words aren't everything — they aren't even enough
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 →
I'm not fat! I, uh, just have a little bit of extra accumulated energy storage. OK, maybe a bit more than just a little bit. Don't believe me? There's science to back that up. Honest. The math Because — and I did the numbers on this — if my surplus body weight (~30 kg) underwent a... Continue Reading →
It's perfectly human to forget passwords. After all, most of us have a whole bunch of them, too many to keep track of in your head, especially when they all have to be different, and long and complex enough to be reasonably unbreakable. What most people seldom realise is, in most cases it's perfectly all right... Continue Reading →
So last night while out driving I saw one of the prettiest sights I've seen in the sky: the half moon shining pale and yellow through a thin and wavy veil of clouds, illuminating them like a frosted glass landscape from within, and flanked on its left side, barely a fist's width distant, by the... Continue Reading →
Like many others, I'm thoroughly annoyed by and tired of the back and forth adjustments between summer time and winter time every year. And although I know which direction to set my clock (always towards summer, spring forward and fall back, folks), at least half the population don't know which way to set theirs, there... Continue Reading →
My sister's cat, Plym, being his own, orange, furry self. Plymothy looking his most absolurably adorbsable in backlight. ~ With eyes a-closed and fur a-glow, Plymothy naps in the window. ~ (Shot in RAW format with iPhone SE and edited on iPad using the Lightroom Mobile app.)
With head heavy, eyelids heavier, hand tightly gripping the handle of a pint mug of tea, by now half empty and barely warmer than its surroundings, I sit quietly in a daze, resisting with all my strength the urge to doze off, listening intently to the silence of the room around me, and the whispers... Continue Reading →
The angel of spring, tiny as he is, slowly but tirelessly, digging his way, inch by inch, out of what's left of winter. It's been a long, cold wait.
I use an iPhone and an iPad, and subscribe to 200 GB of iCloud storage which I also sync to my Windows 10 computer using the iCloud sync software. This means that the files I store to iCloud from my two Apple devices are also available on my PC. The problem is that Apple's iCloud... Continue Reading →
"It has to stop. And spare me your Second-Amendment arguments. It’s all you’ve got. If you don’t have any other practical solution than MOAR GUNS, then you don’t get to participate in the conversation about what we do next to make this stop." — Jennifer Gadd I'm the son of a teacher, and indeed my... Continue Reading →
My dear wife and daughters got me something absolutely wonderful for Christmas: a beginners' astronomical telescope! Alas, since then, the weather has gone out of its way to keep the night sky veiled and thoroughly hidden around these parts. Only last Sunday did I catch a momentary break in the cover, and an opportunity to... Continue Reading →
