I went for a bike ride today, down to the research station and back. While I was at the station I snapped a shot of the moon above a row of pines.
Moon above pines
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God Shuffled His Feet
A Crash Test Dummies throwback for you today.
“I beg your pardon.
I’m not quite clear about what you just spoke…
Was that a parable, or a very subtle joke?”
Parenting!
I overheard a mother today telling her kid, “Remember, silent suffering”, and I thought of Dad and I smiled. It just seemed like something he’d say.
Volleyball action
My nephew Isaac was in town this weekend for a volleyball tournament. I went over to the gym today and got a few photos of him in action.
Warm-up drills 
Spike 
Serve 
Spike again
2019 Hugo Award Finalists
The 2019 Hugo awards, to presented at WorldCon, recognize excellence in speculative fiction. Congratulations and good luck to all the finalists. I’ve only read a few of the works on the list, and I’m reading a couple more.
2019 Hugo and Retro Hugo award finalists announced
(The Retro Hugos this year are for works that would have been eligible 75 years ago, in 1944, but no WorldCon was held that year.)
“Hugo Award” and The Hugo Award Logo are service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society.
What the poets are doin’
It seems April is National Poetry Month in the sleeping elephant to the south of us, so here’s a song called “Poets” from Canada’s unofficial poet laureate.
My boss’s last day
My boss Al is retiring and today’s his last day at work. All morning I’ve had this in my head, so I’m sharing with you.
The song doesn’t reflect my or, to my knowledge, Al’s views on the matter.
Jupiter’s Birth
Well, this is pretty cool:
Thanks to extensive computer simulations, the researchers have calculated that the current asymmetry [in the counts of Trojan asteroids] could only have occurred if Jupiter was formed four times further out in the solar system and subsequently migrated to its current position. During its journey towards the sun, Jupiter’s own gravity then drew in more Trojans in front of it than behind it.
Jupiter’s unknown journey revealed
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
A year without glasses
This time last year, I was still wearing hard plastic eye-shields to bed, thanks to my laser eye surgery. But my vision has been 20/16 since then, and the only glasses I’ve had to wear are sunglasses and (to my wife’s evergreen amusement) reading glasses.
Thanks to Dr. Rocha and his entire crew for making my eyes better than they’ve been since, oh, grade 2 or so.
(That’s still not my eyeball. Photo by Vanessa Bumbeers on Unsplash)
March star trails
This past Saturday, the sky was clear and the auroral forecast looked promising, so I drove out to a dark spot to check out out. The aurora, if it was there at all, was a very faint smear at the extreme northern horizon. But I had bought a coffee, so I stuck around long enough to get some star trails.
The photo is about 150 images, 10 seconds each, ISO 800, f/2.8, 11mm, all stacked in GIMP. The waxing half-moon lit the foreground for me.