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It's time to upload some photos of Aaron (since he's almost 2 weeks old) but my old photo gallery stopped working.  It was getting pretty long in the tooth anyway; the software behind it (Gallery2) is three years old.  It never integrated properly with Drupal and took a lot of work to maintain.  It's still active for 69thnewyork.com, and you can still access all the old photos and features at koplowicz.com/gallery2.

Hat tip to APOD for turning me on to this.

Here's a 7,000 word essay on what realistic space battles would look like.  I don't agree with every point; I do think stealth would be useful, and I think regular machine guns would be useful too.  In addition, the essay briefly considers the fact that any adequately large battleship, or even space freighter, could be a dangerous weapon against a land target like a city, but doesn't really deal with the strategic implications of that.

It is with great pride that we announce the arrival of the newest member of the Koplowicz family.

Maybe I should have a new category on my site for "This is Fucking Crazy."  Here's Sandy's life over a one week period, from ravaging Cuba to climbing up the entire Eastern Seaboard.

Watching it from space gives a kind of antisceptic feel to the entire thing.  You know terrible destruction is been wreaked below.  Kinda reminds me of the view from a battlecruiser:

(Skip to 1:40 to see what I mean.)

From the "I can't believe I never posted this" department.  I was digging through some old files and found this gem from law school.  Warning: These will get a little raunchy.  I blame law school.

Republicans: You now have two choices for the next four years.  You can find common ground with your fellow Americans and work toward a future we can all enjoy, or you can be whiny little bitches.