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The view from Vigelandsparken

Category: Personal
Posted on: June 16, 2010 7:53 PM, by PZ Myers

We had a lovely day in Oslo. Where were you?

This was taken at a park with a great many statues of naked people. I was horrified to discover that one of them was of me.

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Posted by: haakon.thunestvedt | June 16, 2010 7:59 PM

Too bad I couldn't show up. You were lucky with the weather...

Posted by: Nerd of Redhead, OM | June 16, 2010 8:05 PM

One of the Redhead's aunts married a man of Norge descent. They took a trip to Norway a year ago, and traced the family name to an island. Hope you and the Trophy Wife™ don't have to go as far...

Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites | June 16, 2010 8:05 PM

PZ, you've got the exact same expression as your profile picture, leading me to think the strapping, handsome young lad next to the Trophy Wife™ is some sort of interloper with an affinity for photoshop.

Posted by: 'Tis Himself, Quel Dommage | June 16, 2010 8:06 PM

That's not a statue of you, PZ. This is a statue of you preparing breakfast.

Posted by: Shala | June 16, 2010 8:06 PM

Where were you?

Halifax, enjoying my graduation ceremony.

Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites | June 16, 2010 8:08 PM

This is a statue of you preparing breakfast.

Shit, 'Tis. That slayed me.

Posted by: evigpoesi | June 16, 2010 8:09 PM

This was an extremely nice evening! Thanks for the shoutout. I will send you an email (one of the 10000 you recieve every day) with the song with your voice on it ;)

Blogreader, beerdrinker, skeptic and generally awesome Norwegian
Jon Petter

Posted by: Dave A | June 16, 2010 8:10 PM

Tuck in those pajamas, eyes foward and what is that on your mustache. Just a liitle decorum would be nice.

Posted by: FossilFishy | June 16, 2010 8:16 PM

Where was I? Hrmmph, I was in my pj's out in the pouring rain and gale force winds trying to fix our pump so morning showers could be had and toilets could be flushed. Why does Zeus hate me so?

#10

Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites | June 16, 2010 8:16 PM

Halifax, enjoying my graduation ceremony.

Congrats, Shala! I hope you celebrate by doing something...er...Haligonian.

#11

Posted by: monimonika | June 16, 2010 8:18 PM

Awww... Frogner Park(*). I have so many fond memories of the place.

I spent a lot of my childhood there. Mostly feeding the ducks & geese, playing on the see-saws and playground spin, trying to climb onto some of the statues, and frolicking in the fountain during the summer.

Thanks for reminding me. :-D

(*) I have always and will continue to refer to the place as Frogner Park, not Vigeland-whatever.

#12

Posted by: Shala | June 16, 2010 8:22 PM

Congrats, Shala! I hope you celebrate by doing something...er...Haligonian.

Of course. I went to Tim Horton's and got a Cafe Mocha.

It was delicious, thanks!

#13

Posted by: Nitrazepam | June 16, 2010 8:23 PM

I'm going to Olso in October, just to go to this park, very excited!

#14

Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites | June 16, 2010 8:27 PM

Of course. I went to Tim Horton's and got a Cafe Mocha.

It was delicious, thanks!

Pfft. We do that here. Did you chase it with some sort of fish? The traditional Albertan thing to do would be to have a double-double and a maple-glazed, and then try to destroy universal healthcare while complaining about those Ontario bastards stealing the oil we invented.

But I digress.

Happy graduation anyway!

#15

Posted by: 朴競花/박경화 (Gyeong Hwa) | June 16, 2010 8:30 PM

*Raises hand

Um, is the V in Vigelandsparken a voiced or voiceless labiaodental fricative?

#16

Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites | June 16, 2010 8:34 PM

voiceless labiaodental fricative

That's some filthy talk, even for an atheist, Gyeong Hwa Pak.

#17

Posted by: Aaron Baker | June 16, 2010 8:35 PM

Paradoxically, you're not as hairy with your clothes off.

#18

Posted by: Qwerty | June 16, 2010 8:48 PM

Having never been there - my Norwegian roots are calling me to the ancestral homeland. That and it looks like your having a great time.

Enjoy your stay!

#19

Posted by: alysonmiers | June 16, 2010 8:52 PM

We had a lovely day in Oslo. Where were you?

Sweating my ass off in my new business suit while begging for work. It's not even sunny over here, either. This weather is such bullshit.

#20

Posted by: steinshe | June 16, 2010 9:09 PM

Thanks for a fun and informative lecture today. Too bad I didn't have time to join you at the picnic. Hope you enjoyed your stay and that we will see you again soon :)

#21

Posted by: Aquaria | June 16, 2010 9:12 PM

We had a lovely day in Oslo. Where were you?

The same place I always am: In San Antonio, fighting with Workers Comp and taking over the world.

#22

Posted by: dizzi90 | June 16, 2010 9:18 PM

Fantastic evening. Creationism lecture by PZ, followed by bbq and beer in the afternoon sun, and then going to a pub. All the time chatting about science with skeptics and/or atheists. What more could one possibly want?

#23

Posted by: glenister_m | June 16, 2010 9:20 PM

Unfortunately I beat you there by 16 years. I couldn't wait, so I hope to catch you in Vancouver. See you then (hopefully).

#24

Posted by: Nerd of Redhead, OM | June 16, 2010 9:21 PM

We had a lovely day in Oslo. Where were you?

Telecon with a client, then searching for glassware until it was too late to work up the reaction today.

#25

Posted by: Romeo Vitelli | June 16, 2010 9:27 PM

"I was horrified to discover that one of them was of me."
Nobody will recognize you since you're not riding a triceratops here.

#26

Posted by: ultim8fury | June 16, 2010 9:37 PM

I'll catch you in Copenhagen. Heading for the airport now.

#27

Posted by: christina.nicole.78 | June 16, 2010 9:37 PM

Where is that statue, 'Tis?

#28

Posted by: ironflange | June 16, 2010 10:25 PM

I once visited the Vigeland park, and I have to say that it's one of the highlights of my life. Simply amazing.

#29

Posted by: andrew.david.smith | June 16, 2010 10:30 PM

Please visit the fantastic Vikingskipshuset (Viking ship museum) and say hello to my ancient ancestors.

#30

Posted by: Mattir-ritated | June 16, 2010 10:36 PM

Trying to breathe through a sauna-like DC summer day, I am ridiculously jealous. I hope all you people in Copenhagen feel appropriately guilty over your pleasures.

/end self-pity rant

#31

Posted by: mineralfellow | June 16, 2010 10:37 PM

I'm a bit jealous.. Didn't get funded to go to a conference on meteor impacts there last week. It's annual, so I'm hoping to have something to present there next year.

#32

Posted by: ctenotrish | June 16, 2010 11:34 PM

At work - 'tis Wednesday, you know! Oh, and I have just about those same pics (only featuring me) from a trip to Norway a few years ago. Gorgeous country, lovely people! Have a blast!

#33

Posted by: Patricia, OM | June 16, 2010 11:42 PM

Nice Tis! Where the heck is that statue?

Mattir - Which list are you on at Ravelry? I'm still on about that bloody after thought sock heel, but I don't want to bore everyone here to death about it.

#34

Posted by: Mattir-ritated | June 17, 2010 12:07 AM

@Patricia - you can email me at mattir17 at gmail or look for me on Ravelry (knitinthewoods). I post mostly on Lazy, Stupid & Godless (yeah, I'm an LSG hoar). I got the book and haven't yet tried the pattern, but it seemed sort of straightforward. I'll cast it on tomorrow, do an inch, and then do the heel bit.

Now back to your regularly scheduled Norwegian envy programming.

#35

Posted by: Patricia, OM | June 17, 2010 12:23 AM

Mattir - Thanks! I'll get back to you at that addy.

Everyone at my LYS looked, laughed, and told me to frog the whole bloody thing BACK (sob) to the heel flap.

I suspect a christian plot, and not one damned one of them is getting a spanking. Not even with Norwegian wood.

#36

Posted by: Buffybot | June 17, 2010 12:51 AM

Patricia, you are cordially invited into the LSG
Slut-Pit. I'm in there too, under the name Multispork.

#37

Posted by: Patricia, OM | June 17, 2010 1:20 AM

Thanks Buffybot, I'll try to sign in to the LSG, we'll see if the Ka-nittin world is ready for us atheist chicks. Kiss Ichthyic for me. *grin*

#38

Posted by: hallstrom.anders | June 17, 2010 1:22 AM

Very nice meeting you and your wife yesterday, now paying the price and todays lectures are going to be a pain... Worth every second though. Have a wonderful trip to København.I Got two pictures that will be on the wall forever. Thanks!

#39

Posted by: stuartvo | June 17, 2010 1:32 AM

Freezing my ass off all day (well, that's one way to lose weight, I suppose) and then watching my country get violently ejected from the world cup, 3-0.

I suspect you had a significantly better day.

#40

Posted by: davric | June 17, 2010 1:35 AM

The 'V' in Vigeland is a voiced labiodental fricative.

I don't have an ipa font in this comment box (natch), but it looks something like this:

/vi:g/ uh - land

with the first syllable being the one with the main stress.

#41

Posted by: Haley | June 17, 2010 1:56 AM

I'm pretty sure the statue Tis posted is from Switzerland, and I think it's called the Baby Eater. Seriously.

Apparently there are a bunch of weird statues in Switzerland meant to scare children into behaving.

As for what I did today, I baked a cake for my two year anniversary with my boyfriend, and decorated it with buttercream frosting I made from scratch. Then he couldn't even come over and see me and it remains uneaten.

#42

Posted by: panne | June 17, 2010 2:20 AM

Regarding the "v" in Vigelandsparken, it's actually much more like an approximant than an actual fricative. In IPA it should be [ʋ]. It is voiced though.

#43

Posted by: panne | June 17, 2010 2:25 AM

Oh, and Haley, the statue Tis posted is in Vigelandsparken.

How to pronounce Vigelandsparken:

[ˈʋiːɡəlɑnsˌpʰɑɾkən]

Oh and PZ, thanks for a great talk yesterday :-)

#44

Posted by: Lerxst | June 17, 2010 2:35 AM

«Where were you?»

I was there!

#45

Posted by: Jeff Knapp | June 17, 2010 3:10 AM

I absolutely love Oslo and Norway. If you get a chance, take a long drive out into the country a bit. The drives are spectacular with lots of stunning forests and farmlands, stunning fjords with scary, narrow roads with lots of dark tunnels, and some of cleanest, freshest, best air you will ever experience. I reminds me of the pacific northwest in a lot of ways, the Puget sound, Eliot bay, Bainbridge, Island, the Hood Cannal, etc. are a lot like southern and western Norway in a lot of ways. I would move there if I could. Enjoy it - and don't forget the Aquavit! Skol!

#46

Posted by: dnebdal.myopenid.com | June 17, 2010 3:14 AM

Ha, I passed by the lot of you on my way home from work, and kind of regret not joining in for a bit. Oh well, you seemed yo be having fun. :)

#47

Posted by: Knockgoats | June 17, 2010 4:49 AM

Oslo was the first Scandinavian city I ever visited, on a school trip at 17 (*sigh* Ah, Glynis, I enjoyed the holiday romance, but why did you throw me aside like a used tissue afterwards?), and of course we went to Vigeland, but I haven't been back since. There used to be ferries from Aberdeen to Bergen, but alas, no more.

The "people of Oslo" (I guess that means the city authorities) still send a large fir tree to the people of London every Christmas (it's erected in Trafalgar Square), as a thank you for WWII. Very nice of them, considering what a complete dog's breakfast Churchill made of the Norwegian campaign.

#48

Posted by: tm.rakvaag | June 17, 2010 4:52 AM

I was in the front row at your talk, obviously! Oh, and we're eagerly awaiting that sex tape.

#49

Posted by: Stephen Wells | June 17, 2010 5:51 AM

I've seen that park. I still have nightmares.

#50

Posted by: Pikaia | June 17, 2010 6:31 AM

I wouldn't mind anyone making a nude statue of me, as long as it is anatomically accurate.

Dunno how accurate PZ's statue is though.

#51

Posted by: Thebear, just an agent of peas | June 17, 2010 6:55 AM

Personally - I would prefer nude statues of myself to be wildly inaccurate.

#52

Posted by: Henning | June 17, 2010 7:07 AM

Thank you for an excellent talk yesterday in Oslo! It was very enjoyable, for some reason, considering the fact that the topic was grim creationism :) Hope you had a good time in Norway. Recommend Oslo to Richard Dawkins will you? I also hope you don't think that seventh day adventist guy wining about you lying about him wanting you (and everyone who accepts evolution) to burn in hell, is representative of Norwegians in general.

Cheers.

#53

Posted by: FossilFishy | June 17, 2010 7:45 AM

The traditional Albertan thing to do would be to have a double-double and a maple-glazed, and then try to destroy universal healthcare while complaining about those Ontario bastards stealing the oil we invented.

QFT

Ha. So very true. Despite my climatic adventures here, which ended today with 100km/hr gusts knocking down trees everywhere, tearing part of the roof off the pub next door and flinging it across the highway where it lodged in a tree 10 meters off the ground and putting out the power for 7 and a half hours I'm still glad I moved from Alberta to Australia.

#54

Posted by: Jadehawk, cascadeuse féministe | June 17, 2010 9:20 AM

We had a lovely day in Oslo. Where were you?

!@$#%^#$#$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

off to the airport; again. *grumble grumble*

#55

Posted by: Scott Hatfield, OM | June 17, 2010 12:13 PM

Um.....Fresno.

(insert Tonight Show monologue punchline)

#56

Posted by: Bombus | June 17, 2010 1:03 PM

The statue of the man tenderizing infants is also from Vigeland and is called "Man Attacked by Genies", although "Man Attacked by Babies" seems more appropriate

#57

Posted by: rgovrebo | June 17, 2010 1:20 PM

Knockgoats @ #47:

The "people of Oslo" (I guess that means the city authorities) still send a large fir tree to the people of London every Christmas (it's erected in Trafalgar Square), as a thank you for WWII. Very nice of them, considering what a complete dog's breakfast Churchill made of the Norwegian campaign.

I don't think we should blame the British much, considering that the defence policy of the (democratically elected) Norwegian government in the '30s was near indistinguishable from that of German sleeper agents.

#58

Posted by: 'Tis Himself, Quel Dommage | June 17, 2010 3:20 PM

Patricia, Ignorant Slut OM

Nice Tis! Where the heck is that statue?

I don't have a clue. I googled "ugly statues" images and it was on the second page.

#59

Posted by: maureen.brian#b5c92 | June 17, 2010 3:33 PM

That statue, too, is in Vigeland Park, Oslo, Patricia.

#60

Posted by: Ragutis | June 17, 2010 6:36 PM

Actually, PZ, to me that statue looks much more like Bill Donohue.

#61

Posted by: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawki4x7WDkWKABk0TP2fpDFqB95c3JTQG4s | June 17, 2010 11:11 PM

Me? I was in the basement of my home in Ottawa, Ontario playing Shin Megami Tensei on my laptop's SNES emulator while listening to music waiting for my recently cleaned carpet in my room to dry.

The only thing that has changed now is that I'm in my room.

#62

Posted by: https://me.yahoo.com/a/K2PNji0at.txAjzTShOlxwLuFcVVFwbnng--#bd813 | June 17, 2010 11:39 PM

Nude statue of PZ? I was hoping for... hum... Neptune, maybe.

#63

Posted by: reedbraden | June 18, 2010 12:25 PM

Have you lost weight, PZ?

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