Archives for April 2006
Bluegrass and Other Delights
Published on 17 Apr 2006 at 12:40 pm.
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Friday night we saw a true living legend in concert: Ralph Stanley. If you don’t know him by name or know about the Stanley Brothers, you’d probably recognize his voice as the singer of “O Death” on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. And if you still don’t know what I’m talking about then […]
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Out of This World Re-release
Published on 14 Apr 2006 at 7:43 am.
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If you recognize this screenshot, you probably remember Out of This World (or Another World as it was known in Europe) as one of the coolest / most frustrating gaming experiences of your younger days.
You played as Lester Chaykin, spiritual predecessor to Gordon Freeman. His physics experiment goes awry and he ends up on an […]
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Take a Picture of the Moon
Published on 10 Apr 2006 at 7:34 am.
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I took this image last night using the Celestron NexImage, a cheap CCD camera that I hooked up to my tablet PC. The image is tilted about 15 degrees counter-clockwise because I didn’t line up the camera when I inserted it. Live and learn.
My handy Virtual Moon Atlas identifies the large C-shaped area as Sinus […]
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First Light - Orion XT8i
Published on 7 Apr 2006 at 11:10 am.
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Well, last week I broke down and ordered a telescope. After a lot of research and help from people on the Cloudy Nights and SLOOH forums, I decided on the Orion XT8i. It’s a Dobsonian scope with an 8″ mirror.
After some FedEx weirdness, it arrived Tuesday night. Of course the skies were cloudy (apparently […]