In Iceland there is a high potential for the ground to shake and for lava to flow. It has happened over and over again. However it is also true that thunder is very rare but rainbows are very common. Is it coincidence that the people there are both outwardly stoic yet emotionally optimistic?
Some have called them delusional when they proclaim a bright future for themselves. As if they should spend/waste a lot of time analyzing details and extrapolating the future on a pie chart. Simply get on with it. What do you want and how do we get there while attempting to be fair to all? Learn from but don’t wallow in the past. Respect and acknowledge history but look ahead and remain flexible.
Thunder due to the speed of sound is about the past. Rainbows are about right now and point to the proverbial Eden in the future.
The almighty kreppa doesn’t have to dominate the news every day. Life goes on and we must pause to take notice. Turns out the otherwise stoic Icelander are possibly the worlds best at something you might not expect. Film at 11.
.Inspired by the kreppa but this goes way beyond, a whole neighbourhood that was built just before the bubble burst has been bought out in a bizarre scheme to gather votes.
.The conficker worm doing strange things in Iceland and beyond. Excerpt:
“Reports are trickling in about the impact from the Conficker worm, as infected systems passed zero hour at midnight and began downloading additional malicious components. Here are a couple of the more notable incidents caused by Conficker so far, according to published reports: — ‘… shortly after midnight local time, an ATM in the capital city of Reykjavik began spewing 100-Krona notes. … A nuclear missile installation near Elmendorf Air force Base outside of Anchorage, Alaska briefly went on a full-scale military alert after technicians manning the bunker suspected that several of their control systems were infected with Conficker.’”
.Iceland gets an unexpected boost that will help the country and the U.S.
.A few tidbits to make this day much more clear.
I hope your April 1st was as funny as mine.
Best quote of the day, from The Iceland Weather Report
The Icelandic nation has been nearly wiped out about three times in the last 1,000 years, through famine, disease, or volcanic eruptions. So what we are experiencing today is like a luxury problem.
I haven’t been posting for a while and I’m getting a little tired of this funk. I’ve run many post ideas through my head over the last few months but never the energy to write them down. Well here’s a pointless post to get me back in the game. Perhaps the trivial and less than profound is what I need to start writing again.
For no apparent reason other than I just open my eyes I’ll wake up rather early in the mornings. Doesn’t matter how late I went to bed or how awful my sleep was, I just get up. I do enjoy a quiet still morning. The drone of cars and other human noises in the distance hasn’t started yet. It is just me and the (newly arrived for Spring) birds although I’m not after the worms, I’ll leave that to the early birds.
To keep this post plain and typical I’ll say that my cat followed me to the lakefront. But this isn’t about my cat. The sunrise was a lovely red, the crescent moon and Venus were rather lovely. So much so that I went back to the house to get the camera. By that time the light was gathering and the sounds of human were beginging.
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