ice storm 2013
Ice Storm 2013 ran from December 19th through the 22nd. We personally suffered a single 5 second power outage on the afternoon for Saturday the 21st. No tree damage so…
Castle
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 just completed season2. Lotsa…
Linux Fedora 19 to 20 updates a breeze
Linux Fedora 20 was released earlier this week and the operating system updates on all but one server went the smoothest, fastest and with the least issues ever. The standard…
the Hobbit – desolation of smaug
The Hobbit 2 aka The Desolation of Smaug – was released just over a week ago but we did manage to find the time to sit in the 2 hour…
Geminids 2013
This is the compilation image of 91 meteors imaged last night (2013 Friday/Saturday December 13/14) of the Geminid meteor shower from the Allsky2 camera system. North is down, east is…
The Hobbit Part 2
The Hobbit, Part 2 aka The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug It’s here! Peter Jacksons’ vision of The Hobbit, based one of the classic Fantasy works of all time. It…
wordpress update
There was a wordpress update to the site this morning and it broke a little of the theme we were using at the time. So this is a quick choice…
Holiday Movie Must See List
What’s your holiday must see movie list? The ones that you watch over and over and over again, without fail, every year? In no particular order, here are some of…
Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society meeting
Last night (Wednesday December 4th, 2013) the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society held its annual Christmas Pot Luck Dinner and Annual General Meeting. Smart planning scheduled the pot luck meal…
Christmas Day Who?
From http://www.blastr.com/2013-12-4/bbcs-xmas-trailer-reveals-new-footage-time-doctor The BBC has released a brand new trailer featuring its Christmas programs line-up along with some new teasing bits from Doctor Who. “The Time of the Doctor”—which will…
tech failures
Over the last two weeks we’ve had some tech failures in the computing area here at Starlight Cascade. First we investigated a very loud noise coming from the observatory one…
First major snowfall
Our first major snowfall of the season… maybe 10cm, on the night of Tues/Wed November 26/27 2013. The local township snowplow had just gone by the house southbound about 06:00…
New to Dr. Who?
Have you never seen a single episode of Dr. Who? If so this list of seven great episodes may help you, from revision3.com In no patricular order (info from imdb.com)…
Grey Cup Champions!
For once the TSN panel gets it right. A great game with a lot less of the regular stress of being behind and having to catch up. By halftime we…
The Day of the Doctors
Wow. That was it. A lot of hoopla and a lot of anticipation… and it paid off! Great storyline, great to see the history and past Doctors, great interaction between…