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We have reached 100% MagAO for 2015B.
If you visit LCO you’ll notice that many, if not most, of the car doors have bird droppings all over them just behind the mirrors. This video shows you why — some of the birds have discovered that other birds live inside the mirrors, and spend most of their days attacking said mirror-birds. This is just a little #LifeAtLCO.
The intended purpose of a “poker face” is to make a fortune. Tonight the Glitch Mob tells us about Fortune Days.
For the first time in MagAO’s history we closed the loop on our first night. It usually takes too long during the day to get everything done. We didn’t get Clio bolted on, but we were able to close the loop with the “dummy dichroic”.
Following last night’s song, which was a Gaga Parody, here’s a Gaga cover.
It’s been really cloudy the last 48 hours.
There have been no vizcachas at the clean room. I found a couple on the north side of the telescope this morning though.
The clouds were still around after sunset.
Laird and Katie made it! Laird lost some luggage, and they’re both tired after a hectic trip, but otherwise safe and sound.
Last night we heard about bourbon and scotch. Tonight Ke$ha discusses the contents of her water bottle, though she does not specify exactly what type of whiskey it is.
I spent my whole day working on computers — hard drive partitions and RAIDs and RAM. So I don’t have much to talk about.
There is a new power line going in just west of the road to the 100 inch. I’m not sure, but my best guess is that it has something to do with the GSMT. Today they were hard at work stringing cables.
Laird and Katie are on their way. They’ve made it as far as DFW.
Been fairly cloudy since I got here. Nothing to close the dome over, but not much fun for the M2FS and Fire users.
Since yesterday’s song was about Kentucky, with a Bourbon county connection, tonight’s song is about — what else — Bourbon.
We’re back.
Actually I’ve been back since yesterday, but after a long stressful trip with lots of delays and lost luggage I didn’t get around to a post yesterday.
All of our stuff turned on and is working great. I did find a failed hard disk, but the RAID is already synched. Our new data storage computer survived shipping too, and booted right up.
LAN decided that I could wait a day for my luggage. They fixed it quick though, and thanks to the El Pino crew it came today by dinner.
There are new observer cars. They only have 2 pedals. At least they didn’t color coordinate the license plates.
Look at these morons:
I thought that an advance trip by El Jefe, complete with blog posts complaining about the internet, would have squared things away. But alas, connections seem to be spotty.
Now on to the real business. It was Katie’s turn to set the song of the day rules, and this should be fun.. It seems I need to start us on what promises to be an epic journey.
On August 3, 1809, my Great^5 grandfather Enoch Males married Nancy Thomas in Bourbon County, Kentucky. They then promptly lit a shuck for Indiana. I’ve been watching a lot of the show “Justified” lately — if you’re familiar, Bourbon isn’t quite as “in the hills” as Harlan. Just the same, judging by this song I’m glad Enoch and Nancy didn’t stick around.
For old time’s sake, here’s another version to listen to while you ponder the hidden messages about the MagAO life.