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Nov
14th
Sat
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A Glorious Dawn, featuring Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking

(Single for sale here:  http://www.thirdmanrecords.com/news.html)

Jun
22nd
Mon
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Twinkie, dunked in funnel cake batter, fried, covered with powdered sugar and chocolate syrup.  Taken at the 60th annual WV State Folk Festival, Glenville, WV.

Twinkie, dunked in funnel cake batter, fried, covered with powdered sugar and chocolate syrup.  Taken at the 60th annual WV State Folk Festival, Glenville, WV.

May
20th
Wed
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Very cool representation of all the known bodies in the solar system.

Very cool representation of all the known bodies in the solar system.

Apr
2nd
Thu
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I skipped the suffering...

From a recent comment in some of my code:

FEAR: ANGER: HATE: THEDARKSIDE:

Yes, I was commenting a HACK: I like Visual Studio tags - pity I never go back and clear them….

Nov
7th
Fri
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9V Tragedy, from the Make blog.

9V Tragedy, from the Make blog.

Oct
27th
Mon
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Azure Screen Of Death

I’m at Microsoft’s PDC 08 in LA, where they introduced Windows Azure - their “cloud computing” platform.  I’m sure someone’s already beaten me to it, but I wanted to try to go on record as being the first to use the phrase “Azure Screen of Death” - just a few minutes after they announced it, I leaned over and whispered to my cow orker “I wonder if you get an Azure Screen of Death if it crashes.”

Sep
6th
Sat
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M31 with a camera lens.  Camera was piggybacked on my C9.25 on my Orion Atlas mount.  17 x 4 min exposures @ ISO800 with my unmodified Canon 40D, shot @ F4 with my Canon 70-200mm IS F4L. Click image for larger version.

M31 with a camera lens. Camera was piggybacked on my C9.25 on my Orion Atlas mount. 17 x 4 min exposures @ ISO800 with my unmodified Canon 40D, shot @ F4 with my Canon 70-200mm IS F4L. Click image for larger version.

Jul
23rd
Wed
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Jun
28th
Sat
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boom-dee-ah-da (aka my kids’ favorite commercial - they actually make me back up and watch it over and over on the DVR - I think it’s pretty cool, too)

May
18th
Sun
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 Now, it’s pretty universally held that the second Indiana Jones movie was bad, but I didn’t realize that the Dish “guide” was supposed to editorialize like this.

Now, it’s pretty universally held that the second Indiana Jones movie
was bad, but I didn’t realize that the Dish “guide” was supposed
to editorialize like this.