Personal on @ppmotskula

RIP my English blog

peeterpaul@motskula.net (Peeter P. Mõtsküla) — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

In the last 12 months I’ve managed to post whopping 14 articles into my English-language blog. That’s six and a half times less than what I published on my main, Estonian-language site. Since the new Blogger has labels that you can use for filtering the content, I’ve decided to move all the articles over to wolli.blogspot.com and tag them as “english”.

ppmotskula.blogspot.com is now officially obsolete.

Thank you, terrorists!

peeterpaul@motskula.net (Peeter P. Mõtsküla) — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

The trip to London began perfectly normally.

Shortly after the boarding was completed, the aircraft was pushed back from the gate, taxied to the runway, and took off. Soon, the seatbelt lights were switched off, and a male voice sounded: “Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain. Welcome on board this Estonian Air flight from Tallinn to London. We have reached our cruising altitude of 10600 meters. Our ground speed 800 kilometers an hour and the outside temperature minus 48 degrees centigrade. We expect to arrive at London Gatwick airport in two hours and five minutes — that’s twenty minutes ahead of time.”

Culture Shock

peeterpaul@motskula.net (Peeter P. Mõtsküla) — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

American Man: “You know, I’m totally colour-blind.”
Estonian Man: “So that’s why you called me a nigger the other day!”
British Girl: (gasps, then silently exits room)
AM and EM: (chuckle)

Lawyer

peeterpaul@motskula.net (Peeter P. Mõtsküla) — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

How do you call 50 lawyers at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean? — A pretty good start!

Well, I just defended my thesis titled “Free software: opportunity or threat? Perspectives of the legal protection of computer software in networked society” and received the mark “A”. The official graduation party is scheduled to start at 12:00 on June 15th in Estonian National Library.