Happy New Year
from Lindsborg, where it’s 61 degrees and the sun is breaking through the clouds. The weather has been unseasonably warm the past few days; records were set a couple of days ago! Meanwhile, … Read more
General
Like Stepping Off a Cliff
So has winter suddenly arrived in mid-central Kansas. After weeks of unseasonably warm weather, (we’ve been tracking Bristol, UK and San Jose, CA temps within 10 degrees day and night), winter weather has … Read more
Brian’s Fish World
This weekend marked the closing of one chapter of our lives as we continue preparations to move back to Lindsborg. We took down all of our fish tanks, and like they’ve been for … Read more
Night Sky Live
Night Sky Live is an interesting website that chronicles the efforts of a group whose goal "is to create a useful continuous record of the night sky". The worldwide system is built around … Read more
Is it Mimas or the Death Star
The Cassini spacecraft has been returning wonderful photos of Saturn and its rings all summer, but this image of Mimas, one of the moons of Saturn, really caught my eye. The crater that … Read more
Cabela’s Catalogs
A recent entry by ZulyZu reminded me of a fantastic catalog I saw while staying with my brother. Called something like the Cabela’s Master Product Catalog, it’s 500+ pages of outdoor equipment the … Read more
Nano-flowers
According to this BBC report, the objects shown below are only 5 millionths of an inch in size and are “grown” using advanced semiconductor techniques. (See the referenced article for more technical details.) … Read more