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 […]

Nikon Nikkor AF-S f/1.8 35mm

The new lens arrived this morning. Amazon listed the item as “unknown delivery date” until sometime Wednesday evening, and then on Thursday before I returned home, the lens had shipped and it arrived today. This lens concludes the summer upgrades to my camera system. At this point the lens has only been used for about […]

Wireless N Gigabit Routers

As a network concept for a potential change in network hardware, to more fully utilize available client systems, the idea of a gigabit router was proposed, and doing one with Wireless N support seemed like a great idea. My question on this topic is now, who designs these things? These things look like spacecraft and […]