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 …

(best viewed last-to-first?)

 

Cold Front’s Comin’

That’s the cold front in turquoise across NW Oklahoma.   

Come on down!

Thunder Buster

 Magnificent Thunderstorm

Some Like It Hot

High today in Norman:

97° F / 36° C, 

tying an all-time record for

  Sept. 21 in central 

Oklahoma

______

C’mon autumn!

The Phantom Galaxy, M74

The Phantom Galaxy, M74 by Webb’s MIRI

The Hotter It Gets, The Better the Crepe Myrtles Like It

In the cool of the morning (75° F / 24° C) in the back yard …

Chimaera: You Won’t See This Guy Every Day

Chimaera, shark relative who hangs out deep in the ocean (link)

Wowls!

 From fb Owls Lovers page (link)

Size Matters

Rocket Size Comparisons (Link)

Taller than the Statue of Liberty?  Of course!  Follow this link.

Say Whaaaat?

 

Horny Toad Sighting

Horny Toad (Texas Horned Lizard) 

Movin’ to Texas?

Anyone crazy enough to move to Texas right now will need this guide (link)

Click link above to see the rest.  

Hot? Stick Around. It’ll Get Worse Later

 Burn, Baby, Burn!

Metal Roofs Are Coming

 Metal Roof Ad—Interesting

We’re Finally Getting the Message, Bless Our Hearts

Get off fossil fuels and produce renewables necessities locally (link)

F-16 Jet Engine Test at Full Afterburner

If this doesn’t get you goin’, nothin’ will (link) 

Chickasaw NRA

 Chickasaw National Recreation Area, Sulfur, OK, USA (Link)

Good recreation this autumn!

The Times, They Are a Changin’

USA Facts Population Charts 

No Comment!

 From fb Home Groan Puns page …

America’s Gettin’ Older

 USA: Older on the Coasts

Rice U. Ranking Rising, Whatever That May Mean

USNews Rankings Say Rice Is Goin’ Up (Link)

Princeton Review Ranking (Link)

Autumn

Fall was on Sunday this year. Summer is back for two weeks, to be followed immediately by winter.  

What is miles & miles & miles? Texas!

 

“The sun has riz

The sun has set

And here we’ll be

In Texas yet”