Tomas Ahlbeck
Bio
Standup comedian & diabetic. Mentioned as one of the more original comics on the Swedish standup cirquit, he stands for an absurd, intelligent and awake humour that has recieved a lot of praise from audiences as well as fellow comedians.
Stories (6/0)
Time blocking made my life calmer
Ok, lets face it. I am terrible at structuring my life. My task manager is filled with stuff I have never finished, and I have at least three unfinished novels somewhere on my laptop. And I never seem to find time to even start writing on the next chapter of any of them. Not to mention deadlines that just turn upp a few days before and I haven't even started to plan for them.
By Tomas Ahlbeck2 years ago in Lifehack
In the footsteps of Baudelaire
All good stories start with the words "once upon a time". And so does this one. Once upon a time there was a website called Poetry.com. It is not the same Poetry.com you find today. The one I found was an older one, which now has disappeared. If that has anything to do with my efforts as a poet I don't know. I guess the jury is out on that one.
By Tomas Ahlbeck2 years ago in Fiction
Why I left 1Password
As a longtime user of 1Password I was like so many others disappointed when they released their v6 Beta in 2021. Slow, filled with bugs and chewed up memory like a hungry and mad alligator. Since my subscription was about to end, it was a good time for me to move on to something else.
By Tomas Ahlbeck2 years ago in Journal
How to tell a child it's dead
”Have you spoken to her?” ”Not yet” The two parent were wispering to each other so that their daughter wouldn’t hear. Father glanced over at the daughter. No, she didn’t seem to have heard. She seemed busy trying to fish out her left eye from the bowl of cornflakes in front of her. The father leaned over, took the spoon from his daughters remaining hand and fished out the eye and gave it to her
By Tomas Ahlbeck2 years ago in Fiction
Among laptops and vampires
"It's ok, I saved the laptop!" I just returned from UK to Sweden after a week of standup gigs in and around London. This was also the first time I met my friend P in real life. He was a cult comedian on the British standup circuit, and quite well known by the British comedians. The fact that he was in the crowd to give me support made the other comedians treat me with some respect.
By Tomas Ahlbeck2 years ago in Fiction
The Vomiting Frog
"Goddammit! This is SOO good! Check it out! Damn it, it's SOO fucking great!" Dagobert was obviously totally sold on the new rock-album he brought home to the dorm, waving it around in the air above his head. The album cover was a black and white photo of four longhaired guys in jeans and leather jackets, leaning against a wall and with the text Ramones in big red letters all over it. The album cover stated that the albums name was Rocket to Russia. It didn't really lok like the records Dagobert usually bought - Genesis, David Bowie, T Rex and Yes was the artists he listened to the most.
By Tomas Ahlbeck2 years ago in Fiction
