Recent content by brianvds

And there seems to be no way, at least on my Android device, to turn it off. So now I have a constant battle against it.

Boy, 14, stabbed art teacher because he had 'too much hatred', he tells police https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2k82d78jno A 14-year-old who stabbed his art teacher told French police he attacked her because he had "too much hatred", a prosecutor has said. The 60-year-old woman's condition...

Me, I absolutely detest it when machines think for me. The very worst is autocorrect, which I tried and failed to turn off on my tablet, so now every time I WhatsApp, I have to constantly go back into messages to correct autocorrect's blunders.

Indeed. After an unusually cool and wet early summer, the heat is beginning to set in. I'm almost envious of StLukes. Almost. :-)

Meaning we are about 50 degrees Celsius apart at the moment. :-)

Come autumn, I can't help myself: Morning sunbath Bees sharing a drink Black-eyed bulbuls on a street light

An interesting if rather disturbing account of the absolutely appalling business practices of large companies, and how it ends up making their products and services ever worse and worse, even as they get ever richer and richer. We don't need to read Orwell to see dystopia, we need but to look...

Thanks. Not always too sure. Looking through my folders pf photos now, most of them are pretty unremarkable. But with digital photography, one can simply take a million photos and pick the best three. :LOL:

Not particularly interesting as a photograph, but this jumble of rocks on a sidewalk caught my eye because of the ripple patterns in the rock: millions, perhaps even billions of years ago, that rock was a sandy riverbed, with who knows what marvels swimming past just above: Miniature toy cars...

Very nice catch. There is always something poignant about a moment captured this way. I often find such photos from a century ago haunting: every last one of the people in the photo is now dead. And of course, with a bit of luck, a century from now your photo will still exist, and the same thing...

It definitely works better for English speakers, or for Dutch or Afrikaans speakers who know how English speakers mangle the poor man's surname. :-)

If a voodoo doll can be said to be a form of sculpture, then this cartoon fits into this thread... :-)

Thanks for all the kind comments. Here's a bunch of cellphone pictures: Cloudscape over Pretoria: Colorful mugs at a flea market: Coral tree: Electricity: Cape glossy starling on a roof:

Red-eyed dove Aloe flowers with bees Aloes in bloom Autumn, 2021 Autumn leaves