Congratulations Tetris -25 years!

Since Tetris was the first puzzle game that hooked me on the computer, I have gathered some examples where Tetris has inspired people in very surprising contexts.

Geeky

Tampere university students playing Tetris with the dorm house.

[Flickr]

one of the numerous Tetris costume designs:

[tetris costumes by kikkochan55]

Playing Tetris with people:

[tetris made of people via technabob]

Tetris case mod:

[tetris case mod via technabob]

Food

First some of the numerous cakes:

[Flickr]


[nintendononstop]


[nerdfighters]


[Flickr]

and even a 3-D wedding cake:

[Geeksugar]

cookies:

[fraske designs]


[Flickr]


[Flickr]

waffles:

[Flickr]

Bento lunch:

[Flickr]

Kitchen

Ice trays:

[Iceblox by Martin Zampach]
[Dima Komissarov for Mystake]


[self-made by Instructables]

Trays:

[tetrish by Seungyoub Oh via coroflot]

Soap:

[tetris soap via etsy]

Furniture and interior design


Tiles:

[ Tetris Tiles via technabob]


[electricpicnic]


[thingelstad]


[vinyl wall via etsy]


[Soner Ozenc via Geekologie]

Ceiling:

[AS220 LABS]

Furniture:

[Tetris furniture by Diego Silvério via coroflot]


[kid's furniture by Harri Koskinen]

Pots for plants:

[Tetris pots by Stephanie Choplin viabehance]

Art

[kotaku]


[via Justin Sachtleben in Flickr]

Handicraft

[crafty crafty]



[pillows via etsy]


[Urban Fusion on Flickr]


[tetris magnets via etsy]


[tetris-gollum at DeviantArt]

Clothing

[via Technabob]


[etsy]

Thanks for Walyou which again inspired me

Benefits of Vacation

Now that I have no obligations regarding work, I don't have to feel guilty about solving puzzles. My favourite puzzles are Pic-A-Pix and that is why even these six were not enough for this week.

The next one in line was Fill-A-Pix, but they were not very big this week

So I had to turn to the Link-A-Pix puzzles which normally are too easy for me. There was this one MegaLAP and I thought I would solve it. After solving that I remembered how nice pictures they have and decided to try some more and as I went backwards from the biggest to the smallest, I noticed that I still had time for more... ending up solving them all before the new update.

Here is a better screen shot of the bigger ones

Now that I have finished this Conceptis should have updated the puzzles and I can start solving a whole new set,

Graduation

My summer vacation has officially started. Actually it started already last Friday but I have been just enjoying myself solving puzzles.

The graduation day was warm and sunny. The graduation took place as always across the street in the house of Turku Voluntary Fire Brigade (VPK). It is a beautiful Neo-Renaissance house. We also arrange the matriculation exam there.

The ceremony contains of speeches, music performances and of course rewarding the students with the official certificates and giving them the Finnish white student cap.

This year one of performers was a celebrity, Jackson Shuudifonya, who belonged to the group INDX winning the Finnish Popstars in 2004. The group does not exist anymore, but I found Jackson's music online

We had many students and here is just a small part of them. The age difference between the oldest and the youngest was more than 50 years!

Summer is Here

Finally the nature is alive, this year a little bit later than usual.

One of the first blooming in the garden is Chaenomeles. It has beautiful flowers which are many but hidden behind the leaves. The fruit from this bush make good marmalade.

This is my Plum tree. The flowers appear very suddenly, all at the same time and the petals are already flying away with the wind. The tree actually grows plums which are very sweet.

This is a meadowsweet. It belongs to a big family of Spiraea, this one being Spiraea 'Grefsheim'. That one I did not find in the Wikipedia. We call it the Norwegian meadowsweet but I don't know the reason for that either. It is also on full bloom now and when the flowers are gone, it will grow very much and I have to cut it down occasionally. The flowers have a very strong scent and our garden is like a perfume shop now.

This is the scene from the parking lot. We call this type of houses "row houses". There are six apartments attached to each other. We live at the other end.

This is our part of the house from the other side.

This is the lawn of the two houses which together form a housing company. The Finnish housing companies are almost all limited-liability companies and the difference to a separate house is very small. We have the benefit of sharing the expenses and the gardening of all this. The area our housing company owns is very large compared to others with the same distance from Turku. On summer time the trees almost cover the houses.

The very annoying flower is the Dandelion which is beautiful in this picture but totally ruins the lawn! It also spreads so fast and getting rid of it is a real pain.

This is definitely the most beautiful time of the year. Later my garden suffers from too much heat (or rain) and my flowers don't do so well. I prefer plants I don't have to water all the time.