This will be the shortest of my four walks through Los Angeles. The others took hours, this one is like half an hour. (But I think the others were probably more fun and adventurous!) First, you are going to take the metro (the A line or the E line) to the Little Tokyo stop. This… Continue reading A walk through Los Angeles: Little Tokyo to the 6th Street Bridge to the Arts District
The Life and Letters of Lady Byron
I read this book because Lucy Maud Montgomery mentions reading it in her journals, and I'm very glad I did. The author is Ethelind Colburn Mayne. It's a very elegant name, is it not? Perfect for an extremely elegantly written book. This is the first line: The village of Kirkby Mallory, which stands ten miles… Continue reading The Life and Letters of Lady Byron
Lord Byron, poet and giant jerk
I've been reading the "Life and Letters of Lady Byron". That's the person who married Lord Byron, who is the poet we all learned about in school. He's the one who they told us was very, very romantic and went off to Greece to fight in their independence war and died. He wrote the poem:… Continue reading Lord Byron, poet and giant jerk
A walk through Los Angeles: Pasadena to San Rafael to Highland Park
This was a pretty nice walk, and I even did it on a day, in the afternoon no less, when it was 100 degrees F, and didn't pass out. You see some interesting things on the way. It's a bit over 4 miles total, and you have lots of chances to rest. Just do it… Continue reading A walk through Los Angeles: Pasadena to San Rafael to Highland Park
Configure Windows laptop without making a Microsoft account, 2026 edition
A few years ago -- before the pandemic, no less -- I wrote this post about how to get a new windows laptop working without making a Microsoft account. We don't want to give them more information than they're already nabbing. Well, turns out they have since then tightened all the rules, and now you… Continue reading Configure Windows laptop without making a Microsoft account, 2026 edition
Books about Swedish immigrants to the US
I've read a lot of books about Swedish immigrants coming to the US in recent years, so I thought I would describe some of them, and how their perspectives differ, and bring up how the American Girl series about the Swedish girl, Kerstin, seems to clearly cannibalize from a previous book. Utvandrarna/The Emigrants, Vilhelm Moberg… Continue reading Books about Swedish immigrants to the US
A mysterious book fight: who is she talking about?
I have checked out some of the books by Lola Akinmade. She lives in Stockholm, and she writes a blog. In December last year, she wrote the following on a post: The nosy part of my really wants to know who she is talking about. So she's saying that another popular book used 11 similar… Continue reading A mysterious book fight: who is she talking about?
Every Living Thing
I read this long long book. It's about Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist. At least half the book is about him. The other half is about another scientist at the same time, a French man called Buffon. (An unfortunate name, huh? Even worse, Buffon is not his original name, it was a name he picked… Continue reading Every Living Thing
My girl Alexa
I was waiting to see if we were all going to get pulverized into dust. Now that we live to see another day, here's Alexa: Alexa This is from way back when, before google or whoever named their voice thing Alexa. Way back, I made some videos about Alexa. In this one, she's singing with… Continue reading My girl Alexa
Earth geographic data into Blender
There's lots of ways of getting Earth geographic data into Blender, and I really love all of them. It's so fun to create 3D worlds in Blender: A 3D replica of the Swedish mountains in Blender This particular mountain scene I got through this technique wherein you can get the data that you see on… Continue reading Earth geographic data into Blender
