Northerners are generally accustomed to weathering frigid winters and all sorts of nasty frozen precipitation (I moved South to escape all that, or so I thought). When consecutive days of winter storm warnings hit central Texas, however, everything pretty much comes to a grinding halt. Thankfully my electricity didn’t go out during this time; the […]

A large pillar of gas and dust atop NGC 2264 (the Cone Nebula), imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2002. Credit: NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (UCSC/LO), M.Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), the ACS Science Team, and ESA.
I’ve been in the process of performing some long-overdue upgrades and making improvements to the […]

Apologies for the for the recent lack of activity here. I needed a break.
I’m in the process of updating the site layout and making some changes prior to resuming posting as usual. This will take some tweaking, trial and error. Please pardon my mess in the meantime. If you visit the page and see screwy […]

Whether I’m red-hot or not remains to be conclusively determined, but my site has been selected as a Red Hot Blog of the Day by the folks at RedOrbit. Yay! I’d like to thank the academy…
On a side note, I’ve made some changes to the site in recent days to improve upon the page’s format […]