Chair of the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto. Former President of the Canadian Astronomical Society.
Toronto, Ontario
Joined May 2008
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Back in beautiful Victoria for the Canadian Astronomical Society’s Annual General Meeeting. My term as President is ending so I guess they upgraded my room.
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NRC Herzberg Director General Greg Fahlman listening to Governor General Julie Payette’s congratulations on the DAO milestone via video. She is a former astronaut. Sometimes I’m so proud of Canada I want to burst.
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Local politicians and descendants of Plaskett, Pearce and McKellar who made ground-breaking discoveries at the DAO.
There was a wonderful ceremony today celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. What a beautiful place! Thank you NRC of Canada for your support for science.
Julie + kids have staged an intervention re:abuse of the dining room table; must clear my crap up. Took a picture first. What’s the saddest/geekiest thing in it? 3 laptops + iPad? CCD camera? Microcontroller/focuser? ZEMAX book? Suspect it’s that I’m running (and liking) IRAF.
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This is just like our driveway at the moment. Fortunately, Julie stocked us up with whiskey and soda and video games so we ought to be able to get through this weekend without leaving the house. teapaw.org/TheCPrest/status/98523…
Although I did take quite the header in my driveway... graceful I was not! #icestorm #ice #FreezingRain #icepellets #whereisspring
Don't go out unless it's absolutely necessary, say Toronto police #icestorm thestar.com/news/starweather…
My little backyard observatory. The reason it's shiny is because it's completely covered top-to-bottom in a uniform ~3mm layer of beautifully transparent ice, freezing everything totally shut. I can't even get a key in the lock. Presumably Keck and Gemini don't have this problem.
Watching "Star Blazers 2199" (remake of the classic Japanese Anime Space Battleship Yamato) with my son while trapped by the Ice Storm. It came out a couple of years before New Horizons but they seem to have done a pretty good job of anticipating what Pluto would look like.
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OK Twitterverse, watch out, we have a serious newb situation. For the next 24h I'm going to try to use actually use Twitter. I have no idea what I'm doing so apologies in advance for any stupid stuff I do or say.
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A very happy birthday to Fred who is 91 on Monday. Fred attends our computer club and we promised to make him famous on Twitter so please RT
I don't mind Preview on the Mac but Drawboard PDF on a Surface is IMHO the best experience for reading and marking up PDFs
Whoops, @roberto_abraham and @karlglazebrook.. I don't think we consulted the planets.. 😆 teapaw.org/radioastrology/status/…
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@PBarmby I want to be able to share facts like "there's no booze like free booze" (got upgraded on the way back from Frankfurt).
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