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Red Red Light

Previously only seen in Oslo, but now also in Helsinki: two red men are better than one!

Warning! Yes! No!

Motorboat-HOWTO, short version:

Energy

Is 3700 kcals enough energy for a 24-hour hiking/orienteering event?

Keimola

Orienteering - Pirttibacka

Iltarastit pirttibacka, 6km course. Walking in the woods and slow jogging on paths/roads - slow enough not to cause problems with reading the map or continuously knowing where you are. As soon as jogging turns into running the brain seems to get too little oxygen, everything moves too fast, and I am lost

a good servant but a bad master?

Seen on the bus today: Yep, that's a GPS-screen top left. No need for the driver to know left from right, where the bus is, the route, or think much anything any more. Back in the Good Old Days if you took a taxi the driver was actually supposed to know where you were going. [...]

Winter

It is not very often you see this kind of snow-plower-winter-tram! 7k walk from Kumpula to downtown. Google earth inserts a golf-playing green man at every kilometer.

Dreamland

A documentary, "Dreamland", about Iceland was on TV this week. It's a strange mix of wonderful Icelandic landscapes combined with Capitalism with a capital "C". Check it out on YLE Areena now: (it's available 30 days from now, probably to Finnish IPs only) http://areena.yle.fi/video/712205

Merry Christmas!

Cake

and Brandy...