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Temporarily Closed for Construction

On May 9, 2024

Definitely going through one of my busier periods in life right now. Full time job with more than enough to do whilst taking a law course at the university and trying to find the time to study. Meanwhile, the kids got soccer, music, and scouts and the weather is finally coming around for getting some landscaping done outside (digging, building a deck, etc.). Oh and we’re also taking a course on how to create the best experience for our one kid with adhd. The law course will be done on June 4th, so my intention is to get some songs finished after that.

Neverends at Fair Isles Distillery

By Nic

On August 9, 2023

In Music, News, The Reverends

Well, first gig in a long time. The festival Summartónar, which holds concerts all over the Faroe Islands during the summer suggested we play at the Fair Isles Distillery, an exciting new brewery with lots of driven people behind it. I can certainly recommend visiting the place, should you find yourself in the Faroe Islands.

Neverends? Just a silly version of ‘Reverends’, which we pretty much broke up some time ago. We were only three guys from the old band, hence a different name was in order.

Gig fast approaching, I’ve spent the morning trying to tune my Howard Low D whistle and also my cheap Generation tin whistle, which is certainly not meant to be tuned (glued mouthpiece, anyone?). Both were obscenely out of tune and I must proudly proclaim that both operations were successful.

Dad

By Nic

On May 11, 2022

In News

My dad died back in march. I don’t think I’m quite ready to write about it yet, but here’s a picture of him and me.

Nólsoy Once More

By Nic

On February 19, 2022

In News

The James Webb Space Telescope Has Successfully Launched!

By Nic

On December 25, 2021

In News, Science, Space

A great Christmas present. Super excited to follow JWST on its journey. Hubble has done so much for our understanding of the universe and will now be joined by very powerful, but slightly different type of telescope. More on this later…

Oh, in other news, two mothers living together as a couple are now both allowed maternal leave here on the Faroe Islands. So, a great leap in terms of space exploration and baby steps towards better human rights here on the islands. What about two dads then, you ask. Well, they were not covered in the law. Hopefully, this will change soon.

Wonky

By Nic

On December 16, 2021

In News, Tech

Hmm, my site has been down for a few days as it experienced a “critical error” according to WordPress. One of my plugins has been acting up, so the site is in recovery mode and I’m using FTP to weed out the evildoer. But not tonight. Expect the site to be a bit wonky. Who am I talking to? I don’t know. Welcome to the realm of self-importance and sad assumptions.

mold at Voxbotn

By Nic

On August 15, 2021

In Mold, Music, News

Our alt-rock 90s band ‘mold’ will be playing at Voxbotn, a festival in the heart of Tórshavn. Here’s an almost complete playlist. Mind you, our production budget was next to nil, so the sound quality is not too great.

THEA500 Mini coming in 2022!

By Nic

On August 10, 2021

In Games, News, Retro stuff

I find it difficult to describe what the Commodore Amiga means to me and has meant to me in the past, so the announcement of THEA500 Mini makes me very happy, indeed. The retro community knew it was coming and owning the C64 Maxi by the same company, I’m fairly confident that they’ll do a fine job. Sure I own a real Amiga, use FS-UAE on my Mac and have an Amiga distro on my Raspberry Pi, but all this means that the Amiga is still alive and increasing in popularity. New magazines coming out (check out Amiga Addict) and also, try to google ‘Amiga NG’ to get a glimpse of all the new Amiga systems.

Sure, there is heaps of nostalgia involved here, but most current Amigans feel that Amiga had a soul. With unprecedented power and chips named Denise, Agnes and Paula, it truly was a wonderful machine. Long live Amiga!

Strike

By Nic

On June 19, 2021

In News

We spent yesterday supporting a strike for the childcare and special needs workers here in the Faroe Islands. As in many countries, their field of of work is undervalued and underpaid.