Monthly Archives: December 2008

Thomas Doyle

Posted on December 3, 2008 by joel

This guy does some amazing work. He uses modeling materials meant for building model railroad dioramas, and build amazing little worlds under glass. He has an keen ability to "capture a moment" - even knowing these things are just plastic and foam, some of them seem almost alive.

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Scenes from Space #44

Posted on December 2, 2008 by joel
I don't know if any of you have been following all of the data coming from Mars these days, but they are finding lots of interesting new things. The MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) used radar to find something pretty interesting - huge glaciers under the surface. It looks like each of these glaciers might cover an area larger than a city, and be almost a kilometer thick. This discovery could have serious effect on the planning of a future mission to Mars, and could even serve as a drinking water reservoir for a future Martian settlement.
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Band-Saw Box #2

Posted on December 1, 2008 by joel
Once upon a time, I built a band-saw jewelry box, and mentioned how I wanted to make more. That was almost three years ago. It turns out that I actually did make more - or at least one more. I went back and checked, but for some reason I never posted pics of this box after I had "finished" it. If I remember right, I was finishing it up (in Texas) right before I got the new job offer and we had to start getting ready to move. So here are a couple of seriously belated pictures of this box. And not to sound facetious, but I really do hope to make several more of these someday.


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