Frozen stream in Oslo
I went for a walk along the stream near my apartment. The river is starting to freeze over. I wasn’t ballsy enough to go stand on it, but it sure does make sure an idyllic view.
Funky looking half-frozen effect.
Posted on 2012-01-23 by
Oslo Opera house
I walked down to the Oslo Opera House (“Operahuset” in Norwegian). The walk to the top was slippery as heck. I should have realised it was a bad idea to walk up there when I had to walk past a sign warning not to walk up there and clamber underneath a chain blocking access. But other people were chugging their way up, so I headed up the ridiculously slippery slope to the top and got an awesome view out across the fiord.
View of the Oslo Opera House from the Opera Thon Hotel.
View from the Oslo Opera House looking out into the fiord.
Steep incline, glassy smooth ice .... not the best combination!
Posted on 2012-01-20 by
Bandy
I went to check out a game of Bandy here in Oslo recently. For those of you who haven’t heard of it before, Bandy is a sport which is similar to field hockey, but played on ice. The rink is huge, as are the goals. There is much less contact than in ice hockey and a small ball is used instead of a puck. There are 11 players on the ice and only a few subs. I’d love to play, but my shoulder will need to be in much better condition before I can attempt anything like this.
Game of Bandy being played in Oslo, Norway.
Giant ice groomer gizmo. Doesn't give as nice a surface as a Zamboni, but is a bazillion times faster!
Posted on 2012-01-10 by
Photos from around Oslo
I went for a walk around Oslo. Here are some snaps from my trip.
A small cemetery in Oslo.
Norwegian Parliament building in Oslo.
An ice rink I skated on near the Royal Palace in Oslo.
The palace where the King of Norway lives.
River in Oslo,
An Oslo T-blane station.
The road enroute to Metronet (where I'm working)
Posted on 2012-01-09 by
Sognsvann
I headed to Sognsvann just north of Oslo to go ice skating. It turned out there was way too much snow on the lake for skating, but I had a nice walk around the lake anyway.
Posted on 2012-01-08 by
Louis Pasteur: The Space of Life
A photo of mine from the Heidelburg Castle has been used in the documentary “Louis Pasteur: The Space of life“. The image used is from the chemistry laboratory at the castle and was used as the background for the laboratory of Jean Baptiste Biot, the man who discovered the chiral nature of tartaric acid.
As you can see below, they’ve zoomed in, then shrunk it, flipped it horizontally and used it as a background for scenes showing Louis Pasteur and Jean Baptiste Biot. It seems ironic to me that they used a mirror image for the background of a documentary about chirality :p
Louis Pasteur and Jean Baptiste Biot
Jean Baptiste Biot
Jean Baptiste Biot
My original photo from Heidelburg Castle
The documentary can be viewed on the LaRouche website:
My photo can be seen in the background between 6:20 – 7:46 and 19:58 and 22:02.
Posted on 2010-06-14 by
Leiden sunset
Vicki Argyle and I experienced this awesome sunset while in Leiden in the Netherlands.
Posted on 2009-03-29 by
Leiden
Victoria Argyle and I visited Suzanna and Cory Black in Leiden in the Netherlands.
Victoria Argyle and Suzanna Black
Posted on 2009-03-27 by
Amsterdam
Vicki and I used Amsterdam as our base for moving around Europe. They have lots of canals … lots of canals.
Posted on 2009-03-26 by
