Arquette is Out
The good news for David Arquette is that he has just been released from rehab. The better news is that he's likely to stay clean now that Charlie Sheen has used up all the available hookers and cocaine in the state of California.



Snowmageddon
Yet another massive snowstorm is slamming much of the country just as road clearings supplies have run out. But most states plan on digging out by forcing all the global warming alarmists to shovel in the cold until they all drop dead.



Cairo Protests
The pro-Democracy protests in Cairo are expected to draw one million people today. Usually to get that many Arabs to show up anywhere you have to promise to stone some women to death.



Wisconsin Deal
Under a new deal, companies that relocate to Wisconsin won't have to pay income taxes for two years... and they won't be able to take off their winter coats for three years.



SF Yellow Page Ban
San Francisco may start banning the unrequested delivery of the Yellow Pages. It turns out too many people were using them to bash annoying enviromentalists over the head.




February 1st


1968: Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Labatt’s brewery.

1968: The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form the world’s largest urinal.

1978: After pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl, director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees the United States to France… where he has a hot lead on foxy 12-year-old girl.

TV2-serie about Organ Transplantation

Norwegian TV2 has started a new Fakta-serie about Organ transplantation.
In the first program we met Rune and Sigrid who had their life on wait until a donor could help Rune with a kidney and Sigrid with new lungs. In the program this week (Wednesday 9:40 pm) we will according to rumors at Rikshospitalet, experience a heart transplantation.
The tx-cor-nurses Ingelin and Eva Kristine in their office today may be part of the program. All of us heart transplantees have a relation to these professional nurses, and for me in particular Ingelin was my most important support during my 12 months on the waiting list. She has also been there if I have needed any help, during the almost 13 years since my combined Heart and Kidney transplantation in 1998.
If possible try to follow the interesting programs, and download the donorcard as an app asap.Read also about Troels who received new Heart, Lungs and Liver, and became a donor himself when donating his own old and well funtion heart to another sick person.

More Organdonation YouTube Videos can be found here.

TV2-serie about Organ Transplantation

Norwegian TV2 has started a new Fakta-serie about Organ transplantation.
In the first program we met Rune and Sigrid who had their life on wait until a donor could help Rune with a kidney and Sigrid with new lungs. In the program this week (Wednesday 9:40 pm) we will according to rumors at Rikshospitalet, experience a heart transplantation.
The tx-cor-nurses Ingelin and Eva Kristine in their office today may be part of the program. All of us heart transplantees have a relation to these professional nurses, and for me in particular Ingelin was my most important support during my 12 months on the waiting list. She has also been there if I have needed any help, during the almost 13 years since my combined Heart and Kidney transplantation in 1998.
If possible try to follow the interesting programs, and download the donorcard as an app asap.Read also about Troels who received new Heart, Lungs and Liver, and became a donor himself when donating his own old and well funtion heart to another sick person.

More Organdonation YouTube Videos can be found here.

House of the Week

A beautiful 20 year old William Baker house.
Mr Baker received the Arthur Ross Award in New York for this house in 1993. It sits amid many houses built in the 1920's and 30's - and is completely at home. To see detailed images of the house from Bill Baker's website - click here.






image from Harry Norman realtors




this image and one below via Harry Norman realtors



The house is currently for sale. Listing here.

Egypt Debt
Moody's has just downgraded Egypt's debt rating to "B-". Meanwhile, S&P has downgraded the country's debt rating to "Get the Hell Out!"

Rioting in Egypt is getting so bad, UN peacekeeping troops may have to be diverted to Cairo from their current mission inside Charlie Sheen's house.



Escape from Egypt
Things are getting so bad in Cairo, thousands of Egyptians are trying to get to America by disguising themselves as overpriced King Tut museum souveniers.



Mets for Sale
The financially strapped owners of the New York Mets are trying to sell off 25% of the team. They'll hold on to the other 75% that can't hit or catch the ball.



The Gov's Speech
California Governor Jerry Brown makes his "State of the State" address is today. He's going to ask Californians to support tax hikes, which isn't expected to cause much of a reaction because that part of the speech will not be broadcast in Spanish.





January 31st


1876: The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations… or the nearest casino, whichever’s easiest.

1929: The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky. He immediately comes to America to become a Harvard economist.

1990: The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow… meaning the Cold War was definitively won by obesity and hypertension.

January 30th

1649: King Charles I of England is beheaded. The rest of his body rules England for another 15 years.


1913: The United Kingdom's House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill. But since U2 doesn’t exist yet, no one outside of Ireland gives a damn.


1989: The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes… to make way for a Starbucks.

January 29th



1834: President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute… otherwise known as “the good old days.”


1996: President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing. From then on, all French nukes are “pass/fail.”


2001: Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign. They back down after they are granted a free period and no homework on weekends.

The old shed by the seaside

Ageing with dignity

Shot Wednesday on the small island of Algerøy, west of Bergen, Norway.

This is my contribution to Dragonstar's The weekend in Black and White.

Polarized reflection

Do you want your reflections with a polarization filter -

or without?

Shot Wednesday on the small island of Algerøy, west of Bergen, Norway.

This is my contribution to James at Newtown Area Photo's meme called Weekend Reflections. Post a reflection during the week-end, log on to MckLinky via his site - and you're on.

Beautiful Bedrooms

interior design by Barry Dixon

Beginning to work on a couple of bedrooms. Some inspiration photos...


interior design by Barry Dixon


interior design by Bunny Williams


Colefax Fowler wallpaper, image via finders keepers market


image via decorpad


interior design by Celerie Kemble


image via house beautiful, lynn morgan interiors


interior design by Miles Redd


interior design by Hal Williamson


Phoebe Howard


Phoebe Howard


Image via Southern Accents

Paulson's Big Haul
Hedge fund investor John Paulson made $5 billion last year. That's enough money to pay the pensions of three retired members of Congress!



Egyptian Crackdown
The Egyptian government has shut down Internet service in the face of violent protests across the country. There goes all the profits Amazon was hoping to make from selling flammable tires online.



GM Says "No Thanks"
GM says it no longer needs the $14.4 billion loan it had applied for from the government to become more energy efficient... but it will still need another $200 billion bailout from the government when no one buys the Chevy Volt.



NFL Lockout Warning
The NFL says a labor lockout or strike would cost the league $400 million per week. That's $100 million for the teams, and $300 million in lost retainers for all the players' domestic violence defense attorneys.




Carney Gets the Job
Former Time magazine reporter Jay Carney will become the new White House spokesman. Carney will continue to act as a mouthpiece for the Obama administration, now he'll just get paid by the government to do it.






January 28th


1547: Henry VIII dies, allowing hundreds of Englishmen the chance to finish eating the rest of the enormous turkey leg he choked on.


1935: Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize abortions, making the procedure the second most popular Icelandic pastime after suicide.


1965: The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament. Shockingly, no beer or hockey pucks are represented.

January 27th


1888: The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C., dedicated to helping teenage boys see topless pictures of women from Africa.


1967: More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space, but allowing those sexy gold lame jumpsuits for all female astronauts.


1973: The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War and give Oliver Stone a career.

You, me and over 2 billion more

In Norwegian media today we could learn that we now are more than 2 billion Internet users in the world.
I looked up the figures in the Worldometers real time and found the following statistics around 8pm ect.:

It was also clear that my blogpost would be only one out of half a million today.

From the same website I saw that the World population now has passed 6.900 millions with almost 10 millions newborn children since NewYear.
The population Milestones shown below can give us some thoughts and reflections, and perhaps one understanding of the migration wave we presently experience around the world.

You, me and over 2 billion more

In Norwegian media today we could learn that we now are more than 2 billion Internet users in the world.
I looked up the figures in the Worldometers real time and found the following statistics around 8pm ect.:

It was also clear that my blogpost would be only one out of half a million today.

From the same website I saw that the World population now has passed 6.900 millions with almost 10 millions newborn children since NewYear.
The population Milestones shown below can give us some thoughts and reflections, and perhaps one understanding of the migration wave we presently experience around the world.