This is Geek Week on the Rachel Maddow show, so in honor of that, and of the recent STS-132 mission, here’s a picture of Atlantis docked at the International Space Station as it transits across the Sun!
Picture from “Bad Astronomy”.
In Honor of Geek Week
May 26, 2010
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Who Knew NASA Had A Sense of Humor??
May 25, 2010
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To Boldly Go… To Camelot.
May 25, 2010
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Amazing, Simply Amazing!
May 24, 2010
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Ted Freitas, a VIP around here, owns Central Point Networks. They’ve recently created a service for home computer users that protects computers and networks from just about anything on the internet! It just amazes me what they can do with computers. For instance….
I’ve been having some problems with my main computer. Part of a home network, it’s recently been sluggish, refusing to find websites, loading only parts of pages, and taking forever to boot up. I complained to Ted about it recently, just in passing, and he had me install his new service so he could take a look at my system. Well, I don’t know what he and his techs over at CPN did today while I was asleep, but the difference is night and day! Pages load in a snap, like they used to, and the computer alternates between programs without pouting about being made to work!
{Shameless plug} Surf on over to CPN (Central Point Networks, LLC) and check out the new Computer Club service. Well worth the price, it will insure your computers run like the screaming eagles you remember when you first started using them. Don’t let the malware, viruses, and other computer ills drag your computer down. Have Ted and CPN on guard 24/7!
QueerVisalia’s Pride In The Park hits the newspaper
May 24, 2010
Gay, News, Personal gay pride, Harvey Milk Day, PITP, Pride in the Park, Queer Visalia Leave a comment
Monday’s Visalia Times Delta contains a short article about Saturday’s Pride in the Park celebration put on by QueerVisalia. Although I thought the usage of “alternate lifestyle” was a bit odd, overall I’m happy with the article. I was mentioned by name in the article, so there’s that. 😉
Attendance was less than the previous two years, and we’re still trying to decide just why that might have been. We’ll be kicking around ideas for next year’s event during the next weeks and months. If you have any suggestions, be sure to send them along.
In the meantime, keep checking back at the online article, the comments are sure to get interesting, and probably maddening!
Busy Saturday! PITP, SFGMC, more!
May 23, 2010
Gay, News, Personal, Pictures Harvey Milk Day, Pride in the Park, San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus 2 Comments
Katie, Kristeen, Amanda help kick off Pride in the Park 3
One of the big problems with working swing shifts forever, is that your body is trained, and firm in it’s patterns, about going to bed late, and rising late. When something requires an early start, the body (mine anyway) doesn’t really see the need to cooperate. I’m not one who can change my pattern on short notice, so I didn’t get much sleep the day before the festivities. We had a fun 5 hours in Plaza Park, at Queer Visalia’s third annual Pride in the Park picnic and BBQ. The weather was wonderful (a tad chilly for skinny guys like me whenever the sun went behind one of the cottonball looking clouds blowing overhead) but sunshiny and warm. We avoided the 95+ degree temperatures of PitP’s of the past, and enjoyed a great afternoon of burgers, hotdogs, volleyball, and socializing. Jesse brought his new puppy, and of course was the center of attention showing him off! I neglected to get a picture, sorry!
After Pride in the Park, I went to Fresno to see the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus at the Tower Theater.
San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus
They came, they sang, they wore pink cowboy hats! (in one song) Such a powerful and moving performance, having the audience in tears one moment, and roaring in laughter the next. The Fresno Gay Men’s Chorus also performed, doing several songs, my favorite which was “Color in Colorado”… very good!
Dinner afterwards at Livingstone’s, then home. A busy day celebrating Visalia Pride and Harvey Milk Day! This is the first annual Harvey Milk Day in California, as passed by the state legislature and signed by Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger. Harvy would have turned 80 yesterday.
More pics of the day after the jump.
Remember…
May 21, 2010
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Keep things in perspective!
Some Old Signs Remain
May 20, 2010
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Photo by Sarah Goodyear, on Rachel Maddow's Blog
In a conversation with Republican Senate candidate from Kentucky, Rand Paul, Rachel Maddow asked about recent comments he made regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Rather than give a direct answer, Mr. Paul danced around the question, leaving the impression that he was fine with the idea that a private businessman should have the right to discriminate against anyone he wants, and that the government didn’t have the right to tell him he could not. Mr. Paul defended the law as it applies to government, but would not come right out and say either businesses had a right to discriminate against anyone they liked, or they do not. He may have just handed the election to his Democratic rival.
JimmieJoe / KC6YRU 
We’ve Got Things Under Control!
May 28, 2010
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