Spent this morning doing maintenance work on this very old hurdy gurdy with a very interesting history, which I shall be writing more about soon:

Spent this morning meeting a very interesting old hurdy gurdy owned by some very interesting people. Tomorrow we’re off to find a lathe with which to fix it.
Video: Benjamin Bech playing Icelandic dance tunes at VAKA 2015:
These tunes are three of the pieces of music Benjamin has discovered whilst researching old dance music known to have been played in Iceland. All three feel to me like polkas, although the second (“ræll”) could probably be played as a schottish too.
Back in Reykjavík after the thoroughly enjoyable Vaka festival! Many new friends made, tunes and dances learned. Thanks to everyone involved for putting on such a great event!
Now to catch up on four days of no German practice…
Candidate for most repulsive linguistical “diagram” ever?

Last minute reminder: VAKA is in Akureyri from this Wednesday! Join us for four days of Northern European folk music, dancing, workshops and crafts.
They’re pretty awesome, right!
Spotted this nice lichen-covered stone hiking near Meðalfellsvatn this weekend:

According to Baring-Gould, a Devonshire woman bought herself (via another man) from her husband in an 1822 public auction which she consented to, and had planned her way out of:
Just bought my one-way flight out of Iceland. In just under a month I say goodbye to this beautiful island for the near future. I shall be writing more soon about my experiences here, and what I’m getting up to next!
Installed Opera for testing and it somehow set itself as my default browser without asking. Anyone know how it manages this somewhat shady settings change? Mac OS 10.9
Looking through archives, I realise the real reason I stopped doing animation was after coming up with “The Spaghetti Entanglement”, I realised that nothing I ever made would be worthy of that name.
All booked up for this year’s vakafolk.is. See you in Akureyri in June!
Particle bridges in #Eurovision2015 are reminding me of suborbital trajectories #KSP
#Eurovision2015 prediction: by the end of the night @grahnort will just be mumbling drunkedly about “staging”
People hilariously live-drawing #eurovision: @RanFlygenring @sydneypadua @thingsbydan
Aaaah I only just realised the Eurovision final was tonight. Now, should I find a friend to watch it with, or try to figure out how my TV works?