Baldur Bjarnason's Notes on the Web

Given the state of, well, everything, I figure the best thing to do at the moment is to post a few old cat photos.

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A couple of years ago I noticed that one of the local ravens was perching on the town’s church steeple and serenading the surrounding area with the song of their people.

Spend any time writing online, and you’ll inevitably run into people, at times, who seem to have an odd understanding of what you published.

So, a couple of years ago the raven gang that spends part of the winter alternating between Selfoss and Hveragerði was around for the holiday season.

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The other day I posted a few two-year-old foggy photos from a hike around Hveragerði.

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I’ve been revisiting a few of the photos I took almost two years ago, during a foggy walk here around Hveragerði.

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A few black and white versions of photos I shot between fifteen and twenty years ago.

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So, I complain a lot about open source photo software.

One horse there looks more curious than the rest.

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Ceci n’est pas une pipe.

I’ve been lax in posting my photos here.

I’ve been relatively silent over the past few months.

When I was living in the UK, one of the more common responses people had to me being Icelandic – beyond the strangely common “I hate Björk” refrain – was some comment about Vikings or Norse mythology.

A seagull on a streetlight A blackbird looking a bit scruffy.

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“Why are you being so difficult?