Yummy Kopparberg Cider

We beat Greece yesterday 2-0. Time for some cider!

Party in Sweden's Pants

Many people complain that Sweden is one of the most boring countries in the world.

I am not going to argue. You can't score here to save your life, a mixed drink with 4cl of alcohol costs $15, and between September and June there is no one on the streets after 8:00 pm (except Friday nights where everyone binge drinks and then throws up in the sidewalk).

At least some people have a sense of humor about it.

MacBook Air ENVY...ENVY...ENVY!

Yes Steve Jobs looks more and more like a monkey every year...but he makes awesome laptops. I've often wondered why PC designs lag so far behind Mac designs. There must be 100 PC laptop manufacturers and their offerings look terrible in comparison. And many include some deal-killing stupid feature that no one would ever want (fingerprint readers, glossy screens, Vista, etc).

Dell? Sony? Acer? Lenovo? Hello? These are big companies with huge resources. Their competing models all terrible in comparison to a MacBook Air or even a normal MacBook. The only good thing with the Dell is that you can get insurance against breaking or even losing the thing (which is a good thing if you are me). But fuck it I will just have to be careful.

I would have a MacBook Air by now except in the great land of Sweden they cost $3,000 bucks which is twice what they cost in the USA. YOU CAN FLY TO THE USA AND BUY ONE AND ITS STILL CHEAPER! So that's what I'll do.

Plus if you buy one here you have to deal with the Swedish keyboard layout... which if you read my last post you will know I am not that excited about.

I haven't been this enthusiastic about a product since ColecoVision came out in 1982. ENVY...ENVY...ENVY!

I HATE THE SWEDISH ALPHABET

I hate the Swedish alphabet.

Who do they think they are to fuck with a perfectly good English alphabet?

I hate the Swedish alphabet.

It causes havoc whenever I try to make a website in Swedish. All the weird characters end up looking like insane chicken scratch or ?'s

I hate the Swedish alphabet.

I still like the girls still, though.

I hate the Swedish alphabet.

My last name begins with a 'Z'. I got used to being last. Now Magnus Österberg is last.

I hate the Swedish alphabet.

They didn't officially add the 'W' until 2005! It's only in the name of yer own country for chrissakes!

I hate the Swedish government.

Ooops I meant to say 'alphabet'.

I hate the occasional Freudian slip.

But not as much as I hate the Swedish alphabet.

Swedish Woman Dies Fishing for Chickens

If you think your life is pointless, then check out this Swedish woman's death...

"A 63-year-old woman died on Saturday night after falling down a well while trying to fish out a dead chicken. The accident occurred near Ed in Dalsland in western Sweden. "

Read the whole article at The Local.