Scott Labs

Overview I’ve been self-hosting my own things for over 10 years.

Today was the second total eclipse in North America in my lifetime.

Overview I’ve put together a system that allows me to use an old (1980s) CRT TV to display a 1990s version of The Weather Channel for my location.

While updating some old blog posts to use my new gallery setup, I remembered I never posted some planetary images I had taken back in September of 2020.

Well, it hasn’t been six years!

It’s been a little over six years since my last “Hosting My Own Things” post.

I stumbled across this article today about a software developer that bought an Apple Watch and actually ended up buying a mechanical watch to replace it.

These photographs document the Scott family trip to Kaua’i.

Okay, so it’s not really hosting my own things, since I’m paying Microsoft $4 a month, but I’ve set up a new Exchange Online account and am liking the control I have over it vs. iCloud or Gmail.

When I initially set up this blog, I had to it set up using https instead of http since my ISP blocks regular http traffic to my server.

Last night, there was an interesting celestial event: the Earth eclipsed the Sun, casting it’s shadow on the Moon.

I think this every time I get the OS X update pop-up.

Lately, I have been interested in seeing how much of what I do online could be hosted by myself, on my own server, in my house.

ilovecharts: sign at The Eagle & Child, pub in Oxford where C.S.

jtotheizzoe: Just picked up my daily planner for 2014.

Santa at nearly the speed of light jtotheizzoe: This time of year, children who know their physics may start to question if Santa could possibly be real.

kiggor: If other planets were at the same distance as our moon

jtotheizzoe: Science, Religion, and the Big Bang Here’s a look at the history of intellectual and religious conflict surrounding the beginning of everything, and why the “Big Bang” should really be called the “Everywhere Stretch”, from minutephysics.

thefrogman: Biddy the Hedgehog [instagram] I had a hedgehog named Rachel once.

colchrishadfield: Good morning!

the-wolf-and-the-fox: daddysdirtyblonde: ragewang: uncomfortableconfusion: The cutest kitten gifs ever on tumblr Do not do this to my frail and mortal being.

It’s Okay To Be Smart: Piles of things figuring out piles of things jtotheizzoe: Every atom in the universe is created equal.

Phil Plait: We walk past wonders in the sky all the time, ignoring them.

Biology’s cruel joke goes something like this: As a teenage body goes through puberty, its circadian rhythm essentially shifts three hours backward.

shockofthelightning: (Via Huffington Post) “Supermoon” in an nutshell

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fuckyeahfluiddynamics: One downside to many flow visualization techniques, like those using dye, smoke, or particles, is the difficulty of dealing with their aftermath.

Adulting: A pre-trip checklist adulting: Have you … 1.)

elizabeth-swanson: alcoholicgifts: I would wear this everywhere Reblog for R.

engineeringisawesome: One of the most curious buildings in Japan is the Gate Tower Building in Osaka, Japan.

minimalmac: Yep.

jtotheizzoe: infinity-imagined: The actual distance between the Earth and the Moon.

jtotheizzoe: This is the adorable way that a physicist proposed to his girlfriend, who is also a physicist :) “Taking these results into account, the author proposes to Christie the indefinite continuation of the study.

spaceplasma: Today…

jtotheizzoe: A Simulated Heart This elegant, powerful, nearly tireless organ fascinates us so deeply that we have attributed to it (scientifically and not-so-scientifically) everything from love to life itself.

Through the eyepiece of an optical telescope, you see something right in front of you, and your brain says, there it is: a jellybean, four feet away.

The concept of an embryo is a staggering one, and forming an embryo is the hardest thing you will ever do.

itsfullofstars: xkcd

jtotheizzoe: The Adorable Biology of Snoring Hummingbirds I think we’ve all felt like this on a Monday, right?

jtotheizzoe: How many people have ever been born?

jtotheizzoe: buzzfeedceleb: gifsfln: **Seth Meyers **on the Steroid Era of storms.

Texts from Elizabeth’s mom as she watched the Red Bull Stratos jump.

thedailywhat: It’s Caturday!

jtotheizzoe: Superstring!

science tumbled: Breaking the Seal science: So you’re drinking, and you deliberately delay the evening’s first visit to the toilet, because you know that subsequent visits will be much more frequent.

thedailywhat: Here Is A Video Of A Baby Hedgehog of the Day: Belly scratches should be a Sunday afternoon mandate.

tastefullyoffensive: [box guide I] [simonscat]

heyoscarwilde: Solar System Travel Posters illustrations by Luke Minner and Naomi Wilson :: via IndelibleInkWorkshop

n-a-s-a: Space Shuttle Rising Credit: NASA