Vikingsson on July 23rd, 2009

The short version of what the sun feels like on an early winter day near the arctic.
It is like a sunrise that lasts for a few short hours and then spends the same time in sunset.
To the more equatorialzed visitor it is very noticeable that 9:30AM is still black as the darkest night.  The [...]

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Vikingsson on March 23rd, 2009

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 [...]

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Photo Flickr on January 10th, 2007

Halastjarnar McNaught / Comet McNaught
Original photo by Hrεiδar.
This picture was taken yesterday in Reykjavík Iceland, by pure luck and good karma I saw the same thing tonight near Toronto Canada. (click the pic for the original flickr pic). I wish I had my camera with me.
I saw it almost by accident since I hadn’t [...]

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