Random musings
I like my category ‘random musings’, it can be whatever I like it to be! Like right now, I’m musing a little about my current work.
As you’ve read in a previous post I got a job! I’m working as a system administrator, PC support technician and network technician at Kanal Lokal here in Linköping. Kanal Lokal is a local TV-channel that has offices in 4 different swedish cities: Linköping, Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö. There are around 200 people employed by the company, and I’m there to help out the single computer technician with all the aforementioned areas of work. So I’m doing some network configuration, configuring up a new mail- and www-server and helping out with peoples problems with their PCs. It’s quite fun, and most fun is that I’ve managed to keep a 8am to 5pm work schedule, and have kept my private life and work life almost totally separate. I don’t do private stuff when I’m at work, and I don’t do work related stuff when I’m at home. Works wonders for me!
Oh, did you know that Pluto is probably going to get back it’s planet status? According to a new draft about planets on the IAU website. They’re thinking about introducing a new class of planets: plutons. Three celestial bodies would be categorized as plutons, namely: Pluto, Eris and Ceres.
This is the best part of musing. Jumping from one topic to the next, in no particular order!
I”m also fed up with all the negative news we get from different channels, that creates the image that our society and planet is going to hell, rather rapidly. So I’ve tried looking up other sources of news. My favourite one today is http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/. Most of the sites I found had a christian spin to them, but this one seems very much free from it. It only reports good things, and after a while of reading it, I get a more balanced feeling on how our planet and societies really are today. Did you know that we today have probably the lowest amount of violence in our species total history? This according to A history of violence by MIT professor Steve Pinker. Or as he puts it:
Conventional history has long shown that, in many ways, we have been getting kinder and gentler.
I saw Die Hard 4.0 today too. I gave it a 4 out of 5. Lot’s of good action!
Oh yeah, the second pluton, Eris, is the “planet” formerly known as Xena, a planet far outside of Pluto’s orbit. And according to latest measurements it’s about 27% heavier than pluto too. It’s also got a little moon, Dysnomia, named after Eris daughter. Eris was the greek goddess of discord. Her daughter was the spirit of lawlesness. Fitting when you think that Lucy Lawless played Xena 
Caroline wrote,
Haha! Hadn’t even thought about that (last part). And I agree with you on Die Hard 4.0, but I haven’t had time to publish a proper review yet.
June 28th 2007 at 08:28 (8:28 am) — Using
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Hannes wrote,
Yeah, I’d give Die Hard 4.0 a 4/5 rating as well. It was action as it should be!
Oh, BTW, just realized Dark Tranquillity has a song called “Mind Matters”. Listening to it right now.
(You are lacking a heavy metal smiley
)
June 28th 2007 at 11:03 (11:03 am) — Using
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JenEriC wrote,
Hm, I haven’t seen it yet, so no spoilers!
June 28th 2007 at 11:54 (11:54 am) — Using
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malte wrote,
Umm, that thing about plutons is waaay old news. As I recall the pluton name was up for discussion at the IAU meeting in August 2006 and hardly anybody liked it. And there are as far as I know no plans for Pluto to get back its planet status. More Pluto stuff in Swedish is here.
June 28th 2007 at 20:34 (8:34 pm) — Using
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Mika Perälä wrote,
Hannes: It sure was! Ooh, I will have to try to get it!
Jens: Mouahahahaaa! Oh, well, I will be nice
Malte: What the!? Am I spreading old news!? Damn!!!
June 29th 2007 at 20:50 (8:50 pm) — Using
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Caroline wrote,
I find loads of metal smilies here. Or are you saying that ninjas arn’t metal?
Or that being angry and hitting people isn’t metal? 
Well, maybe those two are up for discussion but if getting your mouth surgically replaced with a zipper isn’t metal, than I don’t know what is.
July 2nd 2007 at 12:08 (12:08 pm) — Using
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Mari wrote,
Isn’t being angry and hitting poeople mental?
July 2nd 2007 at 12:23 (12:23 pm) — Using
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JenEriC wrote,
Mari, perhaps its mental metal.
And while the film did have lots and lots of action, it also had lots and lots of bad movie physics, so I feel forced to stop at a 3.5/5 rating myself. But it was very enjoyable!
July 2nd 2007 at 23:12 (11:12 pm) — Using
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Caroline wrote,
The spelling will have to be changed to “heavy me(n)tal”.
July 3rd 2007 at 19:08 (7:08 pm) — Using
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Mari wrote,
Well, as a body-synthare myself, I’ve always considered heavy metal to be mental…
July 3rd 2007 at 23:19 (11:19 pm) — Using
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Mika Perälä wrote,
Mental metal I like! Sounds cool
Hey, wait, there’s a movie coming about that… Transformers it’s called, or something like that.
July 7th 2007 at 02:21 (2:21 am) — Using
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JenEriC wrote,
Wrong kind of mental.
July 7th 2007 at 09:42 (9:42 am) — Using
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Mika Perälä wrote,
Wrong kind? Is there such a thing? I think not! It’s the right kind! You can bend mental to anything you like! Like menthol, mentanol, mentyl, menthos, mentos, mentor and so on!
July 21st 2007 at 04:24 (4:24 am) — Using
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