Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 17hAI youtu.be/ya1UYsqf2hw?...youtu.beMeeps!YouTube video by 5secondfilms 250
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 27/09/2026Sitting next to a very business man looking business man. His ringtone is Crazy Frog. 5600
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 27/09/2026It's the year 2040 AI is so fast that every project commit can fully reimpliment openssl such that it perfectly fits the hyper specific needs of the project There are no global vulnerabilities because nobody uses open source projects anymore Windows Search still can't find files effectively 4450
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 27/09/2026I'm "out on the town" and sitting behind me are a group of women singing "mister booba booba" to the tune of "mistah lova lova" 2200
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 26/09/2026Vague Address Experiment Result youtube.com/shorts/ge9mC...youtube.comVague Address Experiment Result #nordic #norway #letter #mailYouTube video by Ólafur Waage 0261
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 26/09/2026Gmail is ok and all but there's one outstanding bug that just annoys the hell out of me (on desktop) and it's been a thing for years. It's when you open up a new tab, open gmail, see some new email, close the tab, but for some reason, gmail hasn't "saved" something and it just keeps showing me this 6280
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 25/09/2026Art Project Idea. YouTube movie reaction channel, but it only watches Groundhog Day. Two person channel, one person has no memory of having seen this movie in the previous video and the other person has to live through it again and again and again. 2371
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 25/09/2026"If you have a system, with a bunch of bytes... which most systems do" - Ólafur Waage I sure am a poet while doing conference talks. 4280
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 24/09/2026"I'll die on this hill" I say, as I point to a lovely hill, with big beautiful trees, birds singing, great view of the city and the sunset. And you'll agree. This is a nice hill to die on. 4574
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 24/09/2026I see all these football games being released and none come close to World Cup for the NES. They can keep trying but it's futile. 2240
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 23/09/2026As the final human dies after a total AI takeover, the last sound a human ever heard was: "this materially changes the entire situation, it is something I should have recognized earlier, you're right to push back on this smoking gun, and that's on me" 1360
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 23/09/2026@tomska.bsky.social Terminally Online should be called Tominally Online. I'll see myself out. 0110
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 22/09/2026Millennials and Gen Z don't have to be such enemies. We can learn from each other. You can teach us how to not be so cringe online. And we can teach you how to make phone calls to book doctors appointments. 7391
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 20/09/2026How do you know if you have the website of a real contractor or some corporation that is trying to make it look that they are a local contractor in your area? Photos of recent jobs that are well lit? Corporation Do they reply to emails? Corporation Website updated this decade? Corporation 2363
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 20/09/2026"What is 'Do you want to be a millionaire?'" -"It's a game show where you try to answer harder and harder questions and if you get one wrong you're out" "Ok, so increasing difficulty and increasing rewards with the risk of one failure resetting the whole progress?" -"Yup" "Sweet, I love roguelikes" 1473
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 19/09/2026If you are a store and you wanna put an "ANNO" sign on the front and the year is after 1999? Just... don't. ANNO 2024 just looks sad. Sorry. 4362
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 18/09/2026I think my phone believes now that the way to unlock it is to do it incorrectly 3 times before succeeding. 3231
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 18/09/2026New cat just dropped? The Dog PR people are in shambles right now. 3350
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 18/09/2026I thought I was pretty good at reading Norwegian languages. But apparently I have a lot to learn. 6515
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 17/09/2026How to make a game 10x cooler in the eyes of a 12 year old. 0411
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 17/09/2026Been trying out the WoW Forever beta. Login errors, login queues, getting kicked out to menu, being frozen in place and can't move, can't loot because server is gone, chatting in global chat is more fun than the game. 10/10 Exactly like the WoW I remember. 0352
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 17/09/2026Apparently I can't create an account in a system I need to use because "Our system updates at night so you can log in tomorrow" 2180
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 16/09/2026Did I just have a lot of ice cream? Yes. Will ice cream give my stomach a hard time? Yes. Do I care? No. 7501
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 14/09/2026It's the year 3000. Our modern day history is lore to them. They think the Zodiac Killer was a Scorpio who really hated Virgos. 0261
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 14/09/2026Parts of Speech in Icelandic, literally translated. noun = nafnorð (name word) adjective = lýsingarorð (description word) verb = sagnorð (story word) adverb = atviksorð (incident word) pronoun = fornafn (before name) article = greinir (distinguisher) 1615
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 13/09/2026"A self replicating skynet can't happen because there aren't enough places with enough RAM to host such a system" I love the future... 5523
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 12/09/2026Vague Icelandic Addresses. youtube.com/shorts/p2bnz...youtube.comVague Icelandic Addresses #nordic #iceland #languageYouTube video by Ólafur Waage 6337
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 12/09/2026Ahh yes, lets announce games that will be released when I'll be almost 50. 6370
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 12/09/2026Drulla is a fun Icelandic word. It means Mud and Diarrhea. Drulla upp á bak (shit up your back) is to message something up Drullusokkur (mud sock) is a plunger but also "a piece of shit" (person) You can use it as emphasis for wanting someone to hurry up. Drullastu til að... 2381
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 12/09/2026Does my cat think the cat in the photo on the cat litter box is a cat that is just always in the bathroom? 1232
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 12/09/2026At the bubble wrap factory, when they ship it out, do they wrap it in bubble wrap? So, you know, the bubble wrap won't pop? 2342
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 10/09/2026I asked if they sold Denuvo, they just looked at me weird. 2261
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 09/09/2026Boarding people by group 1 and then group 2 and 3 to only put us all in the same large waiting room is quite funny. 4450
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 08/09/2026"Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" Me: "In front of a mirror, like normally, unless there's some jump in reflection technology" 1502
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 08/09/2026A story of my electric lawnmower in two notifications (read bottom up). I'm also tilted buddy, I'm also tilted. 4480
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 07/09/2026"It's always hot", is that a sign of pride or a cry for help? Do they have some cursed pizza, where no matter what they do, it's always hot. Some sort of perpetual energy demon device! Please call an exorcist. 10250
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 07/09/2026My Norwegian banks have been lovely. Meanwhile my Icelandic bank limited my account because I didn't answer a survey. 4430
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 06/09/2026I have seen all the John Wick movies except the first one, only because someone told me a dog dying is a main plot point. 4340
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 06/09/2026Norway isn't small... but I just booked a bus ride and the booking confirmation included the bus driver's phone number. 4652
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 06/09/2026I'm in the "I wish my reading glasses had a chain lanyard" phase of my life. 4450
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 05/09/2026Lots of tech blogs/websites have a very similar look these days because AI is generating the CSS for them. I wonder if in the future, someone will make a CSS theme that mimics that look because young people today will have nostalgia for that look. Like how we have nostalgia for Geocities slop.static.klipy.comDPGraph 3D Graphing Software ScreenshotAlt: a very noisy geocities gif riddled page 2300
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 03/09/2026How the fuck is it already [current month] of [current year] ? 6494
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 03/09/2026You should never mess with a woman called "Gunnhildur" because her name means "War War" 3493
