Testing, Testing
Fascinating. I am testing out a new method of posting to the blog. I replaced my ancient and frustrating ipod (I think enough time has been spent tinkering around in its innards (see e.g. here) and now...
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Toe Temptation
So the other day I was sitting chatting with someone I'd just met and at some point I looked down...and jumped a little in surprise at what I saw. Those shoes were a surprise since for a moment there I...
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Pork Pie Hat Reflections
I learned yesterday that it was the 100th anniversary of Lester Young's birth. I hope you know who he is. Just in case you don't, I'll take a second out to urge you in the strongest possible terms to...
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New Year Gear
One of the things I seem to do each year is replace my tyres (tires? always confused about the spelling there...) on the Brompton for another year of cycling around the city (often in combination with...
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Collections!
Well that was fun! I'm sitting on the bus on the way home [editorial note: I wrote most of this on Thursday afternoon], with the memory of the College Commons event that I just went to still fresh in...
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Once again I find myself in the position of having far more to tell you about than I have either time or energy for - and so much of it is really good!! I was supposed to tell you about the first of...
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Blue Skies…
I always like an excuse to look for blue skies, and to have others look too, even in the worst of times. I had a great reason to do it today. Early this morning before sunrise I settled down to write...
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Presidential Star Party
This is a photo I borrowed from Dara Norman's blog post over on NSBP's Vector. It is about the star party held over at hhe White House in October of this year. It looks like it was a lot of fun! Er,...
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The Universe: Cool Cars, Hot Sand, and Fast Balls
You may recall my mentioning a desert trip to shoot something for TV, some time back. One done at precisely the wrong time of year. And to Death Valley, one of the hottest places on earth, to boot....
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On NPR ’s morning edition the other day there was an interesting piece by Nell Greenfieldboyce about a lovely piece of research on the effects of various cultures of microbial organisms in our stomachs...
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The Leonids are almost here!
Another meteor shower is almost upon us. Next week it is the turn of the Leonids. Now, as the name implies, these have their apparent origin in the constellation Leo. So how visible it will be for you,...
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Final Morsels
They're sitting the final exam for my graduate electromagnetism class right now, having started at the ungodly hour of 8:00am. I'm sitting outside in the bright, lukewarm Winter sun with a cup of...
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Gone East, Looking West
This is exciting! Today I decided to explore the new extension of the Gold line for a little while. There's something deeply satisfying about seeing a prominent public works project of such obvious...
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