A “gravatar” is a “globally recognized avatar“. I can’t remember why I signed up at gravatar.com about six months ago. Last October, the company that runs Wordpress, the software that runs this blog, bought gravatar.com, so it’s not surprising that there is a Wordpress plugin to support gravatars. When I noticed that [...]

Last night there was a total lunar eclipse. There won’t be another one for almost 3 years. Plus, it’s the first astronomical event since buying my new camera. So I wasn’t going to miss it. The only problem was that, in Spain, it occurred at 4:00 AM in the morning. [...]

Just passing on some YouTubery that I stumbled on today. This guy’s pretty amazing. Both of these videos are great. I’m particularly fond of the first one because of my disgust and adoration of misspelling and word games respectively.

On my week of commuting into work in Raleigh, NC, recently, I passed by a pretty cool-looking building: Yates Mill. According to the web page, a mill was first used on this site 250 years ago. That’s like America’s equivalent of one of Europe’s still-standing ancient Roman structures. Except for demonstrative purposes, [...]

On Monday, February 11, I went out with some of my high school hallmates to a specialty beer bar in Raleigh, called The Raleigh Times Bar. They had about 200 different beers on the menu, with a special section for Belgian Beers. I was pretty much in heaven. We had three different [...]

This isn’t quite as beautiful as Van Gogh’s painting, but I’m pretty happy with my first attempt at a 30-second night time exposure with my new camera. If you click on the image, you can see notes about each of the visible stars in Flickr.

I finally made it back from my annual pond hop. My single-serving friend on the flight from Charlotte to Frankfurt was a pretty interesting person. She was a tiny, 45-ish, Indonesian woman with a frustratingly huge amount of unused leg-room. Her husband is German, and they live together in Frankfurt, but [...]

This week, I’ve been staying at my grandmother’s house and commuting into Raleigh to work. Some of the farm land I have to drive through to get there is truly gorgeous.

I’m working at the office this week, like I did last year. It’s pretty weird. Here at the office, they have an incredibly creepy Headless Grinch in one of the back storage rooms. Apparently the folks in Whoville figured out how to build a guillotine.

Every year I play in a golf tournament organized by my father in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. This year there were 16 participants staying in 4 condos playing golf in a 3-day tournament. I played excellent golf and ended up tied with the leader after all 54 holes, but I lost in a [...]