This won't be all that funny or interesting for all that long, but I was greatly amused to notice the featured wallpaper of the week at hubblesite.org:
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/wallpaper/spotlight.php.

Actually, the permanent link goes to http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/new...eases/2000/14/ which would work better had they not confused a prize announcement with the usual monthly Heritage blurb...

(Stop that snickering - I do have a life. Including a 16-year-old who's about to start dating. Note to self: breathe in - out - slowly. Think calming thoughts.)

if you want to go thru some intresting pics n such
its the astronomy picture of the day websitehttp://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

Wow, the HST is about to die and they take a picture just for you signature. What nice folks.
Just kidding. But it is a nice shot.

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At night the stars put on a show for free (Carole King)

About that 16-year-old: son or daughter? Just insist on them taking along a phone book. Worked for folks our age didn't it? <snicker>

But getting back to the pic -- every time I see that one, I find more in it. Breathtaking!

I'm guessing daughter!

If it were a son, I suspect it would be a driving at 16 issue (in lieu of dating)

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

:roll:

Because we ALL know that what 16 year old BOYS are likely to do with 16 year old GIRLS is OK for them, but not for the GIRLS.

:roll:


CJSF

P.S.
That was sarcasm, in case you missed it.

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Two years ago moved from my town
I was looking up past the city lights
But the city lights got in my way

See the constellation ride across the sky
No cigar, no lady on his arm
Just a guy made of dots and lines

-from "See The Constellation"
by They Might Be Giants

Oh, he's driving, all right (and actually had much better preparation than I had at the age). But it really bothers him to occasionally drive my minivan, although he will stoop to my wife's Camry with much moaning. I can scarcely describe how little I want to hear the virtues of 4WD pickup trucks daily rehearsed for me. We'll talk when he actually gets one of the jobs he's applied for...

There will be more - there is a long series of 2-color ACS images done for a microlensing study, each of which is substantially deeper than the Heritage data. One of these days I'll get the hang of making the drizzling software work (just when I think I understand getting Python to work, there's a new version...) and there will be a couple of grand combined images capable of removing socks at kiloparsec range. Is there a name for the cosmic law which dictates that when I am in a collaboration of arbitrary size, the most tedious data reduction steps always land on my keyboard?