Mountain Hare.

I've not had the pleasure of spending a day in the company of mountain hares for a few years now, but today made up for it.

Wonderful weather, soft light, great clients and magical subjects. #bliss

Canon R7, RF100-500mm, 500mm, f/7.1, 1/1600th, ISO 800

#wildlife #mountainhare #hare #nature #ScottishHighlands #animal #photography

Word of the Day: MUBBLEFUBBLES (19th century, slang) — bad mood, low spirits.

when you're cute af but you still demand respect

Hmm … “Diablo IV” beta is starting on March 24th. So the question now is, do we pre-order to get access to the beta or do we wait till the game is released in June?

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We (my wife and I) enjoyed playing Diablo III a lot. In fact, it’s probably the only game we’ve played again after we completed it 😛 We like playing the co-op mode in the game since it’s one of the few where you don’t have split-screen co-op (which confuses us since we always forget which screen is which) and where you don’t have to have a second console to play multiplayer.

We first played Diablo III way back in (probably) 2012 or 2013. So it’s good to get into a new game, but we don’t know yet whether the same multiplayer co-op mode will be there. I sure hope so, but maybe it’s time to do some research?

#DiabloIV #Gaming #PS5 #Multiplayer

There are so many interesting people here on Mastodon that my timeline is overflowing 😛 And my obsessive/compulsive nature won’t let me continue with anything till I’ve completed going through my home timeline in the morning …

Things are exacerbated by the fact that Akkoma will show you all replies by somebody you follow — not just replies to conversations you started with them. So it just piles up ...

So, I think I’m going to clean up my home timeline by moving some people who I really like following but who have massive output to a list and then unfollowing them. That way, my hometimeline will remain manageable and I can dip into the list whenever I have the time and still be able to see content from others that I really would have liked to have followed …

Seeems reasonable? I don’t know… Guess I’ll see how it goes 🙂

#Fediverse #Timelines #ManagingTime

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

Looking down at the lower falls from the skybridge. It's about a 110ft (36m) drop to the collecting pool from the bridge

#MultnomahFalls #Oregon

Kashkul (Sufi begging bowl) carved from a coco-de-mer nut, Iran, 18th century [2000 x 2559]
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Dark-Eyed Junco

This is a decent photo of a dark eyed junco. I catch them in a tree less often than on the ground. There are still some around, although I expect that they leave for the north soon.

"You can find Dark-eyed Juncos by walking around open, partially wooded areas with understory for cover. Keep your eyes on the ground and listen for their twittering call or their trilling song. If they are flushed from the ground, look for an overall gray or dark brown bird with obvious, white outer tail feathers." - allaboutbirds.org

#photo #photography #photographer #birds #birdwatching #photographylovers #birdsofmastodon #birdwatchingphotography #Darkeyedjunco

Hooded Merganser

I took this photo in Georgia, November 2022. There were hundreds of these birds in a small pond across from the hotel where we stayed.

"Hooded Mergansers find their prey underwater by sight. They can actually change the refractive properties of their eyes to improve their underwater vision. In addition, they have an extra eyelid, called a “nictitating membrane,” which is transparent and helps protect the eye during swimming, like a pair of goggles." - allaboutbirds.org

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #birds #birdwatching #birdsofmastodon #birdwatchingphotography

Dr. Patricia Era Bath, 1981. Inventor of the Laserphaco Probe, used worldwide in eye surgery to remove cataracts. Bath founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness.

She restored sight to millions of people suffering from cataracts. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackMastodon

i finished the swamp! 😎🎉
it's a nice big part of the world that you can explore, and it breaks up the repetition of the forests beautifully... i love how it turned out.
i will be putting the same thing in a couple other areas.
screenshots of it...

#unrealengine #unrealgamedev #unrealdev #indiegamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Yonah Schimmel, a Romanian immigrant, used a pushcart to start his knish bakery Yonah Schimmel’s in 1890. It is currently located on Houston Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

The bakery has been serving knishes, kugel, latke and classic New York drinks like Egg Creams and Lime Rickeys since its opening. It is a real slice of #NYC #history.

This #painting of the bakery was done by Hedy Pagremansky. It is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York.

#Art

An ivory chesspiece, part of a set gifted by the Abbasid Caliph Haroun al-Rashid to Charlemagne in 797. Possibly carved in Sindh (in Pakistan), this piece was a rook, which were war-elephants at the time, not castles. Along with this chess set, the Caliph sent a real elephant as a gift. [683x1024]
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We absolutely loved “The Family Man” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9544034) on Amazon Prime Video (which incidentally does some great Indian content) and so I was delighted to see a new show from the same team on Amazon today: “Farzi” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15477488)

We haven’t watched it yet, but we are looking forward to it since it has got a great cast.

#TV #Indian #Streaming

“Dil To Pagal Hai” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118983) was a movie I absolutely loved when it first came out way back when …

It was probably one of the movies my wife and I watched together after we got married when I introduced her to Hindi movies 🙂 That too was a loooong time ago …

We watched it last weekend again and the magic still remains. The songs are so captivating that just don’t let you go and keep playing over and over in your head … or at least, my head 🙂

Reminiscenses …

#Movie #Hindi #Memories

I’ve spent the past I-don’t-know-how-many weekends coding and totally lost to other things. I finally have a weekend where I don’t have the urge to code. But of course, that means that I have to do other things like cleaning, accounts and other stuff that I’ve neglected for so long 😛

But still, I’m hoping for a more relaxed weekend — let’s see how it goes …

#AmazingNature

#AmazingWorld
#Canada
#YohoNationalPark
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Night time at Scotland’s Dunnottar Castle with the Milky Way. Photo by Connor McLaren.
#Scotland
#UnderTheMilkyWay

@mastodon.au was having problems so I'm here and it's time for a new #introduction. I was a software developer in a previous life. I spent most of my time with C, C++ and Java. I'm retired now but I really miss it and would be willing to volunteer a few hours a week. I spend my free time with my family, my dog, and #gardening these days. My favorite word is cavorting. I renounced my #US citizenship a few years ago and live in Australia full time but still follow #uspolitics (#politics).