where you been at?
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 5 June 2010 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link
my desk for a month. it sucked. back for world cup madness/12 hour nights shifts at an observatory in texas.
― caek, Saturday, 5 June 2010 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
In an observatory, do you actually do any looking through telescopes, or is that old hat?
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 5 June 2010 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
you don't use your eyes, no. the detector is a CCD, just like in a digital SLR camera.
― caek, Saturday, 5 June 2010 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/04jun_swef/
caek on a scale of 1-10 how worried should I be?
― fruiting bodies of minds in agony (dyao), Monday, 7 June 2010 09:14 (fourteen years ago) link
This happens every 11 years, doesn't it? I don't think we should be to worr
― StanM, Monday, 7 June 2010 09:16 (fourteen years ago) link
stanm how were you able to click the 'submit post' button?!?!
― fruiting bodies of minds in agony (dyao), Monday, 7 June 2010 09:16 (fourteen years ago) link
DAMN! busted ;-)
― StanM, Monday, 7 June 2010 09:21 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, i think that refers to the regular 11 year solar cycle. next peak is 2013. you should be worried 2/10 : )
― caek, Monday, 7 June 2010 10:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Patrick Moore's "The Sky At Night" was on last night. It was surreal - I don't think I've seen him on telly since Gamesmaster. What a strange guy.
― village idiot (dog latin), Monday, 7 June 2010 10:10 (fourteen years ago) link
he is a very old man
― caek, Monday, 7 June 2010 11:25 (fourteen years ago) link
right wing mentalist too, but I do enjoy The Sky at Night.
― every time i pull a j/k off the shelf (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 June 2010 11:26 (fourteen years ago) link
what a pro:
On 26 April 1957, at 10:30 pm, in an event that was to be a landmark of his career, Moore presented the first episode of The Sky at Night, a BBC television programme for astronomy enthusiasts. Since then, he has presented every episode each month, excepting July 2004, because of a near-fatal bout of food poisoning caused by eating a contaminated goose egg.
― caek, Monday, 7 June 2010 11:27 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, he is mental, xp
i usually tear up at the end credits of sky at night tbh
― caek, Monday, 7 June 2010 11:28 (fourteen years ago) link
even is he is a racist paleoconservative
― caek, Monday, 7 June 2010 11:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I was also watching Sky at Night last night and pleased that it's been going all this time with no horrible flashy re-boots, just some peeps discussing new discoveries in unpatronising layman's language. Hope it can continue like that when Moore eventually has to pack it in.
― every time i pull a j/k off the shelf (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 June 2010 11:30 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost
Yeah he is a guy who I can separate his politics from his other fine attributes.
― every time i pull a j/k off the shelf (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 June 2010 11:31 (fourteen years ago) link
He writes books with Brian May from Queen and a very astronomy looking young dude.
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Monday, 7 June 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100607/sc_space/strangediscoveryontitanleadstospeculationofalienlife
caek should we be interested/concerned/frightened about this strangediscoveryontitan that has apparently led tospeculationofalienlife?
― del griffith, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 04:53 (fourteen years ago) link
what's this shit?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hole
― louiiiis jjjjagger (S-), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
some fucking space shit iirc. dunno!
xp, you should take note of this discovery, for the beings are certainly taking note of you.
― caek, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
EVERYBODY PANIC (*)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7819201/Nasa-warns-solar-flares-from-huge-space-storm-will-cause-devastation.html
(*) again. Stupid newspapers.
― StanM, Monday, 14 June 2010 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
How do I set up a mailman list to which non-members can post questions, comments, and problems to which members can respond without non-members posts getting bounced and with non-members receiving and auto-reply acknowledgment? This is administered within my institution. I don't know if that affects things. I tried to do this through Privacy Options -> Sender Filters -> generic_nonmember_something-or-the-other set to Accept, but this did not seem to work. No auto-replies. No posts. Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide that is probably unrelated to your known area of expertise.
― youn, Monday, 14 June 2010 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
non-members'an
― youn, Monday, 14 June 2010 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I know you can set it up to accept posts from non-members. Presumably it's just a switch in the admin interface? Not sure about autoreplies though. Worst comes to the worst, you could set up a dummy gmail account to receive all posts and acknowledge them using an autoreply (in a way that appears to come from the list admin).
― caek, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
this is an unsatisfactory situation: http://observatories.hodar.com/mcdonald/index.html
four fully clear nights in a row on a 60% site though, so i'm not complaining.
― caek, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
it is very cloudy here so we are goofing off with a seriously fancy teleescope. we just discovered saturn.
― caek, Thursday, 17 June 2010 05:11 (thirteen years ago) link
congrats 2 u
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:04 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks. discovering a planet was a big moment in my career. high on coffee right now.
― caek, Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:21 (thirteen years ago) link
you guys are gonna go far off this- have you though of a manager/agent?
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:23 (thirteen years ago) link
are you offering?
― caek, Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:25 (thirteen years ago) link
earlier today by the little telescope we will be using tomorrow night
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs488.ash1/26696_10150220656075305_673235304_12898372_1925929_n.jpg
― caek, Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:26 (thirteen years ago) link
if you can convince me that there's a commercial future for saturn exploitation then i'll take youse on, sure
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:27 (thirteen years ago) link
caek, imo, has the life
failing to take a photo of myself on the side of the mountain
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/IMG_3374.jpg
― caek, Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:34 (thirteen years ago) link
(not shown in this picture: terrible, terrible sunburnt bald spot from all day drinking england/usa match the day before)
― caek, Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:35 (thirteen years ago) link
fuuuck you get bald and sunburnt from drinking?
too late to quit now, but at least i know what happened to me.
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:37 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, drinking and watching football:baldness::morbid obesity:diabetes : (
― caek, Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:38 (thirteen years ago) link
caek's corner is a depressing place lately, we should party and fun times up in here
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 June 2010 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.theme-party-palace.com/images/space-party-invite.jpg
― caek, Thursday, 17 June 2010 10:46 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/lhs-scout-parade-band-1.jpg
― caek, Thursday, 17 June 2010 10:48 (thirteen years ago) link
thesis time. wish me luck.
-- caek out.
― caek, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 09:22 (thirteen years ago) link
luck.
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 09:38 (thirteen years ago) link
courage!
― oligopoly golightly (c sharp major), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 09:40 (thirteen years ago) link
upwards
― dyao, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 12:37 (thirteen years ago) link
per aspera ad astra
― be told and get high on coconut (gbx), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link
audere est facere
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Carthago delenda est
― ledge, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link
mi casa su casa
― be told and get high on coconut (gbx), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link