A Sense of Scale

Posted by rae in entertainment, science, video
at 2:37 pm on Thursday, 21 December 2006

Wow, I love this movie. It shows the relative scale of astronomical bodies, from Mercury (~â…“ the size of Earth) to W Cephei (almost 300,000 x Earth)

Oh, and while I’m embedding movies, I like this time-lapse video of a hot air balloon festival, not only for the video, but for the music.

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Posted by rae in Reid, friends
at 3:59 am on Thursday, 21 December 2006

Scott and I were looking at groups.google.com, finding far-back references to ourselves. My earliest mention seems to be in net.jokes on “Thurs, Oct 31 1985 7:33 pm”. Scott’s was in comp.sys.mac.programmer, of all places, on “Sun, May 23 1993 12:47 pm”.

I love the signature:

Reid Ellis       “Roads? Where we’re going, who needs _roads_?”
{{allegra,decvax,duke,floyd,linus}!utzoo,{ihnp4,utzoo}!utcsri}!dciem!reid
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Ahh, good old bang-paths. Who needs silly little “@” signs. I wonder if the bang-path syntax still works? Hmmm……

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DisasterLand - Ronnie’s project

Posted by rae in Reid, family
at 10:03 pm on Sunday, 10 December 2006

DL Back
logo for back of shirt
Ronnie has been working on a project where he and two friends from school have to design a theme park centered around disasters.

Today we helped him design T-shirt logos. The one below is for the front of the shirt at the top right, while the one to the right is for the back of the shirt.

DL Front
logo for front of shirt
It’s been a bit of a struggle to get the group of them to finish the project. There is certainly bit of a do-what-you-need-to-consider-yourself-finished mentality about the whole thing. It doesn’t help that the teacher’s “rubric” (sp?) on the back of the sheet is to vague, un-concrete (”Shows some understanding of ideas and information”) and inexplicably referring to something called a “product”. (”Develops a relistic product with limited effectiveness”) It’s like it was for another project and was cut-and-pasted for this one.

I can get better rubrics at teach-nology, which I just found via Google. *sigh

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1983 pictures

Posted by rae in friends
at 3:23 am on Tuesday, 5 December 2006

1983 Summer @ Niagara Falls
Reid, Luisa, Sue and Debbie lying on the grass at Niagara Falls

I ran across these a little while ago. Feel free to browse my “1983″ tag to see all eight of them..

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Chandler 0.7alpha4 released

Posted by rae in software, work
at 1:56 am on Friday, 1 December 2006

Chandler by OSAF
The latest version of the open source application I work on is available for free download.

I think I might try to get Luisa to use this version so we can share a calendar.

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