Today’s Memes & Thoughts for 2023-10-26

Happy Thursday, y’all,… well, what’s left of it. The following is a collections of memes posted and related thoughts in blog-order, meaning beginning from the events/posts at the end of the day and ending with those from the beginning of the day. (10:30PM)

Tonight I attended the The Russell Frank Lecture Series: A Revolutionary New Radio Telescope for Nevada by Prof. Hallinan at UNLV. One thing that I love about living so close to UNLV is access to great presentations and nerd gatherings like tonight’s. The speaker went through the history of radio astronomy and plans to deploy a new radio telescope array in Nevada. Tonight’s presentation reminded me of the first documentary, The Astronomers (1991) , that I remember really getting because the documentary maker used the lives of the people doing the work to tell the story, instead of boring old dates and places without the biographies. A lot of time is spent in the documentary with a young doctoral fellow leading a radio astronomy experiment in Owens Valley using something for the first time called Interferometry to create an array of radio telescopes the size of the earth. Which was a method also used to create the first image of a black hole in 2017. I love nerdy shit like this. (8:18 PM)

2023-10-26 A Revolutionary New Radio Telescope for Nevada by Prof. Hallinan
2023-10-26 A Revolutionary New Radio Telescope for Nevada by Prof. Hallinan
2023-10-26 A Revolutionary New Radio Telescope for Nevada by Prof. Hallinan
2023-10-26 A Revolutionary New Radio Telescope for Nevada by Prof. Hallinan
2023-10-26 A Revolutionary New Radio Telescope for Nevada by Prof. Hallinan
2023-10-26 A Revolutionary New Radio Telescope for Nevada by Prof. Hallinan

In my happy place… also got one Medicare kerfuffle straightened out (bills for last month’s colonoscopy were rejected because the agency thought I had other insurance… that’ll elevate your heart rate ) and I found two possible local job offers that might be interesting. One step at a time. Gotta learn from previous mistakes and opportunities missed. (6:00 PM)