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Ólafur Waage

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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 26/09/2026
Gmail 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
mail.google.com, this page is asking you to confirm that you want to leave - information you've entered may not be saved.

leave page, stay on page
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 25/09/2026
Tag yourself, I'm
a mixture of confusion and disgust
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 24/09/2026
I 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.
NES football game, character doing a bicycle kick supershot
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 18/09/2026
I thought I was pretty good at reading Norwegian languages. But apparently I have a lot to learn.
article that has only nonsense text under it, like a cat walked over a keyboard
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 16/09/2026
His name is Catbug. He's a professional idiot.
cat, sitting in a sofa, looking at something curiously.
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 13/09/2026
Seems others have had a similar experience.
at least it's not like costa rica, where you have to specify landmarks for example 30 meteres north from gomez oak tree and 20 meters east of the rodrigues bakery and 10 meteres south of the main road, at least it was the case in the 90s in costa rica it has been about 30 years since ive been there
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 12/09/2026
Ahh yes, lets announce games that will be released when I'll be almost 50.
starcraft returns 2030
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 12/09/2026
cat litter box
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 10/09/2026
I asked if they sold Denuvo, they just looked at me weird.
place called "DRM LND"
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 09/09/2026
Rosetta Stone in the "Quiet Car" on the train.
a sign that says "hello, show consideration, avoid conversations, put your mobile phone and computer on silent mode" but in English, Swedish and Danish also.
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 09/09/2026
mad men meme, gta6: i feel bad for you, nintendo: i don't think about you at all
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 08/09/2026
A story of my electric lawnmower in two notifications (read bottom up). I'm also tilted buddy, I'm also tilted.
first message: slope too steep
second message: mower tilted
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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.
"chili pizzeria, it's always hot", sign above a pizza place
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 07/09/2026
Something Something AI Programming.
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 06/09/2026
Fuck you.
Does the dog die?
Yes

It’s so much worse than that
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 03/09/2026
This is also where the word Gun comes from.
The origin of the English word gun is considered to derive from the name given to a particular historical weapon. Domina Gunilda was the name given to a remarkably large ballista, a mechanical bolt throwing weapon of enormous size, mounted at Windsor Castle during the 14th century. This name in turn may have derived from the Old Norse woman's proper name Gunnhildr which combines two Norse words referring to battle.[9] The name Gunnildr was often shortened to Gunna.[10]
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 03/09/2026
You should never mess with a woman called "Gunnhildur" because her name means "War War"
Gunhild (with variants Gundhild, Gunhilda, Gunhilde, Gunhjild, Gunilda, Gunnhild, Gunnhildr, Gunnhildur) is a Germanic feminine given name composed of two words meaning "war" (gunn and hild/hildr).
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 26/08/2026
Hey @humblebundle.com apparently you are too busy for your support tickets, so I'll just let you know here. There's a visual bug in the "Ready Player One and Two" bundle, if you click between the two tabs "Entire 7 item bundle" the tab will show "2 copies", not always but it's pretty consistent.
tab that shows 1 item bundle, 1 copy, correctlytabs that show (2 copies) on both tabs
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 22/08/2026
Intel.
microwave that says "ceramic inside", like the old intel commercials "intel inside"
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 22/08/2026
Yeah, because they've already made it. But given how people reboot and number games, I can totally see it happen.
article titled "There will never be another Metal Gear Solid 4"
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 21/08/2026
Silly scientists, universe 3D.
Scientists Release Biggest 2D Map of the Universe
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 20/08/2026
Wanna run software in space? Here is your chance! www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...
These missions allow Europe to test new technologies directly in space, reduce risk for future programmes and accelerate the transfer of innovation from laboratories to operational missions. Previously, ESA’s OPS-SAT CubeSat invited software developers to run standard software in space – famously including a game of Doom!
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 20/08/2026
RIP Reddit. It was fun. No, I'm not gonna make an account, the old reddit layout was the only layout I liked using because it was fast and I could use reddit enhancement suite to see all the content really quickly, now it's gated by login.
you need to login now to use old.reddit.com, the old reddit layout
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 19/08/2026
"A robot just beat Usain Bolt's 100m record" This is lack of imagination and creativity. A robot can look like anything, you have complete freedom! Give them wheels and they'll crush that record.
robot with legs running fast
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 12/08/2026
Gandalf realizing they should have used the eagles.
Gandalf saying: "fly you fools!"
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 10/08/2026
Looks great for his age.
google search result info box about Sturla Sighvatsson, which is the name of an Icelandic Chieftain from the 1200s but it shows a photo of a modern man with the same name
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 05/08/2026
Where I would want to live as an Icelander
most of northern europe highlighted as "absolutely" except for denmark and north west of iceland marked as "never"
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 03/08/2026
Just to avoid confusion, because people have been thinking this is some toll interview that everyone goes through. There's this green gate just before you leave at the airport, sometimes there are toll agents inside, sometimes they'll ask you questions as you are leaving. That's it.
green and red gate near the exit at the oslo airport
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 02/08/2026
Game Devs in the 90s making their first 3D game but also realizing it's the 3rd game in the series...
meme: I have kind of a crazy idea
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 29/07/2026
Are we there yet?
time to destination: -35791395 hours and 52 minutes
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 27/07/2026
There seems to be an automatic feed of "Quiet posters" here on bluesky, let's see if it works well
feed on bluesky called "quiet posters"
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 26/07/2026
I dip Kringla in Kókómjólk.
icelandic round pretzel like baked good
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 26/07/2026
I'm never a pretzel guy, always found them to be too try and flavorless. In a trip to Germany 8 years ago I had this soft pretzel filled with butter and let me tell you reader, I still think about it. To Germans this is probably a bad or basic pretzel but to me this was a "come to Jesus moment".
a pretzel filled with butter inside sitting on a plate
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 26/07/2026
What on earth is liquid smoke made out of? [googles, sees first image] There must be a better explanation [second image] I give up, it's magic (btw, no need to tell me, after more searching it's cooled and condensed wood smoke, it's just a post about the huge contrast between the links I found)
Ingredients
Water, Natural Hickory Smoke Concentrate. unhelpful science paper called "Chemical characterization of commercial liquid smoke products", too sciency for me
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 26/07/2026
Nope, it was Gen X, then Gen Y (which was renamed to Millennial) then Gen Z. Here is sources from Britannica and Wikipedia. Generations are all about 15-20 years in length.
millennial, term used to describe a person born between 1981 and 1996, though different sources can vary by a year or two. It was first used in the book Generations (1991) by William Strauss and Neil Howe, who felt it was an appropriate name for the first generation to reach adulthood in the new millennium. Millennials are the cohort between Generation X (Gen X; defined as those born between 1965 and 1980) and Generation Z (Gen Z; defined as those born from about 1997 to the early 2010s).Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years, with the generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996.[1][2] Most millennials are the children of baby boomers and older Gen Xers,[3] and are often the parents of younger Generation Z and Generation Alpha.[4][5]photo showing all generations and their years and life spans, showing millennials as also generation y
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 25/07/2026
The only one benefiting is the ones selling the gold digging tools to the prospectors.
samsung stock shooting up in the past year
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 25/07/2026
Aurora?
a sign that says "norsk bjørk", which is a type of wood, but also the singer aurora is often said to be the norwegian björk
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 23/07/2026
Exhibit B
a huge boat stuck and a tiny digger trying to fix it, text on boat is "my dad jokes" and text on digger is "people telling me to stop"
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 23/07/2026
Browsing through old memes I've made. Man, I used to be funny.
car drifting meme template but he's drifting right towards a sign that says "drift tournament"
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 23/07/2026
One of these days I'll get all of the achievements.
game played for over 8000 hours and 13 achievements missing
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 19/07/2026
Now what...
what else is on
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 12/07/2026
I don't remember that Final Destination scene. (pillar is hiding an 's')
sign that says "final destination? hopping down stairs", but there is a pillar in front of "hopping" so it should say "shopping"
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 11/07/2026
I've been watching some Jackass interviews where they talk about their old stunts and it's funny how the one they usually react to the worst is the paper cut one. All of these gross things and injuries and the one they make a face and still think is bad to this day is paper cuts.
steveo making a wincing face watching a papercut
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 09/07/2026
What is this in my neighbors yard? [enhance] Huh, apparently Trolls also support Norway.
shot out of a window into a yard, some statue in the distanceit's a troll with a spear and a shield that is painted the norwegian flag
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 08/07/2026
I've been enjoying playing Prodeus, if you want a fun boomer shooter then I recommend But what is this? Wanna load your save? You press start, skip login to pronet, press campaign, press the campaign, press continue on the campaign, click to load the save, btw which just loads the level selection
images of the six steps i just showedthe level selection, a top down level view like in mario 3
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 07/07/2026
seems you should be able to
allow dms from everyone
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 03/07/2026
Found an example I'm not too embarrassed to share. Here's all of the notes I wrote for a math class back in 2009. Absolutely useless, but it looks nice. Floor function and Ceiling function. Wow, riveting stuff. I probably zoned out the rest of the class.
functions, definition 12, floor function and ceiling function
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 03/07/2026
Example of "appeal to authority" or "the halo effect" ? Easy. At university people would sometimes ask me for my class notes. They were not good notes, trust me, but I wrote them in LaTeX... People wanted my notes because they looked like science papers (until they learned they were bad).
gummi, a latex editor with a live preview on the right side
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 03/07/2026
Tomorrow will be "Oh so quiet" because there's a 0% chance of the Icelandic singer Björk.
air pollen measurement, bjork being a type of tree but also the name of the icelandic singer.
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 28/06/2026
Why is (almost) every single spice rack/tray 3d print model assuming that I own spice containers that are exactly the same size No shade but what is this? Spices come in so many different variations, it's not always refill bags (no need to send me suggestions btw, I found a generic kitchen shelf)
very neat spice rack, it's pretty but no
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