Had some fun taking pictures with my dad of the ISS transit in front of the Moon tonight. (The ISS being the only satellite that still makes me happy when I can actually see it with my own eyes---I'd rather not see any satellite swarms.) Thanks to @pfsmet for […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Friends in Belgium and Western Europe: Aurora is visible above Belgium!

Somewhat annoyingly & ironically, the first victim of my policy of blocking entire IP ranges of (cloud) providers that I find scraping my website without regard for robots.txt turns out to be my own website: Let's Encrypt uses (multiple, different) cloud IPs for its HTTPS challenges... And […]

[uspol] The title of one of the final episodes of Babylon 5 keeps going through my head today: 'And all my dreams, torn asunder'... Sigh...