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Annular Solar Eclipse

Monday, May 21st, 2012

View the full quality (3MB) version of the compilation photo above. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the moon covers most of the disk of the sun. I threw a solar eclipse party and had about 200 people stop by to take a look. I even got a few nice photos. We ...

Very Odd Ramblings About Time

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

In a few weeks, I will be traveling to Asia. Time starts to play interesting games when you find yourself half way around the world. As my family is waking up, I'll be going to bed in Singapore, which will be 14 hours ahead of Utah. While in India, I'll ...

Benchmark Hunting

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

I got a GPS for Christmas. Being unable to wait until Christmas, I've been playing with it for a week or so. I'd like to do some geocaching, but with all of the snow, it's not really the best time for it. Instead, I read up a bit about benchmark ...