Some of the art I saw at Arken this afternoon was by Tim Noble and Sue Webster. On the card describing one of their pieces it refered to them as an “the artist couple,” but then later it was written, parenthetically, that they are “also a couple privately.” I’d never heard that turn of phrase before, and I quite like it — a few words that succinctly fill in the relationship blanks.

I took a trip out to Arken this afternoon — it’s a modern art gallery on the coast, just south of Copenhagen. I had my GPS running for the whole trip, and you can see the trip in Nokia Sports Tracker. The trip was 23km from door to door, and took just over 39 minutes. Here’s how the speed and altitude look on the Sports Tracker graph:

Here’s a bigger version of the same graph. The first 9 km of the trip were on the “F” line of the S-train from Bispebjerg to Ny Ellebjerg; I then got on the “E” line, which was express all the way to Ishøj (it reached 123 km/h at its fastest). At 21 km I got to Ishøj where I wandered around for a bit looking for the bus station, and then took Bus #128 out to Arken.

The altitude-measuring feature of the GPS on my Nokia N95 obviously aren’t bang-on all the time: there’s no way you could run a train on altitude hills like that.

Here’s what came at the end of the trip:

Okay, so I’m a little wordled now. Here’s the last 500 posts from this weblog as a Wordle:

Here’a a bigger JPEG of the same image.

From Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino comes a pointer to a typophile’s dream toy: Wordle. Give Wordle some text, and it creates a “word cloud,” sizing the words based on their frequency. I fed it the entire text of Anne of Green Gables, and here’s what it came up with:

You can see a larger JPEG, or visit the Wordle itself (and make your own).

I get a local newspaper or real estate flyer through my door almost every day here in Copenhagen, so I decided it was time to be able to parse the Danish listings:

Here’s what I’ve learned:

• Udb is short for Udbetaling — “payment.”
• Knt is short for Kontantpris — “cash price.”
• Brt is short for Brutto — “gross.”
• Nt is short for Netto — “net.”

Of course I have no idea what these terms actually mean in the Danish context. Is the Udbetaling the “down payment” or the “monthly maintenance fee.” Any light my Danish friends can shed would be welcome.

The 1,925,000 DKK “cash price” is about $400,000 Canadian. The 100,000 DKK “payment” is about $20,000 Canadian.

Two little pages constructed partly to help me visualize reboot, but mostly to help me procrastinate: reboot people in pictures and reboot people on a map:

It seems that Thomas wasn’t kidding: I actually am talking at reboot — being the on the schedule makes it so:

Being a speaker gives me access to the secret Speakers Guide, in which I find a lovely innovation:

Questions and answers are abandoned this year. Instead they’ve been replaced by “thoughts”. Ie. ending your session asking “So what’s your thoughts?” instead of asking “Questions?”. Not commenting on each thought being shared, just passing on the torch to the next one in the crowd that has a thought. You’ve just inspired several hundred highly thoughtful people, let them share…

You may recall Oliver’s puffy eye from two years ago, a thrilling episode that is forever associated with London in Oliver’s mind. This morning I woke up with my own, albeit less severe, version thereof:

The eye has gradually been returning to normal over the morning. Perhaps some bizarre Valby tree pollen was the cause?