Category Archives: Science & Tech

Sciency stuff. Techy stuff. I like it all.

Blogging since 2006

15 January 2009, 10:51 am by Giggles
Categories: Education, Life, Science & Tech

It’s been three years since I first started blogging. According to the blog statistics there are 542 posts and 438 comments on here (people weren’t very comment-y that first year, and I’m pretty sure less than half of those comments … Keep reading →

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Images on the Internet

12 January 2009, 7:37 am by Giggles
Categories: Science & Tech, Venting

An interesting situation developed yesterday. My post about the moon, because there was a link to it on Scientific American, drove a LOT (over 200 hits) of traffic here yesterday. That makes it the highest hit page in a single … Keep reading →

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Perigee Moon in Tucson, AZ

11 January 2009, 12:23 am by Giggles
Categories: Science & Tech

That means it’s closer to the earth and is just that much larger than normal. As I was driving home from my Saturday errands I saw the moon, huge, gorgeous moon, sitting down in a low valley between two mountains. … Keep reading →

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A news post in the new year

2 January 2009, 10:29 am by Giggles
Categories: Books, Education, Health, Learn Something, News, Science & Tech

I’m cleaning out my computer stuff and getting everything organized. That means going through my RSS feed reader and reading all the things I marked to read later, saving the articles I want to save for later, and maybe commenting … Keep reading →

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Looking back and looking forward

1 January 2009, 11:20 am by Giggles
Categories: Books, Education, Exercise, Gospel, Life, Quilting/Sewing/Knitting/Crafting, Science & Tech

I wrote a Christmas letter looking back at how 2008 has gone. It can be found on my web site. I’ve also put together a composite image with a picture of me from every month in 2008. It’s a fun … Keep reading →

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Heavenly Pairs

31 December 2008, 8:12 pm by Giggles
Categories: Happy Things, Science & Tech

On the first day of December I went out and took pictures of Venus, Jupiter, and the Moon. The three of them were the closest they will be for at least five years. Tonight I went out and took pictures … Keep reading →

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Tagless

2 December 2008, 1:29 pm by Giggles
Categories: Books, Education, Exercise, Family, Folks, Gospel, Health, Life, Meme, Quilting/Sewing/Knitting/Crafting, Relationships, Science & Tech

I think memes are interesting just from the folklore aspect of them. Over the last month or so I’ve seen several on friends’ blogs. And I was even tagged in one of them. So I’ll give a few of them … Keep reading →

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