Getting Back On Track 22 Jul 2013 | 11:43 pm

Hey Folks, We are about a month out on Dragon*Con 2013 and I've done nothing. I'm working 3 jobs right now, raising a baby, and ... well... there isn't a lot of "and" is there. I'm too busy. I just d....

Lunar Meteor Event 21 May 2013 | 12:07 am

The following video does a good job of explaining, but let me throw in a few words. I used to work at NASA Marshal in the big white building on stilts. (The Lunar Telescope Facility) Heck of a job to ...

Hawk's Beer and Movie Reviews (Yea!) 13 May 2013 | 09:30 pm

Good Monday to you all and I hope you had a happy Mother's day. (Ok, for those of us who are guys, if we survived without major damage we're in luck.) For me, it was a couple movies, a play, skipping ...

Major Tom 13 May 2013 | 08:35 pm

Makers Local 6 May 2013 | 11:31 pm

I want to point out first that these people aren't nuts, but they are technology geeks. There are a good number of people who love 3-D printing, laser cutters, fab machines. They also do some hacking,...

The Eagle Has Landed 3 May 2013 | 01:08 am

A month before my second birthday, man landed on the moon. Yes, I know some people argue that it was faked, but unlike so much science today, it wasn't. There is an app that I can't access here - htt...

Show & Tell at Dragon Con 25 Apr 2013 | 12:21 am

As I was pointing out to a fellow scientist - this isn't a "Mad Science Project" it is a "Creative Resource Redistribution Device." Yeah, it is part of my mad science street-CRReD. Give me your money ...

The Engineer's Baby - Emotions 18 Apr 2013 | 11:03 pm

I'd like to talk about emotions today, because a lot of people don't understand them. As a scientist and engineer (yes, both) I study everything. What the heck are these "emotions." First off, let me ...

The Recent Coronal Mass Ejection (Solar Storm) 16 Apr 2013 | 10:55 pm

Dr. Woozley warned me Friday that there was a high probability for a huge CME - thats a coronal mass ejection - over the weekend. A CME is when the sun throws off a chunk of hot gas, possibly weighing...

Serious Times 16 Apr 2013 | 12:29 am

Hard to be light-hearted when a tyrant is threatening to send a nuclear weapon. There are a lot of places he could send it, I suppose I'm personally safe, but I like Japan, Seattle, ... I don't partic...