Cat’s Eye Nebula

November 22, 2011 Read Comments
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Readers of the blog know that I sometimes go slightly off-topic to share my geek love for all things space. I love this particular image in particular, The Cat's Eye Nebula: Three thousand light years away from Earth, this nebula is 10,000 times as bright as the sun and is the result of a star that lost its outer envelope around 1000 years ago. There are 11 rings of gas make up the formation, which is expanding at a constant rate of 10 milliarcseconds a year. In the Universe, even … [Read more...]

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American Horror Story

November 17, 2011 Read Comments
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As most of you already know, I loves me some creepy and scary stuff. Now I have a new TV obsession: American Horror Story, which airs on Wednesdays on FX. Now I must admit, this show isn't for the squeamish --- or the prudish for that matter. I've sat with my mouth open more than a few times with some of the scenes but there is just something about this series that keeps me coming back for more and it also makes think about story presentation as well. Here are just a few things I … [Read more...]

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Oprah Wisdom

October 18, 2011 Read Comments
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For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you already know that I attended the O You! Conference, sponsored by Oprah Magazine. It was here in Atlanta and I was excited to attend. Some of my favorite speakers were there including Suze Orman, Dr. Oz, and Nate Berkus. Journalist Lisa Ling was there as well as everyone's best friend Gayle King. Oh yeah...Oprah was there too. Although I had to get up at the crack of dawn on Saturday after working almost 60 hours at the day job, I was so … [Read more...]

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Supernova Bubble

June 30, 2011 Read Comments
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As some of you already know, I kinda have a geek love for space and astromony, so sometimes I veer off-topic on the blog. Yesterday during one of my Hubble procrastination browsing stints, I found a picture that fits in quite nicely with my earlier blog post this week. Bubbles anyone? :-) Actually this is quite interesting: SNR 0509 is the result of gas shocked by an expanding blast wave from a supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small galaxy about 160,000 light-years from … [Read more...]

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