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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Apr 28, 2011
And getting closer from both ends. While their sentience and intelligence might be increasing, ours is surely decreasing.
Just look at Facebook, any online messageboard (this one excepted, of course), blogs and the internet in general.
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Baron Grim Posted Apr 28, 2011
The Family Circus mentioned twitter the other day*. I consider that a sign of the end times.
* No, I don't read it. I saw it on Reddit. Family Circus has only ever been entertaining by accident and yet damn near every paper still in print carries it. I have no idea why.
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Baron Grim Posted Jun 15, 2011
Here's some just fantastic intervalometer (time-lapse) video.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/06/15/time-lapse-video-from-north-carolina-to-the-galactic-center/
Share and Enjoy 
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jun 15, 2011
Beautiful 
By the way... F24227?thread=8233449 
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Baron Grim Posted Jun 15, 2011
I really should have posted this a couple of weeks ago.
This is made from raw imagery from Cassini orbiting around Saturn.
Cassini is sending back the kind imagery that we once used to only see in scifi movies but this is the real deal.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/06/02/the-stark-beauty-of-cassinis-saturn/
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Baron Grim Posted Jun 22, 2011
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20073206-264/start-up-lytro-tries-refocusing-camera-industry/
http://www.lytro.com/
Man, IF this thing is real/feasible/marketable, this could be very cool indeed. But I can't help but think this is more hype than anything.
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Baron Grim Posted Jun 22, 2011
Another article explaining it: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/lytro-camera-lets-you-focus-photos-after-you-take-them/
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Hypatia Posted Jun 22, 2011
That is totally cool. I'm not a techie so don't really understand how it's possible, but being a poor photographer, I hope it is and is affordable.
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Baron Grim Posted Jun 22, 2011
Here's yet another article with a bit more info and also for those like me who can't view the imbedded images, it also has a demonstration video. http://allthingsd.com/20110621/meet-the-stealthy-start-up-that-aims-to-sharpen-focus-of-entire-camera-industry/
Maybe my laptop will have more luck with the images.
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AlsoRan80 Posted Jun 23, 2011
Dear Count Zero,
What on Earth are you going to do without your regular ISS circling our planet. I hope you are not going to loose your job
. I still remember with much pleasure how you directed me to seeing one of the first ISS passing over my neck of the woods, what a joy it was to see it with a naked eye. Do write if you have time.
Sincerely and AlsoRan 80
Thursday 23rd of June 2011 12:39 BST
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Baron Grim Posted Jun 23, 2011
To find out when upcoming ISS sighting opportunities will occur, go to the link below and click on your area of England.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/region.cgi?country=United_Kingdom®ion=England
For those in other areas of the world you can find your location here:
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Baron Grim Posted Jun 23, 2011
Here, that is: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/
(I hit the post message button instead of pasting the link... I seriously don't know how I managed to do that as [ctrl+v] is nothing like grabbing the mouse and clicking an icon button. 
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Baron Grim Posted Jul 11, 2011
Here's a cool art thing that was done here in Houston a few years ago. I didn't know about it until after it was gone. I had seen the pictures a few times before I knew it was in the Montrose area.(The Montrose is Houston's artist/hip/gay community. It was also home to some of my favorite bars when I used to go into Houston nearly every weekend.)
http://www.davidairey.com/focus-on-art-dan-havel-dean-ruck/
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fluffykerfuffle Posted Jul 11, 2011
"Family Circus has only ever been entertaining by accident and yet damn near every paper
still in print carries it. I have no idea why." Count Zero
my sentiments exactly!!
i used to proofread for a newspaper... which was locally owned in a liberal community.
then a company bought it that was conservative.
the comics changed...
granted some of the good ones stayed but
some were put in, replacing other good ones, that were awful
like that stupid duck one
anyway... i learned the comics page of a paper
will tell you the politics of whoever calls the shots at that paper
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jul 11, 2011
That's what happens when you divide a house by zero 
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fluffykerfuffle Posted Jul 11, 2011
Mallard Fillmore... the stupid duck comic strip
there is actually a web site listing tons of conservative comic strips
google you guessed it conservative comic strips
heh heh
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Hypatia Posted Jul 11, 2011
Times definitely change. I haven't read the comics in my local paper for years. They just aren't entertaining to me anymore.
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Baron Grim Posted Jul 18, 2011
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/07/18/iss-and-atlantis-seen-in-broad-daylight/
Amateur astronomers have some amazing tools available to them today that allow them to image things thought difficult if not impossible for even some of our best observatories just a few decades ago.
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Hypatia Posted Jul 19, 2011
So, no more visits to the space station. 
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