Awesome. I really want to get to Helsinki one day.
House is good, a never ending project. I guess an ideal place to have a lockdown quarantine, although all that has gone away in Los Angeles at this point. We’re slowly starting to go back to the office more, but not 100% in office.
Insider tip: from May to August is the best, seen a lot of tourists distraught by the icy streets and quietness during January and February. March is transitional but slushy. Once the spring kicks in it’s really pretty.
Working as a wine expert these days and quite a few visitors stop by every day, looks like things are finally picking up. Come spring it’ll be seriously elated and newly anguished due to that war… but yeah, I can definitely recommend Helsinki - especially for the summer. Stockholm and Tallinn too, each one comes with their own charm. In case you guys coming over send me a message, would be fun to catch up in IRL even.
For those who do not know: Carl_A is the guy who pointed me to murmurs in the first place more than 2 decades ago. (Carl might not remember that either, maybe, )
I remember we met somewhere just outside Melbourne for the FOL (Friends of Live) we had a good chat about music, and we talked about R.E.M. and listened to Leave (alt version). The rest is history.
I was going through a break up and transitioning from Austin to Seattle when I came across Murmurs in 2001. Murmurs quickly became a home for me and I’ve had friends I’ve made there now for over 20 years. A number of which I had the pleasure to meet in person. One came to my second wedding in 2013 (Biz). Back in 2001 I was 29 going on 30 and really was transitioning from being a bohemian to an IT professional. Now I’ve got more kids and have been living in the NW for 20 years. Still nuts for music.
I think my handle was siglosecreto but cannot recall.
I guess, I am late to the party.
I was Frequency back then, I am Frequency now.
Sebastian from Germany.
Was active on murmurs around the turn of the millennium, but lost track of it by the mid-2000s.
Every once in a while, I checked murmurs.com, but didn’t find anything except for the placeholder page - until a few days ago.
When I first joined, I was still at school, maybe around the age of 16 to 18. I recently turned 40.
I went on to study medicine, then became a board certified nuclear medicine physician, then became a board certified radiologist, in between I finished my doctoral thesis, started something similar to a tenure track (“Habilitation”), became “Privatdozent” (something akin to a Professor in German-speaking countries, but not yet) and was recently appointed Professor for Nuclear Medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. I am a Fellow of The European Board of Nuclear Medicine. I also work at a big ambulatory healthcare center as a doctor, reading nuclear medicine and radiology scans. I’ve also been married since 2013 and we have a four year-old daughter.
So this is my life in a nutshell. I remember many of the names, I read in this thread. It is good to see that most people are still around and kicking. And it is really trip down memory lane. The world was a different place back then.