Finally (after almost four months) got around to going through my pictures from RMSS (Rocky Mountain Star Stare) back in June. And so, the triumphant return of the photo blog ( Read more... )

This evening, the last Venus transit for the next 105 years happened (I missed the last one in 2004, not sure when the last one before that was, but suffice to say, they don't happen too often ( Read more... )

Because the internet needs more kitten pictures, have a picture of Wolfram in a box:


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So, Ai-chan and I went down to Albuquerque this weekend to see the total annular eclipse. Of course, since we wanted to avoid the 14-hour death march, we went down Saturday, and since we were there Saturday, we hooked up with the local astronomy club on Saturday night at their dark sky site, and then took a quick side trip to the VLA on Sunday ( Read more... )

Have I mentioned that we adopted two Siberian kittens? So we have:


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So, broke down and got the Nissan 370Z I'd wanted for some time. Ai-chan isn't particularly happy about the spending, but is somewhat mollified that I got the touring edition with heated seats (been so warm that it's not useful right now, but she's all for it in principle). And with the new job, we can afford it. It does mean that Domo-kun (the ( Read more... )

So, long time, no update. I suppose stuff's been going on, I just haven't been connected to this journal thing in a while. Not sure that this will become any sort of habit, though -- we'll see.

At any rate, I suppose one piece of big news is that I'm diving back into astronomy, and it all started when I picked up a used TeleVue NP-101 from an ( Read more... )

So, it's been a couple weeks since I've posted anything here -- I've been kind of worn out by back-to-back conventions (one for fun, one for work) and haven't had a lot of extra energy for working on the game. However, today, I have a new screenshot to show. And so, since last time ( Read more... )

Long weekend. So, since last time ( Read more... )

Not really that much since the last update Saturday morning, mostly I just have a few screenshots people might find interesting. But... What I did do ( Read more... )