while this isn't really kept up, somewhere else is, but just for this weekend. i am in arizona currently working with my astronomy professor on the telescope. i'm keeping a blog/photos on http://astronomy.case.edu/steven/blog/blog.html if there is any interest. it's ( Read more... )

being infatuated with the euphoria of new classes/things to learn/etc. i just want to hole up for a semester, do ALL the assigned reading, and soak up knowledge like an excessively porous sponge.

where else can you hear a story about a staff of ~50 ladies who work for butterball turkey company as turkey consultants... basically from the beginning of november through thanksgiving, they are at the phones for 8 hrs a day answering calls from people who are having trouble w/ cooking/preparing to cook their turkies. mmmmm npr

i was working on masking out stuff on a galaxy image today in the classroom when charley walked by (my image has dark black and greys with bright green blotches where the mask is affecting it). he threw his voice into a high whiny falsetto and said "you've got the plague! red spots are bad, but green spots..." and then i said yes i'm doomed. and he ( Read more... )

http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast121/lectures/epimetheus_and_janus.html

wed night, 8 pm, my house (401 Hillshafer, north end of town ( Read more... )

http://nightskylive.net/ci/ci050812/ci050812ut052745a.jpg

found on the web ( Read more... )

posting on dad's pda (geek style) from northern michigan mmmm. great stars, lots of drinking w/ the family/cousins/aunts/uncles/grandma.... glasses of wine on the beach, beer pong in the yard, then margaritas w/pictionary inside ( Read more... )

conjunction w/ the moon, saturn, and m44 (beehive)