Labor Day

Finally. For the first time in quite a few years I get Labor Day off. As a student of RIT we were regularly exposed to the joys of a first day of school on Labor Day. Most schools have the decency to make it a vacation day, but we were not so lucky. Beside the point, this year my current employer has decided to make Labor Day a vacation day, and with that my wife and I are planning a trip to Salem, MA. She's been there before, but not in quite a while and I've never been. We're planning on camping just outside the city on the ocean. In fact, here's a map of our trip (I just wanted an excuse to use the new embedded map feature of google maps)

The Sky

Today Google Earth was updated to allow the viewing of the sky. This is a nice update to a favorite application that now allows one to view the beauties of the night sky, and also learn more / get more detailed images of heavenly bodies.

This is an example shot of the new appication:



I think it's nice, but my current favorite night time sky application is Stellarium which gives a nice perspective of the sky from anywhere on earth (it was really helpful in my astronomy class to help identify stars, constellations, etc..).

Also worth mentioning is Celestia however, I have never found it to be quite as useful.

Large Family

I found this today, a pretty good story about a larger than average family shopping. Oh the joys!

Shopping for Pokemon Cards

Also, the woman has a blog here

Cats

Today's Joy of Tech
I think this one is a little too close to home.

The funny part in all of this is that the cartoon of the cat looks very similar to my cat Aiden.

Compiling

Hello world!

A brief introduction is obviously underway. My name is Isaac Case (duh) and I'm a Software Engineer. Currently I am employed in Rochester, NY by a company that will at the moment remain unnamed for their privacy. I have lots of interests so I won't go as far as to name a few of them here but they most likely will come up again and again in various posts.

I think I plan on using this space as personal comments on various aspects of life in general. Since that is a broad topic don't be surprised to find entries on things ranging from computer science to music to social interactions.

As far as I'm concerned, this is probably too much information already, so I'll leave the rest to be discovered as we go.

have fun!