Also, that’s an extremely deep V that he’s wearing.

“An HR Diagram was successfully obtained for both the M34 cluster and part of the NGC188 cluster. The main sequence and red giant branch of M34 is clearly visible, whereas the data for NGC188 appears to encompass only the topmost fraction of the full diagram. M34 and NGC188 appeared to have a main sequence turnoff of approximately 0.0 and 0.7, respectively. From this it was possible to determine that NGC188 is significantly older than M34. Possible outliers in NGC188 were identified by comparing the observed data to a generic HR diagram, and by measuring the rough magnitude shifts between the main sequences of each cluster and an absolute magnitude diagram, the distance moduli were determined. M34 was measured to have a distance modulus of 8.6, and therefore a distance of 5.25×10²pc from earth. NGC188 had a distance modulus of 11.4 and a distance of 1.905×10³pc. The clusters were found to be roughly 1380 parsecs apart.”

Someone asked me a few weeks ago how to figure out distances like this and I couldn’t remember at all anymore. I wasn’t sure if I had ever even learned it. Apparently I did, I just didn’t learn it very well. But hey, it’s cool that I knew it once! And now I (sort of) know it again.

Here was my photo of NGC188 (in colour!):

My photo of M34:

Continued.

Autism Scale from 0 to 50

0 – 12 No Autism, essentially
13
14
15 Average woman, and average male or female biologist
16
17 Average female scientist
18 Average man
19 Average male scientist, and average male or female physicist
20
21 Average male or female computer scientist
22 ME
23
24 Average math contest winner
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32-50 Scores over 32 are generally taken to indicate Asperger’s Syndrome or high-functioning autism, with more than 34 an “extreme” score.

They hit the nail right on the head!

Disclaimer: I initially got a 29 but I think I was influenced by my knowledge of autism symptoms. I retook it a little more realistically and ended up with a more realistic number. Lord knows, I wouldn’t want to be mistaken for a math contest winner! Gross!

Go there and enjoy.

Who said we need flash for complex interaction design? Adobe, that’s who.

BTW, side note: I want to include the following quote about R’lyeh, because it is the greatest.

Without knowing what futurism is like, Johansen achieved something very close to it when he spoke of the city; for instead of describing any definite structure or building, he dwells only on broad impressions of vast angles and stone surfaces–surfaces too great to belong to any thing right or proper for this earth, and impious with horrible images and hieroglyphs. I mention his talk about angles because it suggests something Wilcox had told me of his awful dreams. He said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours. Now an unlettered seaman felt the same thing whilst gazing at the terrible reality.

– The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft