for letters of recommendation/good word for juan ( Read more... )

http://freejuanruiz.blogspot.com/

SIGN THE PETITION to drop Juan's charges ( Read more... )

I heard voices, and yowls, and echoes, but above all there gently rose that impious, insidious scurrying; gently rising, rising, as a stiff bloated corpse gently rises above an oily river that flows under the endless onyx bridges to a black, putrid sea.

--H.P.Lovecraft

a pox on my soul

my neice zoe posted this on myspace:
my friend getting beaten by the police

http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2007/11/12/completenobcbrutality.mp4
the guy with the drum is my friend juan. he may be deported although he has a green card.

and i have this to add:

juan was arrested at a peaceful protest -- more info at
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/ ( Read more... )

Louisville, Kentucky April 23, 1968 ( Read more... )

i used to be on the periphery of the glimpse team
and i am pleased as punch with the science and fabulous images that have resulted.
so much wonder and magic still in the universe.
hope and faith and beauty.

Spitzer Space Telescope
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/spitzer/index.shtml

GLIMPSE - the Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire
( Read more... )

here i am 58 and i'm just starting to get it together. i finally have ( Read more... )

try the spiral pinwheel illusion
http://www.echalk.co.uk/amusements/OpticalIllusions/pinwheel/pinwheel.html