Welcome to jakob-alboege

The website about nothing in particular PLUS a bit more

So who am I? Things that interest me Virtual Australia Site Wonder about The World

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Let me introduce myself!

My name is Jakob, I am from Denmark, Europe. Yes, it's us with the Mohammed cartoons but hey, I didn't draw those things!
I am 31 years old and have been working with computers since I was 10 and a computer was a Commodore64,
and Bill Gates still thought that 64 kB af RAM in a computer would be enough for all eternity. Ahh, good old times.
Weather, travels (let's just say AUSTRALIA) and magnificent landscapes in nature have always fascinated me.
Foreign languages, and science in general, like physics, chemistry, and biochemistry have often been subjects that could keep me busy too.
Doctors often hate me for telling them the facts about my medicine that they were not aware of. Or the psychiatrist I made a formal complaint about,
after he told me there wasn't any real difference between various kinds of psychiatric medicine, they would all make the patient sleepy anyway,
so who cared anyway? Well I did. I am sure many doctors I have met, play darts on a picture of me in their spare time.. Let them have their fun.

After finishing high school I went on a summer holiday in the USA (Washington DC and New York City).
After that I worked for a bit, and spent everything I had earned to take a 4-month backpacker-trip through the amazing country of Australia.
Next year I started studying meteorology at the university in Copenhagen. The subjects were fine enough,
but there wasn't any social life there at all, and I got more and more depressed and after two years,
I quit the whole thing, and went to Tromsoe in far northern Norway in the middle of their extremely dark and very cold winter.
My mission was to have a good time with some friends I had there, and perhaps get a job there. I never got the job though, and I went back to Denmark.
Here I started at a business school, and part of their curriculum was that the whole class went to live in the southern town of Pecs in Hungary,
next to the Croatian border. It was a place with plenty of cheap beer and drinks and wine and champagne and at least 25 brothels in near vicinity,
and we were having hangovers at some days, and the rest of the days we were more or less drunk. Hmm...well, it was fun, but I still wasn't satisfied with anything.
And when I returned to Denmark to settle in Aarhus, I was generally very depressed. The next many years I spent being in and out of doctors clinics and hospitals.
A bleak period of my life. I moved back to Herning, where I was born, and with help from many people over a few years I got my energy and lust for life back.
I found the cutest, nicest and most intelligent girlfriend I have ever dreamt of, so why we are not together today can perhaps seem like a mystery.
I started up with my travels again and for a number of years I spend every Danish winter in Australia's hot summer.
I started getting involved in many things, part time sales jobs, I was a helper during the hefty X-Mas season at the towns tourist office and so on.
I also started getting more and more involved with Danish Meteorological Society and Vildtvejrsklubben, VVK (Danish Severe Weather Society).
We are a hopeless bunch of thunderstorm, snowstorm, hurricane and tornado geeks there, but we certainly have our fun together.
Our newest idea is to get jackets to wear while stormchasing, with our society logo and member alias on it.
It's a bit like a biker gang with leather wests with club/gang logo and member alias...we just specialize in rough weather, not rough bikes..hehe
I have my own weather station too. It's takes quite a bit of maintainance, but it's worth it I suppose. It's online. See it here!

The latest news now was unfortunately, that I just was diagnosed with a lung-condition, but it is now stabilized.
So I am still here, I now recieve a social pension, and I live each day with a philosophy of making the best of each day, and just laugh at all the stupid things that went wrong.

I have a younger brother who is supposed to be studying chryptographic algorithms at a uni in Amsterdam right now,
but my parents would like to wire him up with GPS-equipment, so they can sit at home at see if my brother really spend his time in Amsterdam studying,
or if he is most often located in a coffee-shop with legal sale of marijuana, or somewhere in the infamous Red Light District...

Most of the rest of my family and is scattered all over Denmark, for example I have an 85-year old grandmother in Aalborg who is still going strong.
Her favourite saying is "Ukrudt forgår ikke så let!" which roughly translates into "I am like weeds in a garden, I am not that easy to get rid of!" Good woman!

I live in a small apartment in Herning, Denmark. I have a live bird there (in it's cage mostly). I also have a collection of mega-size hairy Australian spiders,
but hopefully they are all dead, I haven't seen any of them move in their glass jars yet, but I have to admit I don't check every day..

My basic beliefs in life:

First of all, I am not religious. I am a man of science who only want to believe what can be proven in a lab.
And still, there is something really nagging me. I have traveled a lot, and seeing such wonders all over the Planet,
and looking into Space on a starry night in the middle of an Australian desert just makes me wonder: Where did all this come from?
And where are all the things we haven't seen yet? How big is the Universe really, and what's outside of the Universe? There must be something!?!
These are questions, that science have never and will never find proper explanations for.
So even if I am not religious, I still feel, that there is some mighty awesome power somewhere out there who is in every tree, building or man on this planet.
We just don't know what to call this mighty power that seems to be in control of everything and know everything.
Some would call such a power God, others Jehova, others Allah. I choose to not call it anything from and old book, I just KNOW it's there!

I believe that all living creatures on this planet have been born to be equal. And any individual is born with a right to be surrounded by a physical
and social environment in which to grow, thrive, live well, do good to others and become old. At the same time every individual is born with an obligation
to let all other individuals continue with their life without any problems.

My political philosophy is what I would call "True Liberalism". Which means that anyone within a country for example,
should have the right to live and grow and be happy as he/her may wish for...AS LONG AS his/her lifestyle does not threaten other peoples free lives
with pollution, noise, thefts, violence, or by using too many resources, so that the lack of resources damages the lives of many others.

To mention an examples: I believe that a car is great invention, providing freedom and possibilities for it's owner.
The problem just is, that this planet hardly have room for more cars than there already are... Politicians of today therefore try to make people
use their cars less and less by making it ever more expensive to buy a car and fill it's gas tank. But does that make sense? NO! It will take people's freedom away!

Think new! What is the real problem on this Planet? That we live in modern houses? That we have a lot of electrical equipment in our houses,
computers for instance? That we have cars and like to drive them? That we want to be able to travel to another part of the Globe in an aircraft?
NO! Those things are not the problem here! The problem is the out-of-control overpopulation of our Planet! We want more people all the time,
we want more and more cities for all these people to live in and so forth. But when the Planet gets filled with overpopulated cities,
then we have lost our whole fundament for providing a new born baby with the possibilities that could make this baby into a healthy and satisfied citizen.
Where would there be room left to grow food for all of us? Where could we enjoy a beautiful untouched landscape and return home to the city feeling happy?
And what would we do with all the pollution and garbage created by a Planet with 50 billion inhabitants or more?
These are questions I often ask myself, and others, but no one understands me. "Growth, growth, and yet more growth is the only way forward"
is what every politician says these day. And I think they are all severely wrong. I do not want to live in the world they are trying to create:
A world with no freedom, with no nature, no animals, no landscapes, just polluted cities and huge road-systems everywhere.
In my opinion, which I call "True Liberalism", no person born on this Planet should find him/herself in a society which only has limitation after limitation to offer,
because the growth went far beyond anything useful or reasonable.

My best advice to you, is to go outside your door and smell the fresh air, drive several hundreds of kilometers in the beautiful countryside in a big
gas-guzzling Four-Wheeler. Said simpler: enjoy your freedom while you still have it!

And by the way: good old Darwin was very right. Individuals and species that are unfit (let's just say too stupid) to survive, WILL become
extinct sooner or later and noone would aver notice they were here. Nothing indicates right now that Humans are really wise enough
for survival. We may be just small ants on an anthill about to be taken out by a meteorite, and because we were too busy to
create hysteria about a small global warming which there have been many of over millions of years, we never realised that
perhaps we should send in just a few more scientists to find out what to do about the next major meteor. Or perhaps we
should also consider not killing ourselves in more and more stupid ways and not become so many that there's no more room
for our survival. My old astrophysics teacher at uni always said: "The first thing to know as a scientist, and a human,
is to know that you know absolutely nothing. That's the best entry point for starting to find some good answers!"
He was a good man. He has now died of cancer, and all that's left is his magnetic instruments which he finally got NASA to send to the surface of Mars.
I still remember they day when his instruments were send into space. We put a Mars Bar on his desk for him to enjoy for the special day..
He always wanted to go to Mars himself. As he said: "They should send me. It would be cheaper. I am so old anyway that I don't even need a return ticket!"
He was a good guy, a sort of mentor for me, may he rest in peace now, even if his final resting place wasn't Mars.

Phew... if you got through all this then it really must be your bedtime by now!

Ahh ok then, people always ask for photos so I will put one of me right here below:

NO, i am not the Aussie guy on the left, I am the guy on the right looking slightly more intimidated by the baby croc
and sweating in the Australian heat...but hey, that's how I like it. That's why I have chosen this photo.