Eating the conventional “pasta with everything sauce” before 5-day trip round Iceland with @andr3 — off to @hakkavelin to make a hydrophone for recording glacier noises before packing.
Eating the conventional “pasta with everything sauce” before 5-day trip round Iceland with @andr3 — off to @hakkavelin to make a hydrophone for recording glacier noises before packing.
Woke up, saw bright sun from window — “great, I’ll go rock jumping at Perlan”. Made breakfast (5 mins), hailing on other side of the house. Ate breakfast (5 mins), now snowing. Wrote this note (30 secs), now sunny again. #thisisiceland
Also last night: second try cooking horse meat from kolaportið — attempting to make edible via boiling on low heat for 4 hours. Afterwards it was significantly more tender but still fairly disgusting — would not recommend buying. Maybe as dogfood.
Snorri took @andr3 and myself out to Kleifarvatn last night — no aurora but plenty of amazing geology and photos! Not having a fancy camera I resorted to making some interesting effects with a torch in the snow:
Snorri and André took far more interesting photos, they can be seen on Facebook and Flickr
Photo of the large EU Vote protests happening today outside Alþingi, Reykjavík:
Taken from the @piratepartyIS offices — thanks, you guys are the best!
Spent the evening at a dj. flugvél og geimskip concert, which, for those who have not witnessed this genius at work, looks and sounds something like this:
Celebrating oneoldernessday at the office by finding my Icelandic name – it’s either Bjarndal (bear dale) or Bjarnhéðinn (bear skin, pronounced byarn-hey-thinn).
The ever-awesome @briansuda and Ninja got me a copy of berglondon.com/products/svk — loving the affordances of having ink you can choose not to see, also pondering the possibilities of additive fanfiction where you add your own internal monologue/headcanon/background details in-place over the canonical storyline.
@w03_ thanks, and YES PIZZA
Reflecting on 2013 with my #family. Biggest things personally have been making my second #gurdy, moving to Iceland and meeting+working with all the great people over here. Lots of #indieweb and #taproot progress, including a great indiewebcamp in September.
Looking forward to 2014: more cooking, more indieweb progress, seeing more of Iceland, going to some gurdy festivals, improving hardware hacking abilities, connecting my gurdy and other devices to the web and each other.
Last work morning of the year at Vísar today — really enjoyed the 9 months I’ve spent with the great people here so far. Looking forward to having a break before running a whole bunch of surveys in the new year!
Heading over to Sumendi, hoping that I do actually have a reservation. Everything looks delicious!
How to watch a film, Háskolábíó style:
Tjarnabíó is like this too. Not that it isn’t well-priced or enjoyable, but… there are some optimisations which could be made here.
Wow, Reykjavík is almost full during Airwaves as it is during the summer, just with trendier tourists.
Enjoyed a pre-preview screening of HEILD by Trailerpark Studios — beautiful film work by an inspiring artist. Also great to meet some folks from @sfembassy — enjoy the rest of your stay in Iceland!
HEILD trailer:
Recorded an unnamed #gurdy tune yesterday + saw #aurora for the first time today = easy tune name! Lights In The Sky:
Want to play it? Have a peek at the sheet music.
Noticed the Big Tower Of Light Pollution, then a smudgy green cloud, which turned into the northern lights. They really are astonishingly beautiful.
Watched for 30mins from Arnarhóll. Harpa and the peace tower looked pathetic in comparison to even the weakest of the shimmering curtains.
Government web services are fun to use. It takes three web forms to download, then upload, a PDF form. I heard you like forms…