Month: July 2009

PHYS 103

I have finished all of my course work for Statistics and Biopsychology at FSU, and now I am left with nothing to do. I have decided, in this academic dry period to register for PHYS 103 as a self-paced course. It is titled “General Physics II”. It is pretty much the standard 2nd semester physics […]

Beginning Astrophotography

This image is one of my first attempts at astrophotography with the D60. This is through my 70-300mm lens at the 70mm end, in a really dark place (rural Polk County, NC). Apparently all it takes for any type of astrophotography is a dark sky and a long exposure. One thing I encountered but gave […]

Astrophotography Annoyance

I have been fighting with my Orion SpaceProbe 130 on the topic of astrophotography for quite a while now, originally with the midget Nikon N7900, which went ok, then with the Fujifilm S5200, which was worse and then with the Nikon D60, which was almost a nightmare, in all configurations. After visiting my local planetarium […]

FedEx SmartPost

I have never liked FedEx, anyone around me when I am expecting something from them knows that very well. Now I am faced with an even greater evil than FedEx itself, FedEx SmartPost. It is a service where FedEx bundles all of the packages heading to an area and then sends them there in bulk […]

A Few Pieces of Macro

  I’m sorry I have not blogged recently, nothing really noteworthy to say, but yet, I have been extremely busy with my aunt’s party preparations and such. I thought these shots were kind of fun. These are crops at exactly 1600 x 900 as they appeared on my 20” monitor, where I decided they looked […]