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all in the family

We now interrupt our regular programming to bring you a question

October 1, 2010

Everyone: my youngest stepdaughter is in the market for a laptop, and is in a conundrum about which kind to buy. She needs it primarily for school, and it needs to be sturdy and dependable and good value for money [which basically rules out Macs]. I went through this a few years ago and posted [...]

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I can just see the abstract for the MA thesis now

September 19, 2010

YT: So they’re having a fake orgasm competition as part of the Reykjavík Film Festival. EPI: A what? YT: A fake orgasm competition. Where people get up on stage and fake orgasms. The best fake orgasm wins. EPI: Where? YT: Næsti bar. Wanna go? EPI: Sure. YT: I bet it’ll be packed. EPI: Probably. I [...]

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A short post about gratitude

September 11, 2010

It’s been quite a week for us here at the Weather Report. AAH had to go into the hospital on two occasions. The first time we were sent up to the ER in the middle of the night. She was admitted instantly and various tests were run — the diagnosis came back that she had [...]

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Amidst stirrings of civil unrest, things are pretty much the same in the YT household

July 5, 2010

YT: Did you eat that egg that was in the fridge? EPI: What egg? YT: The one I boiled to make tuna salad. EPI: Um … maybe. YT: I boiled two eggs to make tuna salad, and now there’s only one left. I wrote the date on the outside. In pencil. EPI: Well, I made [...]

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What we get up to on a Sunday

June 28, 2010

On our days off, when the weather is good, we like to climb mountains. Happily there are a few such located within the Greater Reykjavík Area, one of which is Mt. Helgafell, in Hafnarfjörður. It’s an easy hike, the ascent is only around 300 metres [985 ft.], and from the top you have a view [...]

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In which I venture out into an arctic tern colony with a camera and a Flip

June 9, 2010

The weather has been amazing here these last couple of days, although today it is “thickening up” as the Icelanders say. With any luck we’ll have rain tomorrow, help bind some of the ash from the eruption. A couple of days ago I took my camera and my Flip recorder out to Grótta, which is [...]

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Off to Brussels on important business

May 24, 2010

Tomorrow I’m heading to Brussels along with 12 other journos and bloggers to have a gander around the European Union headquarters. As many of you will know, Iceland has made a bid to join the EU and accession talks are set to begin soon. I suppose this visit is standard procedure in such cases — [...]

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In which we brave the ash cloud, so you don’t have to

May 16, 2010

EPI and I headed out to take a look at the eruption last night. We left town around six, because a] AAH wanted to throw a belated birthday party and we needed to get the hell out of dodge, and b] because we hoped we might be able to see the eruption better if we [...]

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Reykjavík nightlife and the wild wild west

April 6, 2010

A few years ago, agents in the Icelandic tourism industry successfully marketed Reykjavík nightlife as the hot new ticket, all wild and free and hip and crazy. Young people from all over Europe flocked here on the weekends and Reykjavík gained a reputation as THE place to party. A couple of years later, the then-majority [...]

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Happy Easter!

April 5, 2010

Easter is a long and delightful holiday here in Iceland.* Most of us get five days off, Thursday to Monday, and what’s so great about it is that a] it’s right at the beginning of spring so it’s usually filled with light and sunshine and b] it’s completely free of all the stress you get, [...]

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