I'm sitting in my home office blankly staring at a pile of journal articles I need to read so I can start in on my 20% biomechanical engineering term paper.

But as you can imagine, "Stent design for arterioplasty" is about as fun to right about as it is to read/talk about.

So in the midst of procrastinating, I happened to glance up from my game of desk top tower defense and out the window.

It took a second for it to set in. At first I thought it was a huge fire at the oil refinery across the harbor... then I thought it was mars? but that was impossible, it was massive. A blimp maybe? nope. The moon, for whatever astronomical reason hung low and huge in the ski with a color I've never seen before, it was a deep dark blood red.

I ran through the house trying to find a camera. After 5 minutes of bumbling around, I managed to find a point-and shoot olympus, but as one can imagine it's not all that well suited to night photography. It took 10 or so shots to get this one... and unfortunately it's the best one I have. The image stabilization just couldn't facilitate a longer exposure and I don't have a tripod.

either way, pretty cool