I am a father, husband, astrophysicist, and geek. Here are tidbits I find interesting, and remember to share…Tumblr (3.0; @kreaturr)http://blog.libnil.org/<a href="http://wacameapp.jugem.jp/?eid=16">Creation of the Eclipse Ring Image</a>: <p>neat.</p>http://blog.libnil.org/post/23542622724http://blog.libnil.org/post/23542622724Tue, 22 May 2012 09:25:15 -0400<a href="http://www.spacex.com/webcast/">DragonLaunch via SpaceX</a>: <p>The advantage to being up at crazy hours, it’s easy to stream the launch of the first commercial rocket with a mission to the ISS.</p>http://blog.libnil.org/post/23534576449http://blog.libnil.org/post/23534576449Tue, 22 May 2012 03:37:56 -0400<a href="http://www.homemade-baby-food-recipes.com/baby-led-weaning.html">Baby Led Weaning</a>: <p>We started trying this yesterday with our 7 month old.</p>http://blog.libnil.org/post/23532846189http://blog.libnil.org/post/23532846189Tue, 22 May 2012 02:29:39 -0400<a href="http://acestoohigh.com/2012/04/23/lincoln-high-school-in-walla-walla-wa-tries-new-approach-to-school-discipline-expulsions-drop-85/">Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, tries new approach to school discipline — suspensions drop 85% « ACEs Too High</a>: <p>Nice approach; I’d support it.</p>http://blog.libnil.org/post/22253386088http://blog.libnil.org/post/22253386088Wed, 02 May 2012 09:07:59 -0400<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/05/01/151775572/study-less-religious-are-more-motivated-by-compassion-than-highly-religious?ft=1&f=1001&sc=tw&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter">Study: Less Religious Are More Motivated By Compassion Than Highly Religious</a>http://blog.libnil.org/post/22201777735http://blog.libnil.org/post/22201777735Tue, 01 May 2012 13:54:18 -0400<a href="https://blogs.stsci.edu/livio/2012/04/23/why-astronomy/">Why Astronomy » A Curious Mind</a>: <p>Mario Livio comments on why Astronomy is important to humankind.</p>http://blog.libnil.org/post/21676525044http://blog.libnil.org/post/21676525044Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:17:05 -0400<a href="http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/laf/2960326885.html">LOST: Penguins Defense</a>: <p>hilarious. Craigslist “lost and found” posting…</p>http://blog.libnil.org/post/21183714384http://blog.libnil.org/post/21183714384Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:54:08 -0400<a href="http://htwins.net/scale2/">The Scale of the Universe 2</a>http://blog.libnil.org/post/21183404251http://blog.libnil.org/post/21183404251Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:49:31 -0400“<p>“I don’t think he’s Mark Messier,” Miller said.<br/></p> <p>Sabres goaltender Miller mocks Laich’s playoff guarantee <br/> <a href="http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/penguins/s_789897.html">http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/penguins/s_789897.html</a></p>”http://blog.libnil.org/post/20529757914http://blog.libnil.org/post/20529757914Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:44:30 -0400<a href="http://weareallinthegutter.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/the-new-boss-in-town/">the new BOSS in town</a>: <blockquote><p><a href="http://weareallinthegutter.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/the-new-boss-in-town/">wordpress.com</a></p> <p>the new BOSS in town <i>March 31, 2012</i></p><p><i>Post­ed by Rita in Uncat­e­go­rized. <br/>track­back</i></p><p>I wrote the fol­low­ing post yes­ter­day, but I fell asleep before I could do any­thing with it. It’s about the first set of results from the…</p> </blockquote> <p>Collaborator describes a series of papers we managed to put out last week. Nice job, Rita!</p>http://blog.libnil.org/post/20283693459http://blog.libnil.org/post/20283693459Sun, 01 Apr 2012 09:17:02 -0400<a href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/03/harms_of_post-9.html">Schneier on Security: Harms of Post-9/11 Airline Security</a>: <p>great thoughts. h/t to Natarajan on this.</p>http://blog.libnil.org/post/20176058072http://blog.libnil.org/post/20176058072Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:23:01 -0400<p>A not so uncommon morning:</p> <p>I wake up at 1:30am in an attempt to get work done in a quiet house, and catch up on what I didn&#8217;t manage to accomplish the day before. I crashed early as my brain was mush by 7:30pm.</p> <p>At 2:00, our son (5 months old) wakes up wanting to be fed and needing his medicine. We spend some quality time hanging out in the steamy bathroom to help humidify the air in his lungs and aid his breathing. I drop him in his swing around 3:00, and after a bit of loud conversation, he&#8217;s asleep by 3:30.</p> <p>At 5:15, our daughter (5 years old) wakes up. She wants to color in her coloring book at the table while I work, as she can&#8217;t sleep. She is about 1.25 hours early. After 10 minutes of getting her set up with color by numbers, she is now coloring and singing right beside me. Now, our son is starting to toss and turn&#8230;</p> <p>At 5:35, I sit down to post this before making more coffee. I&#8217;m about 2 hours behind already. Yeah, and I&#8217;m still working on yesterday&#8217;s todo list. <em>sigh</em></p> <p>At 5:40, our daughter: &#8220;Daddy, I don&#8217;t want to color anymore. What can I do, Daddy? Look, my crayon box is broken .. oh no!&#8221;. I&#8217;m going to multitask on handling this crisis while making coffee&#8230;</p> <p>I have a feeling today is going to be one of those &#8220;glorious&#8221; days.</p>http://blog.libnil.org/post/20003120817http://blog.libnil.org/post/20003120817Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:44:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1hpy7mTxa1qz5ef9o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/03/26/swedish-magicians-7-new-ipads-one-of-the-best-presentations-you-will-ever-see/">Swedish magicians + 7 new iPads = One of the best presentations you will ever see</a><br/> Matt Brian, <a href="http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/03/26/swedish-magicians-7-new-ipads-one-of-the-best-presentations-you-will-ever-see/">thenextweb.com</a></p> <p>The iPad allows us to do many things, whether it be to watch and inter­act with media, utilise hun­dreds of thou­sands of apps, browse the web, send email or sim­ply play games.</p><p>Peo­ple are con­tin­u­al­ly find­ing new ways to use the iPad as a…</p> </blockquote> <p>fun video. </p>http://blog.libnil.org/post/19950052015http://blog.libnil.org/post/19950052015Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:44:31 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1g5du0n1k1qz5ef9o1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/23-8">‘A Test You Need to Fail’: A Teacher’s Open Letter to Her 8th Grade Students</a><br/> by Ruth Ann Dandrea, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/23-8">commondreams.org</a></p> <p>Dear 8th Graders,</p><p>I didn’t know.</p><p>I spent last night perus­ing the 150-plus pages of grad­ing mate­ri­als pro­vid­ed by the state in antic­i­pa­tion of read­ing and eval­u­at­ing your Eng­lish Lan­guage Arts Exams this morn­ing. I knew the test…</p> </blockquote> <p>sad.</p>http://blog.libnil.org/post/19894858025http://blog.libnil.org/post/19894858025Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:22:42 -0400<a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/03/top-dems-urge-focus-on-oil-companies-118533.html">Top Dems urge focus on oil companies</a>: <blockquote><p>Alexander Burns, <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/03/top-dems-urge-focus-on-oil-companies-118533.html">politico.com</a></p> <p>Democ­rats have a “huge oppor­tu­ni­ty” to reclaim con­trol of the debate over gas prices by train­ing atten­tion on the excess­es of oil com­pa­nies, two promi­nent party strate­gists argue in a memo obtained by POLITI­CO.</p><p>The doc­u­ment…</p> </blockquote> <p>“The fact is domestic production is at an eight-year high, domestic demand for oil and oil products is down, and gas prices continue to rise. Meanwhile the big five oil companies earned a record $137 billion in profits in 2011,” Podesta and Garin write.</p>http://blog.libnil.org/post/19851435260http://blog.libnil.org/post/19851435260Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:27:50 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1cavkxvMp1qz5ef9o1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kreaturr/sets/72157629650032685/">Ashlynne’s Hair Cut</a></p>http://blog.libnil.org/post/19781247717http://blog.libnil.org/post/19781247717Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:30:56 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m14siahSdL1qz5ef9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/19/2883545/spacex-dragon-spacecraft-interior">SpaceX shows off Dragon spacecraft’s interior</a><br/> Sam Byford, <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/19/2883545/spacex-dragon-spacecraft-interior">theverge.com</a></p> <p>SpaceX has post­ed a look at the inte­ri­or of its Drag­on space­craft. Drag­on was the first com­mer­cial space­craft ever to return from orbit, and if all goes to plan will dock with the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion for the first time on an…</p> </blockquote>http://blog.libnil.org/post/19569822912http://blog.libnil.org/post/19569822912Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:10:57 -0400<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/opinion/its-about-immigrants-not-irishnesss.html?_r=1&src=tp">It’s About Immigrants, Not Irishnesss - NYTimes.com</a>: <p>me like.</p>http://blog.libnil.org/post/19552856462http://blog.libnil.org/post/19552856462Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:19:30 -0400<a href="http://pyvideo.org/video/674/militarizing-your-backyard-with-python-computer">Militarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes</a>: <p>heh.</p>http://blog.libnil.org/post/19406610199http://blog.libnil.org/post/19406610199Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:04:51 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0rz2f52Tp1qz5ef9o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Comparisons…</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/MBOD4.jpg"><a href="http://i.imgur.com/MBOD4.jpg">http://i.imgur.com/MBOD4.jpg</a></a></p> </blockquote>http://blog.libnil.org/post/19178901252http://blog.libnil.org/post/19178901252Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:03:00 -0400