Mikael Palmstedt

So I just got my camera back (after like 6 months grrr) and have nothing better todo while the packing continous during Sunday but to take some pics of the office.

Workplace

Still a bit of ice on the pond outside

Took over a week for the Germans to realize they could skate on the ice, hope it went faster to realize that you can not skate on thin ice.

Some gadgets lying around waiting to be packed

Our massive archive with t-shirt motives

picture from LittleNelly

Nicely made goose with knödel (weird potatomix that is quite delicious when properly made) and red cabbage (usually I go for the duck but for christmas the goose is the thing here). Gänsekeule (above) is a very traditional German christmas meal.

Other interesting stuff appearing quite a lot during christmas is the half meter bratwursts (sold the entire year but is pushed a bit extra these weeks) plus lots of other typical market food and German Gluhwine which I actually prefer to the Swedish glögg since its not so sweet.

Now its just one day left and then the flight goes to Göteborg and then to Lidköping for christmas holiday

Funny thing in Sweden, the largest voting group on both the right and the left side is house owners and apartment owners ranging from lower middle class to upper in terms of income.

End result in these times of crisis, chocking decrease of the repo rate for the swedish krona keeping the current house and apartment owners happy at the price of imported inflation. Everybody wins, eh except the low income segment (say 20% of the swedish population) who is gonna enjoy paying higher prices for their TVs, steroes, and whatever else Sweden is importing while paying rent for their apartment which is now not for sale at a bargain price because their overborrowed landlord didn’t go bust.

Looked at a funny table the other day which I of course can’t find again (so these numbers might be slightly off), where you could see Swedish ppl on average saves -1% of their income, Danish -4%, French 12% and Germans 11%. Says a lot, I think of the Swedish ppl I know probably not even one in ten has more than SEK30 000 (about EUR2800) on the bank and most of them have fairly well payed jobs and are in their thirties and beyond … of course probably eight of ten has loans of well over SEK1 000 000.

There’s just something beutiful about this clip;

I wonder when we’re gonna speed around the world in vacuum tubes instead .

Domesday news from the tele, banks collapsing and ppl noticing that also the tech money might be running low. For me personally and a few other ppl not relying so much on financing, I think the climate just got better:

Pros

Don’t have to worry as much about competitors that have 100x-1000x the money that I have to do the same thing.

Only the true risktakers are staying in the market, meaning more fun at work. The risk averse go onto gov money or take a “proper” job I think.

Lots of good stuff go bust that needs to be picked up by someone …

People will go into buying more cheap happy things like a cute button or dogtag.

People sit at home surfin for stupid pointless pictures.

Cons

Consumers might not be as happy to purchase superexpensive geeky gadgets and shirts.

Ad spend might go down a bit (although I think the onlinespend will stay quite even regardless).

Will be thougher working during the day due to the fact that you now have so many unemployed friends with nothing todo except spending their unemployment money.

Happy days are here!

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