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So in a national debate young, conservative women have been  accused of treating being a housewife as a live action role-playing game. As a non-conservative, non-woman, who might look younger than I am, I am live action role playing as a carpenter and I build this. A smal greenhouse.



It need some isolation and perhaps some paint. The first I am going to fix, the other, maybe that’s too late now when the snow has come. If one want to be creative I could, as decoration, 3d print the molecule coumarin with one flat side so I could attach it to the greenhouse. See I’m, of course, also live role playing as a gardener and one thing I’m going to grow is sweet vernal grass. A grass that’s apparently full of coumarin.

What I’m planing of growing is oregano, chervil, parsley and chilli plus that weird thing sweet vernal grass. One, it seems tempting to grow that. Two, when I ordered seeds to oregano and chervil they had a 3 for the price of 2 offer, so I had to find a third one. My first thought was marjoram, but those seeds wasn’t included in the offer. I ended up ordering seeds to sweet vernal grass.

More details about the plant. I read it likes acid soils. In school one lean that the soil in coniferous forest is acid, so in theory one could take a handful of soil from the forest. Likely more interesting, the chili I’m going to try growing is called Trinidad purple coffee. Well, I find that interesting anyway. Purple and taste like coffee?

Something else. Me and my sister B talked about starting a company. I guess to live action role-playing being a business manager. Anyway the thought of starting a company is exciting. My brain just take different things I have read or heard and combinedd it. That's what creativity is. Like this:

1. They say that when Absolut vodka was introduced to the American market, people said it would never catch on. The bottle was ugly and the booze come from an odd country. However it still worked. Those things become gimlic.

2. In the dystopian novel Super sad true love story, the female main character is Korean American and at least one time she drinks barely tea.


So combineding thosee two random things, we should try to sell Swedish barely tea, in ugly packets, to the Korean American market.Btw Google translate translate barley tea to gogmul cha, in Korean, but my money's on that being the wrong words. And now I wonder if I have to add that the last just being an example, not a real business plan?
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At the bookcafe at work, there an exhibition with photos from Bangladesh. The photograph supports a movement that educates girls in Bangladesh. So far so good. What I reacted to is that they educated the girls in "small-scale crafts". To me it sounds like, and note that this is just my thoughts as a dilettante on the developing world, a romantic fantasy. I’m not saying all girls in rural Bangladesh should grow up to make cutting edge research on quantum physics or genomics or A.I. or whatever, but is “small-scale crafts” really the future?

It made me think about Freeman Dyson article Our Biotech Future that now ten years old. Read more... ) 

 The other thing from work I want to share is that I saw a photo of a peace monument from 1955 in Sweden. The thought of a peace monument made me think that if I ever get another tattoo it would be of the Non-Violence monument outside the United Nations Headquarters, New York (pic: Wikimedia).



About the Swedish monument. The thing is that the statute i question celebrate the peaceful splitting of the union between Sweden and Norway in 1905. That was 50 years after the dissolution, a hundred years after the dissolution we let american artist Jenny Holtzer make an exhibition about itEnd of lecture.
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