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Kaiser Low Calorie Diet, Terrible Execution

Like so many of us, I need to lose weight. My doctor at Kaiser referred me to a new in-house weight loss program, a low-calorie “meal replacement” program. The program appears to be a franchisee of...

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Home theater upgrade story (Part 1)

Old system: Rotel RSX-1065 receiver Panasonic TH-50P9UK plasma display Old Pioneer DVD player InFocus ScreenPlay 5700 projector Roku B&W CDM7NT 5.1 system, with broken tweeters on the front mains...

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Home theater upgrade, part 2, fixing HDMI

(Part one found here.) First I’ll mention that the AV preamp I started out with, a Marantz 7005 purchased as B-stock from Outlaw Audio, turned out to be hopeless. It would never successfully handshake...

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Internet service has no maverick

If you’re like me, you have exactly two places from which to buy high-speed internet service: your phone company (mine is Verizon) or your cable TV provider (mine is Time Warner Cable). That sounds...

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Where to go from here …

This is the first new blog post from me in four years, and long overdue. Why blog now? I enjoy writing and reporting about stuff in my life: astronomy, travel, bridge, wine, photography, network...

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Astrophotography from home

In the wee hours of May 15, hunting down Comet C/2020 F8 SWAN Normally I wouldn’t even have considered trying this project. I’m known for hauling my telescopes to a dark sky site in the desert to do...

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Playing with the big guy

Evening twilight with the AP180 at Sawpit Wash, 50 yards from our front door. The previous post mentions how I started trying out photographing Messier objects from my home in Monrovia, using my...

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This story is a bit flat

Last night (Saturday, May 23, 2020) was a beautiful dark clear night in Monrovia. Tonight is forecast to be even better and warmer. I can’t resist! When will I sleep? By the end of evening twilight, I...

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More Spring Messiers

We had several great clear nights in Monrovia. I had a night where everything clicked. If I hadn’t napped a bit, I might have gotten two or three more Messier objects. I think now I know the most...

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Video of comet NEOWISE

I set up the AP180 last night and was able to capture comet NEOWISE as it passed through Ursa Major. This video is fifty frames covering about 27 minutes, from 9:11 p.m. to 9:38 p.m. on July 19, 2020....

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