don't you know...of Ipswich.
A beautifully made piece of equipment, not sure, but Craig and I speculated that it may have been a rock flicker type plough.
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January 28
With high winds forecast for the weekend my best advice could be night time hightide with a poddy mullet/Herring swimming for your chance to catch one of the many river spiecies being taken on such rigs at the moment such as Trevally(Giant or Golden),Mangrove Jack and Flathead, Bream and whiting are also being caught around our local rivers with beach worms and Prawns being the best baits.
January 29
Morning report:
The pics from the headland look nice and calm but that won't stay that way with the northerlies at Morton still blowing 15-20kts.
it almost looks tempting enough to go for a little drive with some lures/trolled bait around the headland and shark nets before it blows up, but other than that river fishing is the go with the rain in the catchment areas looking set to flush a few big Mudcrabs out into the deeper holes and the rest of the esturine marine life to get active.
Afternoon report:
Today wasn't great but tomorrow should be as the rivers get the long over-due flushout they have been waiting for the the fishing in our creeks and rivers should become incredible, I'm not really seeing much of a window for the off-shore fisherman for the next week but the flathead bream and whiting should really fire up over the next couple of days, a customer of the shop was telling me today that he caught 3 lovely Flathead in the Mooloolaba river on Zman Slim Swimz purchased from here at the shop(sorry no Pics yet),kawana beach should be worth a fish with these north-westerlies around as the wind will be at your back and they been catching some really good Whiting Flathead and Bream at low tide off there lately, also the Trawlers is worth a fish for big Bream trevally and the chance of a Jack.
January 31
Morning report:
This morning looks very calm in light of last nights storm. There is certainly an opportunity to fish the shorelines this morning with the gutters being sturred up. The river systems should be flushed and that tends to stir up the fish.
Afternoon report:
Looks like this weather is going to stick around until at least Tuesday, but there's always the rivers and estuaries to throw a line.
February 1
The weather has been looking difficult to fish according to reports. Fishing the inside reefs for mackerel are still very possible as the weather forecast have been hot and humid they have surely been a lot calmer than the predictions.
February 2
Morning report:
If you have managed to get out and have a fish the Mackerel are hitting trolled slimy's and pilly's around the Gneering and Blinker with 12 Mile still the best spot to land a few fish. The bottom fishing locally has offered some squire, pearl perch and parrrot fish. best baits are squid and pilly's.
Afternoon report:
Well the forecasts were dead wrong today as we have seen 5-10 knot winds with 1m swell all day. It looks like the wind and swell will be that again and very comfortable for offshore fishing. The estuaries are still holding some nice trevally and in this cloud cover some good mangrove jack also. Whiting and flathead are being caught around Labalsa Park and Minyama Island is a great area to try with a small boat or a kayak. If you want to get amongst a few offshore species the Mackerel are still around and The outter Gneerings are holding both spanish and spotties.
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Twins lose 4-2 to Rays; Blackburn sharp after shaky start
TWINS NOTES: · The 2012 Target Field attendance reached 2-million tonight (2,006,264), marking the 14th time in club history and eighth consecutive season (since 2005)…with tonight being the Twins 57th home date, it marks the fourth-fewest home dates to reach 2-million in club history…they reached 2-million in their 51st home date in 2010 and 2011, and in their 56th in 1988.
· Tonight's sellout marked the eighth of the season and first since July 28 vs. Cleveland (39,166)…146th sellout in Target Field history.
· Eight of the Twins last 12 games have been decided by two runs-or-less…they are 4-4 in those games.
· Nick Blackburn extended his losing streak to four games…the 11 hits allowed marked a season-high…second time this season with double-digit hit totals.
· The defense turned two double plays tonight, giving them a Major League-leading 139 (120 via ground balls)…the two GIDP's for Blackburn were his most in a start since June 16, 2011 vs. Chicago (AL), when he also induced two.
· The back-to-back home runs allowed by Blackburn, marked his second time this season allowing consecutive home runs…fourth time this season he had allowed multiple home runs in one inning.
· Ben Revere's second inning outfield assist was his fifth of the season and 19th for a Twins outfielder…Twins outfielders have four assists in their last six games.
· Justin Morneau (2-for-4) is batting .346 (47-for-136) in his last 34 games, since June 29.


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