I’m already 70 books behind schedule from my 2025 reading goals. Not sure how I managed to get that many books behind but the AI can’t lie. I’ll try to catch up. | Continue reading
2024 was the first year in which I managed to go over 100 books. This was a major achievement for me and a result of several circumstances: Here are the best finds from reading 111 books and 36217 pages: Best Series Top 5 books Best Gamebook Trends 2025 I’m not sure if I’ll try t … | Continue reading
I read 7 books this month, mostly from the Black Friday harvest 🙂 I feel like I had some excellent hits with 5 great books and only one truly bad, which I read anyway because it was Lee Child. Best books Worst books: | Continue reading
Infinity Gate by M. Carey would be the last book I read in 2024. There’s a way to travel between alternative versions of Earth. Infinitely many alternative Earths. The stars are too far but the other Earths are near. You run out of resources? Next Earth has them and you may not b … | Continue reading
Given my current limited interest in sports, I would do a hiking club. White and green. My grandmother was a founding member of the tourist club Sarnena Gora, Stara Zagora (in the mid-50s) and remained a member until she passed. I associate these colors with her former club. I wa … | Continue reading
I started building a walking habit about 2 years ago. I had this crazy annual goal to average over 10K steps per day for the whole of 2024. Happy to share that I could make it with room to spare. Life is much easier if you don’t need to count your steps every day. It … Continue r … | Continue reading
The perfect space for reading for me is my bed. I can read some and fall asleep. Most books make me sleepy, and the ones that keep me awake make me happy. It’s a win-win. As for writing, I’m not sure. Last time I wrote a book was before Internet was a thing. I’ve tried … Continue … | Continue reading
We don’t have lots of space for books and unfortunately I’m able to read and collect them at a pace that’s not sustainable and turns books into clutter. We are experimenting with an overflow shelf to resolve the problem. The way it works is that once I have no space to place a ne … | Continue reading
Vitosha Boulevard and the National Palace of Culture (NDK). We reached the shortest days of the year. Less darkness ahead of us. Happy Holidays! | Continue reading
I just completed book #29 from Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series called In Too Deep. I rated it 3/5 but it’s more like 1.5/5 and got a 1.5 point bonus because Lee Child is one of my favorite writers. So, I asked myself a question, is it just me, or the series becomes unreadable? Th … | Continue reading
Stop signs facing walls near Sofia Tech Park. I wonder if I should report that to the municipality or it serves some long-term meaning. | Continue reading
So good that I answered the reverse writing prompt 10 months ago! Biggest challenge over the next months? Nailed it! The hard answer is – dealing with uncertainty without dwelling on the endless negative outcomes. I need my imagination to be helpful. To translate this unnecessari … | Continue reading
We have to start imagining a world in which sentient robots exist. We’ve had I, Robot and R. Daneel Olivaw. We now have Annie Bot. Lots of others in between. I read about a smart spaceship not long ago (We Are Legion). The main issue I have with all these books is that the robots … | Continue reading
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Today was the last day of the International Book Fair in Sofia. My book harvest this year was primarily gamebooks because there was a shortage of books I wanted and didn’t already buy before it. The Black Friday promotions were too good. The Gamebook association organized a signi … | Continue reading
The mountain was unwelcoming today for a second time in a row. We did a brief walk on the horizontal path for about 1.5h. The wind tried to blow us away, and the snow was just enough to make our hats wet. Our new 5-euro sunglasses from Decathlon that cover the side of the eye … C … | Continue reading
“We Are Legion” is an Expanse style space opera by Dennis E. Taylor. This was the first book by Dennis Taylor I read. Pleasantly surprised by how good it was. Bob is turned into a space ship who can replicate and travel with speeds close to the speed of light. Humans cannot withs … | Continue reading
My 2024 fitness goal is to walk 10k steps per day on average. It’s a tough goal – 10k is 1h 40 min of walking per day, 3.6M steps annually, or 511 hours of walking. That’s a non-trivial amount of time and effort, especially on work days. Busy on Monday? Do 4k steps and you’re … C … | Continue reading
Once upon a time, a widow had twin daughters with very different personalities: Djasta Prasta was lively and cheerful, while Cindil Pindil was quiet, hesitant, and cautious. When their mother gave them fabric to sew dresses for Easter, Djasta Prasta eagerly began working—cutting, … | Continue reading
I hid today to get some quality reading time. The book is “We Are Legion” by Dennis Taylor and is marvellous. | Continue reading
The last challenge was too difficult, posting one that’s too easy 🙂 This is Sofia Tech Park, last evening. I was short on steps. | Continue reading
I completed my Goodreads Reading goal last month and have not finished a single book since then. Not sure what’s going on. The book I currently read seems to be fine, but I’m stuck on it, and the end isn’t near. I can likely read it for another 2 weeks. The book is The Shadow … C … | Continue reading
Saint Sofia is the church that gave the city its name. It was founded in the 4th century and rebuilt several times, primarily because of earthquake damage. The present-day look is roughly the same as it was in the 500s. It doesn’t have a bell tower, unlike all the other nearby ma … | Continue reading
Do you ever see wild animals? I live in the city and the best I can do is see cats, dogs, rats, crows, magpies, jays, and pigeons. We used to have sparrows as well but I think their population suffered a disaster of some kind. Can you to find the cat on the photo? 🙂 | Continue reading
Not sure how did all these cables happen but good job to the artist who turned them into a peace of beauty. They are on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/321emirca/ | Continue reading
I zoomed too much and couldn’t properly capture this little fellow. But his expression is clear. | Continue reading
I used to be a night person. Then I had kids. Then I discovered the saying: If it’s not important enough to be first thing in the morning, it’s not important enough to be the last thing in the evening. — Someone said that on the Internet I’m now a morning person. I still do … Con … | Continue reading
I read 7 books, 1 gamebook, and 1 comics in November. Best books for the month: Worst books for the month: | Continue reading
This is not the usual November for us. Our hike was very emotional, with hail, mist, and strong winds. Lasted about 1.5h. We started somewhere in the mist, ended somewhere in the mist, and we reached some white middle point. | Continue reading
In a magical world that feels like ancient Japan, a girl with fox tail will challenge the demons. She’ll have help by lots of random creatures, some of them interesting and others – less so. The hero path has issues – the superpowers need super enemies. Thankfully, Yumeko’s super … | Continue reading
Looking back, I think the hardest decisions I made were related to giving up certain things, projects, or ideas. For example, I gave up a series of pet projects I had from my early years of engineering. Some of these were integral part of my self-identification. But we need to re … | Continue reading
I was surprised to see this little fellow outside, after all the cold lately. We had several sub-zero days. The violets were fine, and were not alone. It was also my first long morning walk from home to our shared co-working space in over a month. My current route is about 6km lo … | Continue reading
Parked cars. Moving cars. Drivers. Cars take so much space. They need wider roads, parkings, highways, bridges, traffic lights. That space can be better used. We can have bus stops, bike lanes, grass, mud, or even puddles full of grass, mud, frogs, and everything. Moving cars ten … | Continue reading
Yumeko is a half-fox teenager who wields illusion magic. She has fox ears, a fox tail, and is otherwise human. She starts on a long journey to fulfill a long-awaited prophecy about the end of an era. She would need to hide her non-human nature because most of the creatures around … | Continue reading
It was a great WordCamp! My part was on the volunteers team, where I had a chance to meet some really nice folks. Happy that the organisers carried the torch and kept making camps so I had the opportunity to be there and even rejoin the team. Felt good. | Continue reading
I’m glad to be back to the WordCamp Sofia organising team 🙂 | Continue reading
I associate mountains with fitness, work, with a hurry to go back home. Beach is chill. | Continue reading
Kudos to the people in the pre-car age for building places like Sintra, with its tiny streets and bright colors. Modern architects cannot build that. “But where are they going to keep the cars?” | Continue reading
I hated this book but it shook me, so it can’t be bad. Can it? In a future so good that everyone is mostly satisfied, and so bad that it’s post-apocalyptic, a monk goes to the forest in a search for crickets. Finds an intelligent robot with a child-like curiosity. What happens ne … | Continue reading
Saw a pigeon playing in a frozen puddle. It seemed to drink water but wasn’t in a hurry, having a cold bath. | Continue reading