January 2023 - Musings

Dreary

Today in Central Texas, it has been 30-33F outside, wet, and dreary. It’s a good thing that we had half a rack of lamb in […]

Fear of the Agora

The agora is the marketplace, of course. This afternoon, I read an essay by Robert Reich describing his relationship to Robert Bork. It reminded me […]

Ophiocordyceps unilateralis

We have a weekend FaceTime session with our son and his family every week or two. During today’s session, I mentioned that we had seen […]

Rack ’em Up!

I bought a rack of lamb this afternoon for this evening’s dinner, two dinners, actually, and Susan cooked it up. She also boiled an artichoke. […]

Quality Improvement

I spent about eight years of my medical carrier studying quality improvement in order to help others understand and do it. One of the basic […]

Comet 2022 E3 ZTF

I went out at 9PM on the night of 1/26/23 to photograph the now famous “green comet.” I used the backyard Stellarvue 5″ APO astrograph. […]

Crab Porn

I’ve spent much of the day trying to get my astrophotography stacking software to stack cometary data correctly. So far, I have not been successful, […]

This Week in COVID

This is week 149 of the COVID apocalypse. How the time flies! Here is Dr. Klotman’s weekly COVID update. The highlights are: Other COVID news […]

Beef Porn

Last night was the last of three chilly nights, and Susan decided to make beef stew. Like roasted tomato basil soup, this is a dish […]

NGC1501 and -2

My friend and fellow medical retiree, AD Smith, sent me picture of a planetary nebula last week. It seemed vaguely familiar, but there are several […]