The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has now seen first light. On a mountaintop in Chile, it begins a decade long survey later this year. In just the tests of setting up it has already made so many discoveries, and produced some stunning images.

Already, in just over 10 hours of test observations, the observatory has discovered 2,104 never-before-seen-asteroids, including seven near-Earth asteroids, none of which pose any danger.

I can’t wait to see the world of knowledge, and understanding of the universe, it will open up during its mission.

“It will be capable of really detecting things that actually change very rapidly,” says Sandrine Thomas, deputy director of Rubin Observatory and the observatory’s telescope and site project scientist. “That, in itself, will be unique to the world. No other telescope would be able to do that.”

And, what photography enthusiast wouldn’t get excited over a giant camera?!

It’s equipped with a specially-designed large telescope, as well as a car-sized digital camera that’s the biggest such camera in the world.

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via NPR.

A few weeks ago, one evening, I came across a recipe video for a bread on YouTube. I watch videos of recipes on there all the time. I even make some of those. Later that same night I was thinking of it when I realized I had all the ingredients for it and that I could prep the mix for storing overnight and baking in the morning. I did exactly that.

The loaf I made lasted about a week and in that week I noticed I liked its taste and felt healthy. In my meals, I was substituting slices of that loaf for things like store bought bread, and rice. When that week ended I made another loaf. And then more…

Now I’ve made it four times and I still like it. I’ve raved about it to friends and family and have passed the recipe on to them. And now I thought I’d share with you as well, so here you go. If you try it, let me know how it goes.

Went on a walk at Mt. Tabor Park after a long time. Had been missing it. It was a lovely day for it.

Morning walk in Central Eastside. Portland, Oregon. 7th June, 2025.

Yard flowers this morning. Portland, Oregon. 7th June, 2025.

All photos taken at the same distance from the lens.

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Noticed the shiny tile at the cafe.

Overhead. Portland, Oregon. 18th May, 2025.

This blog has moved over to a Hugo based site that I generate manually. I did most of the prep work over last weekend and just completed the finishing touches. I’ve started with a simple theme, and hope to build on it in the future. I’ve wanted to do this for a very long time and I’m glad to have gotten here.

It is now hosted on Github Pages where the feature set easily accommodates my needs at this time. I was trying to recall the journey of this blog, and from memory it seems to have gone this route over the last 20-ish years: Blogger, Wordpress, Tumblr, Wordpress, and lastly Micro.blog.

There’s a person in my wife’s run club whose aunt went to school with the Pope, so my Pope number is 4.

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