Category: Travel
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Off the Launch Pad, Day 1
Today was the first session of this year's Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. I'll give my impressions in roughly chronological order. Laramie itself is a nice place, somewhere on the borderline between "town" and "city." The University sprawls across the eastern side of town, there's an immense railroad yard…
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Ozblogging: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Part 4
Elemental Trouble From the Valley of Voe our heroes climb another long staircase up to the land of the Gargoyles. Along the way they have a couple of odd encounters. The first is when they pass a rift in the wall which looks out over another cavern, and a very strange place it is. The…
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Moby Blogging
Lately I've been reading Moby Dick to my nearly-eight-years-old son as a bedtime story. This statement will probably produce one of three reactions: 1. How awful to force that on him!2. Isn't he a little young for that?3. Well, I'm sure it'll put him to sleep in a hurry! Let me tackle them in order.…
The Cambias Digression 