So I'm checking to see if I can feed them life some other way..

Maybe there are female ones somewhere?

Yay silly eggs ;)

Kiddies


Adults

Yay! Eggies growing up.. so of course I'm getting more of them ;)
Again ;)

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Yay! Eggies growing up.. so of course I'm getting more of them ;)

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More eggies. Hopefully they'll live..

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More eggies. Hopefully they'll live..

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Slightly fewer dragons:



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Edit:
Two more..

Last dragon grew up - time for a new batch. :o



(Included my grown dragon for comparative reasons)

Edit: And so they all died. I'll try a single dragon egg and see if it makes a difference..



Edit: First it lived in the morning, all healthy and nice. And then it died.
Another one, which I guess I'll have to hide after a few hundred views then..

What type of Fae are you?




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Well, maybe I should try to write about my day before I forget more about it, especially since I didn't bring any camera along, so this and a few souvenires will be all the memories that will remain from this day.

After a slow and lazy start with some chatting the day started approaching noon and laziness continued with me telling the kids to get dressed for a trip to McD. (I was hoping to finish the collection of Mp3 players that were being handed out in the happy meals, but sadly that drive was over)

Once that visit was finished (with me eating the leftovers as usual.. I find it cheaper to just add a couple of cheeseburgers to a pair happy meals with chicky bits than actually buying a meal for myself) and the car was fed as well (not very cheap) we drove down to visit a few museums.

The prime intent was to visit the Teknorama but once we arrived at the parking lot the plans were finally changed for sure and our first visit went to the artillery park of the adjacent Maritime Museum. The artillery park is only a bunch of guns (some thirty or so) from different ages and calibers, sixty-pounders and twelve-inchers included and some really heavy anchors (fifteen feet long at least) - everything quite encouraging to young climbers.

After that brief stop we went inside the museum (that is included in the "free admittance" drive that begun last year when culture was supposed to be made more accessible) and marvelled at the huge and incredibly detailed ship models (scale 1:200), as well as the models of cabin interiors from thirty and one hundred and thirty years ago. Then there was a memorial exhibition to Estonia and a roomful of marine art, and a basement which smelled of the centuries old oak that had been fished up from the sea and put on display. (A forecastle of a ship, a section of a mast of another one and other such things.) Having taken that in we checked the museum shop, Jo found a cute little cat that I wouldn't buy her because I feel that she has enough plush animals. She finally agreed to just a postcard that she was to mail to a friend and we set out on part two of the days adventure.

Walking down to the lakeside we followed that path past the Tekniska Museet to the Etnografiska, or the "Mask Museum" as I called it. (Also free admission, same drive) Jo got a little tired on the way, but as soon as we had arrived she forgot about that. We started out by going to the top floor to look at the model of a Congolese village measured in 1976 to get a counterpoint to all the reports from Africa that just focused upon war and disasters. A couple of huts were built in full scale, and the entire village was represented as a model. (They also had a wall devoted to a new visit, so obviously the exhibition was to commemorate that it was thirty years since last time)

There also were a lot of other interesting things, like an african burial shroud (red, and about ten or twelve feet high, apparently mistaken for a demon god when displayed the first time about a century back), as well as lots of cultural displays of Eskimo, Sapmi and Aborigine culture (and about nine different american indian tribes, and some more african regions and the amazones.. lots of small exhibitions there) Downstairs we found similar ones for Asian Indian cultures, as well as the East Indies. The last part of the museum was devoted to Swedish explorers, Sven Hedin, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld but also many other less famous people. The musem shop netted E a nice metal globe (pencil sharpener looking like a 16th century globe) and Jo got a makeup mirror (pocket size.. her pocket). A plush animal was spotted, but we managed to leave in time before it became an issue.


So, finally we crossed the yard and entered the Technical Museum (I have a membership in the "Friends of the Technical Museum", so my entire family has free admission) where the first thing we found was that there was a coffee exhibit where the kids used an old-fashioned coffee grinder to make some coffee to bring home to RC (who was working). After that we went to the main hall and down into the mines below to look at them (sadly enough we were too late for the guided tour for kids that E had enjoyed so greatly last year, a tour which had been dramatized to a great extent). But even without guides it was fun enough, and probably quicker. E had made a dash for it when we crossed the yard, and Jo escaped a while during this time, but other than that there was no notable problems with keeping an eye on two kids alone. (But thinking back on it, it was probably just as well that I didn't try to bring the camera, because that might have been an added difficulty that I would have been unable to manage)

After the mines we went to the robotics exhibit and tried out some of the things there like the Infra-Red camera and the "Spell your name and the robot writes it" box, before going for the prize catch.. the Technorama. (Basically a playground for kids, but with an opportunity to learn stuff if the interest and tutor is present. Well, I didn't have much time to offer tutelage, since instead of chasing them to do this I amused myself a little instead ;) Once I decided that they had gotten enough of this I chased them over to the other room where they got to continue playing, but with other toys. It was in this room that I got to know that out of several thousands of visitors that had reported their "genetic lottery codes" only two matched my setup, and I have been there once before .. ;)
(One picks handedness, hair color and curlyness, nose shape, eye color, ability to smell musk, fingerprint style and thumb on top when hands are clasped together, IIRC)

Then time was beginning to run short and I had to guide them back to the robotics exhibit again, but since the crowds had thinned considerably there now we stopped a while to play a little Xbox and amuse ourselves some more. Then we got some free cookies from the cafeteria there as the girl manning it shut it down to move everything there over to the restaurant instead where it would be sold for a few hours more. (Or actually we almost stalked her to the main hall since we were more or less leaving, and by the time we all arrived there E said hi to her even as she got up from the wheelchair elevator she was using to get her wagonload of stores moved, and then he came running up to me and told me "she said I could have a cookie", so I had to tell him to "say thank you and accept one then" ;) (then I told him to ask for one to Jo as well, and she offered me one and everyone was happy. Or at least we were. I got a muffin and the kids got chocolate covered cake - yay us :)

We stopped in the main hall a while longer, then went up one set of stairs to be impressed by the exhibition about energy saving, but at this time I had finally managed to get in touch with RC and her workday was ending so we agreed that I should come pick her up since she works fairly close. So, a quick trip to the museum store later where dad got a set of books on sale and E got a small magnifying glass and Jo got nothing, because she wanted a plush seal and refused to budge. Or, well, she did budge once we got outside (to where I finally had to carry her) but by that time it was too late for her to get the amazingly beautiful and quite cheap spinning laser disk :p

Nothing much more happened that day (Wed 2 Aug). We walked back to the car, drove past RC's job to pick her up, drove to the Mall to eat some food in the restaurant arcade there (Pizza from one place and Sushi from another) and then shopped for some food and consumables. Jo got into a hit and run accident involving a child-sized shopping cart and a poor womans calf and she tried to run away crying but RC captured her and they waited outside while E and I did the actual shopping. Hmm.. there was one thing more. While driving home just after picking up RC I commented that Jo had wanted plush animals at every musuem and that I thought she had so very many already she said, with disappointment evident in her voice "But I want more" :p

Well, ranting done, or what I should call it.. brain-dump or whatever. If you have read this far I applaud you, but I must recommend that you get a life ;)
(Thank you for your attention and have a nice day.. I'll add things if I recall more stuff later)
(edit: like this link that right now leads to a picture from the Techorama, room 1 http://ada.sics.se/daphne/archives/teknorama.jpg )

So, what's the big deal about a blog on thinking? Well, I don't know for sure, but I :think: that what I'm looking for is to blither senselessly about the times of day when you can think, and then go off on a tangent that I already thought out.. unless I happen to come up with something funnier than myself to write about. (Or more likely forget about the tangent since I stopped writing about here for two days)

Well, anyway, when I bike home from work there isn't much else to do than think. (While I'm on my way :to: work I guess I'm too busy dreading the upcoming day to think clearly ;) This means that I get fifteen minutes of time where I can do nothing but think (and avoid crashing into things or people). This time could be used for a lot of things, but usually it falls into one of two fields: Either I consider posts I should make on RPoL, sometimes remembering a few details to build from as I get home, or I just ramble a little, like my first LJ post, and then forget about everything soon enough.

But since the delay here has made me forget what I should have written, I'll just do as RC told me and ask people to do that thinking and picture posting thingy. You know, think about me and take the first word that comes to mind - google for a picture using that word and then post that picture as a comment, without telling me what word you used.

Last year 852 million people in the world qualified for the exalted state of being suffering from "hunger". "Hunger" in this case means that they do not get as much food every day as would be needed to live healthy and productive lives, in fact getting so little food that thousands of them die every day.

If you were to visit all these people once during your lifetime, it would hardly be enough to visit one each year. Obviously, since that would mean you could at most visit 121 of them before beating the world record of age. Visiting one each month would also be moot in this scale of things, although you would get to met almost fifteen hundred of them before dying of old age.

So, we need to speed things up a little here. Let's try visiting one each day? Not enough, but now we've seen fifty thousand of them. How about staying up all day, every day and meeting one of them each hour? (It is beginning to become impossible to visit all of them, some will obviously have to come and see you instead. Muhammad and the Mountain and all that)

No, still not enough, but you have seen more than a million of them by now. So let's speed things up a little bit more and have them defile past you in a way allowing you to meet and speak some words with them, then have a new one file up every minute? Great, you've just managed to make a dent in the queue, seeing more than sixty million of them. (Still assuming you get to live more than one hundred and twenty years. It is also assuming that you started this task the very day you were born.)

But that is a little bit unrealistic, is it not? Let us assume that you began when you were twenty-five, and want the task to be done by the time that you are eighty, so you can retire in peace to write your memoirs? Then you would have to let them run past you in a pace of one every second, seemingly for years without end..

But actually you would be done already by the time you are seventy-nine. Lucky you :)