by admin | Nov 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
The world watched in awe last week as ESA, the European Space Agency, successfully landed a probe on Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the comet also known as 67P. The landing didn’t go exactly as planned. A retro-rocket failed to fire, as did the harpoons that were...
by admin | Sep 25, 2014 | News, Uncategorized
Some of you may remember that last December marked a milestone in my life on St. Peter’s Church Road: my first successful deer hunt. And while it may have come thirty-five years late, by some reckoning, it was nevertheless as exciting — and troubling...
by admin | Oct 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
Walk into a public library these days, and you’re as likely to see someone hunched over a computer as you are to see a reader cracking a book. This isn’t necessary a bad thing, merely a reflection of the degree to which human knowledge has become digitized. Some...
by admin | Apr 4, 2013 | News, Uncategorized
I just finished up a note to my future self. I did it with an Extra Fine Point Sharpie, the tool of choice for such things, since Sharpie ink isn’t likely to wear off over time, and any Sharpie, even the Extra Fine Point version, makes big bold letters. This will be...
