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Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
Category: Having Fun
Been a while since I wrote one of these. Here's what I did for fun this past weekend.Attended an afternoon scifi mini-convention at the Tech Museum, organised by my dear old Tolkien Society buddy and gaming group regular Carolina Gomez...
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Category: Children
As my friend David the physiotherapist commented, if you must break a bone, break your radius.
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Category: Having Fun
Celebrated 100th birthday of my mom's aunt, a sprightly and clear-minded lady who likes conversation and hugs and has no problem recognising her niece's kids who rarely visit. Attended concert with six kids' choirs (including Juniorette's). One of the...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 13 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
Watched most of the 1984 animated Miyazaki feature film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind on DVD. Like others of his I've seen before, it's visually stunning and has a pretty pointless story. Sat outdoors and read, probably...
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Category: Having Fun
September unexpectedly turned warm and sunny. I'm a little under the weather and so can't do anything very energetic. But reading a review copy of a new geology book for the blog in my yard, in the sun, with...
Posted by Martin R at 7:45 AM • 17 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
Had breakfast guests: a beautifully pregnant old friend and our old boss/buddy came at ten and I cooked us all a full English. Everybody who's into the Gustavian / Georgian era and reads Scandy, read Kristina Ekero Eriksson's new...
Posted by Martin R at 3:55 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: Children
I've spent three days with my son's class at Ängsholmen summer camp where the 12-y-os got a chance to reaquaint themselves after the summer and do some fun stuff together. My job, like that of the other three parents who...
Posted by Martin R at 1:08 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
Sunset seen to the NW from the birthday party Made huntun (wonton) with my wife & kids, "good to eat and fun to make", as the song about cookies that Junior likes goes. Watched The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus...
Posted by Martin R at 4:53 PM • 36 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
Chore in order to achieve future fun: my wife called in a stump grinder a few days ago and had the remains of a thuja in one of our planting beds disintegrated. I emptied the crater of wood chips (harrisian...
Posted by Martin R at 1:54 PM • 17 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
This past weekend was full of fun duties. The only thing I did exclusively for fun was read a pretty depressing novel about slavery, U.K. LeGuin's Powers (2007).Represented the Swedish Skeptics off-stage at the Nordic Conjuring Championship in Uppsala, as...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 10 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
Joined Jrette on her first bike ride for the season. Had to raise the saddle 5 cm. Emceed at the Swedish Skeptics' first full-day conference. We felt that it was time to have a bigger event to make it worthwhile...
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Category: Having Fun
Celebrated the 257th anniversary of the Academy of Letters wearing tails. Had a fine sunshine brunch on Folly Hill with my wife. The place was heavily dominated by couples born in the 70s and sporting toddlers / babies / big...
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Category: Having Fun
Had brunch and a walk in the sunshine with wife and sans kids, a rare pleasure. Strange to think that in just a few years' time they won't need us much anymore. I guess it's one tiny step at a...
Posted by Martin R at 8:00 AM • 12 Comments •
Category: Film
Last week was skiing break for my kids. I couldn't find anywhere good to stay in the mountains, so we didn't go off on holiday. Here's what we did for fun instead. Dinner at the home of a Chinese...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Books
Weatherwise, last weekend was thawing and misty and overcast, so I didn't feel like doing much outdoors. I finished reading Daryl Gregory's new novel (didn't do much for me) and started Douglas Adams's fifth Hitch-hiker book. When it appeared in...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
Friday night I unexpectedly found myself looking at dinner all alone. So I quickly arranged for a visit with friends to a Jamaican restaurant (I had jerk chicken), and after our meal Swedepat beat me and Dr Sandy at Race...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 13 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
Had friends over to play some Abalone, Hell Rail and Balderdash. 11-y-o Junior often joins our board-game sessions these days. Bought ski boots for Junior and went skiing with him and the Rundkvist ladies. Watched Where the Wild Things...
Posted by Martin R at 9:40 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
Took a walk and photographed two buildings for Wikipedia. Went skiing on the golf course. Had friends over, played a game of Scotland Yard and a game of Power Grid. Painted three walls in the bedroom. This was sort of...
Posted by Martin R at 2:33 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
Went skiing twice. Went skating on Lake Källtorpssjön at the Hellas sporting centre under the watchful eye of the Nacka radio masts. There's a snow-ploughed circuit there, but it hadn't been ploughed recently so there was a lot of...
Posted by Martin R at 11:17 AM • 10 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
Had a lot of fun this weekend:Went skating twice, once with each of my kids. Went skiing with my wife. Got beaten at Pitch Car four times by my kids. Took the kids to a birthday party for a charming...
Posted by Martin R at 4:22 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
Here's what I did for fun this past weekend.Watched Avatar. Had a dim sum dinner. Chucked out the Christmas tree, lopped off the branches and kept the trunk to bring to my dad's place for firewood. (This doesn't sound like...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
I just had to swap two hours of daytime work for two hours of evening free time and get out on Lake Lundsjön with my skis. It's amazing, seeing the cliffs where we sim and sun bathe in the...
Posted by Martin R at 8:23 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
I've had this decent idea for a post popping up in my mind twice and then dropping out of it before I had a chance to write myself a note. It's something about fragments, about beginnings of stories stacked onto...
Posted by Martin R at 1:57 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: Gaming
[More blog entries about Sweden, photography, manor; Närke, Askersund, foto, herrgård.] I was headed for a lonely November weekend with wife & daughter abroad and son with his mom. So I rounded up three friends (though Paddy K was kept...
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Category: Having Fun
Friday night, I made tacos and chocolate chip cookies with my kids. Saturday, I attended the Imagicon 2 speculative fiction conference, chairing a panel on time travel and forming part of a panel on legal aspects of interstellar empires without...
Posted by Martin R at 1:18 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: Children
We spent Friday afternoon and evening walking in the sunshine, eating like kings, listening to some pretty far-out and eclectic music and playing the Swedish 70s board game Marinattack.
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Category: Having Fun
Played the new German board game Finca that my friend Eddie the heathen goldsmith brought along. It's an abstract system lightly dressed up in a story about harvesting and distributing fruit and greens on Mallorca of all things. Good fun...
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Category: Blogging
The 6th Aardvarchaeology blogmeet was a friendly three-hour affair with good food, good drink and good company. 'Twas me, Kai, Mårten, Per G, Sigmund, Thinker and Tor, and an excellent time was had at Akkurat. Here's the historical record...
Posted by Martin R at 3:54 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
Logged four geocaches. One helped me discover a huge vestigial highway overpass. Highway 222 was built in the early '70s, and at one spot west of Nacka high school the road engineers thought that they might one day want to...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Sweden
Imagine a flat gneiss and granite plateau criss-crossed by huge faults and crevices. Now run a few glaciations across it, sanding it down real good, so that everything is rounded.
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Category: Tech
Saturday me and the kids went on an unusual package tour. First we took the 1903 steam ship Mariefred from Stockholm to Mariefred, and got to visit the engine room while the machine was working. Mariefred is a small...
Posted by Martin R at 2:51 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
It's been one of the warmest and sunniest weeks in a long time. Saturday I invited friends old and new over: we played a game of Tigris & Euphrates, two games of kubb (no, it is not an old Viking...
Posted by Martin R at 12:05 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
The Rundkvist family right before we went in and apprehended the extraterrestrial. Photo F. Gilljam. Friday was Mid-summer's Eve. Cycled with the kids to the local maypole celebration. Back home, I assembled the first barbecue I've ever owned and...
Posted by Martin R at 4:40 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
Attended the Where Is the Action rock festival with my wife, heard a lot of good music, much of it new to me. Details here and here. Shopped for presents and spent an hour having cake and reading, all in...
Posted by Martin R at 5:23 AM • 15 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
The way I like to lead my life is basically Epicurean: "Epicurus believed that the greatest good was to seek modest pleasures in order to attain a state of tranquility and freedom from fear as well as absence of bodily...
Posted by Martin R at 11:13 AM • 35 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
... stared in fascination at beautifully (and rather scantily) clad people, received not inconsiderable admiration ourselves ...
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