Ignorance Is Not Bliss, It’s Conspiratorial!
July 24, 2010
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Blame This Mad Scientist
July 24, 2010
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Isaac Asimov
Space Cadet. To me, an honorific. I wear the label with pride.
This man, as much as any other, is to blame.
Mad Scientists
July 24, 2010
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Yes, it’s true. There really ARE mad scientists! This group is walking around, doing science (important stuff) on ice floes in the Arctic. On ice. In the Arctic!
They’re mad, I tell you! Mad!
Look at that… bbrrrrrr!
We Need Another Carl Sagan
July 23, 2010
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Apollo 11
July 20, 2010
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41 years ago. Today. I was watching it live on television, glued to the set. Possibly the most exciting thing, the most promising, the most noble thing that ever happened in my life, before or since. This one event will be the first thing remembered about our time centuries from now. The wars, the changes, the technological advances… all those will pale before these few days in 1969.
Watching it then, I expected Moon bases, space stations, and a mission to Mars by now. The politics of the 60’s and 70’s ended those dreams before they were enacted, and the promise of my future off the planet was stillborn. I’m still disgusted by the petty nonsense that ended those dreams, and replaced them with the chronically underfunded NASA programs that led to the Shuttle and International Space Station. While the ISS is a good thing to have, and I’m glad we did it, it was done for the wrong reasons and in the wrong way. The Space Station should have been a jumping off point for the Moon bases and Mars. We’re doing a lot of good research there, and it’s important, but it’s not what I was expecting.
I should have been writing this blog from my apartment at Luna City, instead of my couch in Visalia. Born too soon, I guess.
Palin as Shakespeare? Not even close!
July 18, 2010
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Keith Olberman had a great comeback: “I’ve read Will Shakespeare. Ma’am, you’re no Will Shakespeare”
Child Abuse, Plain and Simple
July 18, 2010
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A Decade And A Half
July 17, 2010
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Update:
Ted said I needed to get a better picture of him, so here’s one I stole off his company’s website!
Today is Ted’s 35th birthday! (Happy Birthday Ted!) I met Ted 15 years ago, shortly after he moved to Visalia from Manteca. He’s a great guy, and without a doubt a VIP in my life. He is a computer/network/internet genius, and if you have a home or business computer network, you really should let his company, Central Point Networks, protect your stuff. Don’t let the Nerd Herd mess it up, call Ted and have it done right!
“It’s A Dry Heat!” yeah, not so much today
July 16, 2010
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6:30 am The sky above Casa Jimbo at sunrise. Already 73 degrees on it’s way to a predicted 104, the clouds portend a muggy, humid day. ( Well, muggy and humid… for us.) Our usual refrain may not stand up to the tropical moisture that is zooming up from Mexico. I think I’ll go to bed now… toodles!
JimmieJoe / KC6YRU 
In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream
July 25, 2010
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…unless your microphone is open.
So, you’re an astronaut on the International Space Station. You’ve got important work to perform. You’re floating in the most expensive, complex, and technologically advanced tin can ever created. You have the best hardware that your fellow rocket scientists can provide. There’s just one problem…
You’re running Windows!
I was just tuning past NASA TV, and stopped to listen and watch for a few minutes. A member of the station crew was talking to Houston’s Mission Control, and informed them of a computer problem. One of the laptops in the Russian segment was giving her problems. She read off the error message, and it was that dreaded “missing or corrupt” screen that silently mocks you to do anything about it.
Curse you, Bill Gates!
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