L&A Hort met this week
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society met this week, on Wednesday, 2019 January 16th 7pm at our new location for the year: – Meeting, the Morning Star Mission, 59 Water…
365 Days of Astronomy
In the theme of 365 Days of Astronomy, we made a New Year Resolution to attempt to observe or image every day possible in 2019. These are the results This…
Friday Night imaging
A nice night for a change, Friday evening. Maybe a little hazy (what? why with a forecast of freezing fog? Took out the old DSLR on a tripod and did…
oh2019 bindings and coils
Greetings this penultimate day! In any event, we received out RASC Observers Handbook 2019, a backbreaking 352 pages with narrow margins. As usual, we take it to Staples to get…
linux fedora grub
For many years now, one linux fedora server I maintain had issues with every dnf upgrade that involved a new kernel. It would not place configuration information into boot/grub2/grub.cfg and…
Pi backup
MFLASH 5000mAh Rubberized Power Bank – has been added to a raspberry pi as an uninterruptible power supply (UPS). It was on a Black Friday sale for $10, down from…
Mars Neptune Conjunction
A nice telescopic planetary conjunction coming up in a couple of weeks… Mars and Neptune on the evening of Thursday 2018 Dec 06. Mars will set around 23:00 EST in…
weather down.. and up!
The Davis Vantage Vue weather station dropped off the air one night, but we didn’t notice until a day or two later. The thing is, it came back up in…
Fedora double upgrade goes well
In a recent audit, we came across a linux fedora server that was actually two versions out of date, not just one. Somehow it was missed, or something went wrong…
The garlic is finished!
The 2018 garlic planting is complete. Still no final numbers but on the order of 85 types and over 1000 cloves planted and covered. The bulbil project is also completed…
Linux Fedora 29
Another six months, another release of Linux Fedora. We are up to version 29 now, and with each version the problems are fewer and the results are faster. We are…
Frost summary 2003-2018 At SCGO
StarlightCascade Gardens & Observatory Weather Station Yarker Ontario Canada LIGHT FROST (-1C) HEAVY FROST (-3C) Year #days #weeks Year #days #weeks 2003 Apr30-Oct23 176 25 2003 Apr24-Nov08 198 28 2004…
David Weber’s Harrington series
From Baen.com: FIRST NEW HONOR HARRINGTON NOVEL IN FIVE YEARS! New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and international bestselling phenomenon David Weber delivers book #19 in the multiple…