Aurora Borealis
Last night the skies put on a nice lightshow in the form of auroras.
They've never been particularly bright around here, so I was amazed by
how they lit up the sky. Further, I was impressed that they were
actually photographable. Setting my digital camera to a sensitivity
equivalent to ISO 320, with an exposure time of 1 second, the CCD caught
the phenomenon quite nicely. The thresholds were then raised somewhat in
The Gimp, et voilà, northern lights on digital film.
In other news, I could use a break right around now. As a means of procrastination, I started moving the notes for my IC design class to TeX, which proper PostScript diagrams. I was pleasantly surprised last night when I realized Inkscape could output to PostScript. Haven't yet figured out why I'm doing this, but the first few pages sure look good.