LAT In Orbit

June 11, 2008 – 11:56 pm

My friend John worked on the Large Area Telescope, part of the GLAST spacecraft which rode into orbit on a Delta rocket earlier today. The LAT will look at a large swath of space, detecting gamma ray bursts from exploding stars and other cataclysms. And yes, people use wikis for these projects.

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Another Remembrance

December 21, 2007 – 12:12 am

Kate Schaefer on Anita Rowland: I was never clear about whether she believed in anything related to church except for the music and feeding the hungry; those seemed like enough.

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Anita Rowland

December 10, 2007 – 6:52 pm

Anita Roland at NorthernVoice in Vancouver, BC.

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Back in 1999 and 2000, Anita Rowland helped bridge the online journaling and weblog communities, with her weblog and her journal, Anita’s Book of Days, she also helped run the Seattle Blogger Meetups. I met Anita through Science Fiction Fandom, especially Potlatch where she ran the [...]

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Remembering Dixie

March 26, 2001 – 12:00 am

I received sad news from my friend and journal keeper Lucy last night. Dixie — a big, friendly, docile lab mix who she and her husband John had taken care of for many years — died Sunday. Dixie loved the back yard in thier San Bruno bungalo. She would lay on the grass, or in [...]

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