anderswallin.net » Uncategorized http://www.anderswallin.net Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:21:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Red Red Light http://www.anderswallin.net/2011/09/red-red-light/ http://www.anderswallin.net/2011/09/red-red-light/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:54:42 +0000 admin http://www.anderswallin.net/?p=4933 Previously only seen in Oslo, but now also in Helsinki: two red men are better than one!

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

]]> http://www.anderswallin.net/2011/07/energy/feed/ 0 Keimola http://www.anderswallin.net/2011/07/keimola/ http://www.anderswallin.net/2011/07/keimola/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:48:45 +0000 admin http://www.anderswallin.net/?p=4571

]]> http://www.anderswallin.net/2011/07/keimola/feed/ 0 Orienteering - Pirttibacka http://www.anderswallin.net/2011/07/orienteering-pirttibacka/ http://www.anderswallin.net/2011/07/orienteering-pirttibacka/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:55:16 +0000 admin http://www.anderswallin.net/?p=4565 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 :)

]]> http://www.anderswallin.net/2011/07/orienteering-pirttibacka/feed/ 0 a good servant but a bad master? http://www.anderswallin.net/2010/04/a-good-servant-but-a-bad-master/ http://www.anderswallin.net/2010/04/a-good-servant-but-a-bad-master/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:02:06 +0000 admin http://www.anderswallin.net/?p=2926 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. Not so any more, especially at the airport. Given an address, the driver will probably not know which city or suburb to go to. After you write down your address on a piece of paper (been there, done that), since the driver speaks neither of our domestic languages, the journey proceeds exactly along the GPS trail. If they do the same with buses, install satellite-navigation everywhere, will it be good or bad?

How long before someone drives a bus into the water or off a cliff?

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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.

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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

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and Brandy...

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