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  • How are you going to celebrate? :-)
    • Any suggestions?

      My plan consists of lot of sleep and excellent food with plenty of garlic (I've got some lovely beef in the freezer). I really should buy some good red wine as well and decide on the sauce. I think I'll opt for potatos - mashed, maybe, or prepared in the oven - this time. I couldn't find any good live music for the Saturday, but maybe I'll just go out and check out the local "underground" places tomorrow night.

      As far as Slashdot goes, I'll keep to my egomaniacal habits and talk about mys

      • I have two birthdays as well. If you go back to my earlier journals you'll see when one of them is, and the other is the corresponding lunar calendar date.

        As for food...hmmm. You could do this [aperitif.no] with the potatoes. And a rich red wine sauce perhaps? Steamed broccoli on the side? What kind of wines do you like? You have to have a fantastic wine for a fantastic meal! Maybe make a lovely garlic and goat cheese spread [garlicfestival.com] for a starter? Bake some baked apples sprinkled with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves with vanilla

        • You could do this with the potatoes.

          Ha! Done! I'll try that.

          I already had broccoli in my mind as I bought some today and a red wine sauce sounds like a good idea.

          I'm not so sure about the garlic-goat cheese spread, though. My last taste of goat cheese (I was 14, traveling near Narvik with my parents ;-) was really not that great, but maybe it's OK if you prepare it right.

          • I was 14, traveling near Narvik with my parents

            All of a sudden, I have this picture in my mind of a certain Finnish family wearing identical grilldress [turbostipend.com] (link for people who don't know what a grilldress is) wandering about Northern Norway, and this picture won't go away!!!

            Who, me? Stereotyping Finns? (Norwegian-style at that!) Never! ;-)

            • "Grilldress"?

              Haha! I know exactly what kind of "dress" you mean, but the term makes it even funnier.

              Stereotyping Finns? (Norwegian-style at that!) Never!

              Don't make me pull a knife [roselli.fi] on you. ;-) (Actually, I don't know if this stereotype is valid in Norway, but considering its prevalence in Sweden and Denmark, I'll gamble on it - I find it rather funny).

              • Crap translation of a joke in Norwegian, that boyfriend of tuxette just told me:

                Q: why aren't Finnish dance floors level?

                A: so that the blood will run off more easily

                :-)

                And don't get me started with the Pekka jokes. Your name isn't Pekka, is it? ;-)

                • so that the blood will run off more easily

                  One pub I went to actually had downsloping grooves in the floor tiling (a small pub, yes, but who the hell thinks a ceramic floor is a good idea for a pub?). I asked the bartender about them and he said that the grooves were supposed to "help cleaning up the place" - I didn't press for more details...

                  Your name isn't Pekka, is it?

                  No. Fire away... ;)

                  • The most "interesting" Finnish pub (or whatever) I've been to was this place called Doris in Rovaniemi. I really don't remember the floors, but there were chairs in the rafters. Lots of them. And of course, even though I was there with a large mixed group that included a lot of guys, there were 3 guys who were chasing me around all night. One of them bought me a bunch of roses; this out-of-place woman was wandering around the place selling them and this guy bought me every rose she had...gæææ
                    • out-of-place woman was wandering around the place selling them

                      Ah, yes. They hire these cute young women to lure us unsuspecting single men to our spend money on... flowers, yes. That is it. Flowers. Just flowers. ;)

                      this guy bought me every rose she had...it was probably you

                      You cruel, cruel, penguin. Dashing the hopes of rubber-booted Finns on /. like that. Have you got no shame, woman?-)

                      knee-high rubber boots and propensity for exchanging a large number of push-ups for money

                      Haha! The image of loc

                    • New sig? What does Tämä sielu on liian pieni meille kahdelle mean? I miss the Finnbiff sig already ;-)
                    • elaborate?

                      Well, about seven years ago, I was at a summer school at the geophysical observatory in Sodankylä. While not at class, we did such things as taking saunas (rantasauna, lots of it), skinny-dipping in the river, and going to local cafes and pubs. Now, in Sodankylä, there was this local, slightly past middle-aged man that went from pub to pub in his knee-high rubber boots. Inside the pub, he went from table to table, uttered some words in Finnish, did some push-ups, and demanded money

                    • Tämä sielu on liian pieni meille kahdelle

                      It's one of those rare cases when a literal translation actually works out: "This soul is too small for the two of us".

                      It's a quote from a track by Mokoma [mokoma.com].

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