BOOM FIZZ CRACKEL Crackel crackel ...

It was pretty tame for the most part. I think this makes it look more exciting that it was. These guys did do it up with 4 or 5 minute long sets during the night and were about as exciting as it got this year.

It's been cloudy and windy..

...and hard to take pictures of things in space from here.

But I did get a slightly better image of Saturn the other day.

Boring Space Stuff

There is a comet out right now, C/2009 R1 a.k.a Comet McNaught, which I decided to try and find. Then I thought I would try and take a picture. It didn't work out so well.

I could see it okay with my telescope but my picture came out pretty bad. I had some major technical difficulties with my astrophotography rig as in I didn't test it at all before heading out. I was mostly just wanting to take my new telescope with tracking head out for a proper test run. It worked really well unlike my photo rig. I saw lots of fun stuff, Comet McNaught, Saturn, Jupiter and a galaxy or two.

I had better luck taking a picture of Jupiter.

It was a lot brighter and played better with my half working photo rig.

These two are the same but with different stack processing (stacking is taking lots of pictures of the same thing then using some fancy computer magic to get a better image).

Not sure which I like better.

Oh, and here is the first test I did a few months back trying to get a picture of Saturn.

You can sort of see it. Once I get my setup working correctly I should be able to get much better images but it's pretty exciting to get anything right now.

3D Flying Cat

Meet Pistol the 3d flying cat! I think it defaults to parallel but if you click on the video it should take you to youtube where you can pick your 3d flavor.

um....

...I wanted to run but I couldn't look away.

Tiny Jelly

I love taking pics of the little Jellyfish. Our beach has lots yeah!

It's a Knob

In 3d.

Giant Hook

I got me a giant hook 'cause there's only one fish in the sea for me.

Packet

Feed those flowers.


4? Looks like 3 to me.

Pumpkin Stuff

We haven't carved pumpkins in a long time, maybe 6+ years. We went a little pumpkin crazy this year.


In addition to carving pumpkins we did some fun pumpkin cooking. Don't they look good?


Taking the top off to reveal the delicious pumpkin innards.


Yum!


Linda digging in to her pumpkin. We made WAY to much. One small pumpkin would have been enough for both of us. We have leftovers for days.


Here are all of our pumpkins, 3 carved, two to be eaten and one yet to be carved.


Here is the super cute one Linda carved while we waited for our pumpkins to cook. Who likes cats?


Pistol decided she didn't want to be a ghost or skelliton. She wanted to be the headless cat -:]


Inky just sticking with the black cat look.

Happy Halloween!

Inky was made for Halloween! Spooky!

Pistol is just plain old cute snuggling the pumpkin. We are trying to decide if she is a ghost or a skeleton for Halloween.

New 3D Camera!

I have been waiting 25+ years for this camera! It's the Fuji W1 3D and I it rocks my 3D camera world!


Here it is next to my previous stereo camera rig. Much more compact for sure. It has been in my pocket for the past month.


One of the coolest features is the free view (no glasses needed) stereo screen on the back. It's a little hard to see but the screen is stereo 3D in this picture. Click on the image (any image on the blog also) to see it bigger. Maybe that' will help show the stereo screen better. I'll try and get a better picture of it soon.


Here is a picture of our black cat, Inky, I took with it.


And here is a super cute picture of our white cat, Pistol.


I was going to do a review of the camera but I'm to lazy right now. Mostly I LOVE IT! It does 3D super good. If you ever wanted a solid stereo 3D point and shoot camera this is it. Kind of expensive, $600, but that is about what my last 3d rig cost and it's not nearly as good in the 3d department. Oh, and it is probably takes at least as good a 2d picture as most point and shoots. You can check out the Fuji site about it here. It also does stereo video! I'll post some up at some point soon.

Party In the Sunset!

Nothing says "Party!" like an pile of Smirnoff bottles
.

I imagine the people who left these here probably looked about same the next day.


What's with the wine bottle? I hope they weren't mixing.

Banana In the Road

And look, it's got guts coming out -:O

Tree Clown

HA HA HAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaa...................

Small Fuzzy Green Ball

Our kitties would love to play with this.


I bet they taste like fish. I our kitties love fuzzy balls and fish.


A little piece of wood that was behind the fuzzy ball.


Another fuzzy ball! And wood! And Linda's feet!

We all have to eat.

There have been a lot of dead sea lions on the beaches the last few months.


This one looked like a shark got the first taste but this gull is filling up now.


This was the next day.

Gross.

Crab from the dungen

Big old Dungeness Crab.


3D close up!

Sunset Sunsets

The joke when we moved to the Outer Sunset 6 years ago was that we would never see a sunset because it's always foggy. Sure it's foggy, sometimes really foggy, but we get to see more than our fair share of sunsets.

Nice right?


Some other random sunset from our roof. Be sure to click the images to see them bigger.

Sidewalk Skull

Spooky.


3D Sidewalky Skully!