Jul

23

The things you see outside a Mens club

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The things you see outside a Mens club (image: 2697799688_a623d83db0_m)I caught this shot as we were driving by Diamond’s in . Snapshot was heavily colour corrected as the shot was totally over-exposed.

Feb

23

Lunar eclipse rekindles my interest in social astronomy

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Lunar eclipse rekindles my interest in social astronomy (image: )
Credit: Lance Taylor

The February 20th event where the drifted between the Sun and the Moon was an interesting one for me.

After Tess mentioned the night before that it’d likely be visible here (, , ), and that we do have a nice little telescope, some binoculars, and a couple of cameras, that maybe we should make an effort to actually watch it.

Lunar eclipse rekindles my interest in social astronomy (image: )So, after a quick exchange with a couple of friends, an impromptu eclipse party was set up on a good ’s driveway (hi Scratch!). It was also fortunate his driveway faced east, right toward the rising moon.

Now to the part. This was coordinated over the course of a few hours during the day, mostly by .

The degree interest, and participation was awe-inspiring. Ranger Bob brought out his atom-smasher 8″ scope with camera mount. He also brought a few other scopes and binoculars. Ranger Bob wins the Gear award :)
Another had a digital camera mounted on the scope, and recorded over 2000 frames to be compiled into a movie.

Lunar eclipse rekindles my interest in social astronomy (image: )Tess and I brought our gear, Scratch had a few items of optics, as well a few other brought support supplies, Coffee and Donuts. The driveway looked like the pit at a shuttle launch!

Neighbourhood families wandered by. Kids kept oohing at the view through the scopes and binoculars.

Lunar eclipse rekindles my interest in social astronomy (image: )The most interesting part of the evening occurred when we realized we were getting some glare on Ranger Bob’s scope from the overhead streetlight, right above us. Out came a large black umbrella, and turns were taken holding it up to shield the scope.

You can sort-of see the umbrella (the blurry thing) just below the moon.

But for me, the evening wasn’t just about the planetary event, though that was , it was about hanging out with friendly, like-minded and sharing the .

I need to do more of that :)
For more info on the event and many more photos, check out:

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Jan

11

Online Photo Albums made easy — Video

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Once again the wizards at Common Craft make the complex seem easy. Sharing in Plain English is simply that. Well done, and Enjoy! And as you can tell by the little widget in the right hand column, I’m a flicker user :)

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Jan

2

Alberta Winter on the Desktop

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Alberta Winter on the Desktop (image: )Happy New Year. I’ve been having more with Photoshop and with my new Wacom Bamboo drawing tablet, and decided to share the fruits of my labour.

Here’s a new 1280 x 865 wintery-themed image, taken one frosty morning out on the trail near the Waskahegan trail at the Cooking Lake-Blackfoot Recreation Area, just east of .

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Nov

2

Earthrise on the desktop — an Apollo 8 image

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Earthrise on the desktop -- an Apollo 8 image (image: )Today I was feeling the need to update my , and decided to look around for a 1280×1024 version of Earthrise. I couldn’t quickly find one…so I did the next best thing, grabbed this 2400×2400 version from NASA and cropped it. Feel to grab my version here.

** Update Feb 17, 2008 **

Since I’ve got a new 22″ wide format monitor, I needed to rebuild my Earthrise . So here it is, in 1680×1050 rez.

Full credit to the NASA and the Apollo 8 crew (Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders)

Aug

19

Who’s a bad dog

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Whos a bad dog (image: 1178698810_928f7edbd5)

Selena and Heloise NOT enjoying this particular camping . They did quite well, but couldn’t understand why they had to stay connected to that big !

Aug

9

Photo software reveals new way of looking at the space shuttle

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Photo software reveals new way of looking at the space shuttle (image: ) I’ve mentioned PhotoSynth before (from Microsoft Live Labs), but with the current shuttle , this new gallery deserved a mention.

In collaboration between Microsoft’s Live Labs team in Seattle, Washington, NASA’s Kennedy Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and NASA’s Ames Research Center, in Silicon Valley, these collections were created to allow to see the shuttle Endeavour, and the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Center in a way never seen before.

 

Photo software reveals new way of looking at the space shuttle (image: )Basically, you have hundreds of geo-spatially located around the shuttle as it sits on it’s pad.

 What PhotoSynth does is figure out where these shots overlap, and present you with an incredibly interface to navigate within the , visually.

 

 Another neat feature is the amount of detail present in the . You can zoom, and zoom, and zoom, and on some very high rez , you can reveal astonishing features.

 

 And you don’t take a huge bandwidth hit either. I’ve very impressed by this, and am wondering where this will resurface in Microsoft’s world.

Photo software reveals new way of looking at the space shuttle (image: )

 

 

 

Post Script: This article was inspired by my good , Ranger-Bob and his awesome/leet technical ability. He is able to watch NASA TV, Live, on his T|X, from his outhouse..now that’s dedication!

 

 

Photo software reveals new way of looking at the space shuttle (image: )

Aug

7

Le Moo! Redux!

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Le Moo! Redux! (image: 1042610310_383c8fca65_m) Heh, pardon my Francis, but the fine folk at Moo.com have delivered!

Recently I wrote about the new Moo Stickers. Well, yes, my batch has arrived! , gratis my fine feathered Cory (and his free giveaway) at BoingBoing.

And, not to overhype this, but these stickers are superlative! Ok, maybe I’m overhyping just a tad, but they do look good. Nice quality and cute too boot!

Well done !

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