Hi! My name is Ben Weiss, and this is my frivolous foray into Web design and self-expression! Just click on various items in the above picture, to find out what sorts of things I find interesting in life.
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10.23.05
Opening Day at the 'Con!!
Here's a sampling of photos from the past few days taken with my Canon 20D digital camera, 70-300mm lens. Also, belatedly, some pictures from my recent diving trip to Grand Turk, in the Turks & Caicos Islands in the Caribbean. Enjoy!
1.3.05
Happy New Year!!
I just came across the following image of Saturn's moon Iapetus, taken by the Cassini spacecraft:
The question is, what is that long line stretching across the planet??
I propose the following explanations:
10. The moon was actually injection-molded.
9. The hill is the remains of an ancient alien rail-gun launcher.
8. Iapetus, in a fit of sibling jealousy, has attempted to grow its own rings.
7. Percival Lowell accidentally based his sketches on the wrong planet.
6. This is the planet from Kim Stanley Robinson's "A Short, Sharp Shock", without the oceans.
5. The moon was tectonically separated aeons ago from Vallis Marineris.
4. This is the solar system's frenulum.
3. Ringworld deorbited here.
2. Not much, just loosening its belt after the holidays.
and..
1. That's No Moon...
7.31.04
Browsing the alt.surfing newsgroup recently, I stumbled across a website with some incredible photos of the California coastline, including historical and recent photos of my home break, Rincon Point. I've cleaned up one of the historical photos from 1972; click the image for an enormous version. Thanks to photographer Kenneth Adelman for permission to post.
4.13.04
My new favorite acronym: WHUXGA. This translates roughly to "Wide Hexadecimal Ultra Extended Graphics Array", and is the semi-official designation for display devices with a resolution of 7680x4800. Hey, as soon as it's available in a 12" notebook, I'm there.
4.8.04
Switched to a new server, and a new domain name!! Finally, my piano-music clips won't result in constant bandwidth warnings. A few fun links: a picture of a seriously frightening wave, a pingu-smacking yeti, and a cappuccino art instruction guide.
10.11.02
My home number is full of repeated digits, which makes it easy to remember and dial. This also makes it easy to dial by accident, so I tend to receive a large share of unintentional phone calls, typically from playful babies. Once in a while, they even leave messages. Think I should *69?
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