White Christmas

Family stuff… We rather suddenly ended up at Grandma and Grandpa’s in Colorado for Christmas Eve, Christmas and Boxing Day. It was -9°F when we arrived. Desert rat says, “Whoa!” Ian is really excited to be with his Grandpa. “Grandpa! … Continue reading

Volcanic Mars?

Woo hoo! Someone’s dissertation may have added an additional planet to the dataset. New evidence points to volcanic Mars (CNN) Images from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express Orbiter indicate geologically recent volcanic activity in the summit craters of five … Continue reading

Pucker

Tom at Backup Brain advises “Read it and be afraid”: Ten Things President Bush Doesn’t Want You To Know About Scalia and Thomas at the Center for American Progress. ‘Be Afraid’ doesn’t even begin to get close.

Solstice

The December solstice takes place today at 6:42 a.m. Central Standard Time in the U.S. (Earth & Sky) Which makes it happen at 04:42 (-0800) here with the Moon waxing towards full. Happy Yule!

Success?

Well cool! I think that worked. The only reason I am not sure is that I couldn’t get here with a browser for about an hour and a half afterwards. I don’t think that had anything to do with trying … Continue reading