Postcard from Oitta

Hello from my home in Matinkylä! This is NordLetter #11, a weekly newsletter on living and walking in Finland. Previous editions can be found here.

We visited Oitta beach this Saturday. BJPRF had organised a picnic at the beach.

Oitta beach is located on the shores of Lake Bodom. From Matinkylä we took the 520 till Lommila and then 246 to Oitta. It was a short 5 min walk from the bus stop to the beach.

Here's the parking space that greets you on the way.

And the angry bird park, also on the way.

And finally, the beach.

The beach is suitable for families, as the water deepens gradually. There were separate pools with varying depths created by the walkway.

The water like any where else in Finland was clean and pristine.

We had delicious Indian Food (kachori + aloo sabzi + dal makhani + pulao + gulab jamun).

We played games.

And we got our pictures clicked.

There is also a manor/barn there, which is now a recreation centre. But we did not use it. It looked closed. Maybe because of the weather as it was supposed to be a rainy weekend. And it was in spots! But mostly it was sunny.

To be fair, I had not expected much out of this trip. But Oitta is a beautiful place. The beach is clean and beautiful and there is plenty to do. It was a bit nippy so we did not swim. Next time we will.

/techStuff

Most of this week feels like a prelude to WWDC, which is on June 10th. So I guess we will have more to discuss about then.

/reading + thinking

The Intellectual Obesity Crisis

Information addiction is rotting our brains

The PrismGurwinder

• We must realise what we are consuming. Once we do, we ought to strive to feed our brains better stuff.

Exceed or maintain?

In just about every group, people decide in advance how they’ll show up when it comes to learning, to winning and to responding to opportunities. They’re wearing a hat with a label, and…

Seth's Blog

• Especially love the four quadrant graph (Is it a graph? Image?) at the end.

The T-Shaped Engineer

The choice between being a specialist or a generalist is debated by many engineers. Nowadays, the industry may need something in between. Generalist As the…

Software Engineer

• Not a new article or topic. There was a time in the beginning of my career when I struggled with this a bit. I did not want to be a generalist. I wanted to dig deep into the OS, how processes behaved and so on. Eventually, came around to looking at myself as being a generalist. Getting better understanding of systems.

How Online Privacy Is Like Fishing

• Talks about the shifting baselines in our expectations from online services. We owned our data. And now with online everywhere services, we do not own anything. Companies control everything. And they have to see what we are doing, to ensure we are not doing anything sinister.
• There needs to be a balance. A balance where companies can make money and people's privacy is respected.

We finally got ourselves carpet for our balcony from K-Rauta. We set everything up and it feels as if we have moved to a bigger house.

Until next week.