Name the Mars Rovers

The Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission is schedule for launch in the summer of 2003, and NASA has teamed with the LEGO company for a Name the Rovers Contest open to students in grades K-12. The features of the MER are significantly improved over the very successful Sojourner rover from the 1997 Mars Pathfinder mission. […]

Women with Hockey Sticks

I can’t believe how many women I know are members of the Anchorage Women’s Hockey League! Not that I anticipate any problems, but I’m going to be just a little nicer to all of them…

First Sputnik I Sighting

A plaque was recently intalled on Dexter Stegemeyer’s outhouse in Fairbanks, Alaska recognizing Dexter as the first person in the Western Hemisphere to sight Sputnik I as he used the facility on the morning of Oct. 6, 1957.

The Big Cartoon Database

Many a dispute at the house has been settled by the Internet Movie Database, and now there’s the Big Cartoon Database – a searchable database of cartoons, episode guides and crew lists!

Digital Paint by Numbers

Oh no!! Another way to waste time – SegPlay digital paint by numbers. I especially like the van Gogh and Monet sections.

Retro CD-R’s

Michele would love the new Verbatim Digital Vinyl CD-R disks that look like 45-rpm records!

International Space Station

I’ve always counted on the Astronomy Picture of the Day for amazing pictures. This time I started with a recent photo of the International Space Station, then followed the links to photos of the ISS in April 2002 and January 2002 that show just how much it’s grown this year. I then took a detour […]

Leonid Meteor Storm

Ready for the Leonid meteor storm in the early morning hours of November 19th? NASA has forecasts for 58 cities, including Anchorage.

Something Happened

I rarely look at my log files – it’s always a little depressing to see that Michele and Jeff consistently get ten or even fifty times as many visitors as I do. So when I saw that I had gotten as much traffic in one day as I normally see in a month I knew […]

Earthquake!

Today’s magnitude 7.9 earthquake was really interesting! It was centered far enough away from Anchorage (175 miles) to not do any damage, but boy did it rock the house for a long time! It also reminded me that it’s been a number of years since one of our local volcanoes has erupted. I’ve been here […]

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