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Dannyboy is making breakfast in bed.

Stephen Fry’s musings on language, a favourite topic of mine.

via Stephen Fry’s Podgrams

Dannyboy is preparing for THE 21st.

It is finally starting to ‘warm’ up here. We have had below-zero temperatures constantly since November, and by now, the first month of Spring, the temperature is usually a few degrees above 0. There is still a lot of snow on the ground but it is of course melting away, leaving huge amounts the gravel/salt on the road and mush everywhere.

Soon the sun will be out and we will be wearing t-shirts, but not until we get ourselves through the Big Slush 2009.

Sketches on an iPhone - www.jorgecolombo.com/isketches

October 2008

Dannyboy + coffee + fry-up = yum.

NY Approach ATC online: Just listening to the approach at JFK and heard an emergency declare break problems.

… and snow is falling again.

The biggest jump I did yesterday sledging with the triplets and Laura. Got bruises and strains now (not from this jump) but it was worth it! :)

“An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.”

- Mitch Hedberg (via affremblequotes)

We were just out for a walk on the sea!

On Thursday Milja and I went with Raija and Ervo to the Taidemuseo (Art museum) in Helsinki to the Walt Disney and European Art exhibition. It is a collection of art from long ago (some as early as 15th century!!) which Walt Disney used as inspiration for his work. Alongside were lots of preliminary sketches, models and actual production artwork used in the films. I saw background used in Pinocchio and Peter Pan with the clips shown on a TV next to it. It was very cool to see the real artwork in person, from some of the most famous films ever made.

Also at the exhibition was the Oscar Walt Disney won for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1939 for “significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field”.

Dannyboy wondering if seeing Pablo live is worth 50EUR?

“Based on flight data recorder readouts, investigators determined that all was normal onboard Flight 1951—until the aircraft reached 1,950 feet during its final approach to Runway 18R with 135 people onboard. At that point, the radio altimeter readout on the captain’s (left) side suddenly switched to -8 feet. The altimeter, interpreting the 737 to be just a few feet above touchdown, commanded the autothrottles to power down and configure for landing. The “landing gear must go down” warning signal alerted the crew to the problem, but data indicate the signal was not regarded as a problem, according to the prelminary report. The 737-800 responded to the command, decelerating to minimum flying speed, with a stall warning sounding at 150 meters (490 ft.). The flight crew applied full power, but the aircraft was too low to allow recovery. The aircraft hit the ground traveling at 175 kilometers (94 knots) airspeed about 1.5 km. north of Schiphol. Normal landing speed is 260 km. or 140 kt.”

- From the investigation of the Turkish 737-800 that crashed in Amsterdam last week. We were on two different Turkish 737-800s as we flew to/from Dubai the previous weeks. Very scary that this happened just two days after we had flown on one.

Celebrating Mirka’s latest big-O on Wednesday.
(We made the cake!)

Dannyboy is baking.

There is a lovely white scene outside with big fluffy snow flakes falling in quite some number, leaving a thick layer of dusty sparkle on top of centimetres of the same still hanging around from January.

… I wouldn’t be going to school today.

[video] Dog sleep walking!

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