Ramblings of a geek with a few hobbies…
We tried a bag of this stuff tonight. When we bought it were both a little worried that it may taste horrible (cinammon and popcorn? hmm) but were intrigued nonetheless. This stuff tastes great! Highly recommended if you have a sweet tooth.
In ebay fashion: “A+++++!! GREAT PRODUCT!”
The annual Leonid Meteor Shower is set to begin tonight and extend for several nights. It figures that it’s supposed to be cloudy all week so I’ll miss them just like I missed the eclipse last month. A few years ago Ana and I went a few miles outside of Champaign around 3am to watch and it was a spectacular show. I recommend if you have the chance, check them out.
Today was a busy day, setting up all of our decorations. It was worth it though, we heard many great comments about how our house looked fantastic. The music/sound effects created a very spooky atmosphere – a group of neighbor kids playing in the next yard over thought our house was haunted. Much fun!
Full pictures can be seen in the gallery.
Tonight I made a very quick test run of using a webcam with my telescope. Lots of people have been very successful in creating awesome photographs with their webcams, but I was pretty skeptical. I’ve been waiting to make a way of connecting the webcam to the telescope until I knew for sure it was actually going to be worth the trouble. After taking a quick shot at the moon, I must say that I’m very impressed and quite excited with what I may be able to do with deep space objects such as nebulas and the like. You can see the very shakey (since I was holding it up to the telescope by hand) video here, it’s a 3MB+ and in Windows Media format – I don’t have any software to go from avi->mpg here.
Ana and I have decided to do up the house with Halloween decorations and scary stuff for the trick’r treaters in the neighborhood. It should end up looking pretty cool and provide a fun evening tomorrow. Some preliminary pics can be seen here.
He’s been on our porch every day now, just quietly curled up on our cushions. He’s there in the morning when we leave for work and in the evening when we arrive home. After some discussion, we’ve decided to start feeding him. We’ve sort of adopted him as our “Outdoor Kitty”, to quoute Ana. When we took a bowl of food out to him tonight, he took to it very quickly and immediately started purring.
Ana’s already planning an outoor bed for him, a counter part to these.
Awaiting the start of Game 4, hopefully the cardinals will show up to play. They’ve been very flat these past three games, it’s pretty depressing to watch. They still have a chance, but it’s probably just as big as my chance to catch a glimpse of the lunar eclipse tonight through the heavy cloudcover. Sucks indeed.
Ana and I are preparing for the anticipated onslaught of trick’r treaters next weekend. We have several pounds of candy, in addition to a few things we’re going to decorate the house with (which is to involve some motion sensors, scary beings, and creapy music). Should be pretty fun, I’ll take some pictures if it turns out
ok.
Can’t wait for carving some pumpkins, mmmmm toasted pumpkin seeds….
Right now the game is tied 7-7 in the 7th, after being down 7-2!
I was able to get a few good shots of the moon earlier: waxing gibbous and the bay known as Sinus Iridum.
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