The family pool table
In the summer of 1988 I was working a large construction company in Iceland, called Ístak hf. It had a project at the University of Iceland which involved the construction of a new building for startup companies and tech transfer projects. The whole building was finished in 5 months. I had worked for this company […]
My childhood fear of dogs
When I was a young boy I was bitten by a dog. After that I had a great fear of dogs until my mid teens. Strange thing this fear that grips you because of one instance of a scared dog that bites you, and it affecting you for such a long time. I am not […]
Painting and drawing are flow
It’s amazing to me after all these years that painting and drawing can be relaxing and childlike fun. You are in a state of play really the entire time, if you don’t take yourself to seriously that is. It can remove all your thought and worries and make you forget where you are and forget […]
Fencing was my primary sport
I was always an active child and I liked sports. I was thin and energetic and liked to play and run all over the place. I had trained in Badminton in Iceland and Tennis in the USA. I played chess for the school chess team. I trained in Karate also. I never really liked playing […]
Woodcarving was a passion of mine
In 1986 when I was 14 years old I was doing a bowl in woodworking class at school, when my teacher complemented me on my talents. He did this because I was doing a lot of different things and was requesting harder and harder things to do. I have a lot of things still from […]
Poetry was my way to compensate for stuttering
I was born with a depressing disability which is a partial disconnection between the nerves and normal speech patterns. This is called stuttering or stammering. It is horrible thing to have in your childhood, as a teenager and as an adult. The very worst thing about it, is that there is no cure. You are […]
My first time working for a startup company
When I was 20 years old I worked at a laboratory for the University of Iceland, under my father who was a professor there. The work revolved around making a craft kit from natural Icelandic fish waste. It started when my father had an idea for new innovation for removing fish scales from fish skin, […]