Category Archives: Family

A Plague! A Plague on Our Houses!

By terje | Published: May 24, 2008
In my Last.fm shoutbox, I was recently asked by one of my readers to post more frequently in my blog, and seeing as your whim is my law, I bring you this: an essay of sorts about the last topic you’d expected me to write about! One of the things you might not know [...]
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A Case of Tolkien Hommage

By terje | Published: November 12, 2007
“I tipped an imaginary hat to him. ‘At your service.’ ‘Yours and your family’s,’ he replied politely.” — Kvothe and Stanchion, The Name of the Wind, page 374.
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Movies Galore: A Summary

By terje | Published: September 24, 2007
It’s nearly two months since my last movie review — a review, I might add, where I was unreasonably hard on the reviewed movie, as the fact that I’m in a foul mood shouldn’t really count against it. Anyway, since then I’ve watched a lot of movies: excellent movies, great movies, good movies, mediocre movies, [...]
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2007-03-19 — Quote of the Day

By terje | Published: March 20, 2007
It’s my dad’s birthday today, so I’m gonna translate and bring you one of the stupidest pieces of life wisdom he ever bestowed upon me: “You know, Terje, investments aren’t only those things from which you gain a financial profit. You can also invest in the experience that is a good book, CD or movie.” I’m not [...]
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I am worried…

By terje | Published: March 9, 2007
Because the rate at which my sister watches Buffy? Frighteningly fast. And unlike me, she actually has a conscience to get her out of bed in the mornings, so where my staying up extremely late during my worst Angel and Buffy addictions last spring only messed up my day rythm, her doing the same messes [...]
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Oh, and…

By terje | Published: February 18, 2007
… the “Firefly” DVD I had to order because of Loki (okay, so here’s my contribution for the “Worst Excuse of 2007 Award” ) arrived yesterday! Which means that as soon as I’ve force-fed my sister the last couple of episodes of VM (this show really stands to be watched a second time, I’ve [...]
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Nerdenes Rikskringkasting!

By terje | Published: February 10, 2007
Okay, den andre norske posten min på ei uke. Ikke akkurat et så veldig godt tegn at det gjør noe. Men, men. Uansett, det som denne gangen vekker min entusiasme, som NRK-patriot (jeg ser ikke på andre kanaler) er nyheten om at NRK har kjøpt inn “Heroes” og at de skal begynne å sende serien i [...]
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My parents’ take on Veronica Mars

By terje | Published: February 4, 2007
Yet another personal anecdote: Two weeks ago, I was with my parents at my gandfather’s place (he’s in a retirement home now; he’s so forgetful he’s a threat to himself these days), and I was really, really tiredd all the weekend we were together. My parents did of course notice this (I mean, it’s not as [...]
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Couple o’ updates more

By terje | Published: January 23, 2007
1. I just wrote a new page, entitled “Buffysodes”, on which I’ve put links to all my quasi reviews of Buffysodes. In time, it might be renamed to just “’sodes” or something, and have links to more reviews, but for now this is all there is. It’s primarily written as a service to my sister, [...]
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Summary of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, season 1

By terje | Published: November 28, 2006
It’s only been one week since I received the Angel and Buffy DVD sets from Amazon, and I’ve already watched the first season of Buffy, so yay me! Or, to be more specific, yay my sister, because if it hadn’t been for her, it’d probably be a while before I started watching the series again. Anyway, [...]
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