Canada Blooms
We went to the Canada Blooms show in Toronto on Thursday and quickly remembered why we had not been there in some years. First off, Toronto is insanely busy and…
Seedy Saturday in Kingston Ontario
Kingston, ON Kingston Public Library Central Branch Saturday March 13, 2010 10-3 Kingston’s 3rd Annual Seedy Saturday invites you to a seed networking and education event for both novice and…
stargate sg-1
We never had a chance to follow Stargate SG-1 during its ten year (1997-2007) run, but we are sure catching up now! Over the last few months we have managed…
Blast from the past
This is an image from our old type I Barn Door tracker (from 1999), a wooden wedge designed for the barn door tracker (1999) and a wooden tripod that we…
-8 Iridium Flare
Saturday saw a raw Magnitude -8 Iridium flare over our observatory. This was in the southeast about 49 deg altitude. Mars was just above it and the group of stars…
kingston gardening expo
Saturday March 6th was the annual Kingston Gardening Expo, held at the Portsmouth Olympic Harbour. Best to go earlier in the morning when the crowds were not as intense. There…
CSA CSA CSA
We have joined our first CSA … Community Shared Agriculture. (as opposed to the Canadian Space Agency). For those not aware of this, it is a system where consumers (us)…
Upgrade upgrade upgrade
Upgrades tend to be never ending… in the last week alone we have: replaced a 5m ethernet cable as it was too short and baseboard heater damaged moved the house…
Winemakers
Today we are winemakers! Or rather will be in 5 or 6 years. We ordered 4 grape wines each of: Concord and St. Pepin. This will be an interesting few…
support live music
Live music is wonderful. Live theatre is wonderful. Combine the two together and you get both Jann Arden on January 25th and Tom Cochrane on February 4th performances on stage…
Linux Fedora 12
Another smooth albeit a little slow upgrade to Linux Fedora 12 on this server this morning. Took about 3.5 hours of processing on a very old P4@1.7GHz server. After that…