We live in a trick-or-treating mecca. Perhaps the trick-or-treating mecca. Our Denver neighborhood, Central Park, is absolute insanity every October 31. Each year, we estimate (based on our candy count) how many trick-or-treaters we got — and from 2011 through 2016, that number was consistently between 1,000 and 1,250+ trick-or-treaters. You can see the madness for yourself in my time-lapse… Read more »
The first presidential debate is upon us, and the political world has temporarily descended on my city, Denver, and specifically on the university — indeed, the very arena — where I’ve spent so much blogging about basketball these last few years, the University of Denver’s Magness Arena. I don’t have credentials to attend the main event, but I did manage… Read more »
I realize this blog has basically gone dormant — indeed, I’m thinking of making that formal, suspending the blog (with the ability to restart it later if/when I so desire) and starting up a Tumblr, largely to save money on server costs and increase social-media interaction — but just in case anyone is checking in on me here, I wanted… Read more »
My Flickr gallery of the Transit of Venus (and of my drive up into the mountains & back) is finally online. Here are a few pictures that I haven’t posted on the blog before: The spot in Carbondale, in the front yard of St. Vincent’s Church, where the Three Rivers Astronomy Club folks set up to watch the transit. A… Read more »
The “Occupy Denver” folks — in coordination with the SEIU, seemingly — protested outside Wells Fargo in downtown Denver this morning, about a block from my office. Naturally, I couldn’t resist checking out the scene. Note the tie-wearing 1 Percenters on the right, greedily sipping their Starbucks coffee, which no doubt contains ground-up $100 bills as a garnish. 😉 After… Read more »
Wow! The solar eclipse over Denver was awesome! Above, a photo that Becky took of me holding 10-month-old Loyabelle in one arm and, in the other, raised above my head, a 13-year-old piece of welder’s glass that made it possible to show the Sun in otherwise normally-exposed pictures. It worked amazingly well. (See also here, here, here and here.) Below,… Read more »
Get your eclipse glasses, pinhole viewers, or Shade 14 welder’s glass out, and your “penumbras and emanations” jokes ready, because there’s a solar eclipse a-comin’ on Sunday evening! The photo above (by Kevin Baird) shows roughly what the eclipse will look like along the central “line of annularity,” which stretches from parts of China and Japan, across the Pacific, to… Read more »
Today could be an historic day for freedom and equality in Becky’s and my adopted home state of Colorado, as a bill establishing civil unions for gays & lesbians is on the verge of passing into law. Even as North Carolina goes down a reactionary road (fueled in large part by ignorance of the facts), the former “Hate State” of… Read more »
A wildfire southwest of Denver is still totally uncontained this morning, one day after it killed one person, destroyed 15 to 25 strucutres, burned more than 3,000 acres, and gave off a huge smoke plume, blown northeastward by galeforce winds, that was impressively well-defined on radar: Another way of viewing that smoke plume is by looking at the brief time-lapse… Read more »
The sunrise over Denver was absolutely gorgeous this morning. Despite the cold, I actually carried the older girls outside onto our front porch in their pajamas (for a few seconds) to see it. I didn’t get a picture of the most stunning, bright-orange-and-pink part, but I did take this shot, a few minutes later, from our upstairs bathroom, snapped with… Read more »
