Dreamhack

Dreamhack started in the 90’s with a couple of friends setting up a local network at their school so that they could play computer games together. Now, it is the world’s largest computer festival with over 13 000 visitors and takes place four times/year. They compete for prizes totaling around $35,000 in different games like Starcraft and Counter-Strike, as well as the admiration of thousands of screaming teenage fans. 

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DN debatt

Have anything you want to say? A controversial opinion backed up by new or old research? DN Debatt is the way to get it delivered to the masses. DN is best described as the Swedish NYT and their opinion pages are legendary. Here (if the Gods and/or the editors of DN are benevolent) you can publish your thoughts and have the cultural and political elite go after you like a pack of rabid dogs. Some claim that unless a thought or idea has been published here, it does not really exist. They are wrong, of course, but not by much. If your Swedish is up to code, you can check it out at dn.se/debatt

So sleepy

View from Lakrits´ dog hotel!

Went to check out Lakrits' hotel and it looks amazing. He is going to love it there. The separation will probably be harder on me- especially since it costs more than our plane tickets! :)

Daniel Westling

This “man of the people” married the Swedish crown princess in 2010 and now they are keeping busy making little baby princes and princesses. He grew up in the small town of Ockelbo in northern Sweden and opened up a gym in Stockholm, where he met his future wife. Strangely enough he seems to have been bred for the sole purpose of becoming royalty. 

There are no scandals in his past, no youthful indiscretions or old friends that want to make a buck by telling that story about how he got super drunk and tried to tip a cow. Believe me, media have tried to dig up dirt on this guy, but he seems bullet proof. This has lead many of us to suspect he is in fact a robot. He also kind of looks like Boxer-Robert (See “Boxer-Robert”).

Dansband

Ah, the smell of way too much cologne mixed with sweat, snuff (see “Snus”), moonshine (see “Hembränt”) and over-confidence. This youthful (not really) craze became popular in the 1970’s and is still going strong. Basically, it consists of a band playing songs inspired by country, pop swing and jazz, anything that can be made into a danceable tune. If you haven’t listened to the Baseballs dandsband version of Rihanna’s Umbrella you don’t know the true meaning of the word “remix”. There are a couple of other words I would like to use for it too, but there are way too many people who enjoy this stuff. 

There is no individual dancing, like those darn youngsters and their “disco”, instead everybody pairs up and tries to find their next sexual partner by doing it laterally in a foxtrot/wales type of dance. One heads-up for women trying to these dances – the man always leads. You just follow. It might be hard in the beginning, but if you stick with it you will find yourself starting to obey them outside of the dance floor, too, and you will be a much happier person! How to identify a dansband band: They usually have names with x, å, ä, ö and z.