setting fire to things seems to be pretty popular so far this year here in finland – makasiinit went up a few weeks ago and there was a few more over the following week or so – then some time early today the church in porvoo went on fire. (the cause of the porvoo fire […]

ah – summer has arrived and life is good. random discoveries on the internets make it a little bit better sporalogy is a jocular pseudoscience invented by the finnish professor and skeptic nils mustelin in the 1980s as a parody of astrology. sporalogy is the art or science of determining a person’s fate from the […]

makasiinit (scheduled for demolition on monday, and the scene of “rioting” last week) went up in flames this evening here in helsinki. well, half of it did (the half closest to kiasma). the centre was crazy, full of thousands of people watching on – moving their positions depending on the wind direction. we saw one […]

i always seem to forget that shops close over easter… this is a reminder for myself: on thursday, april 13, shops are allowed to be open between 7 am and 9 pm, and on holysaturday between 7 am and 6 pm as usual. virtually all stores are closed on good friday and easter sunday. on […]