I’m a lucky, lucky guy…

…Because my job consists of fiddling around with awesome astronomical
data, unraveling the most profound secrets of the Universe, and because
ther data isn’t just data, IT’S PRETTY TOO!

Fint digt:

De synker sammen under store dyner,
et sammenslynget bundt af ben og arme
på vej op gennem vandet. Mens det lyner,
erfarer de at gnidninger gir varme;
at spændingsforskel her og i det fjerne
får legemer og skyer til at larme.
Så kølig, næsten vandklar luft. En stjerne
står frem så tindrende hvor skyer svinder
at den blir selve morgenlysets kerne.
"Se dér er Venus," siger han, "hun binder
sit bånd af lys fra aftenen ned under
det øde natrums rand og op, og finder
sig selv igen ved daggry hvor hun sunder
sig lidt. Det er kun Venus der kan bære
så meget mørke." "Ja?" Hun smiler, grunder:
"Hvis jeg er Venus så må du vel være
Merkur: Et ansigt vendt mod sol, et andet
vendt ud mod mørket, så din atmosfære
er is og ild som aldrig bliver blandet.
Men du er helt tæt på. Fra nattesiden
Ser du mig klart som ansigtet i vandet."

Niels Lyngsø: "Force Majeure", 1999

My job

My job: find a little smudge of light, slightly brighter than the
background.
Also, find an apartment in Stockholm.

Konen og Klonen

I guess it’s our fault if he grows up gay.

LADY: Awww, such a cutie. Not very old, right? How old is she?
ME: He. He is 2½ months old.
LADY: Now that’s not easy to tell when he’s dressed in red, is it?
ME: *Politely biting my tongue and thinking of a blog post I’m going to do*.

Here he is in the gender-inappropriate, confusion causing outfit. I guess it’s our fault if he grows up gay.

I haven’t been blogging much lately…

Zed’s dead, baby… Zed’s dead.

Too bad Eskil was born too late to be in Pulp Fiction. Bruce W. wouldn’t stand a chance.

Down For Maintenance WIN

The best “Sorry, we’re temporarily down for maintenance” page I’ve seen
in a while.

Den vestlige civilisation – det lyder da som en god idé.

…Et par nedslag i det mønstersamfund, vi er så ivrige efter at
eksportere til resten af verden.

I Spanien ved myndighederne ikke, hvad de skal stille op med de
titusindvis af unge, frustrerede demonstranter, der fylder byernes
gader og pladser. Så de tyer til det gode gamle:

I Danmark har regeringen og Dansk Folkeparti valgt at skabe “tryghed”
ved at sende et klart signal om, at voldtægt nærmest er OK, hvis man
ellers kender offeret i forvejen:

http://jp.dk/opinion/kronik/article2441672.ece

Hvorfor vil de skide, primitive araber-muslimer dog ikke bare indse at
vi har forstået det det med demokrati og menneskerettigheder?

In other news: Stein Bagger truer med at forlade IT-branchen…

http://www.bt.dk/danmark/penkowa-truer-med-at-droppe-sin-forskning

The living Cosmos

It looks like biology, but it is cosmology. It looks like some sort of fungus or lichen, but it is a simulation of the era of reionization around 13 billion years ago, when the Universe was still only a few hundred million years old. The very first stars and galaxies heated up the dense hydrogen that was everywhere, creating small, hot bubbles that would grow  together and leave little islands of neutral hydrogen, which would eventually become galaxies like our own Milky Way.

Quiet! Genious @ work.

Soft bliss

Sneflokke kommer vrimlende…

…hen over Diger trimlende,
de ryger ud af Himlende og ind i Hegn og Gaard
De fyger ind ad Sprækkerne
til Pølserne paa Rækkerne
Og Faarene bag Hækkerne
faar glimt i Pelsens Haar!

Cannot remember that LaTeX math symbol?

Well, Detexify² is your saviour.
Just came across this litte gem of a web-based app as I was working on
my Master thesis. The concept is simplt: if you can draw it, you can
find it! The site shows a little window in which you can draw that symbol that
you really don’t use *that* often, but is still too rare to be found in
standard lates symbol lists. The patern recognition engine does a very
nice job coming up with a short list of the symbols best resembling your
scratchings, along with their \LaTeX commands. Aaaaand you’re flying!

http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html

Wtf?

Nice Photoshopping, dude.

Ill-advised

Ville det ikke virke mere relevant at gøre *imens*…?

Mere sensommer

A beautiful fall day

from the bridge at Christiania, Copenhagen. So peaceful and pretty, and
at the same time a bit disturbing…

View from the new office.

I could get used to that. Definitely.