9 posts tagged “mobile”
Day in, day out it was raining. Then it went it away, to wet the Brits I suppose. We took our towels and rode to the beach at Pyynikki. I'm fond of my idle days.
As the title implies it's mothers' day in Finland. I called Mom to congratulate. Then I took my bike out went to Pyynikki. A local sports club organizes a bike race there on mothers' day since 1981. The road climbs up from the disaffected fabrics factory to the observation tower - a very steep hill. A good spot to take some pictures. There were not that many spectators - some tens. Finland is not a cycling country - alas.
Strolling by the lake with my son today it was +22 c and the young master decided to go shirtless - which up here in Tampere doesn't happen that often.
When you go to sauna and open the door, warm air hits you gently and envelops you. The same way came summer over Tampere.
This season's first 100 km ride took me to Kangasala and Valkeakoski. A nice quiet road. Warm breeze from SSE. I did not set any speed goal to attain. I only kept an eye on pulsemeter, tried to keep it between 115 - 120. Took a photo on the old village road of Lempäälä.
Fridtjof Nansen - in the picture below- was the first to cross Greenland on skis in 1886. It is a great story. And the finnish translation published in 1896 by Teuvo Pakkala has for some time been in public domain. I decided to publish it as an ebook on nokia's mosh site. The Norwegian national library gave me permission to use their database of Nansen's photos. Also, on Nansen's crew were two Samis from Karasjokk - and the other one, Samuel Balto wrote his own story that has never been translated into finnish before. I will include Balto's story as well. In all I think it's going to be interesting to see the reception.
Reading for an exam this friday. I'm also preparing a new ebook that I will publish at the mosh.nokia.com. The last that i made was a cooking book originally published in 1919 with the title '200 recipies for the lonely'. It has been downloaded over 500 times. Pretty cool for an old cooking book.
To read, to read, to read. To remember. To recollect. ... And to write. And read again.
It does look like autumn doesn't it?
Yesterday I wrote a short piece for the local entrepreneurial monthly. It occured to me that a lot of what I see written, is about products and marketing. But very little about processes and innovations within. Also, I know there's a network creation program for small subcontracting firms in metal industry. Someone should write about those topics as well. Ig me...
