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"Data! data! data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."
— Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson in "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" by Arthur Conan Doyle.

"I like deadlines," cartoonist Scott Adams once said. "I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

"There is nothing like that feeling of spending days and days banging your head against a wall trying to solve a programming problem then suddenly finding that one tiny obscure and seemingly unrelated piece of the puzzle that unlocks the solution. Oh yeah!"

- Chris Maunder, CodeProject Newsletter 28 Jan 2002

"Management at eSnipe, which is me, is also feeling the pain of the 2002 bear market. So rather than pout about it, I bought some stuff on eBay that I really didn’t need, but made me feel better."

- Tom Campbell, president of eSnipe

Friday, August 12, 2005

11:16:56 AM
Dust Devil Dance
I don't know how they do it, but the JPL Mars Rover team just keeps getting better at capturing images of dust devils from Spirit's perch high up on Husband Hill. I've created an animation from the original images (Spirit Sol 568 - August 8, 2005). This image is half-sized; Click here for the full-sized animated GIF (800K).

Update: The original photos were taken at roughly 30 second intervals. The animation uses the raw, unprocessed images without any contrast enhancement.