Sunday, August 12, 2012

Welcome to Chez Larsson

Sally told me about a Swedish woman whose blog she visits often. The blogger is a wonderful combination of designer, inventor, do-it-yourselfer, and neat freak (her term). Not only that, she takes excellent photos of her projects and the results. I've had a lifelong affinity for things Scandinavian, having grown up in an area inhabited by so many Norwegians and Swedes. I love this blog, too, and I've just become acquainted with it. Hope XtremeEnglish's readers like it, too.
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  1. Anonymous1:28 PM

    Give me a few weeks to decide how I like Chez Larsson. Thanks for pointing it out.
    Cop Car

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  2. I like Swedish and Danish modern furniture. No ruffles, frills or unnecessary ornamentation. Simplicity personified. I looked at the blog and think she is very pretty and very Swedish in appearance. Well, what else could she be?

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  3. Cop Car: I think I'm purposely avoiding politics or any kind of THOUGHT these days. I like this blog because her house is very simple--not fancy at all--and she's just making it beautiful and pleasing to her eyes.

    Darlene: What else she might be is Finnish. She has a photo of a dress in one of her posts that she says reminds her of the ones she wore in Finland as a child. Something like that, anyway. These Scandinavian women are very beautiful!

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  4. Not my cup of tea...

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  5. dint expect it to be, Stu....I'll try to find something mechanical!

    also, i read in a book that Ethiopians are very good at math! ever find this to be true?

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  6. Great mechanical blog with superb photos :- phttp://www.savory.de/maths23.htm

    Americans are surprised when 'primitive' peoples use another method to get the same result, perhaps even faster, whence the US belief that Ethiopians are very good at math.
    Just a US belief based on their own ignorance of other techniques ;-)

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  7. Ignore the previous misformatting by blogspot :-(

    Great mechanical blog with superb photos :- http://occhiolungo.wordpress.com/

    Americans are only taught one way to multiply; I know at least 4.

    Americans are surprised when 'primitive' peoples use another method (see http://www.savory.de/maths2.htm and http://www.savory.de/maths23.htm) to get the same result, perhaps even faster, whence the US belief that Ethiopians are very good at math.
    Just a US belief based on their own ignorance of other techniques ;-)

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  8. very nice, but your disdain for Americans is hard to take. only we get to think we're a bunch of morons.

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    1. p.s. the person who said this about Ethiopians is the author of Cutting for Stone. He's an Ethiopian, educated there, including medical school.

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    2. My disdain is merely for the US education system which is dumbing-down the population. Just recently there has been a serious(?) proposal to longer teach algebra because it is 'too hard' for many US kids(sic!). A trend towards becoming minimum-wage slaves or Eloi? See Romney/Ryan on education :-(

      That'd be Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone was his first book. Made a good impression :-) I have found that many Indians are good at math(s), I don't know any Ethiopians to be able to judge.

      Remember, Einstein said something like "You have problems with Maths? I assure you, mine are much greater" (I can't remember the exact quote). Recommended reading for people with maths problems "Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Doug Hofstadter :-)

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    3. Anonymous9:37 PM

      Ha! I'm laughing. There are a bunch of stories about Einstein and his probs with math (as in arithmEtic). It is said that once he and Albert Schweitzer were playing a duet on violins and Schweitzer got so frustrated, he stopped entirely to ask: "Can't you COUNT?"

      Our American educational system is another triumph of the Right wing. It gives the military-industrials a constant influx of bodies for our "volunteer army." They go from school to cashier at McDonalds to Iraq. It's an ongoing disgrace.

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  9. Stu: I can hardly bear to read what the politicians are proposing for skools and liberries over here. You of course, having been raised in a country with appreciation for book learning, know four ways to multiply a bunch of numbers. I left math behind when I graduated from high school. (Probably before that.)

    I think that's Verghese's second book, n'est ce pas? but what do I know?

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