Recent Work
Bits and pieces of interesting pretties I've picked up along the way.
Recent Blog Posts
April 26, 2013 |
Lessons Learned
I think about George at least once a week. George was a teacher. My advanced FORTRAN instructor from about...
April 1, 2013 |
Distant Suns licenses the real sky from God
First Light Designs announced today that they’ve licensed the real sky from the Almighty for use in the award...
March 22, 2013 |
My dad
One of most fond memories of my dad were on my inauguration into teen-hood, my 13th birthday, in February 1969. ...
March 6, 2013 |
Distant Suns Astronomy App Makes Tracking Comet Pan-STARRS Easy
In the next couple of weeks you will likely hear much about a comet with the decidedly unglamorous name of...
March 3, 2013 |
Northern Lights from North of the Arctic Circle
I’ve been back from Norway for a couple of weeks, but for the first week was too wacked out from jet lag to...
February 11, 2013 |
Aboard the MS Finnmarken north of the Arctic Circle
Aboard the MS Finnmarken north of the Arctic Circle. A couple of things I have always wanted to do were: go on a...
January 28, 2013 |
Renaissance 2013: The iOS App Maker’s Conference
Last week I had the pleasure of attending version 1.0 of a new kind of iOS developer’s conference, Renaissance:...
December 19, 2012 |
Distant Suns and Astronomy Magazine form partnership
Now it can be told: I am very proud to announce today that Distant Suns has joined forces with Astronomy Magazine,...
December 18, 2012 |
Middle Earth, for real
Otherwise called “New Zealand.” This is above Fox Glacier in a helicopter. Tough job! When watching...
November 30, 2012 |
Bug reports for DS on iPad 2
I have received a some of emails regarding the latest release of Distant Suns(max) causing occasional crashes on...
November 26, 2012 |
Nov. 13 Eclipse video (at last!)
I finally slogged my way home from Cairns, Australia, where I went to see the Nov. 13 eclipse. The WiFi was too...
November 15, 2012 |
Eclipse Day!
Eclipse Day! Finally here! My very first total eclipse. Many in our group have seen 5 or more. My roommate is on...
November 11, 2012 |
Distant Suns World HQ For Universal Enslavement
Hi All, your intrepid app author here now on station in Cairns along the north coast of Australia (inhabited by an...
October 30, 2012 |
Distant Suns (max) issues in the Amazon store
It looks like some people have been blocked from getting Distant Suns(max) from Amazon’s appstore even if...
October 25, 2012 |
Distant Suns 25th Anniversary (and Sweepstakes)
25 years ago, while working at the NASA Ames Research Center, I got the idea to create an astronomy program for...