Asteroidal occultation Nike and TYC 0642-01123-1
On Monday evening 2014 March 03 the Asteroid Nike (307) will occult the star TYC 0642-01123-1 UT Time: 01:54:05 Tuesday 2014 March 04 (subtract 5 hours for EST) Location: Areas…
Seedy Saturdays/Sundays
Kingston, ON Kingston Unitarian Fellowship Hall, 206 Concession St Saturday March 8, 2014 10-3 In Kingston Ontario, the seed exchange tables are located in the very centre, or heart, of…
Goodbye WinNT4 server
Now that it is gone, I can talk about it. Windows NT4 server came out in 1996 and replaced our novell netware server. actually Nt server 3.51 replaced the netware…
Babylon 5 – Season 1 complete
In the 12 days since February 6th, we have managed to polish off the remainder of Season 1, another 22-6 or 16 episodes. Episodes 18, 19 , 20 and 22…
Seedy Saturday – Picton
Seedy Saturday at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Picton (Prince Edward County), Ontario More info at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/506906412664424/?fref=tck Event Date(s) 22-Feb-14 to 23-Feb-14 Event Time 10:00 to 03:00 Price Free A lovely…
The Kingston Astronomy Club met
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre met last night, Thursday 2014 February 13th in Ellis Hall Room 324 at Queen’s University. We finally returned to our regular…
Two nice Meteors 2014 Feb 06
We have finally had a couple of really nice meteors on the night of Wed/Thur Feb 5/6 2014 The first one at 01:27:11 UT or 20:27:11 EST was a very…
Babylon 5 – a classic
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5 Babylon 5 is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski. The pilot episode was broadcast on February 22, 1993 in the…
waning moon
The waning crescent moon taken early this morning (2014 January 28) from the back deck with the Canon ELPH120 on a tripod, 3 sec exposure time, f6.9, ISO 1600 Focusing…
live entertainment
One morning at the office window, two of the cats were glued to the window.. even though it was -25C outside and the windows was very cold. This is what…
Castle
From 2013 December 23rd: We’ve recently started watching the Crime drama series Castle, starring Nathan Fillion, whom we first met in the SF series Firefly. We’ve been binge watching and…
Cold cold and more cold
Today is Thursday January 23rd, 2014 It was -30C this morning The previous three days have also been very very cold: Monday Jan 20: -26C Tuesday Jan 21: -35C Wednesday…
Newburgh Canal Bash Saturday January 25th
Newburgh Canal Bash Saturday January 25th, 2014 Enjoy a great day of winter fun at the 21st annual Newburgh Canal Bash! The festivities begin at 8 am with a pancake…
Ted Maczka – the fish lake garlic man
Ted Maczka, is the (Prince Edward) County’s legendary Garlic Man. He’s on a mission is to make Canada self-sufficient in garlic. He’s been called “the Johnny Appleseed of Garlic” for…