OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Traffic Lights and Swedish Buses: An Analysis

When I moved to Sweden, I was a little inexperienced with manual gearboxes. So my first day driving to work alone was a challenge.

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Counting Windows

Once I dreamt that someone told me a very funny riddle. […] “Cool,” I thought, “Independent verification! It really is funny!”

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Ice-Cream Flavours and Personal Bests

As I sat on my living room floor, a strange woman with bedraggled hair came up to the glass back door. She simply opened it without knocking and started striding in.

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Buying a Printer

Julian tries to buy a printer. The department store has policies. Hilarity ensues.

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Antics of a Swedish Chef

What does moose taste like?

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Kangaroo Patting – an Australian Family Ritual

People who aren’t from Australia will be unfamiliar with the place of the Kangaroo in a great Australian ritual. This is an attempt to explain a small piece of the Australian culture.

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Internal Rules

I find it quite amusing when we find that we have internalised such obscure rules without ever realising that they existed.

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How I got my nickname

One Wednesday, a couple of years ago, I decided it was finally time to upgrade the RAM in my home PC, to make it run faster.

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Colouring History

To understand the genius of Camille Jordan, we need to do a little experiment together.

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Chess Software Blues

There’s somethink about chess computers…

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