A season of change is upon us. Fall. Autumn. The leaves have started turning yellow and red. Today was the first of the winter storms, with lots of rain and strong winds. Thankfully both seemed to have calmed down this evening, or I would be in serious trouble biking to work tomorrow morning. In spiteRead more
Some decades ago, Icelanders discovered that certain poplar trees (aspir, see for example Populus trichocarpa) grew very quickly even on wind-crazed bare land and as a result they were planted everywhere. These days people have started to view the poplars as almost weeds in habituated areas, because they have insane roots, and will spawn other poplars using theirRead more
Tonight was the first evening I’ve had to do work this semester – and that was only because this day turned out to be entirely packed with meetings and interesting lectures. I learnt for example that there are very few female professors in the medical department, and that when one of the first women doctorsRead more
The Sunday was just beeeaaaauuuuttttiiiiffffuuul! 🙂 I think we most definitely got a small taste of “indian summer”, which was nice just before the winter hits the fan. My main project of the day was tending to some trees we’d planted 15 years ago or so. These were trees that had been planted densely inRead more
Every five weeks we have access to the summer-house Finnur co-owns with his siblings. We usually invite people to come along with us, but this weekend “people” seemed to be either sick or busy so we went by our lonesome selves. We weren’t entirely alone though, because Finnur’s parents, who own a summer-house within easyRead more
Just a heads up that I’ve just added a blog-post dated July 18th: UK Vacation – Part One. Enjoy!Read more
Although living right next to work (2 minutes walking!) was really really convenient, I came to the conclusion that there is such a thing as living too close to work. For one thing, every time we’d drive home in the evening, we’d pass my building, and there would be lots of cars outside as theRead more
The school year has just begun, and this time I’m trying something new. It’s not new for most ‘big’ universities, but it is for me. Yup, this morning I arrived to class armed with a microphone and a pen-tablet, and recorded the lecture for posterity. What was recorded was my voice (and what could beRead more
Teaching begins tomorrow morning at 08:20. I’m much less stressed than I was last year, which I find slightly remarkably since I’ve hardly done any prep besides fishing out my old slides and reviewing the book index. Yes, I do have stuff to talk about tomorrow morning, and hopefully it’ll all turn out ok. ThisRead more
Bjarki and Anna get along remarkably well (and boy oh boy do I hope I’m not jinxing it by writing it Out Loud!). Sure, they poke and prod each other like any respectable siblings would, but every now and then they sit down together and read or play. One day I caught them in theRead more
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