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Lensing Lenses & Einstein’s Cross
While going through journal articles today, I came across a really neat paper on teh apparent variability of the different images of the famous lensed quasar, Einstein's Cross (Q2237+0305, in science speak). The light from this distant quasar is blocked from reaching...
The Universe tours the solar system
It's time to leave the Universe behind. The History Channel's the Universe series is out of new episodes, and their sponsorship is about to drop off this blog and Astronomy Cast. If the Universe was your favorite space series of all time, have no fear, it will be...
iPhone in Review
I know this isn't a tech blog, but there are a few things I need to get off my chest. I just bought my first iPhone and tried very hard to push its little limits and was a bit saddened by how little it pushed back. Sadness 1 - The Browser: As some background, I got...
ASP – EPO, post defacto blogging
I admit it, I found my wall. Sometime Friday afternoon the part of my brain capable of writing and (somewhat more importantly) filtering the majority of the silly thoughts in my head from coming out my mouth turned off. As Saturday came on the heels of 5 hours of...
New Media Everywhere
What a day. Short entry for now. Today has been a whirlwind of new media. Specifically, this morning was a networking session for sharing new media content information, this afternoon I took the International Year of Astronomy website live (but the DNS went bonk, so...
ASP-EPO: Day One
(I'm on a bad connection and will add links later.) Another day, another conference. From Dragon*Con, I crossed half-way across the country to Chicago to attend the 119th Meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific on "EPO and a Changing World." This morning...
The Earth is more than 6000 years old
It is the third and sleepiest day of Dragon*Con. At some point the adrenaline of my first two days went away and now the simple "I'm sleepy" feeling that comes from averaging a little under 6 hours of sleep per night for over a week has taken over my body. For that...
Have you hugged a Tusken Raider today?
So, it's 11:49pm and I'm sitting in a live recording of Wing'in It podcast blogging while others record. I've generally behaved very atypically at this meeting and not gone absolutely everywhere with my laptop. This means I haven't been able to blog from absolutely...
Dragon*Con: Day 1
I made it to Dragon*Con (Woot!) The con is spread out across 3 hotels with the Space, Science, and Podcasting tracks (and me) in the Hilton, and the check in in the Hyatt with the Marriott in between. Being a bit sleepy (I was up until terrible hours the past two...
Second Life Silliness
I'm just posting a quick post this evening as I try and recover from yesterdays chaos. As some of you read, I've been attempting to play in Second Life. After much help from Anthony Crider of Elon University, I don't feel as lost or confused or ugly (that's my avatar...