Wit, Wisdom, and Whimsy. (your mileage may vary)
February 21, 2011
The Head Qs at QueerLandia.com decided to present a few Presidents on the site in honor of President’s Day. I had earlier in the week posted one about Abraham Lincoln, but here’s one on the President who served the shortest term in office. Meet Will Harrison, the 9th POTUS.
via Queer Landia
February 19, 2011
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February 18, 2011
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I Want YOU - For The US Air Force!
On December 22, 2010, I posted this picture and a link to NOH8’s website where it and others of military men affected by Don’t Ask Don’t Tell could be found.
Now the latest news about the status of Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach, the Air Force officer in this picture:
The South Bend Tribune reports that the Air Force has informed Lt. Col. Fehrenbach that he will be retired with his full rank and pension on October 1, 2011. This effectively cancels the discharge proceedings that were in progress since he was involuntarily outed in 2008.
“It was a great sense of relief. I didn’t expect it,” said Fehrenbach, 41, a 1991 University of Notre Dame graduate, in a telephone interview with the Tribune Tuesday from Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho.
For nearly three years, Fehrenbach has been in a battle to save his career because of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy — a policy that was overturned in late 2010.
With no further explanation, the military in January sent Fehrenbach new orders: Effective Sept. 30, he will be retired from active duty at his current rank and with his pension. He’ll serve out the remaining months of his military duty at his current desk job at the base in Idaho.
February 18, 2011
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Starts now. Ends March 13. Need suggestions on what to do in between. Ideas?
February 16, 2011
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Photo credit: Google Street Views
You just never know what you’ll run across at Google Street Views. Here’s a site with some interesting scenes from around the world.
February 15, 2011
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Everything in the world you ever wanted to know about the Starship Enterprise, is in that book!
Not so, Klingon breath, but pretty damned close!
February 15, 2011
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Captain Alan Bean, Apollo 12 Commander holding a sample container, Ocean of Storms, November 1969 Photo Credit: NASA
Ten years ago today, Fox aired a program called “”Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?” Bad Astronomy author (and astronomer) Phil Plait writes how this one program did more to advance his career than perhaps any other single thing.
The simple answer? Yes, of course we went to the Moon. Six times, eighteen crew members, and twelve who actually walked on it’s surface. The picture above is Apollo astronaut Alan Bean. Phil says this of the photo:
This is a picture of Al Bean. It’s a man in a space suit. It’s a man in a spacesuit holding a sample container. It’s a man in a spacesuit holding a sample container on the Moon. Standing on the Moon. It’s a man standing on the freakin’ Moon!
And I watched every last one of them, live on TV! Or, as live as was possible back in the days of three networks and six channels, who didn’t always interrupt prime time for our “routine” lunar missions. Before NASA TV, the Internet, and hundreds of cable channels. But when it was on, I was there.
February 14, 2011
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A heart-shaped crater in the Galilae region on the Moon. Credit: ASA/GSFC/Arizona State University; 3-D by Nathanial Burton-Bradford.
If you have red/green 3D glasses, you can see the Moon’s heart in 3D! To see the crater in it’s real orientation (this image rotated for effect), go to Universe Today.
UPDATE:
Mars, not wanting to be left out, also sends it’s Valentine’s Day greetings to the lovers of Earth.
A heart-shaped feature in the Arabia Terra region of Mars is show on the left, with additional context on the right, in excerpts of an image taken by the Context Camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
And another UPDATE:
The Heart Nebula. Perhaps this is the look of a broken heart.
JimmieJoe / KC6YRU 
That Isn’t Supposed To Happen
February 20, 2011
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The Southern California Edison and AT&T Universal Card websites are supposed to be UP when I want to give them money! Carmax was ready to take my money, but I’d already paid them this month, so that was nice. Even my cranky bank’s site was up and available. Now I have to wait until tomorrow. They really shouldn’t do that, I might not be in the mood to pay them tomorrow!
Sheese!
UPDATE!: More
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