Smaller places can definitely have a larger sense of community. London can be a very lonely city. I would absolutely love to live somewhere like that, one of my life's ambitions is to at least visit Greenland but it's so expensive to do so.

I'm in two minds. Those places have their quirks and petty jealousies, as do all places where human beings congregate. I still live in and love rural Ireland, and I couldn't go back to the city, but places quite as desolate as those? Not 365 days a year.

[OT, but relevant to screen shots] I love rural and isolated. Can live in cities and have but prefer rural. Cities are nice but not natural, similar to laminate or quartz being nice but not natural and missing the energy of real wood or granite, stone etc... One thing is certain regarding the people in "those houses", they're survivors. How many people living in modern cities could survive more than a week if they had no modern technology or electricity etc...? Tremendous respect for those who can live well on less.

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Fantastic picture, how fast were you/vehicle traveling and what specs were used/set on the camera?

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When I was a child my great-grandfather used to take me out fishing in a currach off Erris Head, which is pretty much last stop before America. He was born in the 1870s. Fish, spuds and a glass of Guinness; that's what they lived on. And there was no such thing as walking past someone's door; you had to drop in and relate all the stories of the day. Even if that was 1 o'clock in the morning.

Erris Head on a calm day :



And near the lighthouse, when it's a bit breezy :

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LQ tends to reduce the quality, so the actual shot is better than what you see there. It's hard to say what speed we were travelling at but it couldn't have been that fast, maybe about 30-40mph. Shutter speed was 1/500th sec, and anything less would have incurred blurring. It's one of those pictures which didn't feel like it worked at the time, it's only when looking at them all afterwards that I noticed it came out better than expected.

Sounds great.

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Fantastic. I remember hearing stories from my Grandfather and Great Aunt both were born in the 1880's in USA. My Great Aunt in particular loved to speak about life before cars, tv's and even radio. I asked her once, did she enjoy living in the "modern" era or back in the late 1800's, without hesitation she said "its been interesting seeing all the changes but I prefer back then when things were simpler and people were happier and healthier." They had an honest distrust of technology that many of us are losing. She also did not like politicians, lawyers or doctors and lived to be around 100.

PS: Great pictures!

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making a trip across Scandinavia?

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This was just a short trip around Hemsedal. Next time the plan is to go from Oslo to Bergen, which takes several hours but is apparently quite beautiful.

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Norway is indeed a very beautiful country. If you are in Bergen, don't forget to visit Preikestolen, it is a must!

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Here's mine. If you know twm well you may notice something a little weird in the window decorations.

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BeOS? Haiku? I mean windows decorations. What is this app running on top? Looks like kind of screen multiplexer. What is monitor resolution?

By the application on top I think you mean the one with the beige background, not xwrits, the typing break reminder. That's a text editor developed by Rob Pike for the Plan 9 operating system. More about it here: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/acme/
I use it on Slackware via plan9port, a port of plan9 software that runs on top of Unix systems.

Where you write "BeOS? Haiku? I mean windows decorations," I'm not sure I get your intent. Maybe I'm using the wrong terminology. I mean the buttons in the title bars. The twm man page calls them titlebuttons.

Screen resolution:

I was for short time running Plan9. But I failed to install it next to my Slackware installation. But it was my first thought that it looks like something I know from Plan9.
Look at this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BeOS_Desktop.png - the shape of title bars reminds those from BeOS.

Just found this image on the "front page" of this morning's Wall Street Journal.
https://www.wsj.com/
The story, https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-norwa...=hp_lista_pos1
The full story is behind a pay wall. Sorry. You might find the full version via another news source that links to the original.
The image.

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