words aren't everything — they aren't even enough
Åsgårdstrand, Norway. There once were three girls on that pier. Three girls, and they called the pier a bridge, and a guy called Edvard came and painted them, and they called the painting “The Girls on the Bridge”. You may have heard about them. They had packed up and left by the time I got... Continue Reading →
After almost two weeks with us, and at an estimated age of three, we found we couldn't keep the little great tit indoors anymore.
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As the most recent instalment in the ongoing series “Look What The Cat Dragged In”, this is a different bird from that which I posted earlier (on Instagram, with video on YouTube). Whereas we did manage to find the home of the previous one (and we hope very much that it's doing well), this one... Continue Reading →
There was a Black Lives Matter protest at the Parliament building --- Stortinget --- in Oslo on June 5th, this Friday last, which I rather unexpectedly found myself participating in. Having come into town for errands, I had no clue beforehand that anything was going on, and got caught up in the crowd on my... Continue Reading →
Radiant fantasies, colours of magic, wickerworks of wind and water vapour and whatnot, and you have yourself a sky full of wonder.
Innocent, but annoying, and should be easier to fix than it is. Important: Please read the disclaimer section at the end before you attempt to do any of the things described in this article. The problem Every time I start my computer, I get the annoying error message "Windows could not connect to all network... Continue Reading →
That hour, when the evening light of the approaching sunset fills the sky, and the world is floating in a lake of shadow. Headed for the place between the blue and gold, where the road goes on forever, into a brief but endless moment as it slowly fades to grey. A friend recently lost her... Continue Reading →
Click on the image to view larger version on Flickr. El Teide, Tenerife, 2004. As far as I can recall, this is the highest I've ever been without the aid of an actual airplane, and definitely the first and so far only time I've ever been in or on a volcano. The peak, which towers... Continue Reading →
Edit: Although initially the solution described below seemed to work, the problem reappeared in less than a week. However this time it seems to come and go, as opposed to not working at all. Your experience may vary. I use iCloud Drive on a Windows 10 computer, and it worked well until recently when all... Continue Reading →
The ancient druids would have been beside themselves with excitement! Found the original on the webs but in awful condition. Located a better resolution and less mangled original image (still uncredited), reworked the text (top half), added some of my own (bottom half), and, well, in the words of Goldblum, there it is! Personally I... Continue Reading →
Random sighting of two ancient communication enclosures in Manchester, England, shortly prior to the Great Continental Exodus of the early Third Millennium, CE. Click to view larger version on Flickr ~ · ~“That belongs in a museum!”— Dr. Henry Jones, Jr.~ · ~ The apparent likeness to similarly sized and shaped portable enclosures for personal... Continue Reading →
by CMDR inshadowz The game Elite:Dangerous makes for particularly amazing screenshots, and I take a large number of such myself. The only problem is, the images are often heavily distorted, just like wide angle photographs tend to be, and if you're anything like me then you get somewhat annoyed by this. Fortunately there are ways... Continue Reading →
Older photo from the back archives. Click image for a larger view on Flickr.com “I … was … here.” A temporary signature, on a slightly less temporary canvas, by a temporary being, in a slightly less temporary world. None of this is permanent. Photography is about capturing moments, as, if or when they happen. Mostly... Continue Reading →
Click the image to view larger version on Flickr. Lysaker Station. “I'm going towards the light!” Just to get on the train, mind you. It's not like my life is passing before my eyes, it's just that I prefer if my train doesn't. Originally intended for black and white, but I included a colour version... Continue Reading →
*stares in Crow* Click on the image to see bigger version on Flickr. I somehow get the feeling that this bird disapproves of something I've done. Like, taking his picture, or posting him on the Interwebs without first asking him for permission. Or for just being there to be looked disapprovingly at. There's nothing quite... Continue Reading →
You may click images to see larger versions on Flickr. Also on Instagram, Flickr, Facebook. Someone said something about turtles … and I don't get it. These two should probably get a room, though. Seriously, they were kissing the place up, like, really totally crazy. Also I did both a colour and a black and... Continue Reading →
Click image to view on Flickr. Incidentally that's my brother's electric bass — and if you're now looking around for a sparkly fish in the picture, then you have entirely the wrong idea. I went for the “inverse traffic light” colour sequence; green at the top, yellow in the middle, and red at the bottom,... Continue Reading →
Click image for larger version, or here to view on Flickr. I have absolutely no idea where this came from, or whose motherboard it is, or was, as the case may be. I can only assume that someone misunderstood about core training, and took her CPU cycles out for a spin. Sadly it seems the... Continue Reading →
Click image for larger version on Flickr. Viking burial mound at Borrehaugene. This is from Easter Friday. There are more than 25 of these mounds, more or less unevenly distributed around an area which is not only vibrating with ancient history, but also well suited for nice, comfortable walks in the warm and sunny spring... Continue Reading →
Four Sphere Chairs in Four Squares. Not to be confused with FourSquare™, although that one's also about getting … around? This post is also published on my home page. But surely you've already noticed by now that they're really all variations of the the same picture of the same chair, taken with the same camera,... Continue Reading →
I've seen Men In Black! I know that this there thing is a spaceship, manned by a bug in an Edgar suit. Or a lamppost in the middle of a roundabout. The somewhat taller version below here is just to cater to the more vertically inclined of my viewers. It's actually pretty tall. I'm not... Continue Reading →
If you you have the courage to faithfully follow the signs which you encounter throughout your life, you will eventually discover… well, where you end up. For now, it's this way!
Others say it better than I do, but here goes.There is a sinister agenda, or a war, Russian or otherwise, to undermine the value and reputation of scientific work and knowledge, which is gaining momentum at a frightening rate. Science is being contested by nonsense, and so far it looks as if science is losing.Moreover,... Continue Reading →
It's not until you suffer a little (but painful) cut to your right hand's middle finger, that you realise how much you use it to express yourself.No, I'm not talking about sign language¹. That part still works fine. The problem has to do with typing, both privately and professionally, of which I do a lot!... Continue Reading →
"Why are you so fascinated by those stars? What's so special about them?""They're not stars, they're worlds."Venus (bright) and Jupiter (faint) together on the left, second and fifth rock from the Sun, respectively (though use of the word "rock" to describe a gas giant may be considered criminally incorrect); the first one brighter and closer than... Continue Reading →
