John Jacobsen

Nov. 27, 2011 18:37 NZDT B2 Science, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station The iClipse Interesting last couple of days.

Nov. 25, 2011 15:32 NZDT B2 Science, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station The "South Pile" in windstorm For those of you who don’t know, December and January are the centennial anniversaries of Amundsen and Scott’s arrival at the South Pole, respectively.

Nov. 23, 2011 14:53 NZDT B2 Science, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Forlorn Slippers How to take a twenty second shower First, work up a sweat in the gym or the sauna.

Nov. 20, 2011 12:49 NZDT B2 Science, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Peek-a-boo with the Ceremonial Pole Sunday here, so a light work day.

Nov. 17, 2011 11:39 NZDT B2 Science, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Summer Camp from the A4 wing Just helped form a human chain to bring the mail into the Station, brought to Destination Zulu by a snowmobile/sled combo and a front loader from Cargo, and

Nov. 15, 2011 05:36 NZDT Berthing A4-209, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Fire sled next to refueling pit Well, that’ll wake you up nice and quick.

Feeling a bit run down this afternoon.

Nov. 12, 2011 11:46 NZDT B2 Science, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Jens and Freija departing South Pole after 12 months Just said farewell to IceCube winter-overs Freija and Jens on the “flight deck” (outdoor waiting area near the plane… wind chill -65

17:01 NZDT B2 Science, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station En route to South Pole Been here just over a day now and am settling in.

2011/11/8 05:01 AM NZDT Christchurch Spring in Christchurch Woke up a few minutes ago and started thinking about a blog post.

T minus four days and I’m getting ready for yet another trip to the Pole — this one is number ten.

Details of drawing in progress The wheel turns, and returns — during a very busy fall season work-wise I have been unable to get much painting done but have lately been drawing in the evenings with ink and gouache — such a fun and flexible pairing of medi…

Today’s painting — Town Line Road at OO, oil on panel, 8“x10” I’ve had a week off and have been painting outside, at my mom’s house out in the country near Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.

Thanks to Jon at ISO50 (Scott Hansen’s beautiful Web site/blog) for mentioning / highlighting my Antarctic photography!

Mockups for paintings Makehuman figures imported into SketchUp I’ve been playing around with the Golden Open acrylics a lot lately and preparing a bunch of small and not-so-small supports for new paintings.

I’ve been thinking about hobbies lately.

Once again on the train bound for Picton, to catch the Interislander ferry to Wellington.

Yesterday’s post was a bit of a tome and I am using today to do some shopping.

A full day in Christchurch, a Pole month’s worth of showers, sushi, photos of graffiti, walking around, going to the Christchurch art gallery, good conversations, and a nap have all helped get me back into the Real World™.

Just a few more minutes to get this post in for January 22.

Morning on my last day (hopefully) and, like a kid on the night before Christmas, I’m excited and nervous.

Holy frozen Batman, I’m leaving tomorrow!

Back in the Galley again, the smell of dozens of lunch burgers grilling and the very same licorice spice Stash tea I always drink here setting the olfactory tones for this post.

Tuesday, Jan. 18 2011 1:14 a.m.

Sunday, Jan. 16 2011 11:32 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 16 2011 1:11 a.m.

Friday, Jan. 14 2011 11:22 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 13 2011 12:59 a.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 12 2011 1:12 a.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 11 2011 12:44 a.m.

Monday, Jan. 10 2011 12:05 a.m.

Sunday, Jan. 9 2011 1:50 a.m.

Friday, Jan. 7 2011 6:12 p.m.

Been here about nineteen hours and am settling in, though I have yet to do any real work.

The Emperor and I If you are reading this post, then we have made it to the South Pole.

As we began our descent to Pegasus Airfield, it finally came to me, bleary-eyed after a brief but intense bout with REM sleep, why we had left Christchurch at the unholy hour of 11 PM rather than something more civilized.

Thursday, Jan. 13 2011 11:37 p.m.

My stay here in Christchurch may be a short one.

I didn’t get a post in yesterday, because it was only January 2 for a few hours, just before I crossed over the International Date Line.

Happy New Year to everyone from the skies somewhere over the western USA, en route to LAX.

As thoughts turn in earnest to shopping and packing to depart January 1, here is a South Pole video from old times to get one in the mood for the coming trip.

I have been moving things around a bit here in preparation for my ninth and probably last trip.

This video is from an interview I did with James Turner at OSCON in July of 2010.

Here are some Ruby plugins I developed recently during my experimentation with SketchUp: Auto-reload Plugin The scan_plugins plugin monitors any given directory and looks for any changed .rb files.

Came across an interesting post today by author R.

As a side benefit of transitioning back from European time since returning home last week, I have been waking up early most mornings and getting in a bit of painting.

Still from James March's "Man on Wire" Growing up in the Midwest speaking English like everyone else around me, I always thought my native tongue was somewhat ordinary, even ugly.

For your enjoyment: YouTube videos from the last two trips to Antarctica.

Been following along with Justin Chin about how to create posing rigs with SketchUp.

Being a geek, I’ve always liked the word 'metric.’