This is such a huge feat for SpaceX… and mankind. Amazing to see this happen, and it just adds to the whole “one small step […]” thing uttered some time ago by a certain someone.
Happy New Year!
With this photo I took just outside of Elverum, Hedmark here in Norway a few hours ago, I’d like to wish you all a happy new year!
Concert: Leprous
Audience: Approx. 600
Venue: Vulkan Arena, Oslo, Norway
Support: Agent Fresco, Astrosaur, Alithia
One of my favourite bands, and particularly in the last five years or so, Leprous, finished their 30+ show tour last night in Oslo, Norway.
Leprous are almost becoming royalty when it comes to the progressive metal genre. It’s hard competition though, but they have released another strong album with Malina (August 2017) and are continuing their musical journey with steady hands.
I’ve seen Leprous live before, and the amount of people attending this sold out concert shows how big they have become – the place was stuffed.
I recorded two complete songs, Bonneville and The Cloak, and the first one includes a long intro by the amazing cellist Raphael Weinroth-Browne. Bonneville was the first song on the setlist, and The Cloak (one of my favourite songs) was the first encore.
I was tired and in a mood yesterday, so I had to cut the evening short and only saw Agent Fresco’s full set in addition to the whole set by Leprous.
This was my first concert at Vulkan Arena, which is kinda close to the venue Blå. I liked it – it’s just a square with no annoying pillars or anything… which for some reason is rather common elsewhere.
I bought a a couple of nice t-shirts by Leprous and a nice Agent Fresco hat. 
I finally got my hands on Malina as well, and don’t have to just stream it from now on. 
Lecture: Old Nordic Music with Einar Selvik
Audience: Approx. 50
Venue: Gildehallen, Borre, Norway
Support: None.
Einar Selvik (Wardruna) had this little lecture about old Nordic music and instruments yesterday. He showed us the instruments and he also performed songs from Völuspá, by Wardruna and by himself.
This was happening in Gildehallen, which is a replica of an old Viking Hall. More info about it here.
As for the lecture I didn’t really record as much, and I didn’t really want to record it at all either – since I was too busy watching and listening to Einar. Since there were some songs performed I decided to record some. 
The second song was recorded without looking at the camera at all, which is quite obvious when you see it. 
The lecture itself gave a nice insight on how music was made (and later written) with the contexts of the era(s), instruments and how people were living back in the days. If he’ll do more of these lectures it’s highly recommended that you go and check it out. 🙂
There are two songs in this video, and I don’t remember what the first one was from. It could be from Völuspá, but yeah – I’m not certain. The second song, Snake Pit Poetry, is available for purchase. It was made for and used in the TV-show Vikings so if you’re into that you’ll definitely recognize it. The first song is performed with the instrument Talharpa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talharpa), and the second one with a Kravik Lyre.
Go buy his stuff from https://bynorse.bandcamp.com/ or http://www.wardruna.com/.
Arts vs. Science’s – Enter Sandman
Here’s something a little different. There are some really cool covers on Like A Version, and this one is not an exception.
This is Arts vs. Science’s take on Metallica’s Enter Sandman:
All the pigs lined up!
I upload replays to WoTreplays.eu every now and then. They can be downloaded and run in WoT, which of course requires you to have the game installed. You can also just follow the link below and see a bunch of details, and figure out how I did.
I don’t always upload replays with massive XP or kills or something like that, but sometimes there can be like a scene or a nice episode in the battle that I wanted to share. I will mention that in the description for the replay, and also here.
In this battle I was almost sure it was lost, but I managed to frag 3 tanks in a row and turned the table a bit. There was still two arty and a nasty IS tank left, so I was still in a pickle after my last teammate was destroyed.
Timer expired, however, so it was a victory for my team. Very lucky, since this map is really hard to defend in this mode with so much artillery on the enemy team.
See some details and/or download the replay from here: http://wotreplays.eu/site/3925644#stats
9-frags with my Jagdpanther
Finally I got a really nice battle with this tank. I’ve always considered the Jagdpanther to be my main tank ever since I purchased it a long time ago. Therefore, it’s nice to share a replay with a bunch of frags, medals and what not.
I started by camping southwest, but after a tiny while I saw two more camping there, and no one to spot the western side. So, I had to move and managed to give the enemies some serious trouble. I was too excited to hit the next to last tank – and I got a little cocky with the very last one… but it went well. 🙂
The replay can be downloaded from this link, and/or there are more details there as well:
http://wotreplays.eu/site/3921488#redshire-kebabnissen-jagdpanther
Update 23.11.: I even got the Wot Replay Machine to make a video easily viewable on YouTube:
My new Tier 10s in World of Tanks
So, I have decided to maybe put most of my “news things” here on my website instead of having it spread out on social media platforms so much.
I will continue to post random pictures and stuff on both Facebook and Instagram I guess, but certain things will be mainly done here at korp.no.
One thing I will start posting here are gaming related posts. I’ve had a break from World of Tanks, but started playing it a bit a again a couple of weeks ago. I was lucky the conversion-to-free-xp-ratio was buffed during this time, so I converted what I had (and played a little bit) and now I have two more Tier 10 tanks. 
These are the two new ones:
Here they are on the techtree, and it also shows my other Tier 10 tanks:
A while back I only needed two Tier 10s to complete the German techtree, but Wargaming did some changes so there are more tanks now. I’m back at needing two now though. 
Some upgrades and a little snafu
Upgrading to HTTPS is something I’ve wanted to check out for some time now, and I happened to get a newsletter from my ISP today, where they described it as a very simple thing to do. Ahead to the adminpage I went and indeed, it was very easy, and just an hour or so wait until the DNS and everything was updated. 
Unfortunately I managed to reset the blog (WordPress), so there will be some fixing-up in the coming week or so. Thankfully I did take a backup, so all the information and links are back already. 
I might use the default theme since it looks so much better than the last time I looked at it.
I may also remove some posts, due to images being gone, but I will try to fix some of them as well, since this blog (how little it may be) carry a historic significance for me.
Va-vooom! My current dl/ul speed
After I upgraded to fiber and the ISP got their shit together, it has been a blast really. Now we have changed the WiFi Router as well, and that seem to have really done the trick on our internal network.
Just to humour myself I did a speedtest, and it has increased a tad from the last time I did it. Regardless, it’s pretty fast! 🙂
