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Just got back from skiing today. Of course, I took some pictures while I was out there. More to follow soon, hopefully. This is not me

This Flash animation from the ESA simulating the Huygens probe’s landing on Titan is pretty darn cool. (Can you believe it’s been over a year ago?) If you click on the animation there’s a link to download an 80-some-odd megabyte MPEG at much higher resolution and quality. A lot of it seems to be filled [...]

I’ve been working on some photos for an article/essay type thing, and I had been planning on using this one. I think I like it too well to bury it on a separate page though; it deserves its own post. From Glacier National Park in 2003 when the world was on fire… Mount Doom

A while back, I tried to log into my Gmail account to check my mail, and I got the above message informing me that my account had been locked out due to “unusual usage”. No other explanation was offered, and no method to get the account unlocked was provided other than to send an email [...]

A while back, I enabled comments for posts, but never mentioned it. If you’re interested in leaving one you can click on the title for a post and leave a comment at the bottom of that page. The tiny text on the right of the title block shows if there’re any comments for that post, [...]

Yes, it’s late, but it’s still technically Friday. My brother sent me this one earlier this week, and I liked it quite a bit so I asked him if I could post it. I really like the smooth tones in the clouds and the dark brooding trees. Everybody welcome our first guest photographer… Mount Rainier [...]

After a couple of days’ worth of delays, the New Horizons probe launched late yesterday afternoon and is now healthy and on its way to Pluto. It’s the fastest moving vehicle launched from Earth to date, and will cross the Moon’s orbit in just three days, but will still take almost ten years to reach [...]

If all goes well, New Horizons, our first vehicle to visit Pluto, will launch tomorrow afternoon. If not, they have until the middle of February to launch, or they’ll miss the window to get a gravity assist from Jupiter and the trip will take up to five years longer. So let’s keep our fingers crossed…