tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59084738586102032412024-03-14T02:43:11.418+00:00Reykjavík daily photo blogVirgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-12996292439121932862009-02-23T13:47:00.006+00:002009-02-25T12:19:44.371+00:00I guessed ..you guess<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SaKpG_9om-I/AAAAAAAAAvo/SSHJTJyArSo/s1600-h/IMG_0462.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SaKpG_9om-I/AAAAAAAAAvo/SSHJTJyArSo/s400/IMG_0462.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305989248710122466" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />What is this ?</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:-webkit-monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Clue: n°1 Iceland is gastronomically know for...whale steak, roasted puffin and rotten...but also....:-) Clue n°2: When President Clinton visited Iceland He told that they were the best "....." He has ever eaten.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap;font-family:-webkit-monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap;font-family:-webkit-monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap;font-family:-webkit-monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap;font-family:-webkit-monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">answer..this is a Hot-Dog Holder.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap;font-family:-webkit-monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap;font-family:-webkit-monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Bill Cinlton´s favorite...</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap;font-family:-webkit-monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;">see following link:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap;font-family:-webkit-monospace;font-size:48px;"><a href="http://tegis.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/small-hot-dog-stand-in-iceland-to-support-clinton/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://tegis.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/small-hot-dog-stand-in-iceland-to-support-clinton/</span></a><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap;font-family:-webkit-monospace;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-55447395765160446272009-02-20T15:51:00.003+00:002009-02-20T16:00:59.796+00:00It´s time to start again to blog<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SZ7ShN5poOI/AAAAAAAAAvY/MqzZnM2Lrr8/s1600-h/Picture+005.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SZ7ShN5poOI/AAAAAAAAAvY/MqzZnM2Lrr8/s400/Picture+005.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304908879198003426" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">It ´s time to continue to work on this blog. so this is the first post for 2009. I am sorry i have been busy doing other stuff, and i haven t had a lot of time to work on this blog. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This picture is not the best quality, It has been taken with my Iphone, but i think it´s a good start for 2009.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As you might have heard, Iceland has been badly hit by the current financial/economical/toomuchbullshit crisis...Anwya...Iceland is only down not dead !</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">More to come soon </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;">Virgile</div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-1066246436495794872008-12-11T11:07:00.003+00:002008-12-11T11:14:33.032+00:00On the move<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SUD1dRGpECI/AAAAAAAAAts/F1GQK3CMlD0/s1600-h/IMG_9667.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SUD1dRGpECI/AAAAAAAAAts/F1GQK3CMlD0/s400/IMG_9667.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278488646434492450" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">On my way to work this morning.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;">Virgile</div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-63688578888179578522008-12-09T08:52:00.000+00:002008-12-09T08:52:01.113+00:00Winter sunset in Iceland<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/ST0LIXZmpcI/AAAAAAAAAtk/7SjU7344WQA/s1600-h/IMG_9645.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/ST0LIXZmpcI/AAAAAAAAAtk/7SjU7344WQA/s400/IMG_9645.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277386576696354242" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Yet another winter sunset in Iceland ?<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Who told you it was dark ?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;">Virgile</div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-83763521786809135682008-12-08T11:45:00.004+00:002008-12-08T11:52:03.702+00:00Dark Darker Iceland / Brigh Brigther Iceland<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/ST0J624OJRI/AAAAAAAAAtc/egeOSZ8i2YU/s1600-h/IMG_9650.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/ST0J624OJRI/AAAAAAAAAtc/egeOSZ8i2YU/s400/IMG_9650.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277385245116474642" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Too many people think that during winter there is only darkness in Iceland. Too many people are wrong. Nights might be longer, but during the short time of day light we usually have very good weather and plenty of sun. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here is a picture of an Icelandic winter sunset. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;">Virgile</div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-48230700952447039782008-12-04T22:17:00.000+00:002008-12-03T22:29:26.608+00:00Frozen<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/STcIBsT8WVI/AAAAAAAAAtU/BdOMPQe3UgY/s1600-h/IMG_9534.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/STcIBsT8WVI/AAAAAAAAAtU/BdOMPQe3UgY/s400/IMG_9534.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275694313655523666" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">This is getting cold here....<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: right;">Virgile<br /></div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-22671167005351845522008-12-02T15:03:00.000+00:002008-12-03T15:48:16.063+00:00They also do it on mondays !<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/STapK36VN3I/AAAAAAAAAs0/30vcXk361LA/s1600-h/IMG_9535.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/STapK36VN3I/AAAAAAAAAs0/30vcXk361LA/s400/IMG_9535.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275590017783510898" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/STapbZZrbyI/AAAAAAAAAs8/VcUksT-SeIc/s1600-h/IMG_9536.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/STapbZZrbyI/AAAAAAAAAs8/VcUksT-SeIc/s400/IMG_9536.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275590301651267362" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Monday was the day of the Icelandic Nationhood. People once again took the occasion to protest...Once again i have to point out the peculiar way Icelanders do have to protest...Once again they were throwing food. After the sempiternal skyr, tomotoes and cabbage, Monday protestants granted the house of the government with <span style="font-style: italic;">be ready</span> Gorgonzola and filet mignon. If you do prostest in Iceland you apparently must do it with style and good taste. Note that on the picture, birds seems to really enjoy it !<br /><br />Here is few pictures of the protestation.<br /><br />Note that there were even pirates among the protesters ! masked people , anarchists., teenagers...and anti European Union people....Not gonna start to talk about it...This is getting pointless<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/STapxVNWOsI/AAAAAAAAAtE/4J93zZhVC5s/s1600-h/IMG_9584.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/STapxVNWOsI/AAAAAAAAAtE/4J93zZhVC5s/s400/IMG_9584.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275590678482926274" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/STaqF_hPTSI/AAAAAAAAAtM/QR6DUkNZ9WE/s1600-h/IMG_9560.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/STaqF_hPTSI/AAAAAAAAAtM/QR6DUkNZ9WE/s400/IMG_9560.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275591033438031138" border="0" /></a><br />I still do not agree with the protest. I think this is a way of running away from the problems. Insteat auto-proclamed intelectuals and well educated people leading those project should start to work on real economical-industrial-financial solutions and build up projects. Instead of standing by the microphone and scream how unfair is the situation and blaming authorities, life and the others for it. Make you own self analysis and move your ass. built somehting Where were you when it started to go bad in the beguining of the year 2008? what did you do to prevent it? Did you take loan in foreign currency to go shop in tenerif or build a buisness? How many time have you maxed your visa card on the last 5 years ? etc... etc...<br /><br />Start to propose real stuff and act. Drop down the protest sign, get a pen and paper and get to work !<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">Virgile<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-88122064130525373102008-11-27T17:04:00.007+00:002008-11-27T17:41:17.426+00:00Pick your fight....Pick your time<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SS7TrZ-YlLI/AAAAAAAAAss/zV0ho-cYHoI/s1600-h/IMG_9447.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SS7TrZ-YlLI/AAAAAAAAAss/zV0ho-cYHoI/s400/IMG_9447.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273384956357809330" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Women´s Emergency Government !<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">There is protest in Iceland and it seems to me that a certain number of people are trying to help to fix the situation. Political leaders, writers, journalists.. feminists....<br /><br />With the risk of being accused of sexism, i found the last one quite peculiar. The idea has flourished the last couple of weeks. Women are not responsible for the crisis, they were not the boss of the bank (however they were working strategical position that also lead to the situation, and for some of them, became today the new boss of the bank....mediocrity pays afterall). They also say that the measures taken during this crisis are mainly securing males´position in society...etc...<br /><br />Last saturday they dressed the status of Jón Sigurðsson, figure of the indepence of Iceland (would like to point out that they did it with the help of a useless man -they did not succeed to do themselves.... not so useless after all... not so useless...)<br /><br />I would like to say....<br />Pick your fight....Pick your time.<br /><br />First of all...why pink ? There is nothing more sexist than this color...Feminists.. you are wraping yourselves in one the thing that has been used to drag you down. Many studies (sociological, psychological have demonstrated the use of <span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255); font-weight: bold;">pink</span> to control and drag down people... from little girls to convicts !!! google it)<br /><br />I understand the fight of feminist s on many scales... work, salaries, right equalities., violence... i am all for it...But is it not crossing the line to start to do that kind of discourses? Why do you promote one form of sexism ? Why not start to promote racism in that case?<br /><br />I was thinking to create an Gay Male Emergency Gouvernement...Well well what about this ? No Gay Male in the Gouvernment ? No gay boss of a bank ? and we are the very first victim in it ? Who would you fire first ? the mother of 2 or the childless fag one ? (It´s actually more or less happening). We are the victim in this story ! Our rights will be once again drag down for the benefit of straight people !<br /><br />Gay Male Emergency Gouvernement -Power- Gay Male Emergency Gouvernement -Power- Gay Male Emergency-Power- Gouvernement Gay Male Emergency-Power- GouvernementGay Male Emergency Gouvernement-Power-Gay Male Emergency Gouvernement-Power-Gay Male Emergency Gouvernement<br /><br />I just wanted to point out what i think is an absurdity !<br /><br />And if we were the boss we sure do it with taste and style :-)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Pick your fight....Pick your time!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">Virgile<br /></div></div></div><br /><br /></div></div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-64722106270984015422008-11-26T16:03:00.000+00:002008-11-27T16:24:54.723+00:00SOLD<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SS7FDRlu_9I/AAAAAAAAAsc/E0_v6ddDgn8/s1600-h/IMG_9465.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SS7FDRlu_9I/AAAAAAAAAsc/E0_v6ddDgn8/s400/IMG_9465.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273368873749381074" border="0" /></a>That´s it. Iceland officially got a loan from IMF. Once again some people were protesting last Saturday in front of the parliament. Much more less than the previous week-ends. I guess people calm down when the news came up that Iceland finally got a loan from the IMF.<br /><br />How ever some people got pissed off that we did actually receive the loan. The sign on the parliament says that house has been sold by the IMF.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SS7GwChkzwI/AAAAAAAAAsk/CpFh0K2Wepg/s1600-h/IMG_9456.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SS7GwChkzwI/AAAAAAAAAsk/CpFh0K2Wepg/s400/IMG_9456.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273370742311145218" border="0" /></a><br />On this pictures, you can see a monster..wearing an IMF shirt...attacking Iceland....living blood behind in which you can read "Education, Healthcare, Resources, Independence".<br /><br />I think that do have a point. But then again i think that we do need sometimes necessary evil !<br /></div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-43613623860451150432008-11-25T15:50:00.001+00:002008-11-27T15:59:32.750+00:00Statement Trees<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SS7D2pYSGHI/AAAAAAAAAsM/d76OA0x7qMY/s1600-h/Copy+of+IMG_9412.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SS7D2pYSGHI/AAAAAAAAAsM/d76OA0x7qMY/s400/Copy+of+IMG_9412.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273367557285484658" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">In Iceland, we do not have trees...Lately wodden things have started to grow in the capital area. Statement Trees.<br /><br />(Stop to pay)<br />(Stop slot machine)<br /><br /></div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-4312847015300353532008-11-24T15:59:00.000+00:002008-11-27T16:02:58.579+00:00---->This way<----<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SS7Enjaj5SI/AAAAAAAAAsU/VA3jjqz8jxM/s1600-h/IMG_9481.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SS7Enjaj5SI/AAAAAAAAAsU/VA3jjqz8jxM/s400/IMG_9481.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273368397498017058" border="0" /></a>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-3633534519217646502008-11-17T18:54:00.002+00:002008-11-17T19:00:50.501+00:009:40 in the morning...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SSG_Aqr39OI/AAAAAAAAAsE/_HTU2MrSBE0/s1600-h/IMG_9433.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SSG_Aqr39OI/AAAAAAAAAsE/_HTU2MrSBE0/s400/IMG_9433.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269703057179407586" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">the darker the better ?<br /><br />I do think so..<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">Virgile<br /></div></div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-49384781792965427782008-11-12T08:00:00.000+00:002008-11-12T08:00:01.393+00:00Silver Boy<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SRXfm9HWabI/AAAAAAAAAr0/M6VOFLHk7mk/s1600-h/IMG_9399.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SRXfm9HWabI/AAAAAAAAAr0/M6VOFLHk7mk/s400/IMG_9399.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266361199613077938" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For those who have some inside in Iceland popculture..Páll Oscar...Iceland queerest star just released a best of , of his songs... SilverSafn...get it !!!<br /><br />For those of you who does not know who is Páll Oscar...Shame on you ! There is other forms of culture than bacterias ! <a href="http://reykjavikdailyphoto.blogspot.com/2008/09/local-stars-vs-local-place.html">Here is link to one of my past post on Páll Oscar...</a><br /><br />the picture has been taken Saturday afternoon..While some grown ups were protesting in front of the parlement...The little ones were at a free concert for the release of the best of Cds. The average age for this party was... around 5 !!! I find it amazing !!!<br />Páll Oscar is a musical UFO... i would say that his fan base is quite gay...but children loves him too.. that´s must be the shinning outfits ! Anyway...some could be scared that he might turn his public gay.. well.. shit happen :-) and for worried parents...gay people are more happy than straight ones :-)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">Virgile<br /></div><br /><br /></div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-26256909483721139032008-11-11T10:00:00.000+00:002008-11-11T10:11:28.550+00:00Drying Fish<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SRXgTdyxvxI/AAAAAAAAAr8/30OLJkd_HPU/s1600-h/IMG_9384.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SRXgTdyxvxI/AAAAAAAAAr8/30OLJkd_HPU/s400/IMG_9384.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266361964299403026" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here is a picture that i took of drying fish in the harbor of Reykjavík. This is unusual to see this in the city center.. that might be due to Kreppan...(the crisis in Iceland)... People usually do it because it stinks ! When i took the picture the smell was okay.... i wont come back in a couple of weeks.<br /><br />Dry fish is excelent. this is a good source of protein. It has been for a long time the only reliable source of protein for Icelanders...We might come back to it !<br /><br />If you have never tried it..go for it.. don´t be scared.. this is excelent !<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: right;">Virgile<br /></div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-10867005348278357762008-11-10T10:00:00.000+00:002008-11-10T10:00:00.630+00:00Finally some protest ?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SRXc69EykOI/AAAAAAAAArs/zEKcS5Isl40/s1600-h/IMG_9422.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SRXc69EykOI/AAAAAAAAArs/zEKcS5Isl40/s400/IMG_9422.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266358244664840418" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The last couple of weeks some protest have been taking place in Reykjavik. The manifestants mostly protest against the Gouvernment and the director of the Central Bank of Iceland, Davið Oddsson. The good people of Iceland are asking for the demission of the gouvernment and new election . Even if i am also pissed of with the Gouvernment i think this will be stupid to do elections now and it will only bring political instability which the country does not need now...Let´s let them clean up the mess and then let´s have elections ! I was also surprise by the kind of people who were protesting...I was use to protest a lot in France...not to say that i have a small experience on the matter... but i do not think that Icelanders are doing this the right way... and i am surprised by the kind of people who are protesting such as bleached haired teenagers throwing eggs and pseudo alter mondialist people who protest to protest...Been there done that...<br /><br />Anyway here is a picture of the Icelandic parlement, Alþingi covered in eggs...milk.. chocolate milk and skyr*<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">Virgile<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">* an Icelandic dairy speciality<br /></div></div></div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-40574284104115535282008-11-05T12:45:00.003+00:002008-11-05T13:18:18.915+00:00Icelanders Are Not Terrorist<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SRGcrIeMsLI/AAAAAAAAArg/qPeRYa6XtTs/s1600-h/IMG_9376.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SRGcrIeMsLI/AAAAAAAAArg/qPeRYa6XtTs/s400/IMG_9376.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265161704195272882" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I wanted to do this post for a long time but i haven´t had time to do so. Please Read it.<br /><br />Iceland and Icelandic interests have been put and still is on the same list as terrorist organizations. Prime Minister Geir Haarde declared to the Times on the 3rd of November: "We're still on the list — in the wonderful company of al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Sudan, North Korea, Iran and a number of other entities — where we do not belong," <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1855901,00.html">Here is the link to the Times</a><br /><br />Icelanders have started to resist and try to respond to the attack. Officials have made numerous interventions. A web based petition have been created on the following web site <a href="http://www.indefence.is/">http://www.indefence.is/ </a><br /><br />Nearly 75 000 people have signed the petition. Please do it too !<br /><br />This is an outrage. Iceland has never perpetuated any terrorist acts and is not planning to do so. We do not even an army and our policemen do not even carry guns !<br /><br />The United Kingdom and Gordon Brown took advantage of the financial crisis to acheive their on political agenda.<br /><br />The situation in Iceland has not improved much since the beguining of the financial crisis because of this terrorist classification. This is for example extremely difficult to transfert money in and out of Iceland One of the reason is that we are being classified as a terrorist organisation and no one wants to trade with us.<br /><br />By using anti-terrorist laws voted after the september 11th, UK´s gouvernment has made is illegal and unfair and there was NO JUSTIFICATION for it. This could happen to anyone or to any country. If this has happened to us... this could happened to us<br /></div><br />For more information go to this website. This is the petition "Icelanders are not Terrorits"<br /><br />On the website there is also plenty of Picture of Iceland with pictures similar to the one that i took today.<br /><br /><br />http://www.indefence.is/<br /><br />This is a good cause.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">I would like to ask you to take a similar picture if possible and to post it on your city daily Photoblog and to give the link to the website. If you are not willing to take a picture, just post the link and write few lines about the situation. This would be great.</span><br /></div><br />Thank you very much<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">Virgile<br /></div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-37139192117024666792008-11-04T09:03:00.003+00:002008-11-04T11:09:56.639+00:00Did we reach this point ?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SRAR8lqw2eI/AAAAAAAAArY/gKqnHd5Pmec/s1600-h/IMG_9330.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SRAR8lqw2eI/AAAAAAAAArY/gKqnHd5Pmec/s400/IMG_9330.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264727696997407202" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> "Free Food"<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This sign is a bit scary...I know that in this crisis time we must witness desperate measure but....Did we reach the point to eat each other ?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">Virgile<br /></div></div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-59294880637651825712008-10-29T17:35:00.003+00:002008-10-29T18:04:47.445+00:00Could not be more Icelandic !!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SQifa71HudI/AAAAAAAAArQ/eMqKJ8uO2rE/s1600-h/IMG_0357%5B1%5D"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SQifa71HudI/AAAAAAAAArQ/eMqKJ8uO2rE/s400/IMG_0357%5B1%5D" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262631449668336082" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In how many countries could you do this..?<br /><br />Leave your baby outside...warmly "cocooned" in its baby cart outside while you, mother or father are enjoying a nice cup ofcoffee... ? This is a typical Icelandic thing and i do think that you can only do this in Iceland. This is all time striking foreigners visiting Iceland...They wonder down town and see all those well parked baby carts parked outside... and parents inside "cafeining" themselves...<br /><br />Foreigners who think that this is particularly cruel...think that...this is a sunny day...and we do the same on rainy days... or very cold day (-5) today...or snowy day?<br /><br />With all the negative things that i heard about Iceland in the last few weeks, i was very glad to see and to share it with you !<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">Virgile<br /></div></div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-78927550858813870002008-10-27T09:39:00.002+00:002008-10-29T09:03:42.197+00:00Possitivism ?<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SQbkq5r21GI/AAAAAAAAArI/5HudzJMwIDs/s1600-h/IMG_0318.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SQbkq5r21GI/AAAAAAAAArI/5HudzJMwIDs/s400/IMG_0318.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262144640319411298" border="0" /></a>"I am a just shit"<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This a piece of art from <span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Jóna Hlif Halldórsdóttir, showed at the Reykjavik Art Museum. This is a picture that i took a couple weeks ago and i think that this is today really reflecting what many Icelanders are now thinking. </span>Who´s to blame ? I do not think that the general population is to blame...Things having moving quite fast hear. It seems that we are doing better even if we are still struggling with our newly acquired terrorist background...As a terrorist newbie should we seek help from more experienced organisation ? :-) Should you start to panic when you see a overtanned bleached blond person drving a big jeep and cell phoning?<br /><br />We are not just shit..We are yet to be terrorist !<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">Virgile<br /></div><br /><br /></div><h3 style="font-weight: normal;"> </h3></div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-14744833222157947192008-10-24T09:13:00.002+00:002008-10-24T09:22:13.777+00:00Profilactic Treatement ?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SQGSAgIscvI/AAAAAAAAArA/A50yDpU3Jnc/s1600-h/IMG_0202.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SQGSAgIscvI/AAAAAAAAArA/A50yDpU3Jnc/s400/IMG_0202.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260646377069507314" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">First i thought that I have found out why the Icelandic economy is not in its best days....then Irealized that this is probably how the Icelandic government is stopping inhabitants of Iceland to take off their saving from banks... "wrong pin number...wrong pin number...wrong pin number...your card has been canceled... have a nice day..."<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: right;">Virgile<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">(Look carefully at the digit number)<br /></div></div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-28141813715188954812008-10-22T09:07:00.001+00:002008-10-24T09:13:08.559+00:00Freezing Time<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SQGRSc0tg_I/AAAAAAAAAq4/t3_-hKcZZms/s1600-h/IMG_8993.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SQGRSc0tg_I/AAAAAAAAAq4/t3_-hKcZZms/s400/IMG_8993.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260645585906402290" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Winter is here.<br />This is starting to get a bit chilly in Iceland.<br />Snow storm after Snow storm<br />I love it<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">Virgile<br /></div></div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-57174178208798256312008-10-21T09:57:00.000+00:002008-10-21T09:57:00.319+00:00Media War<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SP0ERV43F0I/AAAAAAAAAqw/Zp6TwM2IcaQ/s1600-h/IMG_9054.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SP0ERV43F0I/AAAAAAAAAqw/Zp6TwM2IcaQ/s400/IMG_9054.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259364635818530626" border="0" /></a><br />The media war is still going on. I am sure that this journalist/soldier hidden behind his shield, is planing some kind of attack !<br /><br />It seems that the divorce of Madonna did not stop the thirst of English newspaper for dirty news...Well today nothing happened in Iceland.<br /><br />Virgile<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">Virgile<br /></div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-70544373268755454912008-10-20T10:26:00.007+00:002008-10-20T15:25:24.654+00:00Team Iceland !!!<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SPxkt_BtZLI/AAAAAAAAAqo/pr_NfXKfOGo/s1600-h/Team+Iceland.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SPxkt_BtZLI/AAAAAAAAAqo/pr_NfXKfOGo/s400/Team+Iceland.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259189206037390514" border="0" /></a>When Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston got divorced, people did split in 2 teams....Team Jolie (the newly girlfriend of Brad) and team Aniston (the poor left over girlfriend..that is by the way apparently still grieving.... :-).<br />Today with the crisis, there is 2 new teams..Team Iceland and team Rest of the world... Today´s post is dedicated to common heroes from team Iceland. (which i am a proud active member)<br /><br />Last Saturday i went to a meeting. Some kind of meeting that you could only see in Iceland. Due to the economical situation, Iceland is looking for new ways to renew and regenerate itself. the meeting was organized for young people and student by the innovation centre of Iceland. The goal of the meeting was to try to find new ideas of business for Iceland, in order to first stop the crisis, second, take advantage of the situation, and finally to re-boost the Icelandic economy.<br /><br />During the first part of the meeting, several personalities made speeches. Among them were the President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson (on the left on the picture), Björk (in the center) and Magnus Schieving aka Sportacus aka Íþróttaálfurinn for those speaking Icelandic (On the right on the picture). Don´t tell me you do not know him !! If you do not know him click <a href="http://www.lazytown.com/Posters/LT_Sportacus20x28cm.jpg">on this link </a>. If after clicking on the link you still don´t know who he is i think you have so kind of problems and should reconsider your own diet: Sportacus is the main character of Lazy Town a "healty" tv show for children, that promote healthy diet and encourage kids to have outside activities instead of staying inside watching tv for example. ( i know this is kind of illogical...asking kid who watch tv to not watch it through a TV show...No wonder the Icelandic economy is not doing so well...) <a href="http://www.lazytown.com/">Click on this link to have more info on the show</a>.<br /><br />Back to the meeting. The speech they made was quite nice and cut out the negativist waves about Iceland (both from local and international). For the first time in few weeks there was no crazy Icelandic <span style="font-style: italic;">"let´s all live in a collective farm, let our hairs grow and eat only organic potatoes"</span> economists, no "media whore" (sorry:-) like international economist pointing out the cruality the Icelandic economy/society and its actual hopelessness , no <span style="font-style: italic;">"They [the Icelanders] are all gonna die poor once upon i have been in Iceland for 2 weeks" tourist</span> and most no sensationalist hatefull foreign journalists... The meeting was just nice of nice and realist people. The President of Iceland open the meeting with a nice speeches framing the goal of the meeting and re-placing the situation of Iceland in its context. He also once again repeated that Iceland was a small state, and that the country is having problems like many other small states (Iceland has been networking for quite sometimes with other small state and Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson has been a very active actor in this network). He also called for calm and responsibility. Once his official speech finished, Björk, a well know Icelandic singer (do i need to explain who is she?) her talked about sustainable development and for once was not in some kind of idealist delirium crisis "let´s all live in trees" (there is No trees in Iceland)...If i wanted to be mean i would say that she was probably sober and clean... but it would be too mean...finally Sportacus electrified the room. He was the best one... He explained clearly that this crisis times are not more different than the one before and that tomorow will still be uncertain... crisis or not crisis.<br /><br />None of them denied the fact that we are facing a huge problem, that the situation might not be easy for a couple of year, but they all told us that we should have faith and look up and be proud. I think that Iceland need to hear that kind of discourse. We Icelanders have been for the last couple of week only hearing bad stuff about us and the nation need a small boost. Media, and especially British ones are the responsible for this situation. The race for sensationalism killed the information and i do think that journalism died the day some newspaper titled that it was hunger riots in Iceland and that people were fighting for Olive oil. The only riot that i took part in during the last couple of weeks, was the exceptional autumn sold in the biggest shopping mall of Iceland. I did fight for a pair of shoes.<br /><br />The situation in Iceland is not that bad. Everyday we are getting better. Even if i am not a great political fan of Iceland´s actual leaders, i do think that they are doing the right thing. (taking control of the bank, financially cleaning them and getting rid of the "rotten" assets). We are gonna be fine. The IMF thinks that in 2 years we will be back to the situation of before the crisis. Meanwhile, unemployment has raised a bit and a strong inflation is on its way. The Icelandic króna has been more or less stabilized but is still strongly devaluated. Economically we will be fine. I am not worried at all for Iceland. We are a small country and we will be able to stand up again very soon. Meanwhile, we might loose some points in the GHP tables, but who cares we have fresh water, Björk and Sportacus... :-)<br /><br />I am a bit more concerned about the political situation. Locally, this is gonna have huge consequences and especially if the director of the central bank of Iceland, Davið Oddsson, a former Prime Minister, leader of the independence party keep steering the Icelandic economic as he is doing now. He is getting more and more unpopular and many people both inside and outside the country (many people protested against him last Saturday). I think that Davið Oddson is working on his own interest and have an hidden agenda on the matter. I am sure that he is not gonna last long and that once the crisis will be over, the Party of Independence , his political will blow up in pieces. There is too many people in this party only working for their own interest. Internationally, i think that the crisis will have tough many things to Iceland. First of all, we as a nation are not prepared at all to deal with a media waves, and we do need a good PR to give the right information, second we found out who were really our friends and the British are not one of them, neither the European Union. Some countries have been taking advantage of the situation. As i have mentioned.. the British are not our friends any more ...have they been one day ? i do wonder...They froze our assets in UK forcing the Icelandic Government to take control of the biggest bank of the country. In order to froze our assets they used an anti-terrorist law voted after the September 11th, making Iceland one of the kind terrorist country in Europe and in the NATO organisation.(just for information, we do not have any army. Our policemen are not armed...). This is gonna have huge consequences.<br /><br />Many people here want Iceland to press charges against UK, because the action was not justified at all and even Iceland´s Prime Minister Geir Haarde explained it in a press conference, that Iceland will not yet respond to this, but reminded that many countries will have taken extremely badly... to not say that this could have been a war declaration. Some UK journalist pointed out that the Government of Gordon Brown used the oldest trick in the world to hide the situation in UK, and that Iceland have been used has a bait. This is true that the situation of Icelandic bank in the UK was not pretty, but there was no reason for freezing our assets. There is the IceSave matter that burn between the 2 countries. Iceland is supposed to cover a certain amounts of the savings of people (like other banks do / did), but it never seemed to be enough for the British Government. (Same case in Netherlands/Luxembourg/Germany and this is going well, Governments have found ways to solve the problem).<br /><br />The terrorist situation of Iceland is probably cost a lot to British tax payers. By freezing the assets, Uk´s Government has made Iceland lost billions and We do want to have those billions back :-). On the politic scale, this is starting to make wrinkle. As Iceland do not have army, there is some agreement between NATO´s member to protect Iceland the one after the other. Currently, this is France who is protecting Iceland and it should the UK very soon. How a country that consider Iceland as an enemy, could come to our Land and pretend to protect ourselves? The matter is currently being discuss among NATO members and UK does not seems to pull its point of view back.<br /><br />On the European level this is going also to have consequences. Iceland is more or less bound to join the Union. This will have consequences during the process of adhesion and after. How to discuss with countries that classified Iceland as a terrorist country ? One other thing cross my mind..Why do "big" European countries do not support Iceland during the crisis and that we are eventually obliged to ask for a loan to Russia ? I have my own idea on it. I do think that European countries, especially France and UK want to have a weak Iceland coming to the European Union. Until recently, because of its wealth, Iceland could have negotiated anything when entering the Union. Anything such as the fishing areas (which has been by the past a burning subject. Anyone remember the Cod War between UK and Iceland ?). Iceland is one of the biggest exporter of fish in Europe and especially in the UK ( worth 400 millions pounds every year !!!). Having a weak Iceland will not allow the country to negotiate the fishing areas and we will have eventually to open them to foreign boats (Fishing represent more or less 27% of the Icelandic Economy). Some might say i am paranoid but i do think that there is a political agenda behind the no-reaction of European Governments and that those Governments have a lot to gain from a weak Iceland.<br /><br />Anyway....Iceland is gonna be fine and as a proud member of team Iceland, i submitted some of my ideas during the meeting. I kind of hope that they will be taken in consideration. In any case i do think that with a shock team composed of the Icelandic President, Björk and Sportacus...How many countries do have Sportacus ?<br /><br />We will be fine...We hear all time that Youth is suppose to be future...Youth has talked on Saturday and apparently Youth has been heard...How many countries during this crisis have done the same ? How many countries invited its youth population to come, to talk and give ideas and thoughts about the future ? that why we are strong and will come up even more stronger after this crisis...<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">Virgile<br /></div><br /><br /></div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-86659394640959510902008-10-15T10:30:00.000+00:002008-10-15T10:32:46.336+00:00Lost and not Found...<div style="text-align: justify;">Sometimes i rush outside my home and wonder... "humm maybe i forgot to turn the oven off."... "Are the lights still on?" or "For how long the cat has not eaten?"...those are "normal" pondering?<br /><br />There is plenty of things that you might find in a lost and found box...Shoes, cell phones, ipod, wallets, all kinds of bags.....Apparently in Reykjavik in lost and founds bags you find other things..<br /><br />2 days ago, i unfortunatelly forgot my shoes at the gym. Yesterday evening i went to see the janitors to ask if they had found them. They told me to look in some big boxes...which i did...and next to my shoes then i found the following "item":<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SPSDg9IAS3I/AAAAAAAAAqg/vISIV5Zsm2M/s1600-h/IMG_0344.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SPSDg9IAS3I/AAAAAAAAAqg/vISIV5Zsm2M/s400/IMG_0344.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256971267235400562" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yes this is what you think it is.....An artificial leg ! I know that this has happened several time in the metropolitan in Paris...You get in the wagon and you eventually carried an artificial leg that you forgot behind you when you rush out... But...forgetting such leg in a gym... i think this is extreme....The person must have noticed it somehow...? He or she probably took it off to shower and then forgot it...I can understand this.. But how could he leave without noticing it..<br /><br />I feel a bit low because of the whole situation of Iceland. I guess i am more and more Icelandic than French and i do care more about my adoptive country than my birth one...Anyway... this made my day....<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">Virgile<br /></div></div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908473858610203241.post-57530100437539869462008-10-14T10:48:00.003+00:002008-10-14T11:11:29.553+00:00Rotten Apple ?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SPR7T1dOsQI/AAAAAAAAAqY/ZT5QT8xsUaE/s1600-h/IMG_9025.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8BeVttEVBFg/SPR7T1dOsQI/AAAAAAAAAqY/ZT5QT8xsUaE/s400/IMG_9025.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256962245745619202" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I do not know why by this picture make me think about the whole situation in Iceland. I certainly do not want to fall into idiotic symbolism...but the tree... the half eaten apple make me think about what happened the last few weeks to Iceland....We fell off the tree...but we are still here and we will be fine...I would be more worried about the tree that we fell from....<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">Virgile<br /></div></div>Virgilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130164596618748650noreply@blogger.com2