Open Buzludzha

I hope that the Buzludzha Monument will one day reopen and allow me to peek around inside. Until then, these building projection light shows by MP-STUDIO that are presented during the Open Buzludzha Festival are about the coolest stuff you can see from the outside.

Free Apples

It's apple harvest season, and there's enough to go around. I saw this basket and tried one - it was delicious!

Done Deal

This story is something I cranked out while sitting at the Zagreb central bus station back in 2013, waiting to go to the airport. I had just left Split and it had sort of self-assembled in my head during the bus ride to Zagreb. Now I just had to get it out.

Then it sat in my "drafts" folder for the next 13 years. I made some edits to bring it up to 2026, but otherwise - here it is, as it was.

100 Years Jubilee Air Show of the Swedish Air Force

A century of the Swedish Air Force was displayed at Malmen Air Base. I decided to go on a whim and booked train tickets the evening before. The only train not sold out left 0620, which was a blessing in disguise - since I arrived early I only had to wait about one hour to get to the air base.

More Cats of Gabrovo

It was very hot during the day, but I could almost always catch some cats during my early morning walks. Not as many as last time, but watching the kittens play more than made up for it.

The Storm is Coming

Thunder and lightning would soon come, but for the moment it was a beautiful summer evening sky.

Autumn is Coming to Laduviken

It's mid-August, and we're seeing the first yellow and red leaves.

Nikon Custom Picture Control Recipes

This is intended as a digital preservation project for Nikon Custom Picture Controls, specifically the ones used for 8-bit DSLR video, like Similaar's "Flaat" profiles. See the summary table below for downloads.

Forward, My Pet Shoggoth!

...or, a story about a blog upgrade.

This blog changed its appearance about a month ago. I threw out the design I came up with in 2010 and moved to this design, which, in a way, looks like a synthesis of the very first design I had from 2005 and the 2010 redesign: a center column, but this time with no side columns.

Uppie Denied

I often hear a family of Great Crested Grebes by the water long before I see them. The happy chirping of the chicks is unmistakable, and when I come down to the water I always see mommy Grebe and daddy Grebe and their two chicks doing, well, family stuff. I'm sorry for the anthropomorphization, and doubly sorry for probably completely misinterpreting animal behavior, but the similarities are just too great.

Dynamic Number of Flexible Columns in CSS Grid Lanes

When I saw that display: grid-lanes was coming I realized I could soon get rid of my masonry JavaScript layout and enjoy browser-smooth layout instead. But I couldn't get what I wanted: a dynamic number of columns, where each column was at most MAX-WIDTH wide, but could shrink to MIN-WIDTH to fit more columns. After playing around a bit I came up with this:

Winter Babies

That's what these two are called.

Getting Ducklings in a Row

All twelve of them.

Littler Crested Grebes

When taking a stroll I saw this family of Great Crested Grebes. I immediately ran home, grabbed the 150-600mm. It quickly became apparent that mommy and daddy Grebe mostly wanted to sleep, but little Grebe was full of energy and kept chirping.

Gasworks

The remains of the Värta Gas Works naphtha steam reforming plant that stood here until January 2011.

The Fluffballs of Husarviken

The ducks had kids, too.