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Catching Up
A few weeks back, the Deadliest Catch video game came out for the Xbox 360. Seeing as Diann & I watch the show every week (yeah, we’re addicts), I decided to pick up the game. Lo and behold, a few of the big names from the show would be at my local Gamestop to launch…
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Clear skies on the weekend
This weekend had some more clear skies, and I had been warned well in advance. I cleared the Saturday morning calendar, and packed up back out to Rattlesnake Lake with a bunch of the SAS guys for some viewing. The seeing and transparency were phenomenal – a very stable atmosphere with not much crud in…
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Where’s Marius been?
ok, so my last post was about two weeks ago… I’ve been busy, honestly. Let me summarize: Attempt at stargazing on June 14. Clouds were supposed to clear away, but never really did. No new Messiers off my list, but I did get to re-visit a few globulars and a few galaxies (M81/M82, in particular). …
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AAL75, Seat 30F, 34,000 feet and bumpy
Well, I’m finally giving in to writing an offline blog post. From a plane. At the time of this writing, I’m somewhere over the eastern seaboard. I’ve spent the last few days in the DC area on business, and got to meet up with a few good friends for food/drinks. Karl sent me an IM…
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Global Warming
A few of my Seattle friends are complaining that Global Warming is a lie because it’s unseasonably cool in Seattle this month. Well, I’m happy to report that I found the missing global warming: it’s here, on the east coast. My rental car reported 108F when I was driving back to Dulles a bit ago.…
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5/30 Astronomy Report
The weather looked promising last night, and the ClearSkyChart was reporting good news. At around noon, I shot a quick e-mail over to a few of the people I’ve viewed with before, and was happy to get a quick response from Barry (who lives near Rattlesnake) that the skies were in fact clear. I cleared…
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Hosting Solutions: Alternatives to Layered Technologies?
I’ve been an exceptionally happy customer of Layered Technologies for a little over 3 years now, and they’ve just announced a monthly price increase of about 30%. Yes, a 30% increase. My rates are going to go from $93/month to $121/month in July. Granted, I split this between two other people, but that’s crazy. Seems…
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Fox News – You are dumb.
It’s official.
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The last three hours have been spent …
Reading RSS feeds. Didn’t get a good chance to read feeds this week at all: For the record: I didn’t hit the panic button. I read them all.
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Random – the competition of free stuff giveaways
Taken at my office today. Guess some guy had some old free stuff to give away, and someone else decided to trump that with a new free stuff sign. (For the record, the new stuff sign is pointing at our shelf of office supplies: notepads, pens, pencils, post-it® notes, staples…)