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Jón Kolbeinn
Member since: 2023-01-23
Jón Kolbeinn
Jón Kolbeinn 5d

Agreed. It ain't nothing

Jón Kolbeinn
Jón Kolbeinn 13d

Watching i-Rack vs No-way 🇮🇶🇳🇴

Jón Kolbeinn
Jón Kolbeinn 16d

Same here. Brazil will probably win. Just a feeling.

Jón Kolbeinn
Jón Kolbeinn 16d

Why do I like to hoard books? Some books I haven't even read and probably never will. It's a dilemma

Jón Kolbeinn
Jón Kolbeinn 17d

As I have read the book many times about the endurance mission. I thought I would share some notes I wrote in my personal journal 3 years ago. I had just started reading a book about Shackleton and his adventures with Scott years before Shackleton himself attempted the infamous transantarctic expedition on the Endurance. I forget the author's name. I made some sketches in the journal as I like to do, I really like maps and I am fascinated by Antarctica. ** The text is translated from my native language. Skip this note if you have no interest in polar explorers. 31.03.2023 "Read Shackleton yesterday long into the night, couldn't put it down. So I overslept this morning — Alexander, the ward physician, called me and I got to the hospital at 9:00, an hour too late. Interesting patients today on the Red team, lots to do. Shackleton went on the Discovery expedition in 1902. Scott, Wilson and Shackleton set off in a push toward the South Pole with provisions for 70 days; there were 2 supply depots on the return route, depot B and A. They took sled dogs with them but in the end had to pull the sleds themselves (~280kg), so the dogs had to be put down, to their great sorrow. On this attempt they got as far as they could and as provisions allowed (82°S 17'). Shackleton [inlet] was named on this trip, but Shackleton had become so exhausted and badly afflicted with scurvy that in the end Scott and Wilson had to pull him on the sledges. Fortunately on the return route they found the depots with life-saving provisions, which were marked with black flags — Scott's packing — but all three had developed terrible snow blindness. Vitamin C deficiency syndrome (i.e. scurvy) was known as some kind of nutritional deficiency in those days, but vitamin C which as such was not discovered until 1930 by the Hungarian biochemist Albert Szent-Györgyi. People nevertheless knew from experience that fresh seal meat could cure this ailment, and Shackleton recovered after the companions got back to the ship and received better food there. Scott was very worried about Shackleton's health and sent him home with a ship that came with supplies from New Zealand. Shackleton was forever unhappy about this, and from then on he and Scott became hardened rivals in these polar expeditions. Shackleton married upon coming home to England — Emily, whom he loved — and set out with a new expedition to the South Pole, but this time as leader. Further than this I have not gotten in the book, but it is a wonderful story."

Jón Kolbeinn
Jón Kolbeinn 18d

Karma will catch up to him… one day. It always does.

Jón Kolbeinn
Jón Kolbeinn 29d

Title: Kolli, Lonni & Kisi Acrylic on canvas. (90x90cm) - This is a comissioned painting. It is done Ligne claire style. The guy who will receive it as a gift runs a car dealership named Diesel. This guy is old school and hates EVs especially Teslas and Elon Musk. He smokes and drinks coffee all day, he collects art apparently as well.. interesting character to me. I had fun making this one. #art#artstr

#art #artstr
Jón Kolbeinn
Jón Kolbeinn 29d

Ben-Gvir will now be my target of ridicule.. he's also a fat pig in case you didn't know

Jón Kolbeinn
Jón Kolbeinn 5d

I had to deliver bad news to someone this morning. Delivering bad news is one of medicine's hardest duties. Every instinct pulls you toward softening the blow. Honesty, however painful, is the only ethical path. It's what people deserve. What stays with me is not the delivering, but the receiving of the news. I have sat with someone absorbing news that may mark the beginning of the end of their lives, and see someting remarkable happen. In their most vulnerable state, when their future takes a rapid turn, something surfaces which I can only describe as quiet dignity or grace. This leaves me with a renewed sense of what human beings are capable of when faced with death. It's humbling, and it is never easy. It will always be one of the most profound privileges of this work. I do however feel drained.

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Physician, woodworker, artist and bitcoiner. I have been painting and drawing since I was a child and will continue to do so.

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