Back again.

It has been a long time since I updated this dead blog, but I think that will change, at least for a little bit. To get back into the swing of professional astronomy again, instead of just job and home hunting, I’ve made a commitment to myself to read and take notes on one astro-ph article that comes out each day. Will I always succeed? No, but I’m going to make this a habit. To that end I’ll be posting links to some of the papers I look at, a favorite bit of the article, and my hand-scrawled notes to this blog. That favorite bit might not always be sciencey, it might just be a comment or stat that I found rather amusing or fun.

As I get back into this habit I hope to also get back to writing a bit of stuff for this blog, but for now this should at least get the ball rolling on my current plan.

Short Break!

Lots of stuff going on - I've got blog snippets about images of Earth from other Worlds, cool results from LRO about the Apollo flags still standing on the moon, and of course MSL Curiosity landing on Mars, including the NASAsocial (tweetup) at the NASA Langly Research Center prior to the entry, descent, and landing portion of the MSL mission.  It is also almost time for courses to begin and I'm putting the wraps on my Fall Solar System course, so that's been where most of my writing time has gone.  I'll have some official babbling on stuff again real soon.

Off the air for a week or so.

A Sky Full of Rocks will resume its normally sporadic schedule later this month.  I’m moving across the country and will be at the whim of when the cable folks show up to the new place.  That said, cool stuff is happening, from the CERN / Higgs Boson stuff on the 4th of July, to the MSL Curiosity Rover’s landing on Mars on August 6th, and bunch of things between then too.