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Happy_Anniversary_SomeNet

We forgot to have the party .!.  SomeNet has been here for 10 years now.

The world did keep on turning tho, I noticed that Google didn’t

Prepare_For_The_Worst

I’m sure the residents of Galveston Texas are wondering how, not to mention why… something like this chose them. It was bad.
But Hurricane Ike could have been much much worse.

Likely not many of us were up at 4:15 to check on things, or you could have seen this live image of the NWS radar from [...]

Hurricane Tracking Resources

Today I have updated a quick reference page that I first built while living on the South Carolina coast. Lots of interesting imagery and links for further study. Please visit (and bookmark as a favorite) my Atlantic Hurricane resource selector .
Enjoy  /;^)

I always loved the Blackbird

Never really understanding why; I just had always accepted that the SR-71 was the coolest flying machine that ever had been. It was a picture like this one that first clued me in that this was no ordinary aircraft - and that was probably early-1980s. It may be a while before anything this significant flys [...]

N4OFA visits Rocket City

Our good friend Mike made the journey to Alabama for the weekend.

Traveling all the way from Kingsport TN, Mikey drove over Thursday arriving in time for the RACES/ARES group’s annual picnic on Monte Sano. I took a vacation day to show Mike around town a bit, including the HOSC @ MSFC and the US Space [...]

Copper_Sunrise

Before leaving the summer/beach theme, I’ll share one more favorite.

I’m always amazed at how powerful is nature to produce such dramatic visions of simple ‘ordinary’ events - like a typical sunrise at the beach. No amount of pixel-twisting, palette-wrenching, post-production finesse could rival the natural beauty of a shot like this. I rarely even adjust [...]