US Naval Observatory

The Naval Observatory photo gallery has been updated with a new responsive design. The old design was “responsive,” but the images were too small, and the JavaScript was awkward. In July 2007, as part of a science partnership with the Continue reading US Naval Observatory

Brazil

The photo collection supporting Kathleen’s attendance at NI2003, the 8th International Congress in Nursing Informatics, was updated to a new responsive design. Held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the conference allowed Kathleen to brush up on her Portuguese, see nurses Continue reading Brazil

World Heritage Sites, United States

Checklist of World Heritage Sites visited in the United States. This is a dynamic list, with plans for checking off more sites in the future. ✔︎ means “visited,” and ✖︎ means “need to visit.” Mesa Verde National Park – ✖︎ Continue reading World Heritage Sites, United States

Epic penguin migration

Last week, a penguin completed an epic migration that lasted a couple years and thousands of miles. When measured in penguin distances, it encompassed more miles than Neil Armstrong traveled going to the moon and back in his celebrated “one Continue reading Epic penguin migration

Seahawk

Several hundred items were published in the Yokosuka Seahawk and I no longer have copies of most of those stories. It will take me considerable time to convert the articles I still retain. These were scanned from the printed originals. Continue reading Seahawk

Air Safety videos

Just because. Delta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGnrEacX2Rc British Airways: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RedV-KyXWO4 British Airways revised: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ9Xpzi4qkU Turkish Airlines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2hCN6cVuqM Qantas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2btt98pKlA Middle Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOw44VFNk8Y

At Your Leisure articles

Two articles (so far) from: At Your Leisure have been posted. The original publications were printed on newsprint, which is definitely not the medium of choice for long-term preservation. These were reproduced via scans and OCR (Optical Character Recognition).

Fresh crop

Modern farm tractors can harvest and package crops for market without any additional steps.

Modern farming equipment can harvest and package a crop in a single pass: At least that’s what I assume is going on here.