Dragon's Eye News - Misc

Snow Tower of Orthanc

nospam@example.com (Michael Harrison) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:38:30 -0800

What did you do today?

I took a break and built a snow tower of Orthanc.

Ok, so I put the stairs on the side instead of the corner. Sue me.

Here's an aerial shot.

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Media conglomerates, you want my money?

nospam@example.com (Michael Harrison) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:28:09 -0800

Go buy a clue.

If you'd stop gouging your customers, shafting your customers and suing your customers I'd buy more of your product and you probably wouldn't be laying people and/or closing your doors.

Price your product for mass-market sales, make it dirt-simple to get hold of and get rid of the DRM.

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Leftovers

nospam@example.com (Michael Harrison) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:25:46 -0800

There's nothing quite like leftovers.

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Susan, on tap

nospam@example.com (Michael Harrison) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:30:52 -0800

Her tap class had a halloween performance that I had to miss (due to either flu I managed to ward off or allergies, I'm not sure which) but this picture is great.

Beware the undead Susan!

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Chip in Tyler TX

nospam@example.com (Michael Harrison) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:22:53 -0800

Chip says "put the camera away and let's get walking."

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My Toy

nospam@example.com (Michael Harrison) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:04:09 -0700

It's my toy!

But I'll let you throw it for me.

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Astro morning in the park

nospam@example.com (Michael Harrison) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:11:10 -0700

I took my scope out to a nearby park early this morning to find out if the overall visibility, what astronomers call "seeing" was better if I wasn't surrounded by houses and concrete.

It was. Much better.

I frequently put the scope in the driveway because that's the darkest spot near the house. I'll have to do a test in the middle of the backyard to make sure it's not just the nearby concrete causes me problems. It was a bit windy so I wasn't able to get any good shots of M42, the Great Nebula in Orion, like I hoped but the views were great and there was no shimmering caused by heat waves wafting across the image. I was even able to get good views of various craters on the Moon at 250x. Unfortunately no good pictures because of the light loss at that magnification and the wind which kept wigglying the scope.

Eventually the Sun started to come up and since there weren't any sunspots visible I packed up and headed home.

Here you can see the Moon, Venus (the spot midway down, try the larger image) and my scope with the Sun coming up in the East.

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Hot Dog

nospam@example.com (Michael Harrison) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:25:21 -0700

Susan and I took Chip out to the park on Sunday and afterward retired to OTB where Chip sat in the shade drinking ~~ritas~~, er water, while we had ritas.

What a handsome boy.

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Ireland picture of the day

nospam@example.com (Michael Harrison) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:57:53 -0700

Muiredach's cross at Monasterboice in County Louth

From our in-progress 2009 trip to Ireland!

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Ireland picture of the day

nospam@example.com (Michael Harrison) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:04:53 -0700

Stars over the Old Mill. This will be the last Ireland picture of the day for a while. We fly tomorrow and I don't yet know what sort of Internet access we'll have (if any).

From our 2003 trip to Ireland

Saturday we fly!

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