It is now my pleasure to be able to announce that Minor Planet (40463) Frankkameny now has its own official Wikipedia entry!

So, the press has been awash in stories about (40463) Frankkameny. But what about its namesake? Who was Dr. Frank Kameny? Well, yes, Frank does have an entry in that "Repository of All Human Knowledge," Wikipedia. But now a video biography of sorts has been made by one of my colleagues and fellow member of the Task Force that created the Working ( Read more... )

Last Friday I posted a cryptic announcement that something wonderful had happened, but that the news was under embargo for a few days. I was trying to get in touch with some of Dr. Frank Kameny's friends so that they, really, would know the news first. That was done a few hours ago ( Read more... )

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Coming Out is a continual process ( Read more... )

Well, today could have been far better. I was exhausted all day, which was my own fault, and Occam and I battled ALL DAY at HQ with Occam winning, which made me more discouraged and exhausted ( Read more... )

From Mary Ann in Autumn.

Mary Ann sees the 90+ year old Mrs. Madrigal for the first time since her stroke two years ago.

"You look wonderful," Mary Ann told her as they were hugging ( Read more... )

While generally informative, the "explanation" part is only needed by my Facebook folks ( Read more... )

...or at least that's what a lot of people, I think, might choose to call it.

In taking a look at the details of Hawking as I related in my last post, I discovered that Peter Moffet apparently has a penchant for scientists. He had also written a BBC2 movie called Eddington and Einstein. Now, of course, everyone knows who Einstein is, but only ( Read more... )