Martin Remy

  • Got Telescope? Binoculars?

    Last night I noticed some bright planet-like things in the western sky, so I dragged the old Dobsonian telescope out of the basement for the first time in years.  The objects turned out to be Jupiter and Venus.  I’m clueless at taking photos through my telescope, but I found some examples by the talented jpstanley to… Read more ⇢

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  • 2011 in review

    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys (and their fabulous keepers — trust me, I know them, they’re amazing) prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,600 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about… Read more ⇢

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  • Why I love Softpro Books in Denver

    I want to give a copy of Revolution in the Valley as a gift to a bright young programmer and Apple fan that I meet with a couple of times a month.  I love reading stories about the chaotic founding days of world-changing companies or products, and I think he would too.  But it turns… Read more ⇢

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  • Seamus Heaney, “Digging”

    Every spring when I turn on the sprinkler system and begin another season of mowing the lawn every week and pretending that one day I’m going to do something about the garden, I think of this sonorous number by the great Irish poet Seamus Heaney: Read more ⇢

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  • Worldwide WordPress 5K

    Today is the official day for the Automattic Worldwide WordPress 5K.  Think distributed run for a distributed company, and everyone is welcome to join.  One of my favorite entries is from fellow Automattician Karim Osman, who did a 5K dance. I ran my WWWP5K yesterday, it happened to be race day at CMRA.  The Bluffs… Read more ⇢

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