Webb or Hubble, the place is just HUGE!

James Webb Space Telescope vs. Hubble (link)

James Webb Telescope Image

Hubble Space Telescope Image

Much More (link)

M33 m, Triangulum Galaxy

M33 From a Ground-based Celestron ‘Scope (link)

Ice Storm, Oct. 2020

Ice Storm of October 2020 (link) 

2022 National Weather Festival, Updated

 National Weather Festival in Norman (link)

We got there quite late …

Satellite image projected inside a sphere 

NWS Posting and Pics on Facebook (link >>>—-> )

Portable Doppler Radar Pullin’ Out

Portable Doppler Radar Dish in Motion

Looking Out National Weather Center Front Entrance

Weather Center Flags

Entrance to National Weather Center Grounds

Across from the National Weather Center

Next time, we’ll show up much earlier and go to the lower floor “science fair”-like displays first!

Pillars of Creation 3D

 Pillars of Creation Post (link)

Windy, I Guess

Windy, even for Oklahoma today (40-50 mph or 20 m/s).  Record-breaking heat this afternoon (89° F / 32° C).  

Fall is ?on the way.

Eatin’ Lunch at Ray’s BBQ, Norman

 

View from the Instrument Panel

 

Domain Name Registration

 Register Your Domain Name (link)

All-electric Aircraft Fist Flight

 Electric Alice Flies (link)

Collimating Celestron Skymastet Astro-binoculars

Collimating Video (link)

Guide to the Galaxy

Milky Way Map (link)

Oklahoma-Texas Seasons

 Seasons List (link)

Welcome Home OG&E

Welcome home from your two week Florida deployment, line repair crews from Oklahoma Gas & Electric!   The lights are almost all back on in Florida, thanks to help from all over the country.  

May We Have Some Cosmological Math, Please?

There’s a Cartesian Coordinate System Hiding in There (link)! 

Unidentified Flower, Beautiful

Really pretty! (Link)

Maybe you know the name or can find it here (link)

Three New Freshmen on Rice Campus

 Three New-to-Rice-U. Owls

Renewable Energy: On the Rise, But Not Fast Enough

Renewables Are Growing Like Topsy, But So’s the Demand

Sunrise Progression, Month to Month

Post—one pic per month, same place, same event: sunset  (link) 

You know youre from Texas when your dog brings a guest home

 Posting  (link)

Autumn Colors in Reykjavik

 Fall Colors in Iceland

Gorgeous Bird

 Wow! (link)

Photoshopped Quail

It Feels Like October Outside!

 

Watering the Lawn

In a Coat! (and shorts)

1 Oct 2022, 7:50 a.m.

54° F / 12° C

Brrrrr!

ALL the Webb Telescope Images So Far …

Webb Photo Feast (Link)

Florida’s “Ian” Disaster (with added satellite photo)

Somehow, dodging tornadoes and thunderstorms at the edge of the Great Plains doesn’t seem quite so bad anymore.   :^( 

Stay safe, Floridian and East Coast friends!

Landsat 8 Photo of Ian as It Approached the SW Florida Coast (link)

Checking Out NASA

 Link to Posting

Dry, Dry, Dry

 No End to Drought in Sight

Boots :^))

Posting, You Know You’re from Texas When …  (link)

Gopher hole? Indigo Snake—Save it!

Article (link)

Wyoming Wildlife

 YouTube Video (link)

The Day American Leadership in Science Died

Texas Monthly Article (link)

Traces of Texas Posting (link)

Remains of Superconducting Supercollider, SSC

OU’s Adams Center Towers Coming Down, Summer 2023

Adams was home to Sue and me for several semesters and summers when we we OU undergraduates.  Let’s hope they put something less prison-like in its place.  

OU Daily Article (link)

In front of Adams Center

Oh, a week or two ago (1968)

The OU Army ROTC Band 

glockenspiel section has arrived!

Adams Center, spring 1968

Some Posts from the Naughties (‘00s, early 2000s)

Here are some posts from the blog’s earlier days   Enjoy!

Fourth Quarter

How To Become a Medication-Math Instructor

Looking for a Career? Take the Path Less Travelled

Green Skies and Hail

Earthquake!

Appreciating the Texas Panhandle

Retrospective: Time to Help

Tornadoes Dance … [and Old-style Sirens Wail]

Desert Pete (“Don’t Forget to Prime the Pump”)

Retrospective on “Desert Pete”

Coal Tattoo, an Odd Place to Find a Software Engineer’s Story

A Few More Lines, Software Engineer’s “Coal Tattoo”

“Finlandia Hymn,” a Finnish Friend, and “Rice Is Our Home”

Single-day, Single-engine Flight Through the Colorado Mountains

A Christmas Letter

… a more recent post about a turning point time:

Six Weeks That Changed Everything

Cowboy Eye Chart :^)

More Info …

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