Dear Kymmenen #2, You got mail!

Hi people,

For this week's answer, I have chosen this very kind email that Ben Karlson had the delicacy to send me from UK. Check it out, very fruity:

(not) Dear Kymmenen,

You think yourself so smart? Your not, go fuck yourself, you bloody emo

Crappily yours,
Ben

What's Linux about?

When our first son was born, Veronika and me, to avoid senseless and subtle struggles, agreed on building an as neutral ground as possible for our kids, and thus decided to start by not choosing for our kids names that were Spanish (me) or Austrian (Veronika).

Since we met in Finland, we agreed on having a Finnish name. We checked some names and known characters, and, in the end, Linus Torvalds, the Finnish man father of the operative system Linux, seemed like an interesting person plus the name itself, Linus, sounded nice to us.

But it was much more for his being Finnish than for being Linux-related.

As a collateral effect though, I did think that I should at least try and see what Linux is about, for it would be a shame not to ever leave Windows having my son named after Torvalds.

I know that there is a lot of sectarianism on this whole business, and that, as a rule, cool people like Macs, people who don't like computers very much like use Microsoft Windows, and people with suspenders and populated beards like Linux.

I am none of them. I like computers, the Mac's aura of coolness for money discomfort me, and people with suspenders and long beards intimidate me.

Let this be then: Linux according to Kymmenen.

Dear Kymmenen #1, What's Happines?

Hi people, it seems we got our first question. Olga Richter, from the unknown, wrote this:

Dear Kymmenen,

I don't know how it happenend, but by chance I landed on your blog the other day. It happens to me very rarely, but reading your entries I couldn't help nodding my head in agreement. I have been trying to start my own blog for years, but somehow I always end up reading what others write instead.

Since you put the idea of reader-response into your blog, I will make use of it now to put a question to you which I usually ask everyone I meet:
What does happiness mean for you?
I am curious to learn what people (and you, of course) think makes life worth for them.

Keep going, Kymmenen, I would like to read more of your stuff.

Take care,
Olga

The Multiple Me

I just remembered what was one of the main difficulties I usually find in keeping a blog rolling, and that's the lack of consistency.

Not only that I not always feel like writing (which is also true), but mostly, that when I log back in to the blog, I often find out that I don't like anymore the entries I've written, or the general line of it, if entertaining or critical or witty, or the overall theme, this preaching theme now.

A Happy Birthday

More often than not, when any special date arrives, I end being tagged as a killjoy with unresolved childhood issues. Which is true. But, mind you, today, parishioners, listen to the untold story, listen to:

Birthdays according to Kymmenen's Gospel.