Reality beats sci-fi any day

I just stumbled across the Boston Globe's Advent collection of photos taken from the Hubble Space telescope. This fantastic photo above is of the NGC 6302 nebula, view the others in the Globe's advent collection and tour around the Hubble site to see more beautiful and amazing imagery in their galleries and learn more about discoveries they've made and about modern astronomy.

At long last...but not quite

To any friends and family who check back in here now and then to see if I'm still posting -I'm working on it and am trying to decide if the blog will continue in the new year. (Obviously this past year hasn't been great for blogging.) It's not that I've not had bloggable events over the year, it's been a matter of making the time for a blog with, perhaps, diminishing returns.

At any rate, today I came across a great video of animals doing cool things and wanted to share the video. Also see this link (and especially the link in its first paragraph, if you enjoy a bit of Monty Python) for more details.