Open for less than 1/2 an hour tonight. I can’t work like this.


Since we had a flash mob last night, here’s a song about people dancing in the streets. It also describes our cloud problem.
Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.
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.