Vikingsson on January 29th, 2010

I stumbled on this video and find it rather nice. Reykjavík was pretty interesting even back then. “Population 21 thousand, police force of three”. A few buildings in the film are still there and the hot spring laundry is still there but only as an historical artifact. Enjoy.

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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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Vikingsson on December 8th, 2007

With apologies to the Monty Python Dead Parrot Sketch and the Mark Twain Nevada Funeral I can’t get that line “pining for the fjords” out of my head.  I’ll get there, I’ll get there, soon.

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Vikingsson on October 31st, 2007

My system sends random quotes from various sources and today a Jack Handy quote came in that seems appropriate for this blog:
“When the age of the Vikings came to a close, they must have sensed it. Probably, they gathered together one evening, slapped each other on the back and said, ‘Hey, good job.’”
-Jack Handy
I posted [...]

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