Monthly Archives: March 2009

CL in the house (tonight).

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I know fourth place is not anything we should fight for. And I know we have one game in hand on fifth placed Villa (playing tomorrow) but this following table is a sight for… well Champions League thirsty eyes. (If eyes can be thirsty and no, I really do not care what happens below seventh place.)

1
Man Utd
 28 12 1 1 31 9 8 4 2 18 7 +33 65
2
Liverpool
 29 8 6 0 22 8 9 4 2 27 13 +28 61
3
Chelsea
 28 7 5 2 23 8 10 2 2 25 8 +32 58
4
Arsenal
 29 8 5 2 22 11 6 5 3 23 15 +19 52
5
Aston Villa
 28 5 7 2 20 15 10 0 4 22 14 +13 52
6
Everton
 29 6 5 4 23 17 7 4 3 16 12 +10 48
7
West Ham Utd
 28 7 1 6 19 17 4 5 5 15 17 0 39

Puzzle of in-coherence.

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Good day to you all. Good day indeed. Or… well, not so good day, not ‘good indeed’. It’s an ok day (up until now). Crappy weather: snow on ground and above freezing in the air which means thaw. Sux.

Got some good news yesterday. It’s all a bit up in the air so I’ll tell you when it’s not, when it is safely in my hands.

So, honestly, can’t it just not snow? I mean if the snow is going to disappear the next day what’s the use? Who is in charge of the snow? Who do I talk to about this? Give us, here in Göteborg, spring. Now!

I just yesterday realized that I haven’t written a song proper in quite some time. Do not know why that is. Every time I sit down with a guitar I just play the same old stuff and get bored. I need to play new stuff and get excited. How does one do that? Get in that mode, space, zone or whatever.

Now: Coffee.
After: School.
Later: Studies.

Kept until the very end…

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At 2045h Roma-Arsenal Started.
At 2332h it ended.

2232: ARSENAL BEAT ROMA 7-6 ON PENALTIES

PENALTY SHOOTOUT
TONETTO MISSES Roma 6-7 Arsenal
DIABY SCORES Roma 6-7 Arsenal
RIISE SCORES Roma 6-6 Arsenal
SAGNA SCORES Roma 5-6 Arsenal
AQUILANI SCORES Roma 5-5 Arsenal
TOURE SCORES Roma 4-5 Arsenal
TOTTI SCORES Roma 4-4 Arsenal
DENLISON SCORES Roma 3-4 Arsenal
MONTELLA SCORES Roma 3-3 Arsenal
NASRI SCORES Roma 2-3 Arsenal
BAPTISTA SCORES Roma 2-2 Arsenal
WALCOTT SCORES Roma 1-2 Arsenal (should save it)
VUCINIC SAVED Roma 1-1 Arsenal (shocking peno)
VAN PERSIE SCORES Roma 1-1 Arsenal
PIZARRO SCORES Roma 1-0 Arsenal
EDUARDO SAVED Roma 0-0 Arsenal (good Doni stop)

It has been a hell of a night.
I can go to bed happy!

And so there as such for it around the like.

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Earlier today I thought that I had a clue. I thought I knew what to do, where to look, how to gather information, how to process it into a result, a thought or something. How wrong I was.

After reading for several hours I now know less then I did before, or I know more but in relation to what I should know it seems like less. I no longer have any idea about anything in regards to my essay. I am confused and a bit angry. (Angry in the sense that I feel like screaming and kicking and such.)

I really must get my head around this. I need to take a couple of steps back, look at the big picture, point to a place on that picture and examin it, the place, further.

It must be done.

Missing the strings.

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I really miss playing the electric guitar. Miss playing it in a band, or with a group of people at-least. I miss the volume and the energy. I think I am going to record some electric guitar stuff. I have a few songs. A EP of sorts would be cool. I want to play hard and fast and with melodies and screaming (or something). Short songs. Energy songs. That make you happy.

squier-cyclone-electric-guitar-black

Deriving morality from rationality.

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For those of you wondering what I am about to do now, I am:

  1. Having a look at a critique aimed at John Rawls rationality and his attempt to derive morality from rationality. The arguments forwarded are saying something like: Rawls is presupposing morality or somehow including it in his meaning of rationality and there fore still being unable to answer the question of the origin of morality, or something.
  2. Having a look at one of the critics, David Gauthier, and his solution to this; his attempt to derive morality from rationality, and if he succeeds in this (or if he is open to the same criticism as Rawls).
  3. …and (this is a bit more up in the air for me right now) compare Foundationalism with Coherentism in the context of the two writers above.

I’m not sure if I got any of that right…

When in doubt e-mail Rob.

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I e-mailed Rob a few hours ago. I am in doubt. I am in doubt regarding the recording we did a while back. The recording of a song called ‘One Fear‘. (Regular readers will know what I am talking about. If you are not a regular reader, or worse: are and still have no idea what I am talking about, scroll down. Also: If you are not a regular reader you should be. I cover some pretty mind blowing stuff.) I have doubts as to how it, the song, sounds, which direction we should take with the new album.

I wonder if this is a consequence of my, as of now, general state of worry?

Oscillating.

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What!? No post yesterday!? Tomas, have you lost your mind!? There are people out here needing there Tomas-fix, and needing it everyday I might add! What is wrong!?

Nothing is wrong. It’s just that my life right now is utterly uneventful. I am oscillating between reading and going to deep slumps of disbelief, in my self and in my studies. And that’s how it is. One could say: Noting to report.

I have a few things coming up though, or at least one thing, I hope it will be solved (because there seems to be some kind of problem surrounding this one) soon. When it is I’ll let you all know.

Socks and a two hurdle problem.

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Ok. A round-up of sorts.

What did I get Yones for his birthday? (Scroll down if you have no idea as to what I am talking about, if you want to know, both what I am talking about and what I got Yones for his birthday… and so on.) Well, I, or more Camilla and I, got him six pairs of colorful, and fairly expensive, socks. Why? Because kids these days, at least here in Göteborg, tuck their jeans into there socks, and not just any old socks, no, they tuck there jeans in big-logo (Nike, Adidas or perhaps a local sportswear chain) tube-socks.
This had to change. My thought: If your going to tuck your jeans into your socks the socks better be worth showing off. Now, for Yones, they are.

On a whole other topic I am feeling kind of low at the moment. The school work is building on me and I just do not know how to get going. This is not because of laziness or anything like that.

I like to be in control. When I do not understand something I am not in control. When the mass not understood is manageable everything is fine. I know I can regain control fairly easy. When the mass not understood is less manageable then we have a problem. I can still regain control all though this would, in comparison to the example before, take up much more time and consume a lot more energy. Then we have my present scenario: The mass understood is, or seems to be, not manageable. Also: I have no idea how to apprehend the knowledge I need to be in control. You see? A two hurdle problem: Not knowing how to apprehend knowledge and not knowing what knowledge to apprehend. How do I make this work?

I am a man, I come in pairs and I am a gift from God!

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Just had nothing to do. (Not true.)
Just checked up om the meaning of my names.
My names are Tomas Mats Anders (a fairly common bunch of 1970′s names in Sweden).
The mean: Twin (Gemini) Gift from God and Man. If one were to analyse that one could come to many weird conclusions, or ideas.

This Swedish site was where I found the facts.

(One really think that I would have better things to do, and I do… I was doing them. I just had to look for something on the Internet and then stumbled upon this. I am going to do the better things now…)

Making a Hen.

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A really slow day today. Not much happening. One thing happening. Studying. Reading up on my David Gauthier [no link; WordPress and Safari 4 Beta still aren't friends.]

That’s about it really. Damn that’s lame. Ok. Maybe I’ll have to do my hen out of a feather bit… Here goes:

The day started with a walk with the Boo. We saw a squirrel, a cat then the Boo got mad at another dog (never happens) and sounded like a tractor. Then I read an article. Then I walked the Boo again. Then I cooked dinner! Then I read some more…

Some hen…

Danish ‘The Anger’ Review.

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Almost 5 months into it’s Nordic release ‘The Anger’ still generates reviews. (And by that I do not mean that the reviews have been flooding in. Quite the contrary; they have been few and far apart. Still, I’m grateful that people take time to think about my music.)
This new one is from Danish Internet music site diskant.dk.

Read it and weep. (I didn’t but maybe I should have, just a tad.)

Yones is 16. I rule!

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Soon the Boo and I will throw ourselves, yes throw ourselves, onto a bus. We will after riding that bus for a while get of that bus and onto another and in that change we’ll hook up with Camilla. Yes, folks: we’re going to a party! With the dog? Yes. It is my nephews 16:th birthday party. I’ve been all over town to find him the perfect gift, at least according to me, I have a creeping suspicion that he won’t be that pleased. Oh well. I’m the uncle! I decide what is best for him! I’ll tell you about it tomorrow, and why I bought it and how I through gifts force my way onto the world (which isn’t in the state I want it to be… not at all).

So. Happy 16:th birthday Yones!

This is what it looks like when a buss, in Göteborg, is driven by an idiot:

busskrasch

Dinki Donki Donk.

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Not much going on in the grand world of The Don auf Halberstadius. Drinking coffee right now. Soon off to the library to borrow some books I need for Bachelors Thesis (or was it essay?). I am also right now listening to the new Olle Ljungström record ‘Sju’ [Spotify link]. It’s really good! I really like it! What I also have done this morning is ordered bags for our, Camillas and mine, vacuum cleaner. I love the Internet.

Hopefully I’ll have some kind of world wide release of  ’The Anger’ music news for you this week, or at least soon. I was supposed to have them for you on Monday but that wasn’t to be “due do technical difficulties” whatever that means.

Stay tuned.