Still cold - but better. Haven't seen much of the city - I may correct that tomorrow. Ran into both of my old advisers. Randy is stressed out with his work at the NSF - he had to flake on dinner. I went to an Ethiopian restaurant - supposedly the best one in DC - only a mile from the hotel. I had sambusas and shouro. The shouro was pretty good (2nd ( Read more... )

D.C. is cold. The neighborhoods are beatiful and the streets are silent (who would be insane enough to be outside). Ice covers the bird feeders and patches of dirty snow are scattered about, refusing to melt, and mocking me as I freeze. I search for food - and at last find it (with the help of the almighty google). But not before my ears begin to ( Read more... )

Weak whiny liberals stating that “Obama hasn’t done anything”, which in addition to being untrue, just fuels the fire of the right. At a time when Obama needs support, in order to accomplish the goals set out and fulfill his campaign promises, these individuals are counterproductive the causes they believe so much in. You are not going to get the ( Read more... )

This is partly a response to Nat's Facebook post.

The quote:"The only way to stay stationary in the fourth dimension is to move at the speed of light through the three spatial dimensions. Ergo the fourth dimension is expanding at the rate of c relative to the three spatial dimensions." -= Elliott McGucken

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Thank you Obama for trying to do what is best for everyone (the nation, its citizen, etc...) and for trying to keep most of your campaign promises, while not letting any extreme political ideology  prevent you from looking at both sides of the issues.

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This is me in the control room of the telescope


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Finally finished with my school work for the semester - sent in my project and paper by email.

Morning at Cerro Tololo


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