Telecommuting

By popular demand JIS is rolling out a pilot program testing the benefits of telecommuting. We're starting off being allowed to chose two days a month to do so. Today is my first chosen day (with my work tablet there in the corner.) Of course we've all worked from home now and then for various reasons, but never in this context. If all goes well we might see telecommuting once or twice a week. Time will tell!

Love In Space

Courtesy of NASA's picture of the day, and in honor of upcoming Valentine's Day,  I bring you nebula IC 1805. Otherwise known as the Heart Nebula. I love stuff like this, a constant reminder the natural world creates more beautiful things than we do.

Owlizona

An Arizona barn owl having a snack from the back of Arizona Highways. No reason, just really liked it.

No More Stories

The main structure of the jail is complete now at four stories. There will be an administrative section that will be five there on the right. They say it will be another year before it's done, but there won't be much to see for a while as most of the construction will be internal.

Still Jazzy

My Jazz collection grows as yet another new version of him is released. The movies may have been an abomination against mankind, but at least they kept the Transformers relevant.

WOTM

February's WOTM. Because there's no Groundhog of the Month.

Four Moons In One

This morning around 6am Nashville got our peek at the super rare Super Blue Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse, which sounds like a bad energy drink flavor. This convergence of factors last happened 152 years ago.  I didn't get a picture of it, cell cameras never do celestial shots well, so here it is over New York instead.

What makes a Super Blue Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse? First we have the "super moon" which is when the moon is at its closest point to Earth and appears larger than usual in the sky. Then we have the "blue moon" which has nothing to do with color, it just means a second full moon in the same month which rarely happens. Next the "blood moon"which does refer to color. The sun's rays filtered through Earth's atmosphere during a lunar eclipse turn the moon a copper color. However depending on your area you don't see the eclipse, or only part of it, just the blood moon. And finally of course, the lunar eclipse itself, which is when the Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon.

Here in Nashville we only got about a half eclipse, but it was still cool to see.