Please write down the adress of the new blog: http://martin.gumucio.com Well ok, the address is the one thing that stays the same, but the rest is about to change!

wordpress.com has been a very good free blog host for the years i have had my blog here. As I see it they stand head and shoulders above the competition. Sadly I am feeling that the new version of wordpress that was released a while ago has not been rolled out smoothly, and frankly. Its 2008, when I can’t publish pictures to my own blog in a civilized manner, there is something wrong, and the gallery function has now been broken here for 3 weeks.

So buh bye wordpress.com, and hello self-hosted wordpress installation at dreamhost. We’ll see how it works, i know i have some readers that aren’t huge Dreamhost fans..

As I am writing this, the domain transfer request is already made. So according to my new host in 7 to 10 days (but really anytime in the next hours) this blog will be reborn…

See you on the other side!

(Note to gumucio.com users: The whole gumucio.com domain is being transferred, there may be a slight interruption in mail and related services. See http://start.gumucio.com for details)

Microsoft demonstrating how in touch they are with the modern world..

There is lots to write, Aron turned 1 year old last week, there are pretty pictures of that, and I am scheduled for eye-surgery before the summer. Sadly i have absolutely no time to write, so here is a funny picture instead. More is to come i promise.

There is also this video of this years Preklin, the annual big party of the med-school students here in Uppsala. Pretty nice costumes this year…

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Pretty outstanding news: Comedy Central and the creators of South Park have just put every single episode online, for your viewing pleasure.

There are many brilliant ones, but episodes you must watch include:

The passion of the jew

Make love not warcraft

Trapped in the closet

Which one is your favorite? Or most hated

What does the Brazilian rainforest, a bag of barbeque charcoal and the author J.K Rowling have in common? If you guessed FSC, you guessed right, the famous fantasy writer insisted that all of the latest Harry Potter books would be printed using FSC certified wood. You will similiarly see the logo on nearly every brand of charcoal here in Sweden, in short it is one of the biggest international standards that nobody has ever heard of.

Until today that is, above you see the notable swedish fotographer Mathias Klum. Acting to increase awareness for FSC.  Its the first campaign ever aimed at the public for FSC Sweden. Read up, and get informed!

www.forskogochmanniskor.org/

Cousin Francesca sent me these, and they are just begging to be shared:

These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts, and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters that had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.

ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?
WITNESS: No, I just lie there.

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ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
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ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
WITNESS: I forget.
ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot?
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ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning?
WITNESS: He said, ‘Where am I, Cathy?’
ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?
WITNESS: My name is Susan!
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ATTORNEY: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo?
WITNESS: We both do.
ATTORNEY: Voodoo?
WITNESS: We do.
ATTORNEY: You do?
WITNESS: Yes, voodoo.
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ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn’t it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn’t know about it until the next morning?
WITNESS: ; Did you actually pass the bar exam?
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ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he?
WITNESS: Uh, he’s twenty-one.
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ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?
WITNESS: Are you shittin’ me?
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ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time?
WITNESS: Uh…. I was gettin’ laid!
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ATTORNEY: She had three children, right?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: How many were boys?
WITNESS: None.
ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?
WITNESS : Are you shittin’ me? Your Honor, I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a new attorney?
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ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS: By death.
ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?
WITNESS: Now whose death do you suppose terminated it?
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ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?
WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard.
ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?
WITNESS: Guess.
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ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
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ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?
WITNESS: All my autopsies are performed on dead people. Would you like to rephrase that?
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ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
WITNESS: Oral.
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ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 P.M.
ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?
WITNESS: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy on him!
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ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
WITNESS: Huh….are you qualified to ask that question?

And the best for last

ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar
ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law

Today we went to the movies together for the first time in over a year. Its not easy to take time for these things, even if you love cinema its just so much easier for one of us to stay home and take care of the little guy. There is this really nice cinema here that focuses on European quality movies. Pretty narrow stuff sometimes but so different and so good! It has been years and years since my last visit, but they are still going strong.

So the choice of the evening: Le Fils de L’Epicier A classic feel-good movie about a city boy who is forced to go back the countryside town of his childhood. There isn’t much to describe in words as the whole movie floats on spectacular photo of the Provence countryside. I loved it. Also we noticed two more movies we need to see there later My kid could paint that and Die Fälscher. Expect similar mini-reviews of them as well, when we get the time..

I have been home with Aron now for a few weeks and everything is going well. He has some more teeth, claps his hands together when we sing for him and is generally too cute to describe.

Here we have the little guy testing one of his christmas present - a sled - on the only day so far that had a little snow.

And here the daily activities had to end, on the last pics you can see Lego. The cat that knows no fear. The only cat i met that challenges big dogs head on, as well as approaching bicycles.. and approaching cars..  He has expressed interest in Aron before, namely when he is in his tram and his hand is dangling in view of cats on the ground ready to pounce…    Lego always means trouble, so after chasing him around with a stick we decided to call it a day.

Just in time for Christmas this wonderful piece of news arrives: New Line Cinema and Peter Jackson will indeed produce movies on the Tolkien book The Hobbit. Not only one movie but two! It will be pretty exciting to see what they can come up with to fill two movies.

Growing up The Hobbit was one of my favourite childrens books, and its very exciting to see it being presented on the big screen.  Below you find an earlier version of Bilbo.

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The Hobbit: The Official Movie Blog

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