Motherboard Lost

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...

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Viking Burial Mound

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...

Sphere Chairs in Squares

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,...

UFO On a Stick

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...

In Your General Direction

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!

Truth in the trenches

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,...

Insult to injury

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!...

Worlds in the sky

"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...

Energize the Overmass

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...

Forgetting Passwords

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...

Moment of Mars and Moon

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...

Don’t Mess With Lunchtime

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...

Orange Plymothy

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.)

The Murder of Day

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...

Angel of Spring

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.

Moving iCloud from C

  I use an iPhone and an iPad, and subscribe to 200GB 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...

The Burden of Death in Schools

"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...

First little telescope adventure

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...

Red Monday Morning

Monday Morning Sleepy Sunrise Revealing the Red Eye of the East. January 8th, 2018, at a quarter to nine. Technical: Shot in RAW and edited on iPhone SE using Lightroom Mobile.

Seven Days Seven Photos

You may or may not have noticed the current Facebook trend, which revolves around posting a black and white photo of, well, anything you like, every day for seven days, one photo per day, and with each photo you will challenge or nominate someone else to do the same. Everyday B&W Photo. “Seven days, seven...

An American Eclipse in Donaldland

"This American solar eclipse, a terrific eclipse, believe me, and I know this, and it's one hundred percent American, not Mexican, and not Chinese, even if those fake news sites will have you believe so, which happens just in my first year as President, an amazing year so far, is far more spectacular, amazingly spectacular,...

Eclipse? Think again!

So you're another one of those sheeple who actually believe that the super hyped solar eclipse is really going to happen, just because “the scientists” said so? Well, think again! Ok, so it's a satirical article, but here's what I would've said if it and the stuff I wrote above was intended to be serious....

Two-Factor Saved My Steam

Praised be two-factor authentication! Thanks to that, my Steam account was not hijacked by someone who, according to Steam Guard, had both my correct username and my correct password on hand. What on Earth am I talking about? What is this 'Steam' thing? Steam is a gaming network, where I buy, manage and play most...

On Adoption – Birth Date Revised

If you're born in a Western country like England, Germany, Norway or USA, chances are that you're well aware of such little details as your date of birth. Being born and raised a Norwegian, besides remembering being thrilled whenever we celebrated my birthday as a child, I rarely give my date of birth much thought,...

Basket Primadonna Case

In the several years since we got it, we've never actually caught Suri using her basket weave cat bed. We still haven't. This is the neighbour's cat's identical bed that she's taken up residence in. Poor Caesar isn't allowed to use his own, and she sure as heck won't let him use hers either. The...