{"id":306,"date":"2004-08-31T15:55:04","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T19:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=306"},"modified":"2006-02-07T06:49:35","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T11:49:35","slug":"ongoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/ongoing","title":{"rendered":"Ongoing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m just not in much of a writing mood. I’m enjoying Stockholm (on to Lund\/Malmo tomorrow, before crossing the border to Copenhagen), but interviewing all these people is kinda running me down.<\/p>\n

Took some pix this morning, but they didn’t come out great. So I put some jokes together instead.<\/p>\n

I guess the problem is, the big picture of Stockholm is sorta old-countryish, but the beauty of it is in the little touches, in the way that crazy design sense plays itself out all over the darn place. Like in this lamp on my night-stand<\/a>, which I thought was askew first, but turned out to make a perfect cone of light on my book. I wish I was here on vacation, because I’d ramble on for hours.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here are some other pix:<\/p>\n

The university building<\/a> that houses the bioprocessing group that I interviewed this morning.<\/p>\n

An intersection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Didn’t Tim Duncan foul out of the Olympics<\/a> because of one of these?<\/p>\n

With Sly & Robbie<\/a>?<\/p>\n

I was very disappointed not to find a Randy Moss jersey<\/a> in here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m just not in much of a writing mood. I’m enjoying Stockholm (on to Lund\/Malmo tomorrow, before crossing the border to Copenhagen), but interviewing all these people is kinda running me down. Took some pix this morning, but they didn’t come out great. So I put some jokes together instead. I guess the problem is, … <\/p>\n

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