Sports dynasties are enshrined by lengthy runs of success cumulating in championships. In the warped world of the Chicago Bears,, dynasties are noted by certain trendy attempts to get out of their post-1985 rut.
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Chicago Bears: The Major Changes Over the Next Five Months
A month and change is all that’s needed to know the rest of the Chicago Bears 2023 season will be an elaborate waiting game for 2024. General manager Ryan Poles will get his obligatory second chance.
Read moreThe 90% Waning Gibbous Moon, October 2023
For my several astronomy readers out there, it has been a while since I posted a good astrophotography image and article. I hope this one makes up a bit for the absence.
Read moreChicago Bears: Four Quarters of Garbage Time
Don’t be fooled by a faux stellar first half against the Denver Broncos – there is no hope for the 2023 Chicago Bears.
Read moreChicago Bears: Save the Doom Until After Week 3
I included this image with an article on my prior blog about the NFL’s March hype madness. Seems fitting to revisit the Bears after their Week 1 disaster against the Green Bay Packers. It may have been hard to imagine, back in March, when the Bears were on cloud 9 hype, that their opening performance would make them look like a worse team than the 2022 Bears.
Read moreHow Overwatch’s 5v5 is Mathematically Inferior to the Old 6v6
In this article I discuss Overwatch’s 5v5 team makeup problem and how the current situation is inferior to the prior 6v6 scheme in the first incarnation of the game.
Read moreA Blue Moon with a Touch of Blue!
This may be the closest to “true Full” that I have photographed. If you can see in the upper-right/towards right, there is a small line of craters at the edge, then the rest of the Moon’s ellipse is straight-on smooth. I missed true Full by probably a few hours, but I had to let the Moon clear the trees surrounding my back deck.
Read moreSaturn at Opposition 2023 – Narrowing Rings
I could not have asked for a better mid-Summer night to observe and photograph Saturn at its opposition. The only real challenge was staying up late enough and then putting away all of my equipment afterward.
Read more2023 Perseid Meteor Shower: Seven Observed, One Captured via iPhone
If there was a theme to my early morning observations this year, it was “space junk.” Effectively ideal conditions were soiled by the incessant amount of satellites that come and go from all directions. But I did observe meteors and captured at least one with my iPhone.
Read moreThe End of the Solar System – Interpretive Poem by ChatGPT
Throwing my hat into the ring of, “I asked ChatGPT to…” I requested a poem about the end of the Solar System. Here is what the computer came up with!
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