theory.sauna dialogues an IRC transcript from net.sauna OAF: Hi HHeater: Hi Alexander! Welcome to the net.sauna. OAF: Thank you for the invitation HHeater: How is Stockholm doing; beautiful day there? It is blazing sun in Linz. HHeater: The sauna stove was accidentally left on for the night, temperature in the sauna was 50 Celsius when I entered, almost 60. Now the door is open, cooling down for the beginning of our dialogue. OAF: I don�t know anything about the weather – I have worked all night. HHeater: I had a party instead. Would you like to dive in to talk …
The Egg Nebula On September 27 and October 16, 2002, the Hubble Space Telescope pointed its Advanced Camera for Surveys at the 3,000-light-year-distant Egg Nebula in the constellation Cygnus. The view is nothing short of stunning � it is as if someone tossed a pebble into a celestial pond. The scene here is a composite image from three polarizing filters. Light from each filter has been colored red, blue, or green; the colors indicate different orientations of dust particles in the nebula. The ripples are actually shells of gas and dust sloughed off in convulsions by the obscured, dying central …
Cabinet by James Krenov Krenov on Grain: The Story of a Cabinet James Krenov is a cabinet maker from California. He has written a lot about the craft of cabinet making and is considered a giant in the field. Hi thoughts on working with grain remind me of many other crafts, including writing and facilitation, both of which I do. Here he writes about making the cabinet pictured above. “When I saw that the side of the cabinet created a forward curve, I decided to change the stand to one with front legs that swept forward. Making this change is …
Do we have to blog this war anymore? Yesterday I saw a photograph in the Globe and Mail of feet. There were three or four pairs of bloodied feet stacked on top of each other from a morgue in Iraq somewhere. Some of these feet were no bigger than my two year old son’s feet. I know this war is sick. I know that no one is of one mind about it. Many Canadians and Americans think it’s great, many do not. Many Iraqis are grateful, many are angry. Many people have died horrible deaths in this war, and many …
Blue Tinged Auroras, photographed from the International Space Station I’m tired of reading, watching and blogging about war. More on this later, but right now, enjoy this sight. Courtesy of NASA