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Iterative improvement
Posted on 20 December, 2020 | No CommentsA person who sees something in their mind that isn’t real and believes it actually exists is generally regarded as insane. A person who sees something in their mind that […] -
Fortuitous happenstance
Posted on 10 April, 2020 | No CommentsI was previously aware of, but had forgotten the ‘Yet another made-up thing’™ known as ‘The month of the military child’. Not disparaging the concept as a concept, but I […] -
Goodbye facebook.
Posted on 27 September, 2018 | No CommentsI navigated through all the hoops to request deletion of my facebook account, and was told that the account would be scheduled for deletion on 9 July. Taking care not […] -
Doing the Social thing IRL
Posted on 3 July, 2018 | No CommentsThe Apple folks did a good thing recently: They partnered with Chase Jarvis’ (@ChaseJarvis) CreativeLive for their #todayatapple series, and brought him down to the main Union Square store in San […] -
More Oh-dark-thirty antics
Posted on 25 June, 2018 | No CommentsManaged to get down to the shore at Seacliff State Beach at 0330 on Saturday morning and got a sequence of 18 shots of the Milky Way, with better focus […] -
0-dark-thirty pays off
Posted on 18 June, 2018 | No Comments0330, or thereabouts, to be somewhat more specific. The Milky Way sticks straight out of the horizon this time of year, typically right before sunrise. With astronomical twilight kicking off […] -
Migration
Posted on 31 May, 2018 | No CommentsThe site is now up and running on an AWS Lightsail instance. I’ll probably post at some point about the rigmarole of getting off of GoDaddy, since their interface is […] -
Eclipse Mania
Posted on 27 August, 2017 | No CommentsYes, I did take the scope out during the eclipse. Yes, I did get pictures. No, I didn’t make it to the path of totality… 2024 anyone? Here’s my first […] -
Fits and starts…
Posted on 10 May, 2017 | No CommentsPosting here is sporadic at best lately. Too many social media outlets mean I remember to post astrophotos on twitter, but not facebook; or facebook and not twitter; or both […] -
Opposition.
Posted on 9 April, 2017 | No CommentsAs in, when a planet is opposite the sun in the night sky, offering our best and brightest views of the year. Jupiter was in opposition yesterday, so I hauled […]