Geek / Nerd Archive

  • A 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 […]

    Iterative improvement

    A 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 […]

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  • I 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 […]

    Fortuitous happenstance

    I 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 […]

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  • I 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 […]

    Goodbye facebook.

    I 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 […]

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  • The 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 […]

    Doing the Social thing IRL

    The 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 […]

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  • Managed 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 […]

    More Oh-dark-thirty antics

    Managed 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 […]

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  • 0330, 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 […]

    0-dark-thirty pays off

    0330, 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 […]

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  • The 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 […]

    Migration

    The 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 […]

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  • Yes, 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 […]

    Eclipse Mania

    Yes, 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 […]

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  • Posting 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 […]

    Fits and starts…

    Posting 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 […]

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  • As 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 […]

    Opposition.

    As 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 […]

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