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A Halloween Special
We had our 1st snow today that stuck to the ground. My (Dave) grad school advisor came out to Norway yesterday for a few days. There is an initiative here in Norway to help foster collaborative research between Norway and the US. He came out to see our lab and to find out [...]

Fiona Sutherland Visit Oslo.
This was a busy weekend hanging out with our friend Fiona. We realize that in 3 days you can see most of the Oslo highlights give or take a museum & hiking.
She flew in Friday at noon and she and I quickly shopped until we dropped. We walked up the main shopping [...]

I just got back from a work trip to Cambridge, England. I went with some co-workers to discuss some software we use to process our data. Cambridge is a beautiful city, with a lot of science history. A lot of famous fluid dynamicists studied and worked there along with such people as Isaac Newton. [...]

I put some recipes up on the Interests – Cooking page, see the Interests link in the left sidebar. I put a recipe up for a rustic bread and a beet risotto. If you try either let me know. Likewise, if you have any questions on making these things, let me know and I will [...]

We are tired from the weekend.
Friday night we checked out a new group for social activity: the online Yahoo Group’s “New to Oslo” club. People log in and post questions with being new to Oslo and people who have been in Oslo longer give helpful information. For example, how do you go about getting your [...]

This Sunday Dave and I took a hike in the Nordmarka (north forest). It was a nice sunny day which is rare now. We sloshed through the trails and were looking for mushrooms. We were successful, but not like some other mushroom hunters who found them by the basket load. We picked traktkantarell mushrooms [...]

Munich is a great city! I went for a week with my friend Frank and Dave joined us for the weekend.
Frank and I started the week spending a day in the Bavarian Alps at Berchtesdaden National Park. It’s 98 miles southeast of Munich. The drive over was great. I enjoyed the rolling hills with small [...]