The other day I go the opportunity to watch a film I've had my eye on for ages - Interstellar. In short it's about an Earth that is dying and the efforts of one man and his crew to find a suitable planet for the human race to live on. The human race is not... Continue Reading →
2015 in review
Like many other bloggers, I got a nice email yesterday with a breakdown of my blog activity over the year etc... There's more good stuff to come so keep reading and I hope that great things are going to come 🙂 The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here's... Continue Reading →
2015 in review
Like many other bloggers, I got a nice email yesterday with a breakdown of my blog activity over the year etc... While this is a great summary and covers some of the great people I've had the pleasure to chat with there are so many more nor mentioned. I've found so many friends, geeky and... Continue Reading →
Pictures of Darkness
Darkness falls on the land. A shrouded moon glows behind racing clouds, wind blowing it's winter tune. Bare trees backlit by the weak moon, branches like old dry bones. Simon ☺
Happy Christmas
Happy Christmas eveyone! Peace and love to all! Simon 🙂
Cassini Completes Final Close Enceladus Flyby
Following on from my post the other day https://sfarnell.wordpress.com/2015/12/17/cassinis-close-encouter-with-enceladus/ I hought something on the flyby would be need to to complete this story. The feature image I used shows a world covered in cracks in it's icy surface and craters poc marking the surface. This world has surprised many with it geological activity and no... Continue Reading →
Over the Festive Period
This is just a note to all my bloggie friends that from today over the next week or so I'm not likely to be contactable. So have a great Christmas, thank you all so much for making this year, the best blog year ever and I know that you will make it even better next... Continue Reading →
Newborn Stars Shooting Lightsabers
Being really excited about all things space I'm naturally excited about newborn stars that shoot jets of light into space like lighsabres... http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/hubble-sees-the-force-awakening-in-a-newborn-star Simon 🙂
The Dirty T-Shirt
So it happened. Always does at some point during the winter, beacuse it's dark in the morning and you have little clue about what you put on. I got to work thinking I was relatively presentable. Until I looked down... My T-Shirt looked like I had eaten last nights dinner off of it. What does... Continue Reading →
Epic Awesomness Award
Out of the blue my friend from books and hot tea nominated me for the Epic Awesomness Award and I have to say I was touched. As my fellow bloggies know I love getting an award and so to get the Epic Awesomnness Award was kind of awesome. Thank you for nominating me - I... Continue Reading →
The Jedi Duel #Blogbattle #Scifi
Here's the latest blog battle for you - I hope you enjoy it. It's very much been inspired by the film - although there are no spoilers in this as it's just inspired by the film. Simon 🙂
The Jedi Duel #Blogbattle #Scifi
Once again is's blog battle time - Rachel Ritchey's duel between the blogs of 1000 word stories. This weeks word is flake and there are the rules: 1000 words max fictional tale (or true if you really want) PG (no more than PG-13) Content – let’s keep this family friendly! Your story must contain the word(s)... Continue Reading →