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Det er utrolig vanskelig å dytte isolasjon rundt vinduer uten at utforinga buler. Løsningen er å kappe en bordbit som er ca en cm bredere enn lysmålet, slik at denne kan sette utforinga i spenn motsatt vei under dyttearbeitet.

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Skjendingen av innlandets dronning foregår i all offentlighet, vårt moderne samfunn eier ingen skam. Tok dette usigelig triste bildet når jeg kjørte E6 fra Kolomoen til Minnesund i forgårs. Klikk på bildet for forstørrelse.

Fjording, the Norwegian national horse

Årets siste persimon, også kalt sharon, 4 for 10 hos Rema. Min svigermor hadde kuttet dem i båter og lagt dem så fint utover at jeg fikk lyst til å ta et bilde. Herlig forfriskende til søndagsfrokosten etter egg og bacon, nesten som en tur til Spania og mye billigere.

Michael W. Mehaffy and Nikos A. Salingaros First published in Metropolis (metropolismag.com), 29 November 2011. CC BY-SA Michael W. Mehaffy & Nikos A. Salingaros, 2012 . Creative Commons  License Attribution–ShareAlike. In 1984, the environmental psychologist Roger Ulrich made a startling discovery. In studying hospital patients recovering from surgery, he found that one factor alone accounted for significant differences in post-operative complications, recovery times, and need for painkillers. It was the view from their windows! Half the patients had views out to beautiful nature scenes. The other half saw a blank wall. This was an astonishing result — the mere quality of aesthetic experience had a measurable impact on the patients’ health and wellbeing. Moreover — and this certainly caught the attention of hard-nosed economists — because the patients stayed less time, used fewer drugs, and had fewer complications, their stay in the hospital actual...

Min kommentartråd på Aftenposten angående Tommy Sørbøs artikkel: Pent, stygt eller sant? Hvis du misliker Lambda har det ikke noe med bygget å gjøre, men deg selv. 19682010 Hva som er vakkert er heldigvis ikke subjektivt, slik artikkelforfatteren gir inntrykk av. Skjønnhet er objektivt, og kan i større og større grad defineres av kriterier utenfor oss selv. Dette kalles biofilisk design. Den viktigste størrelsen internasjonalt innen tematikken biofilisk design, er Christopher Alexander. Jeg har skrevet en introduksjon hos det amerikanske nettstedet  Resilience.org  for en forelesning Alexander holdt på Berkeley i 2011, denne, med video fra forelesningen, kan lastes ned her:  http://www.resilience.org/stor... At Lambda er en stygg bygning er dessverre en objektiv sannhet. Rediger Svar 13 timer siden 8 Liker alexander377 Lambda er som den kunsten bygget skal huse; spennende og utfordrende, men ikke nødvenigvis pen eller...

I and my daughter had a very nice and refreshing walk today in the hills above my town. Click on the image for a magnification. No reason to complain about the view either. Queen Mjøsa in the middle, Helgøya Island to her left and the Skreia Mountains to her right. Click on the image for a magnification. (Dette bildet ble publisert som dagens OA bilde i Oppland Arbeiderblad tirsdag 20. november 2012, s. 18. Se bidraget hos Origo her .

 A Norwegian farm in the Lake Mjøsa area, Totenåsen Hills is seen in the background. The soil here is very fertile, as it has been sea-bed two times. Fossils like trilobites and squids are regularly found. Click on the photo for a magnification.

Personally I believe that our self-understanding will go astray without awareness of God. The builders of Florence, especially those building from about the year 1000 A.D. to 1500 A.D., lived and worked with an unshakable belief in God. As one looks at the works that came from their hands, God is everywhere: in the paintings now hanging in the Uffizi, in the Baptistery, in San Miniato, in the life and death of Beato Angelico living in his cell in the monastery of San Marco. For them, every stone was a gift to that unshakable belief in God they shared. It is the belief, the unshakable nature of the belief, its authenticity, and above all its solidity, which made it work effectively for them. We, in our time, need an authentic belief, a certainty, connected with the ultimate reaches of space and time — which does the same for us. – Christopher Alexander, The Luminous Ground, page 42 The self-understanding of modern man has made itself manifest in modern architecture. All that it say i...

Amotz Zahavi I really look forward to that! Personally I find it immensely promising to combine the good forces of the handicap principle discovered by Amotz Zahavi, with the pattern technology developed by Christopher Alexander . To mix these two are in my eyes dynamite, and can be a major contribution for a more human society. Unfortunately I know of no others that share my enthusiasm for this idea, I don't think neither Alexander or Bongard has seen its full potential. As I see it there is a close relationship between Alexander's A Pattern Language and Bongard's The Biological Human . It's like Alexander's pattern-technology is made for utilizing the good forces of the handicap principle. I really don't understand why I've not yet met any others that share my enthusiasm for these possibilities? - Levevei.no

Photo: Heinz-Josef Lücking Lene, the author of the well worth visiting blog The Essence of the Good Life , has made what is probably the world's best collection of bed alcoves. Go directly to her excellent photo-graphic alcove show here: - ALCOVE - MY FAVOURITE SLEEPING PLACE  Really refreshing to see this in these continental-bed-times, awful and anxiety-generating as they are. Hope you know about the two stars alexandrine pattern BED ALCOVE, which is pattern 188 in A Pattern Language . Here Christopher Alexander states that bedrooms make no sense . His conclusion is as follows: Don't put single beds in empty rooms called bedrooms, but instead put individual bed alcoves off rooms with other non-sleeping functions, so the bed itself becomes a tiny private haven. - Christopher Alexander For all of you who have A Pattern Language in your book shelves (I guess some of you have, as this book is a major classic), I advice to look up pattern 188 ...

Architects design the physical setting in which social life goes forward. If the material world is what there is, and there are no higher goods, then architects, who create the order of that world, take the place of God. In the modern world the creative visionary architect is therefore a natural totalitarian. Prominent pioneers of architectural modernism included Italian fascists, Bauhaus commies, and the American Nazi Philip Johnson. Others have been freelance tyrants, on a grand scale like Le Corbusier or a petty one like Peter Eisenman. Still others have been opportunistic tools of money and power who build buildings that glorify the rich, powerful, and well-connected and make ordinary people feel out of place. - James Kalb Le Corbusier ; God and Tyrant

Etter et innlegg nylig av Terje Bongard hos Kulturverk, begynte jeg å reflektere over hvor stor andel av fotosyntesen vi mennesker rettmessig kan utnytte til å dekke egne behov. Sitat fra artikkelen: Menneskets forbruk av den totale fotosyntesen på jorda er beregnet til mellom 30 og 50 % [1]. Det fører til at de fleste arter utenom mais, hvete, ris og en håndfull andre lever på lånt tid. Det ser ut til at forbruket av global planteproduksjon vil nå 100 % på 40 år. Det er imidlertid umulig. Da er det ikke noe mat igjen til andre arter enn oss, og vi vil dø ut fordi omsetningen i naturen vil bryte sammen. - Terje Bongard Jeg vil anbefale å lese hele innlegget av Terje Bongard hos Kulturverk: - På parti med den nære framtida? Det har vært mye fokusert på hvor stor andel av ressursgrunnlaget den rikeste tiendeparten av verdens befolkning disponerer, og hvor urettferdig denne fordelingen er. Noe jeg sjelden ser diskutert er hvor stor andel av fotosyntesen menneskeheten disponerer p...

After a heavy rainfall during the weekend the fields are again free of snow. Click on the image for a magnification.

Consensus offers status and reward for those who can navigate its waters. Further, status salutes status. We warm to those who confirm our attachment to our understanding of the world and all that we have invested in it. A respectable institute conscious of its status will desire to work with someone of equal or higher status; or a government will deem it appropriate to only work with high status advisors (usually the most expensive). So consensus is re-enforced….and Ireland gets Merrill Lynch. - David Korowicz

I have not posted this thread with Ross Wolf before as he called me "Swedish", which is a rather serious insult to a Norwegian. So I was lucky to find his post re-posted elsewhere, but with this error corrected. I don't know for sure why Wolf re-posted our conversation either? Was it to make fun of me as a rather naive (in his super-intellectual eyes) half peasant and nature-conservative? Or was it because he found our conversation interesting and informative? Read the conversation and judge yourselves: - An exchange with Øyvind Holmstad on the subject of "civilization"

Den mest sofistikerte form for undertrykkelse går gjennom inkludering, i vår kultur særlig gjeldende for den såkalte multikulturalismen, som i virkeligheten er den rasjonelle modernismens avvising av tradisjoner som samfunnsnorm.  Foto: Jonathan McIntosh Paul-Otto Brunstad, professor ved NLA i religionspedagogikk, gir en treffende karakteristikk av inkluderingens sanne vesen i artikkelen "Nussifisering av troens mysterium", side 4-5 i Vårt Land fredag 9. november 2012. Inkludering: Det finnes en måte å kvitte seg med brysomme fremmede på, og som er mer effektivt enn å forfølge dem, det er å inkludere dem. Ved gradvis å omforme den fremmede, ved gradvis å fjerne alt som er fremmedartet og provoserende, temmes og omskapes den fremmede i vårt eget bilde. Omformingen skjer ikke gjennom utestenging, utrensking eller forfølgelse, men tvert om gjennom en respektfull inkludering. Til slutt har den fremmede mistet all sin identitet og betydning. Det kritiske og konst...

Read the article  here . Personally I come from the small minority on the right that is positive to environmentalism, as I'm a nature conservative. I'm sorry to inform you that you have misunderstood completely. It's not small that is beautiful, it's scale that is beautiful. Yes, I understand that you are obligated to your hero Le Corbusier to hate scale, and especially the small scales, as he was a mega-maniac. But scale is, in spite of modernist ideology, a natural law that is fundamental for the universe. This is why Christopher Alexander has set "Levels of Scale" as the first and most fundamental property of wholeness: http://www.tkwa.com/fifteen-properties/levels-of-scale-2/ In fact, levels of scale is fractal and is ≈ 2,7: http://meandering-through-mathematics.blogspot.no/2012/02/applications-of-golden-mean-to.html I find your misunderstanding so serious that I'm determined to write an article called "The Beauty of Scale". Related...