Andsetinn's Profile

I make my own in any shape I want, and its fun. One word. Origami. :)

There is a saying that "If you have dark colors in a room, you have to have plenty of light". I think that the most under-appreciated feature of interior decorations/design is light. But it only works as long as they're lit. :)

I used to do this to my DVD collection before I ripped them all and packed them away. It really messed up few of my friends who asked me to please remove the eyesore. Some visitors liked it though. :)

I'm the typical B person who hates getting up in the morning when the bed is my best friend. The best method I've found to help me wake up in the morning is to go early to bed. :)

Because I travel a lot for my work I don't keep pets. I would never leave an animal alone at home, not even for a day. In my family that is an unthinkable behavior and would be considered cruelty to animals (as a bonus I will never have to worry about my pet escaping during break in). When I was a kid, our pets traveled with us. If I had suggested leaving Nero (our dog) at home, I would have been left there too, to keep him company. Our home was always open to strangers. Anyone in trouble had shelter at our house. It happened that they took things when they left but my parents said that they needed them more than we did.
An uncle of mine refuses to this day to lock his house. His reasoning is that expensive locks encourage break ins and if the door is unlocked, thieves will not break doors or windows down. His is the policy I follow, of having almost nothing worth any real money in the house.

Saying "my phone doesn't have this feature, therefore I don't want it", or similar, is a way of thinking I'm always as surprised to hear outside of the kiddies playground. I get furious when I get the error message that this or that content does not display on my laptop. Oh how I wish everyone would just use the same standard.

I had the same problem last summer. I solved it by knocking on my new neighbors door and ask if I could borrow access to his wireless internet connection for a week. No problem.

As a former fisherman in Northern Europe I strongly protest the way you word nr 5. For you Americans, if you substitute North America for North Europe and then think about how large and diverse the area is, you can understand the absurdity of the claim.
You say that Farmed Salmon is lower in everything except poison (well that is basically what you wrote :)) I could argue that the quality of the Salmon would depend on the exact location where it is farmed, which brings me to my protest. You then start to talk about N.E. fish on American Menus, like all fish from that area is polluted. The way you put it one could even understand that all fish on American Menus is polluted.
The North Atlantic Ocean, half of which belongs to Northern Europe, is one of the cleanest and healthiest oceans left in the world. Fresh Cod from that area is the best fish you can get.

I recently had to replace my DVD player and since the price difference is small these days I took the jump to BluRay. Since then I've bought few movies on BluRay. At the moment I have about 10 BluRays, 400 DVDs, 200 Audio Cd's and 1000 books. BluRay is the highest quality video standard widely available today. Although I'm not much for paying lot extra for little more, more quality is always better and the price difference is much smaller than it was. I don't like downloaded or streamed content. The quality (glitchy streaming and highly pixelated pictures) is usually lower than I can accept.
Owning hard copies of movies and books may be as antiquated as buying software in a box but I don't buy software anymore. I use Linux and other free software on most of my computers. I've digitised most of my DVDs and Audio Cd's. I have a copy of quite a few of my paper books on my Kindle (plus lots more and most books and disks I keep in the garage so they don't "mess up" my living room).

I once asked the flight attendant if it was ok that I didn't turn my digital watch off. She didn't get the humour. :)
They are pretty nice and usually don't mind me having the noise cancelling headphones turned on even while taking off and landing.
In my opinion; turning Kindles off instead of just turning their antenna off, insisting that phones are off and not in flight mode and not allowing people to use mp3 players is irrational fear and does not show our civilication in good light, blanket policy or not.