Blogs from Lund, Skåne County, Sweden, Europe - page 2

After various tearful goodbyes & expert frenzied packing completed - I headed off to Lund, Sweden on August 21st. It was a perfect summer in the Okanagan, surrounded by family, friends & sunshine - making it that much harder to say goodbye. But it was time. Time get out into the big world again. Kelowna - Seattle - Copenhagen by plane Copengagen - Malmo - Lund by train Lund Central Station - Skanevagen #18 by automobile It was a sunny & windy day in Lund when I arrived, jet lagged & sweating. A wave of uncertainly as to why exactly I had come to this place washed over me while I waited at the Station for Eva to pick me & my overweight luggage. Now that a few days have passed, I am feeling more stable ... read more

I’m tempted to call this the pre-Berlin blog. Yep, I know that was the title two blogs ago, then you saw the blog about Berlin. But I’m going back, March 1-8th...so perhaps it is the pre-Berlin blog.  Again. So SINCE last Berlin trip, its been an absolute whirlwind of madness. I think my to-do lists are secretly mating and producing offspring as I seem to have about 5 sheets of paper with tasks on them on my person at all times. School is one thing. Half Machine is another. My website company has a bit of business going on at the moment so that’s another thing. Then there’s design competitions. Then there’s the travel. Ie: Sterling airlines had a valentine’s sale - 2 flights for the price of one. Amanda and I are going to ... read more

Before heading to Berlin, I thought I better make a quick post-new-years-post. I got back from the UK and Germany and ended up getting straight to work on the final two weeks of our toilet-sign-switching project that I discussed before. We’ve officially named it the Ladies and Mens Room Mixup (LMRM) and spent the first week back finalizing the prototype and testing it out at the club. It went pretty well, we had three elements, the automatic door switching, a wheel with a lever so people could choose which mode they wanted it in (boy/girl, girl/boy, girl/girl, etc) and the touch sensitive poles. People were strangely afraid to touch the poles thinking they’d get electrocuted or something, and it made it more difficult that I, an English speaking, non -drunk-at-a-night-club person was trying to convince them ... read more

What has the month of December brought? A lot of work! Although, not the paying kind so that’s unfortunate though I doubt I would have had time! Christmas in Sweden and Denmark is done nicely - they light up the city streets, Christmas trees are in plazas everywhere and we were singing Swedish, English and French Christmas carols (Jul songs) at the preschool. I’ve since downloaded a Swedish and Danish Christmas CD so I can sing along, lol. I think the best way to explain what I’ve been upto is in photos and videos, I’ve already explained our bathroom switching project, so the videos are here: http://jonaseriksson.blip.tv there’s a few there. Here on my Flicker account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8517602@N08/ there’s photos of the toilet project as well as photos from the Half Machine Symphony Orchestra performance. We’ve received ... read more

So its 1:38am. I’m getting fairly used to ‘this time’. Its my catching up time. It usually lasts anywhere from 1-4 hours. I’ve just paused my work on a paper that I’m writing since I’ve been researching and writing for about 3 hours and haven’t even hammered out a full page. This is disturbing but maybe it means the beginning of a great paper because of the thought I’m putting into it. Maybe not. So I’ve made a list of things to talk about. Its...extensive. I really need to update this blog a few times a week rather than once every 3 as I think this will be another long one. As an aside and for your audio expansion needs, I’m listening to two Danish groups: Analogik and Natasja Saad. One electronic with Balkan tones, and ... read more