Category Archives: Journal

Sharing more about me, less about (almost) everything else

It’s Cold Here, Too: Sauk Centre, Minnesota

We didn’t get a white Christmas this year, here in Sauk Centre, which isn’t all that unusual. But it’s definitely winter now. The furnace is still working, happily, and tomorrow morning I’ll find out if the family van will start. … Continue reading

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Colliding Planets Near ASASSN-21qj: Maybe

They were looking for supernovae. What they found may become a double planet, like the Earth-Moon system, once it cools down. Or a planet with a giant moon, again like the Earth-Moon system. Then again, an oddly-uneven dusty disk may … Continue reading

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Swiss Guard: Their Finest Hour, So Far

Whether they’re called the Swiss Guard, Papal Swiss Guard, or Pontificia Cohors Helvetica, those 135 men wear what may be today’s most colorful full dress uniforms. Although they look like something straight out of the Renaissance, the uniform’s not much … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas!

With rain and freezing rain in the forecast for today, I wanted something other than my favorite Christmas-season picture for that Christmas 2023 display in the upper right. So I selected part of a photo from 2021: this household’s Nativity … Continue reading

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Spokes in Saturn’s Rings, View With Hubble Space Telescope

That’s a one minute, four second, video with music and no narration. Cool, though. So was this three-minute (their estimate) read from NASA: And that’s all the writing I’m doing today: Christmas Eve, December 24, 2023. Aside from wishing you … Continue reading

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