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This might be booring!

I recently started on my second year of the economic education in which I’m enrolled. We were presented to several new subjects, including Organisation and International Economics.

Each subject has one or two books attached, and a few days ago I started reading in them. Generally every book starts out with a prehistoric outline of each subject. One thing that stroke me was how accumulating these books are. Every book describes how a guy came up with this breakthrough of a publication a hundred years ago, inventing and accounting for new theories. The books continue deliberately about how another guy then revised the other guy’s idea or theory and another guy again revised the first alteration and so on! It works this way several years ahead, but then suddenly stops at one point. Read the rest of this entry »

Just wanted to comment on the new appearence of my page. I just installed the last.fm plugin, which shows the 9 albums I’ve listened to the most within the last week, so it’ll change on a weekly basis. Feel free to be inspired

Thanks to this guy!

The disappointment of enforced exclusion
Sometimes intangible things decide wether or not a certain person has the right to stay within a group. It could be age, sex, culture-related norms or even more superficial matters such as a persons appearence. I kind of had this subject close to me this weekend, and I felt for both sides; the side that ‘had’ to exclude and the side that got excluded. What exactly happened is not of importance. The thing that got to me though, was how strong these feelings were at the time of the incident. Such an elaborate portion of guilt and disappointment. Guilt of being on the wrong side of this particular exclusion, and disappointment in yourself for being there and most importantly the disappointment the person on the other side must have felt. That is disappointment in the others for sticking to a prescribed behaviour. Also, I imagine, a feeling of emptiness must be inevitable. It should be noted that sometimes the people or the person on the wrong side of an incident like this are not always to blame. It is sometimes unavoidable to feel guilty in spite of not having done anything wrong. The problem though is what defines “anything”.

I just recieved some new stuff I’d like to share. First I ordered a T-Shirt where I could choose the print myself. See it below. The quote comes from a song by Figurines off of their new album.

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Second, I got myself a new laptop. Intel Core2 Duo T5250@1.5Ghz, 2GB ram, 160GB 7200 RPM HD, 9-cell battery pack, bluetooth and a lot more. I’m really satisfied with it. I ordered it at www.zeptoeksperten.dk - so far I’d recommend them!

Today I decided to jump the bandwagon and create my own personal blog. If it pleases me, I’ll attach a song, a quote, a picture or something similar of relevance.

To this post I stumbled over an old R.E.M. song with the same title as this post’s subject. Surely this song has a wider meaning than my humble entrance in blog-world, but anyway..

R.E.M. - Bandwagon

Come on aboard, I promise you you won’t hurt the horse
We treat him well, we feed him well.
There’s lots of room for you on the bandwagon,
The road may be rough, the weather may forget us
But won’t we all parade around and sing our songs,
a magic kingdom, open-armed

Rest of the lyrics here