I want to get more into Astronomy. I had some experience with Google sky so I created some databases and connected them to images. I have about 250,000 stars and their locations. I also made some nice pages of things like the messier objects, the Herschel 400 and the Arp peculiar Galaxies. I am also […]
Wanderings
Resources for Science Fiction: Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. – Ray Bradbury
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Birdhouses in the snow
Friday, December 19, 2008
Justine asked to see her birdhouse so I took some pictures in the snow. We have a dozen birdhouses on the property. I kept finding new ones, but I didn’t walk too far in the back. We have six inches of snow.
Snowy Friday
Friday, December 19, 2008
I took a couple of days off, but it snowed today and I was mostly stuck inside all day. I’ve done a little, putting up lights and wreaths and I am going to see if I can find the tree lights, next. I went outside briefly and took some pictures. I am trying to embed […]
Lots of Winter Pictures
Friday, December 19, 2008
I am cleaning out the various cameras here. I put some of them on a Picasa album here: Some interesting pictures — When Larry and I went to see Cadillac Records, we got there a little early. Larry spent the time annoying some nice girls trying to sell bath salts and other smelly things. They […]
Newdy Wootist
Monday, December 15, 2008
From writer Adrienne Ray: A Newdy Wootist one who believes in the world according to the media. This would be a person who thinks that reality is anything that appears on TV – the only correct science is that which is expressed in the media. It is a faith in the sitcoms, soap operas, reality […]
Extra Sensory Perception by J.B. Rhine
Monday, December 15, 2008
I picked this up for a quarter and I have been dipping into it while waiting in the car. It is not worth reading from end to end. I can’t believe that anyone ever put much credence in Rhine. He likes to confuse anecdotal evidence with scientific method. Rhine never gives hard numbers from what […]
The Charwoman’s Shadow, by Lord Dunsany
Monday, December 15, 2008
I bought this dog-eared book at a garage sale a few weeks ago for a dollar. Lord Dunsany is a unique writer. If you read the book Stardust by Neil Gaiman (or even saw the hacked movie version), you would get an idea of what a Dunsany book is about. My edition of The Charwoman’s […]
Christmas Tree Cutting
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Erica caught the last 10 seconds of me cutting down our tree up in Rock City, NY. We chose a Balsam this year because of the wonderful smell. This one had pine cones all over it so it is very different from the tree you’d buy at the local gas station. If you have the […]