ABC Wednesday - S

On Monday I was challenged by anemone to

"Pick up the nearest book.
Open on page 123. Find the fifth sentence. Post the next
three sentences. Tag five people, and acknowledge who
tagged you."

So first I have to send greetings to all bloggers and possible readers around the world by inviting them to take the challenge and pass it further.
S is for SKÅL to Selected SentencesBut when planning for this ABC Wednesday I thought there was no other interpretation of the meme than
S is for Summer Residence

The following photos are thus a presentation of my Cottage, inside and outside with some the flowers we have around us during the few summer months in Oslo.
Click on photos to zoom.The roses are climbing up the wall of the appendix.

"Living room" decorated with my own paintings
"Dining room" and entrance to the bedroom
Japanese apples?
The first to come
"Forglem meg ei"
Roses
Pink Peonies smells good
Hundreds of FlammenTanz Roses
and beautiful pink single roses
Natural motive for painting
and the result a la van Gogh
But most of all we look forward to the warm sunshine and temperatures like last year.
Have a nice summer.

Tuesday facts - Mobile phone development

Yesterday I showed you one of the gaps we have noticed between today and the past regarding Data Storage and Memory Capacity within computers. I was active on Internet when staying in Singapore in 1994, but my first mobile phone I acquired four years later in 1998.

Before that I used in my car for a short time in 1983/4 one of my employers Ericsson NMT Radio SystemThe real market development of mobile phones started in 1984 when Motorola presented their "Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage Unit"DynaTAC8000X.
From then on we have all been in the middle of the Mobile (Cell) Phone development. This evolution can be watched on this YouTube Video.

My mother-in-law died two years ago at an age of more than 100. I often think of the changes she had lived through, but the volume of changes we have to adopt today must be even more difficult to understand for those coming after us.
Yesterday NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander had a successful touch down at the planet Mars. Will my grandchildren think of that as odd when their next door friends are planning their summer vacation at the Moon?

If some of you feels that we are left behind in this rapid changing world, relax a few moments with the photo of my neighbors Falcon-Knight Six (2 doors) from 1927. It is only 80 years ago this "wife"-car became a sensation.

Odd Shots Monday - Magnetic Tapes

Some of us have lived some years.
Forty years ago I joined the pioneers in the Development of Data Processing in Norway after being employed by the Norwegian Ship Classification Institution DNV - Det norske Veritas. My career has given me a lot. Personal and professional (and total kidney and heart failure).
But the almost twenty years within Human Resources, Leadership and Management, as a continuation of more than ten years of development within IT or EDP (as we called it in late 60s) have been fantastic years. I never would have been without.

These Monday Odd Shots was taken during that period when data storage, short term and long term, was saved on Magnetic Tape Data StoragesFor many of you using todays laptop computers, the web, e-mailing, photo manipulation and databases called servers, these volumes of sequential data storage may perhaps be a little odd.
When I started with EDP we used Punched Cards as the medium for input of programs and data. The computer IBM 360/20 had 128Kb memory (K = 1000) while my present MacBook Pro has 2Gb internal memory (G = 1 000 000 000).
However, I will save you for more of the historical details and only which you all the best for the week after you have visited Kathney for her and all others Monday Odd Shots

Solvang Pictures

Home after a working day at our Summer Residence. Flowers planted at the balcony and in the flower bed. Last clean-up and preparing for sleeping-over and watching the fruits growing.
The blossom comes from:
Apple three James Grieves Origin: Scotland from 1890 but in our garden since mid last century. Medium to large, conical fruit. Size medium, round conical slightly ribbed shape. Almost solid crimson over yellow. Savoury, juicy yellowish flesh. Crisp yet melting.Red Current will give us ab. 40 kg berry.Blackcurrant which normally only is for eating direct from the bush.And in the air, a veteran aircraft (LN-WND Dakota Norway Sandefiord Norway) flying just over our heads:

Almost summertime and a new Stetson Hat

The summer is close. Yesterday I bought a new hat.

Stetson Genuine Panama Hat hand-woven in Equador from the fine fibers of the Jipijapa palm and blocked in the US by Stetson. Black silk grosgrain band. Pinch-front crown. The fine mellow classic natural color panama hat that can be used for both dress and casual wear.

Wearing hat in bad weather I normally do. The umbrella can be left at home and the bold top of me is protected from the cold.
During the summertime I often use the pirate scarf, but from now on when strolling the city, the off white retro style Panama Hat will be preferred. Because of the lightness, Panama hats are worn in warm weather and the wide brim provides sun protection.

Saturday Urban Life - Market in Bogstadveien and Down Town

"Når Kastanjene Blomstrer i ..........", When the Horse chestnuts blossom and the scent of lilac is all over Oslo, it is time for the Car free market in one of our neighborhood streets.The weather was not the best, but in party-tents a lot of products could be yours.
Pastries, Halfpriced modern cloths, supporter-scarfs and some winter fabrics

The market day also gives odd activities a free space of selling their products. Rubber hats for children and Health studios motivation campaigns
The pavements of the Norwegian Capital´s main street Karl Johan are covered with sayings from our writer Henrik Ibsen,and at "Kunstnerforbundet" you may see Reidar Kraugeruds colage
What else do you expect from Oslo in May. Lunch at Cafe Christiania? Of course.
Have a nice weekend.

Eating out?

Due to the fact that anemone must have hit something in the air through her thursday post (based upon comments), and the weather in Oslo invites to a very short experiment within this extrovert behavior, I present one of the documentation from last summer within the same topic - Eating out!However, when touching the topic and not being too passionate to this activity physically, this blog must also take the opportunity to include one of Picassos versions of E.Manets Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe and the original if you prefer that versionThe very big question regarding Manets Breakfast in the Green, and only one month till midsummer (St. Hans) is:
Can you find the Frog?

I have also been younger - years ago

Lately some of the bloggers I visit daily have presented old pictures of themselves or their parents, grandparents etc. Due to the fact that I got my new scanner CanScan 4400F this week, I am also able to present old memories from Ålesund.
Here you see photos of my grandparents
(father side) Peder Kristian (1880-1961) and Jetta Jacobine (1878-1975) are probably from 1949 and
(mother side) Sevrin (1886-1960) and Sofie (1892-1967) taken about 10 years later.
But photos of me and my mother and me and my sister taken early 1950s are also interesting images. You can easily se the post-war clothing in the first, and the National Costume on my sister (from 1951) we still have in the wardrobe. Rikke was the latest user and now we wait for Helene to fit into the Bunad from Sunnmøre.Around eleven I joined the shoolband (Nørveguttene) playing the Trombone for more than five years,
whereafter I started with sport (Rowing) together with Anton, Even and Åke, and took my GCSE before leaving Ålesund and settled in Oslo.

The last photo is of me and Asbjørn on the "Russetur" to Copenhagen, Berlin and Hamburg in 1966.

ABC Wednesday - R

The preparation for this week ABC Wednesday made me think about at least four possible words starting with R:
R is for Room, Roof, Recommendation and Restaurants at Rue de Bouchers

In a way all these words was linked together as I normally take photos of the view from my hotel Rooms and many times the window is higher than the Roofs below. Sometimes places I have visited when staying at these hotels, are on my Recommendation list like Rue de Bouchers in Brussel.With the atmospheric charm and the cuisine, Rue de Boucher is a walking thoroughfare abounding with 17th century stepped gables, decorated doorways, cafes and restaurants with lavish pavement displays of seafood, piled high on mounds of ice. It is often called a "tourist trap" in regards to menu prices and quality of food, but I liked the atmosphere and will Recommend you to go there.
The Restaurant painting above I made out of my visit there in 2006.
The original display of seafood in front of the Restaurants looks like this.Some of you have of course seen the movie "Room with a view" from 1985 with Maggy Smith as the chaperone in Florence. The view from my hotelroom in Brussel was these Roofs:From the hotel Rooms in Kuala Lumpur and Shanghai I shot these photos of the Roofs below:I also Recommend you to visit the spectacular Roof at the new Oriente Railroad Station in Lisbon. The Oriente station is an inter-modal terminal: Its facilities serve and interconnect several forms of transport. Passengers can change between metropolitan, long- and medium-haul regional and international trains. There are connections into the underground system, national and metropolitan buses or taxis. There is also an airport link and check-in facilities.Other fabulous and Recommended Roofs are the Trulli in Alberobello, Italy, the Dome at the Cinema Colosseum and the Pave Roof on the New Opera House in Oslo, Norway.

The Roofs at the Restaurant area Boat Quay in Singapore and the City Hall in Sintra, Portugal are also places to visit:

When I climb up in towers and hills on my journeys, I find motives like the Roofs in Tavira, Algarve, Southern Portugal, and like the medieval Moorish part of Granada, Spain like Albayzin.
The Roofs of houses seen from the city mountain in Ålesund, Norway, and at my own summer Residential area, just Require to be presented with photos in this blogpost

Many of these places is on the list of World Heritage sites and if you want to see more photos based upon the letter R, visit MrsNesbitts Place.
But before you leave, join us at the ground in front of the Berlaymont building which houses the European Commission Headquarter in Brussel.

R is also for the Representative Refinement of my wife.