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ratracer

Blessed be those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.

About Me

I am not interesting in any way, shape or form, and I'll never understand why anyone would care to read this.
Anyway if you do read this, please kindly excuse any funny spelling or bizarre grammatical errors as English is not my native language. Thank you.
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My Interests

Horses and other critters, people, music, movies, theatre, politics, anything medieval, archaeology, languages, reading, going places... oh and hanging around on the net, obviously

I'd like to meet:

...but probably never will (not in this life anyway):

My guess is these are, or respectively were, all very inspiring people to be around.

My Friend Space
I have amazing friends.

Groovy

That Funny Girl

Nin

Hannah

Neil

Janika

Morrigan

Aenea

View All of My Friends

Music:

Runrig, Clannad, Evanescence, Pink Floyd, Loreena McKennitt, Bryan Adams, Genesis/Phil Collins, Marc Cohn, Antonio Vivaldi, G.F. Händel, J.S Bach, most soundtracks... loads more

Movies:

The Life of Brian, Rat Race, Casino Royale, Obsession, Some Voices, Les Choristes, A Fish Called Wanda, Good Bye Lenin, Dances With Wolves, Dead Poets Society, Lord of the Rings, The Golden Compass (yes I know it's not even out yet)

Television:

Malcolm in the Middle, Daria, The Wonder Years, House M.D., Monty Python's Flying Circus, Robin of Sherwood, Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Love Inc., The X-Files, Scrubs

Books:

Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes, Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials, Victor Hugo - Les Misérables, Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Mists of Avalon, Ann Rice Vampire series, anything by Charles Dickens, Calvin & Hobbes, Peanuts

Heroes:

my Mom

and also this guy (no that's not John Wayne)

plus the artist formerly known as the next President of the US of A

for telling an inconvenient truth

Hero of the Month:

Another episode in the vita of St Daniel:

Daniel Craig has spoken for the first time about his support for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, the charity that saves lives at sea. The actor had the opportunity to meet volunteer lifeboat crew members at Ramsgate Lifeboat Station in July when, for the first time, he went to sea with the RNLI.
Craig commented: 'The tireless, unassuming, and above all brave work that the RNLI volunteers undertake everyday makes me proud and honoured to be associated with them. Please help them do their job - support your local lifeboat.'

My Blog

Whew x 3

It's done! :D I finally finished my dissertation. It turned out much longer than I expected. I'm utterly pooped after weeks of getting VERY little sleep, in the end spending whole nights in front o...
Posted by ratracer on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:29:00 PST

Last day, first photos

(first posted August 28)I'm back home. We took a flight from Helsinki early this afternoon, and I can't honestly say I was glad when we touched down at Cologne/Bonn airport. *long deep sigh*  On...
Posted by ratracer on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:58:00 PST

Travelog, parte deux

(first posted August 24)It's been only a few days since my last blog, but there are already so many new things to tell that I thought I'd do another one. After three days in Stockholm, we crossed ...
Posted by ratracer on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:58:00 PST

Travelog, sort of

(first posted August 19)Third day of our Nordic trip. Since I have internet access here at my hotel in Stockholm, I thought I might as well report a little about what we've seen so far. Yesterday w...
Posted by ratracer on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:29:00 PST

whew...

First hurdle cleared. We presented our research reports yesterday to the organization who funded our grants, and they were pleased.This past week has been a real drainer. It felt so good to finally be...
Posted by ratracer on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:48:00 PST

Stan Lee Then and Now dvd promo

A friend asked me to post this. This event was held for a good cause, and obviously a lot of fun was had there. http://www.youtube.com/v/3YIsaoA64WY...
Posted by ratracer on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:46:00 PST

Exciting times......

This is from a message board where we were talking about Bulgaria and Romania which have just joined the European Union on January 1. The discussion brought back memories of the time just before t...
Posted by ratracer on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:39:00 PST

It's a mad mad mad mad world

A few days ago a Lebanese student was arrested after a failed attempt to blow up two trains here in my region. On July 31, two homemade 25-kilo bombs with time fuzes had been found inside suitcases le...
Posted by ratracer on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 01:19:00 PST

My hero of the month

... is Bruno the brown bear He had come from Czechia some weeks ago, and since then had roamed the woodlands of Austria, Northern Italy and - just his luck - Bavaria. Now, we haven't had any bea...
Posted by ratracer on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:53:00 PST

I HATE SOCCER

So yesterday was the start of the World Cup. So far so good. It also happened to be the day I had planned to meet up with a friend after work, which is pretty late, and rush to the cinema to see The O...
Posted by ratracer on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 03:21:00 PST