Entries Categorized as 'Nature'
R.I.P. Stephen Hawking
Changes
Too many people have gone this past 12 months, people who have been influencers. Many icons of my youth have passed on, and the gray in my beard seems to be taking over the black. A harsh reminder of the inexorable ticking of Time. There is a line in the poem “Desiderata” that seems to […]
NASA Has Done It Again! Three Years of the Sun in 3 Minutes
Stunning NASA Video of Solar Flare
Check out this stellar video of a beautiful, curved solar flare “arch”, raining super-heated plasma on the Sun’s surface: http://youtu.be/HFT7ATLQQx8
Weathering the Storm in NJ 2012
We were extraordinarily lucky! Summary: • Without power from Monday around 8pm until Wednesday around 6pm. • Without Internet connectivity from Monday around 8pm until Saturday around 7am. • Number of trees down in yard: 2 • No water in the basement at all. • We lost our shelter. The structure was large enough to […]
Once in a Blue Moon
A Spectacular Day
Yesterday was a very good day… I was contacted by a large corporation about PainMinder, and Naomi finished a very important task at work. So Naomi and I decided to go celebrate at Elements (of course). Justin had the Cube available, so off we went. When we reached Route 206, we saw a huge rainbow […]