Today, the moon rose at 9:25 AM. It will set shortly after midnight at 12:32 AM.

Last night, I took a photo of the crescent moon and Venus, the bright spot in the bottom right of the photo.

Waxing Gibbous Moon taken on the morning of April 4, 2020 with 72% illumination.

Waxing Gibbous Moon 62% illuminated on April 2, 2020. Used camera lens instead of telescope this time.

First Quarter Moon with 51% illumination. The full moon will arrive in a week on April 8, 2020.

Found an old hard drive and decided to take it apart to see how it looked inside. This drive, manufactured in 2008, boasted a capacity of 500GB, which is larger than the default storage for the current base model MacBook Air. Of course, hard drives are much slower than modern SSDs.

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At the Arc de Triomphe, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier honors a soldier who died for his country during World War I. I visited during Bastille Day when the tomb was adorned with ribbons and flowers.

The last few nights have been overcast. I was able to see the Full Worm Moon this morning before sunrise. It soon descended into a low bank of clouds and disappeared.

Fans of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, the novel and the musical, should recognize this name on the Arc de Triomphe: Lamarque. The Paris riots that followed the funeral of General Jean Maximilien Lamarque is central to Les Misérables in that it provided Valjean the opportunity to save Javert and Marius Pontmercy.

These buildings are located just to the right of the San Mateo-Hayward bridge. In the minutes before sunrise, the illumination from the building lights pair well with the emerging sunrise and the reflection in the waters of the San Francisco Bay.

I had to look up these buildings on Google Maps and they appear to be part of the Gilead Sciences campus in Foster City, California.