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A Very Public Service Message
Nobody on Earth celebrates “St. Patty’s Day.” Spelling counts, folks: it’s St. PADDY’s Day. Thank you.
A snowy field in Clear Lake
Today is the anniversary of The Day the Music Died, as it’s come to be known: the day that a small plane carrying Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all three musicians. Sheila … Continue reading
Gummint Bad. Oogh.
Politics below the fold. As I tweeted earlier: I will under no circumstances vote for you, or even listen to a single thing you have to say, if you are in any way anti-vaccine. — Kelly Sedinger (@Jaquandor) February 3, … Continue reading
The blanketing of the world, part deux
Oy. That was fun. And by “fun”, I mean, “This is the kind of shit that makes people want to live in weird places whose names end with ‘exas’ or ‘zona’ or ‘ida’ or ‘arolina’.” The lake-effect snow that started … Continue reading
The blanketing of the world
Or at least my little corner of it. Over the last few days, local meteorologists have been sounding the alarm that today could potentially bring some significant lake-effect snow to the region. Lake-effect snow, for those unfamiliar with such things, … Continue reading
With thanks
Thanks to all who have served in our military, in wartime and peacetime, with hopes that as the future comes to pass, there will ever be more of the latter and less of the former.
It’s not easy, going to the stars.
What a bad week for space travel. But there will be better weeks, as surely as there will be worse weeks. We’ve never turned back before, and I don’t think we will now, either.
Explodey Spaceshippy Badness
Here’s what the Antares launch site looks like, post-disaster. When I refer to “explodey spaceshippy goodness”, I’m talking about the actiony bits of a good piece of space opera fiction. In real life, exploding spaceships is not a good thing! … Continue reading
Love Is All Around
Sk Waller and her love, Nettl, are finally able to get married. We get a lot of stuff wrong in America, which makes it all the sweeter when we start getting certain things right. There are an awful lot of … Continue reading
I missed a birthday….
NASA’s birthday, that is. It was yesterday (the anniversary of the day President Eisenhower signed the bill into law creating NASA). Hey America? Let’s go to space today, shall we?