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Bike recovered again

Today I went with Brix to the place again, and we found the bike – 1,5 meters down the hill from the elevated road. A lot of pulling an pushing and some sweat later and we got the 200kg back on the road for some damage assesment before Falck (Road service) was there.

As far as I can judge it need to have replaced the following parts:

  • Handlebars
  • Front suspension
  • Front wheel
  • Front fairing
  • Front break disc
  • Ignition (As its totally gone)
  • Holder for ignition
  • Lower body fairing
  • Some parts of the rear fairing
  • Travelbags holders
  • Parts of the electrical system
  • Bit of side fairing below the seat
  • Maybe exhaust too, but I could not judge if it was dirt or scratches on it

Picture of the bike recovery at the usual location.

Bike stolen

Some bastards have left the place, with my Fazer in the boot of their truck (Or so I think it went down).

The matter of fact is that it is gone without a trace. Arriving home from work wednesday, looking forward to a trip to Mols, I found that the bike was no where near the place I had parked it the day before. I went around the block to have a look at the places where I would otherwise park (In case that alzenheimers had kicked in) but it was not to be seen. The restaurant below, where I parked in front of, told me that they had seen me park at the spot I expected, so no alzenheimers for me (pew ;), but it also confirmed that it was stolen.
I called the Police to check with them – They had nothing on it, so since it wasn’t them, I reported it stolen. Got a reciept for that friday, so I called my insurance company to tell them. The woman in the other end came with a slight sigh and said something about reporting motorcycles being stolen very popular at the time. That only confirmed my theory about the heist. So I do not have any expectations of seeing that again, unfortunately. If I had known it would have been a sentimental goodbye for the 30K+ KM we have had together over the last 3 years.

Fazer

Last known good picture of the Fazer (10/7-2006)

Now it is only to wait and see… The police have a month to recover the bike again before the insurance company has to pay up. Unfortunately there is a 20% self insurance on theft, so I hope that they pay good bucks for it in the first place.

It’s not all bad though… I am now in the marked to get a new bike, and I have got my eyes set on a BMW R 1200 GS Adventure. It is a bit of a different thing compared to the Fazer, but I have allways been fasinated by BIG Enduros and they don’t get any bigger than this. 1170cc flat twin boxer engine with lots of pull, 33 liters fuel tank, ABS.. The list goes on.

BMW R 1200 GS Adventure

BMW R 1200 GS Adventure

BMW R 1200 GS Adventure in action

I am not without a bike now though, as Hans Henrik was kind enough to offer me to borrow his Virago. Thanks mate!

Best Eurovision Song Contest – ever!

I don’t belive that I have enjoyed a Eurovision Song Contest like the one today since… Well… Ever!

I remember watching and probably enjoying it as a kid – Probably cheering for Denmark. Not because it was the best song, but just because I am danish.

Today was different. Finland stepped out of the line of countries providing an endless stream of more or less horrible pop songs and showed up at the Eurovision with Lordi.

Finnish metal kings

Not surprisingly they are inspired by the glamour rock guys from KISS (You know: Gene Simmons and crew).
So if this wasn’t a pop Waterloo…

New Mac mini (Intel based) – Macs now running windows

The last experiment with getting a Mac worked out just fine. And then 2 weeks ago the company I work at found out that we needed a Mac, so the supporters was able to actually look at a Mac and be able to assist our customers running OS X with their needs. So I got an oppotunity to sell my “old” Mac mini G4.

So fast forward to yesterday: My new Mac arrived. 220MB downloads later (Turns out OS X 10.4.6 was released same day) I was up and running. A quick restore of my files from my external Iomega firewire drive to /Users and creation of a new user with my usual username (OS X asked if I wanted to “reattach” the files I had just restored – Which is basicaly a chmod to get the permissons right), and I was back where I left off. Things going a lot faster though.

Today Apple released a press announcement about Boot Camp. A bit of a surprise, as it was not excatly something I saw coming, considering Steve’s latest interviews and tradeshow talks.

But here it is, and it is working just fine too. A few screenshots from windows:

Taks manager showing off the Core Duo processors:

Win mini task manager

Selection of startup disk – Not unlike the OS X program for the same job:

Select startup disk

How windows see the devices on the mini:

How windows sees the devices on the mini

Only a few devices does not show up as working. Apple says it is the remote control – And I frankly do not have any idea what that should be doing in windows, with the apparent lack of Frontrow.

Apple say that Boot Camp is going final along with OS X 10.5 (Aka Leopard).

What I would really like to know though: Is it ok to ignore the parts in the manual specifying what to install, and install something more interesting than Windows XP Pro SP2?

Update:

It seems that some crafty people have managed to do the tricks and boot multiple OSs

Mad kanon

Der har været en del snak om en såkaldt Kultur Kanon, hvor en flok mere eller mindre kendte folk fra det danske kulturliv fik til opgave at finde de bedste kultur værker i forskellige kategorier, der er lavet i danmark igennem tiderne.

Et par af mine fætrer sammensatte den 23/8-2003 en mad kanon – Samme formål: Find de bedste danske retter.

  1. Gule ærter med pølse og flæsk
  2. Forloren hare
  3. Forloren skildpadde med kødboller, fiskeboller og små frikadeller
  4. Klar suppe med kød- og melboller og grøntsager
  5. And (Helstegt)
  6. Høns i asparges med butterdejssnitter/tarteletter
  7. Oksesteg med små løg (Sukker stegte)
  8. Hamburgerryg m. brunede kartofler og grøn spinat
  9. Vikingbøf
  10. Kogt torsk med senneps sovs
  11. Det kolde bord m. lune retter (ribbenssteg, tarteletter)
  12. Oksekød i sur/sød sovs eller kavlefrikassé
  13. Kogt oksebryst med pebberodssauce
  14. Stegt kylling (gryde eller ovn) med agurkesalat
  15. Culottesteg med bernaise
  16. Nøgleben (Stegte) med tilhørende sovs og kogte kartofler
  17. Flæskesteg
  18. Lammekøller med flødekartofler
  19. Medister med rødkål
  20. Wienerschnitzel
  21. Steget flæsk med persillesovs
  22. Skinke med løgsovs
  23. Hvidkålsruletter
  24. Kalkun (fyldt)
  25. Ovnstegt laks med hollandaisesauce
  26. Skipperlabeskobes
  27. Gullash med enten kartoffelmos eller alm. kartofler
  28. Engelsk bøf
  29. Bøf-bernaise
  30. Dansk bøf
  31. Frikadeller med persillesovs eller kartoffelsalat
  32. Fransk bøf
  33. Karbonader
  34. Koteletter
  35. Stroganoff med kartoffelmos
  36. Stegte ål
  37. Brændende kærlighed
  38. Sennepsmørbrad
  39. Hummer (Absolut minimum: 1kg pr. mand)
  40. Fiskefrikadeller
  41. Benløse fugle
  42. Biksemad med spejleæg
  43. Pølser med varm kartoffelsalat
  44. Røget makrel med persillesovs
  45. Mørbradbøf
  46. Boller i karry med ris
  47. Helstegt rødspætte med citronsovs/persillesovs
  48. Kartoffelsuppe
  49. Stegt bacon med stuvede kartofler

Der blev også lavet en tilsvarende liste med desserter

  1. Pandekager med is (hjemmelavet, begge dele)
  2. Mandelrand med is (hjemmelavet) og årstidens frugter
  3. Jordbærgrød
  4. Rødgrød med fløde
  5. Æblekage
  6. Citronfromage
  7. Trifli
  8. Frugter med råcreme
  9. Appelsindessert
  10. Forårslagkage med enten kaffecreme eller frosne hindbær
  11. Karamelrand med nougatis og karamelflødeskum
  12. Brændte figner i cognac med flødeskum eller is
  13. Ris á l’amande med kirsebærsovs
  14. Hjemmelavet is med chokoladesovs
  15. Mandelbudding med kirsebærsovs
  16. Årstidens bær (jordbær, hindbær osv) med mælk, sukker og fløde
  17. Stikkelsbærgrød med fløde
  18. Frugtsalat
  19. Koldskål med kammerjunkere
  20. Rabarber- suppe/grød
  21. Æblesuppe
  22. Æblegrød

Jeg kan kun være enig

Old picture

At “Onsdagsmam”, my aunt offered my a copy of some an picture she found and had made replicas of. For your viewing pleasure I have scanned it.

Old picture

Featuring (From left to right): Me, my grandmother holding my sister Charlotte and my cusin Karen Marie. The picture is taken in front of my grandmothers summer house, now owned by Charlotte. My guess would be that it is taken sometime durring the summer of 1977 or 1978.

Got myself a new bicycle

Well… Not quiet yet actualy, but I went to one of the [many] local bicycle store to look for one today.

What I ended up with was this baby, which I am going to pick up tomorrow.

BLACK CONCEPT BC8R

The manufacturer MBK has all the specs. I’m getting it fitted with tire and chain fenders and a lock to boot.

It’s going to be interesting to be riding something with considerably less than 95HPs, but as winter seems to be unwilling to go away this will have to do until there are 5+ centigrades…

WordPress II

A new version of WordPress has been released. In fact it has allready been installed here. For some reason the developers have named it the Duke Ellington-version?!? There is not much to see here, but on the backend there is a lot of improvements. A new editor, hopefully a functional distributed antispam filter, post-preview on the fly, more easy uploading and importing and now headlines can be edited too.

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