Kathleen Charters and Lawrence Charters
Explorations large and small
Located at the edge of Fort Meade, Maryland, in an old, nondescript motel, is the National Cryptologic Museum. Admission is free, and with that admission you can explore how the worlds of communications, mathematics, and security intersect in cryptology. Photos Continue reading Codes, cyphers, and the National Cryptologic Museum
Perched at the end of two piers in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, the National Aquarium opened in 1981 as part of the city’s massive downtown redevelopment. At one time, the National Aquarium in Baltimore was associated with the older National Aquarium Continue reading National Aquarium in Baltimore
Fort McHenry celebrates the 200th anniversary of the defense of Baltimore in 2014. This defense, immortalized in a poem that evolved into the national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, saved the most important seaport in the United States at the time, and Continue reading Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland
Photos taken at the Apple Store, Columbia Mall, Columbia, Maryland. Photos taken, appropriately, with an iPhone 4.
Washington Apple Pi Journal is the official publication of the Washington Apple Pi user group, the oldest continuously active microcomputer group on the planet. Washington Apple Pi originally was focused on Apple II computers, but has branched out to the Apple Continue reading How the Washington Apple Pi Journal is produced
Cover of an educational comic devoted to a (now retired) NOAA research vessel used to both map Chesapeake Bay and explore new technologies for underwater mapping. Revenge of the Bay Hydrographer cover (full size), page 1 (full size), page 2 (full size), page 3 (full size), page 4 (full size), page Continue reading Revenge of the Bay Hydrographer
Today we saw Zion National Park. It was full of amazing big rocks. ❂ Lykara
Today we saw the biggest hole in the earth I have ever seen. It was the Grand Canyon. Mom and Dad left too late and we had to sleep on the ground in a church parking lot in Page, Arizona. ❂ Continue reading San Diego to Columbia, Part 2 – Arizona
A journal of the move from San Diego, California to Columbia, Maryland. Today we left San Diego. I was sad to leave my friends, especially Tomera and Miss Line. ❂ Lykara