OMG! Bill Clinton seems really old. I remember his first campaign for president in 1992. He was so charming and charismatic.
Watching the weather for the last few days as we will be going to North Carolina for dropping off my son at his college. Atlantic ocean seems calm all the way to Africa with no storms brewing. I suppose our trip will be without any weather event.
Last day for my daughter as a summer intern at my work and last day of carpooling with her. Can’t believe 10 weeks just zoomed by but, I am glad that she was able to have this research experience and I got to spend all these commuting hours with her.
What a long, strange trip it’s been!!!
50th outdoor bike ride of this year as I commuted to work this morning. I like to do more outdoors riding but, this Spring/Summer has been so wet and that limited the number of opportunities. Also, I am getting older and lazier. 🙄
Mars and Jupiter conjunction seen this morning (aug 15). They were less than half a degree apart - less than the size of full Moon in the sky. Three moons of Jupiter are visible. Ganymede on the left, Europa and Callisto on the right.
As always, I was successful in capturing decent looking startrails while trying for Perseid meteors.
Having 2 college-going kids at home for Summer has been so nice. I haven’t gone grocery shopping since end of May. I add stuff to a shared list in iPhone app and it shows up. They have taken over the dishwasher duty, too. But, this is going to end soon and I’ll be back to doing my chores. 🙄
It was a pleasant night to be out looking for northern lights. Didn’t spot any but it was such a clear night, the Milky Way was shining brightly.
Recently, there has been a record number of sunspots as we are getting close to peak solar activity in its 11 year cycle.
August 1, 1024
August 11, 1024
Yesterday, there was a poster session for all the Summer interns at work. This year we had a bumper crop of interns and it was fun to chat with them about the projects they worked on. It was interesting to see that they were not only about hard-core science but also facilities management, engineering, applications of AI to data and clinical trials. My daughter got to present her work on establishing a protein screening technology platform and talk about it with many other scientists. I think this was a great experience for her to learn about research outside of academia.
In less than 2 weeks, I’ll have to go back to driving myself to work; no more carpooling with her.
First it was the IPL then T20 world cup, the Giro d’Italia followed by Tour de France and now Olympics!!! I have been watching so much sports on TV. Feels like my brain is getting saturated and want no more sports. But but but… Vuelta and Cycling world championship are just around the corner.
Went over Pequot (Thames) river on my commute to work this morning.
Did not know much about president Franklin Pierce but after reading this newsletter from Heather Cox Richardson, it is clear that he was a horrible piece of garbage.
Remco Evenepoel of Belgium won the Olympic road race today and added another gold medal to the one from last weekend’s time trial. This great performance after finishing third in Tour de France just 2 weeks ago. He is having a great year!!! Kudos!
Congratulations to Liam Corrigan (Gold in rowing) and Fred Richard (Bronze in gymnastics team) for winning the Olympic medals!!! Both have parents who are colleagues at work. Liam grew up in neighboring town of Old Lyme and was on the school crew team before going on to row at Harvard and Oxford. Looking forward to Fred’s participation in individual events in coming days.
Saw this on my [commute](https://www.strava.com/activities/12018293900) this morning. This pier in New London is the staging area for the off-shore windmill project in Long Island sound. Those blades are so huge - must be ~100 feet long. These windmills seem bigger than the land-based ones.