Amid the crazy bouncing of the cheek-to-jowl-to-banging your head on the roof as we careen our way back to town in the back of the Delta, I put my head […]

Okay, as I said, this is going to take some adjustment. People had warned me about sensory overload when I got to CHCH, but didn’t say anything about McMurdo. I’ve […]

That whole “slipping away” thing didn’t quite pan out the way I’d thought. Tina called “Pole Three” while I was finishing lunch, and pretty much everyone at the table got […]

Taking Streetview-style panoramas with “Sock Cam” – a borrowed  D90 insulated against the -30F temps by being stuffed inside a sock filled with hand warmers. Time to pack and go.I’ve hinted at it, but I […]

Irene: “How many launches are there each day, Vincent? A dozen?”  Vincent: “Sometimes more.”  Irene: “You’re the only one that watches all of them. If you’re going to pretend like […]

Morning looking up already. The DVD rendering software is still taunting me, spinning for hours before telling me that no, I still don’t have enough disc space, try again, sonny […]

Okay, decided to make the best of the wonky sleep schedule, and start embracing what passes for “night” around here. When I popped awake at 11:00, I just got up, […]

The so, so, so belated answers to more Questions for Pablo at the Pole. Sorry, I’ve been way, way negligent in my duties here! =============“Being from Winnipeg Canada, I am […]

A new storm rolled in Sunday afternoon. Cold gray mottled sky, and sheets of snow blowing in from a thousand miles away. Listening to the wind whip against the canvas […]

“There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good and is in control of every individual thing […]