Vikingsson on October 1st, 2007

It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of hot water in Icelandic society. The country is effectively run by hot and cold water. Hot being that lovely steamy water that is drilled out of the ground like the rest of us drill for oil. They run power plants on this stuff, [...]

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Vikingsson on February 28th, 2007

Author unknown, passed to me by mom.
John went to visit his 90 year old grandfather in a very secluded, rural area of West Virginia .
After spending a great evening chatting the night away, John’s grandfather prepared breakfast of bacon, eggs and toast. However, John noticed a film like substance on his plate, and questioned his [...]

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Vikingsson on December 2nd, 2006

I’ve been comparing weather in Iceland and Toronto and these past few weeks they have been very close in temperature. Hovering around the freezing point. Yesterday it poured rain and had it been just 2 degrees colder we would have had a lot of snow.
Well the temp dropped late in the day, the [...]

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