I wrote a quick email this morning to someone here in Portland who was dithering about how to spend her New Year’s Eve. She had complained about being too old to stay up late for big parties, “too cheap” to buy a ticket for one of the many end-of-year extravaganzas, and a bit nervous about being on the roads on New Year’s Eve. I can’t say that I blame her.
So I thought I’d share what I’ll be up to this year. (If you’re looking for a professional take on starting a new year, surf over to the Oregon New Incubator [...]
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(Creative Commons photo by stevegarfield / Steve Garfield)
(Creative Commons photo by @NickyColman) After a short astronomy quiz to gauge our pre-class baseline, Mike Brotherton started Launch Pad with a discussion about the scale of the universe. For instance, a single astronomical unit (AU) is the distance between the Earth and the sun, and a light year is 63,240 AUs. But Proxima Centauri — the star nearest our own sun — is 4.2 million light years away. Keep on trucking outward if you want to look at the full Milky Way galaxy, its neighbors and the diameter of the visible universe. I’m in the midst of transferring my website from one web host — with whom I’ve had an account for 10 years — to a new web host. Right now, my site apparently is in limbo. I’m not sure where it lives. The DNS propagation can take anywhere from 24-72 hours, and I’m about 15 hours in here. I’ve been spending most of my blog time in recent weeks feeding content to the Oregon News Incubator, and have been remiss in posting new material here. But I had to take a moment this morning to offer my gratitude to the many people who have posted their comments here in the past 24 hours and who have sent me encouraging emails. I’ve just had yet another police officer here at the house. He collected the originals of the letters that Mr. X has mailed to me over the course of the summer and showed me a photo of my stalker. This is the first time I’ve known what he looks like. |
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