Tide goes in, tide goes out, Tide’s in, stains out. Mr. Deity is in charge!
March 9, 2011
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Star Trek Geek – Captain Kirk wakes the crew of Discovery
March 8, 2011
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They Came From Outer Space
March 7, 2011
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Actually, they didn’t come from outer space. They came from Earth. Florida, to be exact. It’s a bit much to even say they are in “outer” space. They were just a couple of hundred miles from me tonight. That’s closer than friends in the San Francisco Bay area. In fact, they were closer to me than most of the rest of humanity, right at that moment. But they were in orbit, and I was standing in my driveway in Visalia, California.
I didn’t take this picture. It’s not of the sight from tonight. It gives only an idea of what I saw streaking across the sky above my home. Two points of light (streaks here due to shutter timing) floating silently overhead. The Space Shuttle Discovery, followed by the International Space Station.
I subscribe to a service that will send me a message by Twitter about Space Station transits viewable from my home. Today’s message told me a “very bright” ISS would be visible. I set the alarm on my iPhone. They neglected to mention that it would be a double whammy on this pass!
It was, literally, a once-in-a-lifetime event. I can’t begin to describe how I felt as I saw it.
NASA Geek – Discovery departs ISS on last mission
March 7, 2011
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Discovery departs from ISS. Photo Credit: NASA
Space Shuttle OV-103, Discovery, pulls away from the International Space Station on Monday, March 7, 2011. This is the final voyage of Discovery, after 39 missions in 27 years. NASA is retiring the Shuttle fleet this year, due to concerns regarding the stresses on the vehicles from repeated launching and landings. While designed, built, and maintained for multiple missions, the Shuttles are, like any heavily used machine, subject to wear and tear, and at some point become a safety risk above and beyond the dangers inherent in space flight. Endeavor, OV-105, is being prepped for it’s final mission in the VAB at Kennedy Space Center.
A Blast From The Past: Fall 2007
March 6, 2011
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A 99 year old man visiting his wife at the convalescent hospital across the street confused the gas pedal for the brake as he was backing out of a parking spot. He rocketed across the street, taking out a fire hydrant, hit the next door neighbor’s SUV pushing it into the other SUV parked in front of it, took out a small citrus tree, then our common fence. The rock you see is from my yard, and slowed the car enough to prevent serious damage to the house. The gentleman was not injured, and was able to wait for his son to come pick him up. Fall, 2007.
My First Album
March 6, 2011
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Some Facebook fun:
1 – Go to Wikipedia and hit random. The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. 2 – Go to quotationspage.com and hit random. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album. 3 – Go to Flickr and click on “explore the last seven days.” Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. 4 – Use photoshop (I used MS Paint) or similar to put it all together. 5 – Post it with this text in the “caption” and TAG the friends you want to join in.
Sailor punished for accidental sleepover (via Queer Landia)
March 5, 2011
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The military is making progress, but there are still plenty of bigots and homophobes in the ranks. We can only hope that some higher-up will put a stop to this eventually. It certainly does not reflect well on the Navy.
via Queer Landia
Phasers not included
March 3, 2011
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What happened to X-37A? Photo credit: USAF/Vandenberg Air Force Base
The Air Force is getting ready to launch the X-37B sooper-secret space plane Friday, March 4, 2011, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. (Actually, it’s launching from the next-door Cape Canaveral Air Force Station) It’s a big secret, though, so don’t expect launch-to-landing coverage on NASA TV for this puppy. Unmanned, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound…. oops, sorry, I mean able to remain in orbit for up to 270 days, the new ship is a test platform for something. What that something is, or what those somethings are, remain a secret. So while the X-37B is a secret space plane, it’s not a secret, but what it does IS a secret. Or something like that. Read all about it at Space.com. Well, not ALL about it. Just something about it. If we told you the rest, they’d have to kill you. And maybe us. So let’s not go there.
That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
March 3, 2011
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I’m not sure when I first became aware of them. That has to do with how I wake up most mornings. At some point I realize I’m awake, but I’m never quite sure just how long that’s been so. Once I noticed them, it seemed they had been there forever. But the thing is, they weren’t there yesterday. Not even last night. Now they were just there, and I wasn’t sure what to do about that. Early on, I wasn’t convinced they were really there at all.
On some mornings the ceiling fan above my bed is the propeller of a huge plane, about to land on top of me. Other mornings it’s an avenging angel ready to smite me for my heathenish ways. Most mornings it’s just the fan, hanging above the bed.
So… when I first became aware of them, just sort of “there”, staring at me, I simply rolled over and thought to myself “no more Taco Bell that late!”. The trouble was, when I rolled back over a few minutes later, they hadn’t vanished into the dream world. This was a bit confusing, since it usually only takes a moment for the real world to assert itself, and banish the imagined back into the fog of sleep.
I did the eye blink thing.
Still there.
I did the eye rub thing.
Still there.
We stared at each other for a few beats, then…
JimmieJoe / KC6YRU 
Discovery Makes Final Landing – Will Be Retired
March 9, 2011
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OV-3, Discovery, made it’s final landing today at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, ending it’s career as the most historic member of the Space Shuttle fleet. 39 missions, 365 total days in space, first to return to space after the Challenger and Columbia disasters, Discovery completed it’s last mission by delivering supplies and the last habitable component to the International Space Station.
The Shuttle now heads to museum duty, to be displayed as a monument to the United States space program.
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