Crazy people being crazy...   They seem to be having a lot of fun doing it, though...

F-22 Raptor...   Scary looking, no?  That's a photo, not a painting. If one of these was coming after me, I'd be thoroughly inti...

Progress in Paradise...   I forgot to mention yesterday that the barn painters showed up, to start work on the outside painting.  It's w...

Scale model B-29 and XS-1...   Via friend, reader, and former colleague Larry E.  This is some awesome footage of a beautiful scale model...

NGC2841...   A Hubble photo, via APOD , of course.  Full resolution version ...

A hard day's work yesterday ... and I slept like the proverbial baby (my understanding is that the real babies don't actually sle...

You may wonder ... what the graphic at right might be.  An advertisement for hallucinogenic botanicals?  A poster for a weird movie invol...

Radio controlled model SR-71...   This bad boy uses two miniature turbojet engines.  I'm not sure if it's an actual scale model, ...

Random is hard , part 388...   So you want to distribute points randomly on the surface of a sphere?  Good luck with that !

Magnified motion of buildings...   A technique I wrote about last year that was used to visualize blood flow under the skin.  Now it's...

Beautiful display of the Milky Way this morning ... as I took Mo'i on his morning walk, at 4 am this morning.  There were a few clouds ...

Another handle...   I made a second one, much like the first one, this afternoon.  This time I did a better job of the turning, making a h...

Baltimore riots...   This is not historical footage of the 1968 riot , which some of us are old enough and, ahem, informed enough to reme...

The making of a handle...   I had a little fun in the workshop this morning – I made a handle for one of the ropes that lifts the hatch in...

Time lapse video of Iceland's aurora borealis...

Paradise doings...   The weather was intermittently wet yesterday, so I really couldn't work outside.  Last night it rained steadily, ...

Word of the day: “thronesniffers”.  Seen in the wild, in an otherwise boring article discussing the behavior of the media lapdogs at last n...

Oh, happy morning!   When it got light this morning, I took the dogs out for their morning walk.  The grass was soaked, and the dogs were ha...

Mo'i update...   He's still hanging in there, and we're cherishing every day we're lucky enough to have with him.  You may r...

Bored little old ladies at the flower show...   Via my brother Scott... Two little old ladies, Connie & Evelyn, were sitting on a park...