Monthly Archives: December 2010

Mote Marine Aquarium

With Camile sick, Chloe and I headed to the Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium in Sarasota.  I love this place — it is a research facility and rehab hospital for injured dolphins and whales.  So while smaller than other aquariums, … Continue reading

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I saw Jupiter!

For Christmas I got “the kids” a telescope.  This was largely motivated by our home schooling, since the kids both have an astronomy component.  But it was equally motivated by my desire to learn my way around the night sky. … Continue reading

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The coming end of the optical disk?

I have been wondering for years when this would start. USB “drives” have become ubiquitous.  8 Gb models now retail as cheap as $10, and cost much less than that to produce.  Read-only (ROM) style memory requires even fewer transistors, … Continue reading

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