Tag: english

  • 10 years ago today—suffering hangovers of biblical proportions—i was fired from my part time job as proofreader at the baltic times—for not being a native english speaker—and promptly replaced by a chilean-latvian

    actually, gvido was sitting there when they told me, proofreading away

  • sumsé, fyrir að koma með ís fyrir alla (alla! ekki bara skemmtilega fólkið!) fékk siggimus sungið um sig:

    hann er ekki dauður

    en það líður að því

    G. J. Briem

    as is custom, siggimus brought goodies

    as is custom, colleagues repaid him in song, a personal, private, unique rendering of the birthday ditty

    for siggimus they had these kind (roughly translated) words:

    he’s not quite dead

    but it’s coming soon

    G. J. Briem
  • albums you’ve heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag fifteen friends, including me, because I’m interested in seeing what albums my friends choose. To do this, go to your Notes tab on your profile page, paste rules in a new note, cast your fifteen picks, and tag people in the note. Don’t worry. This doesn’t have to be some desert island, be all end all type of shit.”

    In extremely random order, this is my top 15 but forever changing, even changed once since I put it here…:

    • Jeff Buckley – Grace
    • Belle & Sebastian – The Boy with the Arab Strap
    • Sugarcubes – Life’s Too Good
    • Violent Femmes – Hallowed Ground
    • Risaeðlan – Stríðið er byrjað og búið
    • Sigur Rós – Ágætis Byrjun
    • Pixies – Doolittle
    • Les Negresses Vertes – Mlah
    • Jane’s Addiction – Ritual de lo Habitual
    • The Knife – Deep Cuts
    • Le Tigre – Le Tigre
    • The New Year – Newness Ends
    • Nick Cave – Henry’s Dream
    • PJ Harvey – Dry
    • Sonic Youth – Dirty
  • celebrated yesterday’s anniversary & two week birthday with a bowl of icecream & going to bed at 9.45.

    … and 10.00 … and 10.20 … and 10.45 … and 11.30

  • The Dairy of Anne Frank?

  • Extremely proud, but quite possibly dead. Cycled 77 km today, bringing the total for 13 days of cycle to work just over 400 km. pu ha!

    Thinking of taking the car tomorrow…

  • So this is what the onset of caffeine poisoning feels like!

  • 24 hour flu

    the siggimus way:

    • 8 hours of proper man-cold on thursday
    • 8 on friday
    • finishing off with 8 yesterday
  • for those of you wondering: wearing underpants the right way around is better in pretty much every way

  • Vest of fear

    Ha ! I laugh at danger and drop ice cubes down the vest of fear

    Blackadder
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    Jibbí! Bara ein vinna eftir! Sem betur fer var það nýja og betri vinnan sem fær að lifa!


    Yay! Down to just one job! Luckily the new & improved one remains

  • Weather forecast says 19°c tomorrow.

    first (& only?) time it’s gone over 12°c this summer & siggimus is working :s