Happy to discover that there indeed are good ramen to be had outside Japan these days

The guy with a hoodie saying はじめまして is apparently planning to eat his ramen with fork and knife

A balmy -9C noon walk down by and over the frozen sea here in Helsinki

At the airport for a too early start, biting my tongue not to ask the SAS pilots waiting at the gate if they are sure about the difference between a taxiway and a runway

Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold

I do hope that the person who was asking for the location of a defibrillator on the company internal chat found it, and that it wasn't being asked for in an urgent situation

When it's so windy that the webcam up in the mountains is shaking, it's better to skip the skiing for today

On a call today I told everyone to mute their Microsofts when I meant to ask them to mute their microphones. Maybe my filters are getting thin this late in the week

Got so annoyed by a Medium article explaining an interface design framework, but used an AI slop picture of an airplane cockpit with factual mistakes, that I stopped reading and don't even want to link to it

One perk living by the harbour here in Stavanger is that you regularly go "what the **** is that?" when stepping out the door. That's the Monge, by the way. A navy missile tracking ship. French, obviously

There's been a cold spell of just below freezing for a few weeks now, which is unusual for Stavanger. The lakes freezing to skating strength is not guaranteed every year

January 30th: first day since early December that the sun peeks in through our window from behind the building next door. Life in the north, I guess

OK, the weather forecast is pointing towards me not going skiing this weekend, and rather staying home to watch the latest Freeride World Tour stage

The latest Freeride World Tour competition just dropped. On a Monday (due to weather windows critical to the sport). Now I've got to stay off Youtube for the whole week if I want to avoid spoilers

Chilly and windy, but the ski season is started! Most of the mountains here in southern Norway are just wind-packed concrete snow, but I found a slice of soft powder in the lee where I was expecting it to be hiding

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵

I'm OK with this, but can I choose the genre?

Happy new year to family and friends in Japan. Rare for us not to be over there, but Helsinki had reasons this time

The #1 movie when you were ten years old is how your 2026 is going to go

Today's rain is of the especially wet kind #Norway

Yes, I booked tickets to Hong Kong, but suddenly getting Youtube ads from there in Cantonese is a bit on the nose. If Google want's to track my life, at least be a bit subltle about it

Corporate rebel: banned from Outlook

My wife has just put forth a pretty compelling theory on how world history and the fate of nations ultimately is reflected in the different ratios of toilets to seats on airlines around the world

The gate agent at CPH would really like to take my hand luggage for free check-in, but unfortunately I only have a small backpack to give, so can't help her

There aren't many things setting international airports apart these days, at least in a good way, but the book swap with rocking chairs at Helsinki is on the positive side

2 out of 3 purchases at the DIY store were spot-on, one was the required statistical error

I appreciate the confidence of SAS showing an on-time boarding three minutes before our inbound plane is supposed to touch down. The downside of having too much info through public tracking data

Glad självständighetsdag! Our Independence Day is a good day to head over to Finland for a quick visit

The local football team Viking Stavanger has a chance to win the Norwegian top league tonight. Let's see how big of a party we get tonight downtown

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

I think "Regret to announce that tech bros..." is a pretty good universal opener for any sentence about tech bros

I'll take my small wins where I can get them #travle #1078 +0 (🎌) (Perfect) ✅✅✅✅✅ travle.earth

Some snaps from last week in Athens

We had a (supposedly) happy seal romping around in the harbour basin here in Stavanger today

The suit next to us is trying to use the force to aquire the table we occupied in the KLM lounge, but he's not jedi enough to succeed

Quality time at Schiphol with a 4+ hour layover

My wife, being Japanese, has no concept of anciant Greek deities. Myself, being European, albeit from a wrong corner of the continent when looking for ancient Greek insight, am left to make up some very sketchy explanations of the local pantheon that will probably come back to bite me later

Rocking our last night in Athens like it's 463 BC!

Ancient Possum still slurping from the cup after 4500 years

Popping down the shops, the Mycenaean way

Not reading any Greek, this display window becomes more intriguing the more I look at the details

Despite, or because, of the demonstration today, here's a less used angle of the Acropolis

Today there's a bit of extra action here in Athens, and we ended up with a longer than expected walk back to the hotel due to police shutting down metro stations and blocking off a swath of downtown for the annual November 17th demonstration. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_...

Old stones? Check

Good morning - Καλημέρα

Ok, we've done touristy thing nr 1. Still some old rocks to go see. #Athens Can anyone with an affinity for Monty Python avoid drawing associations from this

Good morning Athens! Hope we get an air conditioner that isn't stuck in cold mode for next night

Yes, KLM. I'd very much like to instappen for the AMS-ATH flight soon

Hoi Schiphol! Been 5-6 years

First leg SVG-AMS on a brand new E2 Embraer. Should be comfy