Huygen’s Update

Despite recent exposure to a “communications glitch,” I am continually impressed by what we’re seeing from this latest celestial achievment. Getting images, let alone audio, from Titan is just awesome! Generically speaking, it’s just some rocks on dirt in a orangish environment. Could be mistaken for Mars under poor lighting conditions. However, seeing images from… Continue reading Huygen’s Update

Everything That’s Cute

For Christmas (Yule, what have you), I commissioned a song in Amy’s honor. I also created a video around the song for her to see Christmas morning. It was probably one of my better surprise gifts ever. The plan went off without a hitch and she says I can post it here for all to… Continue reading Everything That’s Cute

Zero-G Flights now Departing from Local Airports

Zero-G is the first company to offer a 0-gravity experience to non-astronauts. I don’t know that that is such a good idea, but I’m all for it personally. The company is on a tour where they’ll offer these flights for about $3,000.00 in airports such as L.A., New York, and Atlanta. The package cost gets… Continue reading Zero-G Flights now Departing from Local Airports

Kickboxing Robots Draw Crowds in Japan

In case you missed the Robo-One competition in Kawasaki, Japan, CNN has a good write-up on it. I also found some great videos on the subject. I’m so intrigued with the critters that are showing up in this competition. Basically, it’s a large group of combatant, bipedal, robotic machines (not all humanoid) that duke it… Continue reading Kickboxing Robots Draw Crowds in Japan

Pictures are Good, Video Better

Playing around today at Celestial Studios, I got some great pictures of Balthazar. It was pretty much perfect weather, so we had a blast in and outdoors. I forget about this feature often, but check out the video Amy made of Balthazar’s new trick.  more… This clip requires RealPlayer 10

More Room for my Junk

I just recently purchased two Maxtor 120GB drives (ATA/133, 8MB Cache) and some CoolerMaster CoolDrive 3’s. I’m very excited about getting them installed! I plan to use RAID 1 on the drives to work with video projects for clients. The CoolDrive 3’s look really sweet with their blue-glowing front bezels.