Michael, This Monday, Mar 12 at 2:00 pm, Boulder North Gym, everyone is invited to watch the slaughter of the century. Joe Ajello will be pounding me into the walls of a racquetball court. In the old days, 1965-1970 at CU, Joe used to spot me 20 points in handball (21-point game) and beat me […]
Mike, here’s a movie of the moon crossing the face of the sun as viewed a few million miles outside Earth’s orbit by one of the Stereo satellites. Thought you’d enjoy it. –rakkity
Mike, I’ve been enjoying the snow here in all its myriad forms, so much that I’ve been neglecting my duty to the blog. It’s so much more difficult to write something “bloggable” about good times. Sad, distressing, disastrous events make much better copy. But I have to say something about how fine and wonderful the […]
Dear Michael, As we departed our Topeka motel with fearless driver Patrick manning the truck, we all realized that today would be the last day of our journey into the golden west. We’d been watching the weather channel each night, and now examined the grasslands closely for the promised signs of snow. On and on […]
rakkity’s first snow pics:
Michael, It’s Saturday evening and we’ve made it to Topeka now, just one state away from Colorado. No sign of snow here! Balmy, almost shirt-sleeve, sunny weather here in eastern Kansas. But we expect that to change as we rise onto the high plains. I think we have about 450 mi to go, so we […]
(I’d already painted a “WHERE’S RAKKITY SIGN?” and was about to post it) Michael, We had no idea what had happened to your father–until today when we went on line here in Indiana. We wish him the best of luck in his recovery. We’d like to drop down to Evansville, but we’re falling behind schedule […]
Mike, Last night Dominic and I had what may be (but maybe not) our last games. Dom started off by wiggling his right wrist under my face, saying, “My wrist isn’t quite back to normal. I can’t really bend this hand back as much as I used to.” That being said, we went on to […]
Mike, Last night Dominic and I had what may be (but maybe not) our last games. Dom started off by wiggling his right wrist under my face, saying, “My wrist isn’t quite back to normal. I can’t really bend this hand back as much as I used to.” That being said, we went on to […]
Mike, Don’t put this on your blog calendar please, but it looks like the last racquetball game between Patrick & me (and also the first since breaking my shoulder ligaments) will occur on Jan 3, 2007. That’s the first day the UMd gym re-opens and the last day before we pack up the Penske truck, […]
My painting of the kitchen was going along swimmingly, and the walls that were finished looked good, if I do say so myself. We had just had new Silestone counters, oak cabinets, lights, and a new window put in, and except for the unpainted walls, everything was fresh and bright. Each workday morning I would […]
Mike, for your triple monitor: Apollo 17 Panorama (Mike took the challenge and captured this image from his triple monitor set-up.) And the guy who made that gigapixel picture wasn’t first. (As he sort of admitted by qualifying his picture as the first earth-based one.) You can download any of several hundred 23,000 x 23,000 […]