Thursday night carpe_noctum_93 and I went to a public lecture at the University of Minnesota. The speaker was Mike Brown, author of the excellent book How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming, and that was the topic of the lecture. He was informative, convincing, and very funny. Continue reading
The Moon, Venus, and Jupiter have putting on quite a show in the last few evenings. The sky was quite clear about 6:30 PM Monday night and they were very striking. On a whim I pulled out my Blackberry to see what I could do with it. I just held it in my hand — no tripod. Here is what I got, cropped appropriately:
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Notes from a presentation by Christian Ready at Windycon 38 on Saturday, November 12, 2011. I have added web links.
The Solar System
Notes from a presentation by Christian Ready at
Windycon 38 on Friday, November 11, 2011. I have added web links.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 