Schierer Space

After a long day yesterday doing work in Rifle, Colorado, and then driving to Steamboat Springs, CO, I didn’t have time to post. I did have a lot of scenery to shoot along the way, so there are many pictures in the album.
In places the drive was isolated, but not particularly difficult or dangerous.

Today I stayed in Steamboat Springs working issues here, while coworkers headed up Emerald Mountain to service our equipment there. Gratuitous Colorado flag shot:

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Some of you may know that I’m currently in Colorado. I flew into Denver and needed to drive Interstate 70 to Rifle, Colorado. (208 mi for 3 hours and 22 minutes according to Google maps). I had planned on 4 hours with weather, but this was not sufficient. Ignoring stops it took about 5 hours to make the trip (ick).
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I’ve signed on as a supporter of ScienceDebate 2008. The concept is to get the presidential candidates to have a real debate about issues of science and technology.

Check it out. I encourage you to sign up too! Let’s tell our government that political dogma just doesn’t cut it anymore. We want a leader who can help us make the Unites States a world leader in technical innovation and scientific discovery.

Although we’re a bit spoiled by the 17P/Holmes outburst, 8P/Tuttle is an attractive comet with an apparent green glow. Not quite naked-eye observable, but binoculars can spot it.

I knew about where it was from the sky charts and HNSKY, so I aimed the camera at 70mm and found the green dot in the image. I zoomed in and shot the image below. 1600 ISO for 8 seconds is about as far as I can push this image. Still, the green hue is obvious in the image without enhancement.

I need to get to work on that barn-door tracker. I particularly like this approach with the bent threaded rod.

I’ve seen a similar application in the past, this one is interesting because it appears to be European in origin.

As seen on digg:
Electoral Compass

Take a look.

My results:

Based on the responses you provided, you are the closest to
John Edwards and you are the furthest away from Fred Thompson

Here you find an overview of all issues. You can click on an issue to see your repsonses and responses from John Edwards as well as the sources on which they are based.

The results are pretty consistent with other surveys I’ve taken and my own analysis.

We’re feeling a bit overwhelmed with Nate’s surplus of Christmas toys… but he’s taking it rather well.

Here he is helping himself to one of the toy boxes. He grabbed the box dragged it over and started taking out what he wanted.