Getting Real

Developers at my picture host, Zenfolio, apparently are big adepts of this book - "Getting Real" by 37Signals.

It's  a very alternative approach to build software...just reading the table of contents is fascinating.

For all ye astronomically inclined: Google Sky

Am I the last person to find out about Google Sky?

Anyway, it's freakin' awesome.

Not a happy marriage, eh?

Simple of mind and fat of body... stupid, sulking, lonely and melancholy.

    -- Johannes Kepler about his wife.

Йа плакалъ

Zwicky did not get on with the night assistants (of the Palomar Observatory - DM)

He described them as spherical bastards because (he said), 'they are bastards every way I look at them'.

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http://scarych.livejournal.com/444370.html

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