Archive for July, 2007
I just had a most excellent day with my family and some friends. We went to St. Malo, to the park/beach there. I had never been before.
Ysobel and Malachi totally had a great time swimming and splashing and sand digging. I’m SO happy to see them out and about being full on kids.I read for a good hour, (I’m taking my time on the last Harry Potter book. Loving it, though dreading the fact it’s the last one), as well as swam and stuff… Brian, Kayleen (sp?) and Natalie came along too, they seemed to enjoy themselves.
We got home just as the sky was darkening. The most beautiful red fire-bell sunset (reminds me of a big stop light in the sky) accompanied (aka. blinded) us on the drive home. 
The day was 35 degrees or so apparently, but we had nice shade and the water was cool enough to not feel like a bath.
We really should do that again soon.
Ok I got my pownce account, now what?
(i have 4 invites left, let me know if you want one.)
I’ve mentioned in the past how much I love Google Maps, Google Earth, and Google Mars…
We need Google Skies…
after watching today’s APOD post I got to realizing I’ve never seen the heavens in such a way, zooming from ‘eye’ level to high powered close up of some celestial object.
My imagination could accommodate such ideas as satellites flying around planets, and robots crawling planetary surfaces, of blobs of gas and star refuse floating along the cosmos sittin’ pretty…
but how it relates from a here-to-there perspective, the progression from naked eye to high power zoom…
yes there are simulators. Some fantastic ones, but they aren’t actual photographs, they are computer generated objects based on real space-time mathematics. Astounding, yet still there’s a certain detachment from the user in real-space.
watch this again, or if you haven’t already, you better watch it at least once!
