Ólafur Waage

Ólafur Waage

@olafurw.com

He / Him - Icelander in Norway https://linktr.ee/olafurw

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I go to the grocery store. I see 3 cups of yogurt for sale. I buy 2 of them. Then I go back to the store the next day and I see that 1 remaining cup of yogurt still there. I (very irrationally) think that this isn't the cup I left behind yesterday. I think this is a new cup of yogurt. I dunno why.

Tiny rant about understanding conversations and media. The amount of DMs I got where people say "Doesn't Norway also do the Friday taco thing?" is kinda strange. When the video literally says: "Norway does the same" -"With tacos?" "Yeah"

Apparently the only feature of Google Photos is to tell me "Hey, did you know this memory of yours was 10 years ago?"

Songs with parenthesis in the title are sometimes just artists being stubborn because people are totally gonna call the song the other name. Pride (In The Name Of Love) - U2 Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) - C&C Music Factory and of course Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat) - The Immortals

As a person on the spectrum, I feel that everyday life requires me to do an insight check, which I always roll a NAT 1 on.

This is a first. Getting "cold call" emails from AI agents that are trying to find more about me. Saying that "sources online are not in agreement on the key findings about you and your work". Never deleted an email so fast.

Now, to book an appointment. I'm required to use the app. So I download the app... The link in the app to book an appointment opens up a browser window to a website of another company ...fine, app deleted Then submitting the appointment form gives me "Error: [object Object]undefined" I give up

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Apparently I can't create an account in a system I need to use because "Our system updates at night so you can log in tomorrow"

Humans 10.000 years in the future looking back at today. "Apparently humans back in the 2020s really got mad when someone didn't like bean soup"

"If you're vibe coding everything then you don't know what technical debt you are accruing" -"It's fine. Same with my bank account" "What do you mean?" -"If I don't look at it then I don't know how much debt I have" "Your point?" -"Ignorance is bliss"

(this is a vast oversimplification but since I post whats circling in my head, enjoy?) There are only 3 things. Art, Capital, Mental Painting = Art Selling Painting = Capital Looking at Painting = Mental Meditation = Mental Teach Meditation = Capital Meditation Poses = Art

A sad Wikipedia chain. [Company A] WAS a video game developer... Fate: Acquired by [Company B] [Company B] WAS a video game developer... Fate: Acquired by [Company C] [Company C] WAS ...

I love weird sentences. Like: "Have you heard about the high-protein Icelandic skyr product made in the US and founded by Terry Crews, the Mountain from Game of Thrones and one of the twins from The Suite Life of Zack & Cody"

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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Programmer: It's the difference between unix and windows style line endings and your editor isn't handling it correctly.

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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Game Writer: Oh, that section is all gameplay

Someone who didn't live in the 90s just time traveled to the 90s, what is an observation they wouldn't expect to make? And why is it "Why is there roasted garlic on everything?"

Want proof of the human soul? Easy. Listen to AI music. Also don't... don't listen to that. But the next time you're in a cab you'll probably hear some. (why is it always taxi drivers... anyway)

My conversations with my cat "Mrreow" -"Really?" "Mrreow" -"And then what?" "Mrreow" -"He did that?" "Mrreow" -"No! And what did you do?" "Mrreow" -"Scandalous"

You replaying Half-Life again for the 20th time is the same thing as your boomer dad watching the Godfather for the 20th time. Sorry.

Me: "Hmm, I need a new phone" [googles phone I am thinking of buying] Website: "Oh, what a coincidence, the phone you are thinking of buying is on a sale until tomorrow, huge discount"

Valheim. Game of the Year apparently. Yes I've googled what I'm doing wrong, doesn't make it less silly, you have to click the hook itself instead of using the item on a stone thingy (which is how you summoned the boss somewhere else). (ps, I like the game, don't come at me)

Iceland's is best in the world, per capita.

Nobel Prize@nobelprize.org

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Restaurant: "What kind of sauce do you want with that?" Me: "What do you have?" R: "Your dish already comes with sauce so you don't need to pick" Me: "What?" R: "So what kind of sauce?" Yes, it was as confusing as you imagine. I just ended up saying none, it came with garlic sauce.

Welcome class of 2253 to Programming 101 In front of you is an Agent. They output "Code", nobody understands it, the people who made it are all long dead. If it doesn't work, say "fix it", if it's too slow, say "faster please" Don't like your grade, ask your agent to hack the school system