AI?

Here is a failure to deliver notice that I received today:

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at XYZcompany.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
Your message bounced.

I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long.

I am not sure what to make of this... Did the programmer's have a sense of humor? Do they expect me to believe that this was not automatically generated? Are we all being duped and there really are little men running around in the computer?

I think I like the "Sorry it didn't work out." part the best.

Still no pro account.

So, I just uploaded more photos on flickr (see links to your right) of my trip. But, obviously, this does not cover all my Sweden pictures and I am still too cheap to get a pro account.

Here is one last picture for your pleasure:



And you thought drinks in DC were expensive. One drink here was 150 SKE, that is about $21. The second drink is only 145 SKE, as long as you use the same ice glass. Needless to say, we only stayed for one drink. Besides, is was -10 C in there (about 14 F) and that is a tinsy bit chilly.

Hej Hej

I forgot in my last post...

11. The Swedes love coffee (like the ice cream there are often coffee shops across the street from each other), but they are still one of the last bastions that Starbucks has not invaded (at least from what I could tell).

Big in Sweden

I'm baaa-ack...

Here are somethings I learned in Sweden:

1. Mullets on men and women are popular.

2. Man-pris are popular...VERY popular.

3. They cuff their jeans (like I do, except probably not because they don't have any shorts).

4. The Swedes like their ice cream. Just about every other shop sells some form of it.

5. They are a very quite people. No seriously, I heard a horn honked twice -- in two weeks; their children don't make noise. These are not the Vikings that I expected.

6. Frukost - is Swedish for breakfast, and is literally translated to fruit-cheese. Breakfast is usually deli meat, cheese, and fruit. If not that, then muesli with yogurt.

7. Jorgubbe (yourd-goob) is Swedish for strawberry.

8. Hej (hey) is Swedish for hello, but usually one would say "hej, hej." Hej då (hey-doa) is goodbye.

9. There are 96,000 lakes in Sweden and Stockholm is actually and archipelago.

10. The Swedish King is not actually Swedish. King Carl XVI Gustaf is the 7th in the House of Bernadotte line, which was basically appointed by Napoleon I.

PS - Please forgive any missing umlauts.