M20-Trifid Nebula on 9/5/08
This is a widefield shot with the Nikon D50 of the Trifid Nebula. It took a bit of processing, but I’m very happy with the way it turned out. I’m hoping to start using this camera more...
Jupiter on 9/5/08
While observing this evening, a large group of girls (who were part of a birthday party) walked by and wanted to see what I was up to. I showed them Jupiter, which is a wonderful target right now....
Venus on 9/5/08
My first target was Venus, low on the western horizon. It’s essentially impossible to get any sort of detail on venus because of it’s brightness and clouds. The colors are actually sort of an artifact from the refracting...
It has been a treat sampling products over the past several months for review, and last week I received the funnest package to date:
Doesn't it just make you smile? I open this big ol' box and a cock-eyed pistachio was...
I got this award from my friend Karisma. I think it is soo cute. It is nice to know that someone apart from myself loves my blog.
(oops! will upload when my computer stops misbehaving)
I have to pass on the love to...
Poor Andrew Zimmern, host of the Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods. His adopted home of Minneapolis is overrun with republicans at the moment. He writes on his Minneapolis focused blog:"I can also tell you that I cannot wait for the RNC...
Well, after a busy and tumultuous week, Matthew and I spent my B-day afternoon running around making bill payments, and visiting MetroTab, the venue for week 2's 40 Days for Life vigil.They had some very specific parameters to their hosting,...
Working people frequently ask retired people what we do to make our days interesting. Well, for example, the other day I went downtown to go to the newsstand for the Wall Street Journal so I could track my investments. I...
We've had her on soy formula for 4 days now with no apparent side effects or reaction. I think Enfamil and Good Starts both have a soy toddler formula, so I'll probably be going with that. If she could eat...
Well, here we are, back on the cusp of another weekend! And of course, we can’t get there without first paying our respects to the Friday Ark! Have a fun, safe and relaxing weekend, everyone! Here’s a monochrome cat...
I am so relieved its friday, and even more relieved that there is no bootcamp tomorrow. LOL I actually half way wonder if I'll be excited for it to start up again on Monday, how sick is that. I am competitive...
In the Meiji period of the late nineteenth century, a small coterie of Japanese painters decided their contemporaries had endured enough Western influence. Armed with sumi (a Chinese ink made from soot, fishbone, and animal hide), and a complex pigment...
So, the blogging hasn't been happening lately. I usually like to blog when something fun has happened and I have some pictures to go along with it. I could include some pictures of me shuffling around the house...
I’ve been keeping myself busy lately by preparing for three different fantasy football leagues. Now that the season is finally here, I’m in team-maintenance mode, which is far less time-consuming. As a result, I actually am going to post something...
If you're a South Carolina gamecock fan would you please spend the rest of the season keeping your beak shut about the Clemson loss to Bama until you can justify why you guys are paying Steve Spurrier all that money...
..and just in time to celebrate my birthday! What a great b-day it has been, working all day, running errands tonight, and all with my face peeling into a million little pieces and my lips and nose swollen from sun...
For several months I have, not so secretly, wondered how to help others get out of this neo-federalist thought process that both parties are stuck in. I feel strongly about the revival of a more pure and historical constructionist...
He flies through the air with the greatest of easeThis daring young man, life he does seize!His future, a daring adventure, no doubt--"Lord, keep him safe!" on the journey throughout!
How could I not write a poem for this week's Friday's...
There has been quite a bit of brouhaha over Sarah Palin's alleged book banning attempts. (You can read about it at The LA Times, Time, and just about anywhere else you care to trip over it on the 'net, not...
I did not watch any of the convention last night. South Carolina was playing Vanderbilt in Nashville and a man has to keep his priorities in order.
But can somebody tell me if this is for real?
Is this some kind of...
So we've made an interesting discovery about our child: he is allergic to sweet potatoes. How random! We've had three or four major vomiting episodes in the last 6 months or so. And in at least 3 of them, I...
I sat through a Faculty Senate meeting yesterday where the Math department presented a proposal to develop a math master's program. A good idea on the face of it, I have to question developing a graduate program in a field...
Ok, probably not the greatest movie line ever. "I'll be your huckleberry...", "they're here", "Luke, I am your father", "THERE WAS A FIREFIGHT!!!" are all probably better, but this is still pretty good. It involves zombies and Bob Hope:...
Mark Driscoll's session at the 2008 Desiring God explores why evangelical teachers soft pedal and baby-talk churchy-folk instead of challenging religious people in the way that Scripture does throughout the entire story. There is nothing more pathetic than a preacher/teacher...
"Mary"Complete as many rounds as possible in twenty minutes of: 5 Handstand Push-ups10 One legged squats15 Pull-upsPost round completed to comments....
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