Comet McNaught (C/2006 P1) is currently visible in the low sky just after sunset – look in the direction of the setting sun about 5 minutes after the top of the sun clears the horizon. Comet McNaught caught between two houses. Taken with Tamron 70-300 mm lens at 300 mm on a Nikon D50. 1/4 …
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Two years old and still no idea what I want it for
Affable-lurking is just over two years old now, it was never meant to be a blog, which is good, because it is arguably not one. One point two posts per month on average, and less than fifty comments in two years does not a successful blog make. I have one of those elsewhere, I post …
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Another end of an era
This morning at 05:30 the Open University broadcast its last TV program. I’ve fond memories of watching the programs in the mornings at the weekend when I was a kid. They are probably in no small part a reason why I ended up as a scientist. I’d been planning to write more about this, but …
Dear Friend, I write to you in closest confidence. This morning while leaving the house I made a most marvelous discovery. Upon setting foot outside my front door I was buffeted and pushed around by an invisible force. Now being a God-fearing man I at first assumed the rapture was upon us and the end …
An update
Being unemployed should in theory give you lots of spare time. It’s a nice theory, it hasn’t worked out in practice – hence lack of updates here. Job hunting happens and I’m keeping an eye on my old lab and things happening there, I see that two projects I’ve been associated with in the past …