Archive for October 11th, 2005

Philadelphia - Fels Planetarium Excursion

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

I’ve had this post sitting around in my drafts for a year. On October 8, 2004, my excitement for the week was to fly to Philadelphia with my boss and look at some equipment that the Planetarium soon after purchased.
So, just by rough headings:

Flight at 6
Taxi
Breakfast at Marathon Grill
Fountains
Franklin Institute
The “60000″ (Train)
Planetarium
Digistar II
Constitution Center
Liberty Bell
Flight [...]

Context is everything

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

I was reminded tonight of a quote I heard over the weekend:
A text without a context can be a pretext for anything.
— Dr. Jack Kinneer (referring to use of Scriptural proof-texts)