Dr. Who up to date
Wow… a couple of marathon sessions and we have finished off the current incarnation of the Doctor Who BBC TV series. Season 6 went by pretty fast and then Season…
2013
Waking up this morning to the news of the United States reaching a deal to add/increase taxes on their fiscal situation but not doing a single thing to cut spending.…
Doctor Who Season 5
Just finished up with Doctor Who (2005) Season5 last night and it was a doozy. We had actually seen the last 2 or 3 episodes when they came out live…
Cell phone batteries
To those of you who have had laptops, you know that the batteries never last as long as they should, as you think, or as promised. We are thinking the…
Allsky2 replaced
Over the last couple of months, the allsky2 camera dome has been condensing on the inside. We’ve tried all kinds of things to eliminate or reduce it but nothing has…
HSGeo
Our newly renamed Heirloom Seed Growers (of Eastern Ontario) aka HSGeo met this past weekend in more of a social setting and with an eye to wrapping up the past…
Post The Hobbit
We bought tickets in advance, had dinner in town and arrived at the theatre 35 minutes before showtime. No lineups. Hmmm.. Each of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy had…
Geminid Meteor Shower 2012 Day 2
The SCO Allsky2 camera/UWO camera10 captured 113 events last night (Dec 13/14, 2012) Of those 9 were false positives (a bit of condensation inside the dome and passing car headlights)……
interesting items
I started reading Tom Clancy way back when “The Hunt for Red October” was released in 1984. The next few books in time tailored nicely into my military interests of…
Geminid Meteor Shower 2012
The SCO Allsky2 camera/UWO camera10 captured 105 events last night (Dec12/13, 2012) Of those 33 were false positives (a bit of condensation inside the dome and passing car headlights)… so…
L&A Horticultural Society last meeting of 2012
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society last meeting of the year was Wednesday December 5th, 2012. As luck would have it, it was a potluck dinner. We never know how…
Christmas Show Time
Every christmas, everyone sits down to watch various favourite christmas shows. We started yesterday with: A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) Frosty the Snowman (1969) Christmas Vacation (1989) Blackadder’s Christmas Carol…
Dr. Who (2005) update
We have now finished watching the fourth season of Doctor Who (2005) last night, and just started in with Season 5 Episode 1 with the surprising appearance of Matt Smith…
New night sky views of earth, north america and the kingston ontario region
RELEASE: 12-422 NASA-NOAA SATELLITE REVEALS NEW VIEWS OF EARTH AT NIGHT WASHINGTON — Scientists unveiled today an unprecedented new look at our planet at night. A global composite image, constructed…