Life in a T.A.R.D.I.S.

Avatar

2010-01-04T01:08:42Z

Last night Lisa and I went to see Avatar. Great story, wonderful visuals.

After watching it, I realized a part of the story was familiar, no I don't mean the complaints that it is a summary of all of James Cameron's stories, just the idea of a handicapped individual controlling a powerful body at a distance. When I returned to home, I checked my old sci-fi books and found it, a short story by Poul Anderson written in 1957 called Call Me Joe A story about a handicapped scientist named Edward Anglesey who controls an artificial life form named Joe on Jupiter.

Anyway, Avatar is a great movie.

Bumper Sticker

2009-08-06T01:34:45Z

Noticed this bumper sticker today

"At Least the War on the Environment is going Well"

Tadpole Report

2009-06-17T01:45:44Z

I went back to look at the progress the tadpoles had made and discovered that the culvert that the ditch supplied had been replaced with a new one and the folks who did the repairing decided to dig out the ditch in order to make it deeper and clean it out. It's now dry and no signs of any water for any survivors to hide out in.

What a bummer!

Thunderstorms

2009-06-09T10:17:23Z

This morning thunderstorms rolled through at about 3:15 and again at 5:30. The wind picked up both times and the sound of rain on the roof was very relaxing.

The first strom caused Loki to dive under the bed.

Now the air smells fresh and clean.

Turkey Hunting

2009-05-09T13:52:25Z

This morning I went out turkey hunting.

This is what the woods look and sound like at daybreak.

Snow this morning

2009-04-07T10:52:35Z

I woke to see that there was snow on my truck, not lots but it was still coming out of the sky.

The temperature is 33 degrees.

Sounds of Spring

2009-03-30T00:55:30Z

At a pond at the Cayuga Nature Center

Brrrrrr

2009-03-24T10:55:31Z

It has become cold again. Well not so bad as in winter but after the spat of warm days, 15 degrees sure does seem cold!

I think I will have some oatmeal for breakfast.

Another cold morning

2009-02-25T12:22:52Z

The cold has returned. 12 degrees this morning. Clear skies.

Today's science trivia

2009-02-18T15:53:20Z

Only 7 dinosaur fossils have ever been found in New York State, and all 7 were foot prints.

The reason is that due to erosion and glaciers, the dinosaur level of rock has been eroded out of most of the state.

This just made my day

2009-02-06T16:13:24Z

more animals

Temperatures during the night.

2009-02-06T11:50:33Z

On of the things I'm not too thrilled with about my little thermometer is that it only remember's the high and low temps and humidity of the current day as define by the Atomic clock. Last night when I went to be, the temperature had dropped to 0.6, this morning it indicated that the lowest temperature since 12:00 pm was 4.8 (it's currently 13.6)

Oh well, can't have everything in a clever little device.

This morning's temp

2009-02-04T11:50:05Z

This morning a nice 12.2 degrees.

Brrr

2009-01-25T01:02:56Z

Another night of single digit temperatures. It's reading 9.5 right now.

Another sub-zero morning

2009-01-20T11:57:30Z

It hit -1.5 during the night and it's -1.1 now.

The cold snap continues.

Colder yet

2009-01-17T14:01:04Z

My goodness, it was -5.4 degrees this morning when I woke up and the low temperature during the night hit -9.6.

Today in the cold

2009-01-17T00:07:34Z

The low temp was a new record for the TARDIS, -5.8 degrees and a high of 14.4 degrees.

Yesterday while driving to work I saw this horse covered with snow and tolerating the frigid temperatures.

He's pretty robust and the cold didn't seem to be giving him too much problem.

Weather

2008-12-30T12:08:13Z

Last night it was windy. I heard the bathroom vent flap squeak and bang all night as the wind blew it open and closed.

Tracking Santa

2008-12-24T14:12:03Z

It's been slow here at work so far.

I decided to visit NORAD's Santa tracker to see how Santa is doing on his travels.

www.noradsanta.org/en/home.html

Merry Christmas to everyone, I hope it's a good one full of joy and happiness.

Weather

2008-12-11T11:53:35Z

Yesterday it was 50 degrees and raining, this morning it's 29 degrees and there is snow on the truck.

Cool!

2008-11-18T11:55:05Z

It's a winter wonderland out there.

:)

Google Earth

2008-11-13T14:52:41Z

While browsing through the Universe Today website, I came across an article that points out that two impact craters have been discovered by using Google Earth. A geologist looking for iron ore found one in West Australia, and it is now named Hickman Crater after him.

A 19 mile wide crater was discovered in the same way in the Sahara Desert a few years ago.

Here is the article for those who are interested.

www.universetoday.com/2008/03/19/geologist-finds-a-meteorite-crater-in-google-earth//

I find that interesting that Google Earth has become an instrument of discovery.

Snow

2008-11-10T12:15:45Z

There is snow on top of my truck this morning. None on the ground although there is a little on the neighbor's house.

Current temperature is 37 F.

Weather

2008-10-29T11:44:44Z

It's now light enough for me to see outside. Down here there is snow on the truck and on some leaves on the ground. Aside from that, it's just wet and cold, the temperature is 36.

Dancing leaf

2008-10-27T11:03:14Z

One of the sights that kept me amused yesterday while hunting was this leaf. It was suspended from the branch by a spider web and danced around in the slightest breeze.