The only major snowfall for this winter (end of 2023). I kept the photo for myself to look at it from time to time and calm myself.

Took this series a couple of years ago when a #hummingbird was nesting these chicks. The last pic shows the hatchlings first flight.

If viewing in a Mastodon client, you may only see 4 of the 6 pics. View in Pixelfed for the whole series. https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/623589921844197454

#SanDiego #birds #birdphotography

Oh, look, they've sent me pictures from my brief stint as a guest lecturer at the University of Library Studies and Information Technologies in Sofia, Bulgaria. Summary of the presentation:

* eBooks are cool;
* paper books are not going to disappear,
* EPUB2 and 3 are fun;
* start learning #Sigil, HTML, CSS, XML, and JS

#ebooks #university #UNIBIT #УНИБИТ

One of the window displays of the Sofia Puppet Theatre.

#Sofia #PuppetTheater #Mermaid #fish

#Babusar #Naran #Pakistan

#Church of St Paraskeva, #Sofia, #Bulgaria

Creative process

Just a regular meeting at the oldest SF club in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Fine art prints of 17 paintings of painter Martiros Saryan (1880-1972), scotch-taped inside the window of "Antikvarnitsa" (Rare & Antique Books – Gladstone). #Antikvarnitsa #MartirosSaryan #OldBooks #UsedBooksShop #Art #FineArtPrints #Sofia #Bulgaria #МартиросСарьян #МартиросСарян #Антикварница #книжарница #АнтикварнаКнижарница #книги #СтариКниги #София #България

Time Shelter, by Georgi Gospodinov / „Времеубежище“ от Георги Господинов

#Booker #BookerPrize #InternationalBookerPrize #GeorgiGospodinov #TimeShelter #AngelaRodel #ГеоргиГосподинов #Времеубежище #книга #роман #Букър #АнджелаРодел #превод #Bulgarian #writer #novel #роман #писател

I nearly broke and wolfed down this beauty on my way home from the bakery. It was saved only by some guys shooting a music video on our street.

#баница #banitsa #боза #boza

Time to change the original batteries.

At an undisclosed Troubadours Magazine @trubadurs_mag@masto.bg inner-city retreat. Bogdana Tepavicharova @BTepavicharovs@mstdn.social, Diana Petrova, Stefan Georgiev, and Yavora Roumenova.

Back from the printer's.

Hard proof copies of four upcoming books by Bulgarian publishing house Ergo Books. Normally, I don't deal with hard proof copies, but everyone is on vacation, and the printing house shipped the copies to my house to check them out for errors. I was startled to realise that I did the page layout (prepress) of all fourр barring the prepress of the covers, which is entirely different thing. I guess an "occasional work" for a small publishing house often means that one day you might be reading submissions or editing, and the next you are lugging stacks of books at a book fair. I am never ever not amused how handy you could become if you make the mistake to step behind the curtain of book publishing.

#books #publishing #Bulgarian

Sophistispot.

#Sofia #Bulgaria #pigeon #pidgeons #StoreSign #birds #bird #BirdWatching

I wonder what would be the purpose of this building looming over a fresh produce market filled with smells of fruit, vegetables, and barbecued meat. A hotel? Business offices? Probably a mall.

#buldings #ConstructionSite #architecture #CityMarket #Sofia #Bulgaria #DimitarPetkovMarket #market #springtime

Now way in into the free play portion of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor on Koboh.

I am constantly shocked by the fact that even on newer titles, the #GTX1650 GDDR6 could consistently deliver a compromise between unplayable and quite tolerable 1080p performance. You could even set textures to high if you don't mind some occasional 30s. Everything else people report about the optimisation of the game on much higher tiers of graphics cards could be said too. Especially on Coruscant, the GPU was often underutilized, yet it couldn't reach 60 FPS, while on Koboh, it suddenly hit 70 FPS on 100% utilization, and-- predictably?--proceeded dipping into the 40s and the high 30s in some wider areas, but in a kinda baffling and unpredictable way.

Whatever the problem is, I think this game is a keeper, and it would probably get patched fairly thoroughly given enough time.

#StarWarsJediSurvivor #JediSurivor #videogames #pcgaming #gaming

Il Teatro. The imposing, kind of futuristic, bunkery, fortressy east corner of the "Aleko Konstantinov" Satirical Theatre.

#architecture #theatre #Sofia #Bulgaria #urban #building #satire #AlekoKonstantinov

#cats #catsofmastodon #mastocats #caturday