Kestrachern

The moon has often been a focus of my attention.  When I was in undergrad I had hope of doing planetary studies, but by the time I distilled the proper program I was too far advanced at my institution to change.  I expected to enter into a Planetary Geology program for graduate school but marriage interfered. I’d love [...]

Tonight’s launch of the space shuttle Discovery was beautiful.   This is the third launch that I have seen from about 150 miles away.  It takes nearly 30 seconds from the time of main engines light to when it comes up over the horizon.   There was a group of about 100 people that watched [...]

Some of you may know of Ted, a conference on Technology, Entertainment, & Design.  This years conference concluded last month and the highlight was a talk by Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry - Unveiling the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech. Their presentation blew me away.  For about $350 in off the shelf components they built a fully interactive meta environment that layers [...]

Seven times I called Ghana today and it went a little something like this: 1.  forgot to add a + to the number 2. could not connect 3. Yay jess answered! and we talked and we got disconnected 4.  Jess can hear me, all I hear is distorted choppy voice 5. I can hear Jess, [...]

A new Social Networking service coming out of San Francisco – Geekmania was announce today.   From their copy.  “Overwhelmed by the Web 2.0 social-networking revolution? Intimidated by all that newfangled whiz-bang technology? Convinced the government is tracking your every keystroke? Too busy to give a damn about any of it, but still have a [...]