visiblog

So it seems the US Military is trying to stop the worlds largest wind farm from being constructed in Oregon.  They reason that the windmills will interfere with a radar system in Fossil, OR.
Well that’s bullshit.
I worked on radar in the Navy. If you get a repeatable false reflection down range, you can tune [...]

One of the cool things about living here in Pacific Grove is the wild forests.  Kenna and I took a walk with the dogs yesterday and I brought my macro lens with a flash.  It’s really hard to get the lighting correct and I’m realizing I need to hold the camera a LOT more still. [...]

I found this cool little app for the iPhone the other day called Pano.  It’s really very good at capturing quick panoramas.
This is my morning at the Aquarium:

Get it at the App Store.

Darren Naish, Tetrapod PHD fires off a really interesting scientists view of the creatures of the planet Pandora from James Cameron’s Avatar.

So this morning, I looked outside and thought it might rain.  Heading over to Wunderground.com (the best weather station around, BTW), I tuned into the “wundermap”.  All these choices for overlays of Tornadoes (we’ve had three in the past twenty years!), Fires, Hurricanes, Brimstone, Illegal Aliens – it’s amazing.  So I fired up every single overlay [...]

There’s a need in my life for more complexity. So I’m starting a second blog.
VISICHUNK

Edit: I just found this cool little gadget on the Highrise site.  Very awesome.
NASA has been spending our tax dollars in some really interesting ways recently.  Apparently some engineer with a really good sense of design got control of the cameras on the cassini spacecraft recently with some really excellent results. Another spacecraft has [...]