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• The two puppies I showed in yesterday's entry are doing fine, and we're going to see them Thursday to see if their eyes have opened yet. (That'll happen Any Day Now; typically ten days after birth for bichons.) In the meantime, I posted the little video I took of them on ( Read more... )

In just a few hours, today's transit of the planet Mercury across the face of the sun will begin. It's an event that happens about 13 times per 100 years, though they're by no means evenly spaced: The last one ocurred in May 2003, but the next one will not happen until 2016. I'll be out in St ( Read more... )

• Travelpost has a very nice online list of airport Wi-Fi hotspots. There's an alphabetical list of all equipped airports, and a list of the top 20 airports in the country. Colorado Springs has a very nice system, totally free, and cleverly limited to the area by the ( Read more... )

• For some years now I've been reading books, scratching my head, and suppressing the urge to complain that string theory is Emperor's Clothing, 0% cotton, 0% polyester, 0% science. It sounds more like the Supreme Fudge Factor to me, and popular because it's the only way we ( Read more... )

• I put a lot of work into my 10" Newtonian telescope, but I'm an absolute piker next to a chap who spent twenty years of his spare time building this 22" scope. I am in awe, and if I were wearing a hat I would take it off. Wow.
• I can't imagine that anybody with two hands and a restless imagintion doesn't scan it regularly, but definitely put the Make ( Read more... )