Monthly Archives: February 2008

Humanity’s Most useful Inventions

I sometimes read the wwwac list. This is the World Wide Web Artists Consortium. Mostly it’s a bunch of artsy Mac users who complain about technical things. I occasionally learn something from the lively correspondence. (If you join the wwwac list make sure that you sign up for the digest version. This group can get […]

Lunar Eclipse

I took pictures of the Lunar Eclipse, but I don’t have a tripod so they came out blurry. These are from the little Kodak that Justine gave Erica, but the expensive Nikon refused to take a picture due to the low light. There has to be a setting to take a quick low light picture, […]

POI site getting hits

I create a little web page for my GPS (GSF as Erica calls it – Garage Sale Finder). The site allows you to easily make Points of Interest (POI) files. I can load up all of my Garage sales from the web site and drop them on the GPS device and it will take me […]

Cool Cats

On a cold February day the cats demanded that I let them out. Max has been sick and weighs less than half of his healthy weight, but he still wants to go out. He finds a patch of sunlight and watches.Ollie chases aything that moves and the birds that live in the foundation planting drive […]

Astronomy Lecture – Rockland Community College

I keep missing these for one reason or another. Friday night is tough after a week’s work, but I’d like to try this one. The Great Orion Nebula - Cradle of Creation This February's lecture takes us to one of the most spectacular and dynamic nearby neighborhoods in the Milky Way. Located only 1350 light-years […]

CatCam

This neat little thing is a camera that this guy makes. It takes a picture every few minutes and stores them on a an SD card. It costs $60 and you have to buy an SD card for it ($15). It will take about 300 pictures and you can set the interval from every few […]

Cat Picket Fencing

Erica sent me this picture of cat fence pickets. They look easy enough to make. The problem is where would I put them? Perhaps I could replace the hemlock trees in the front of the house by the road. Our sewer backed up last week and the rotor rooter man found the pipe filled with […]

FreeNameAStar.com Melodrama

I have a policy that only the person who registered a star can delete it. I must receive the request from a person using the same email address as the person who registered it. I’ve had a few stars where a declaration of love was not reciprocated and definitely not appreciated. Still, it is up […]