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40 Years after Apollo 11: The giant elephant in the room 2009-07-23 12:52AM

We like to talk about the big reason why we don't have much of a presence in space as being political will or the lack of a cold war or even things like not having anything especially important to do. I don't believe it. The real giant elephant in the room, that nobody likes to talk about, is the cost of getting up to space...

The state of the space program, 40 years after Apollo 11 2009-07-17 10:30AM

We are in the final years of the space shuttle program. Potentially, we're quite close to the end of our space program, as we know it.

Geeklust for SGIs 2009-06-22 11:53AM

One of my co-workers was wondering why our monitoring system was alerting about a stock. Turns out, it was just Nortel, who is in the process of disappearing. And I taunted her and reduced her to tears about all of the cool tech companies that are no more, like SGI.

Hot 2009-05-17 06:45PM

Today I'm going to blog about being hot. Oh, and no, not the hot as in "If you look at my pictures from last Bike To Work Day, you will realize that I've lost fat all over my body and now my belly is small enough that it doesn't roll down the top of my bike shorts" sort of hot. Although that is nice too...

Wrong Layer 2009-05-08 11:20AM

The helicopter was funky...

The official version of the shoe story 2009-04-29 12:16PM

Let's go back to around 1990, when I was in the midst grade school. Michael Jordan and the Bulls were rocking. Girls were wearing stirrup pants. Jean jackets were in. Hair metal was petering out but Grunge hadn't hit yet. I was living in Milford, Ohio, which was a suburb where upper-middle-class urban professionals and lower-class workers mingled...

It's not hard to knock out all communications to an area, I guess 2009-04-09 04:02PM

So this morning, I was wondering why my cellphone was acting a little funny. It turns out that somebody got into a fiber optic cable vault and cut four very important fiber lines that contain a lion's share of the network connectivity over the bay area.

On things changing without me really recognizing it 2009-04-08 11:36AM

It's actually fairly weird to be in the shape I'm in. See, I'm still pudgy in spots. I don't look like a fighter jet made of biceps. But I can ride for miles and miles and I can get myself going fast...

When does a habit become lifelong? 2009-04-07 12:23PM

I know what's going to happen if I stop. The fattest I've ever been was the winter after my bike got stolen. I felt horribly meh that winter...

Peter Pan syndrome and casual shoes 2009-04-04 03:30PM

or... how I'm mentally preparing myself for the trip to the shoe store, because I have to.

It's actually hard for me to boycot big companies these days... 2009-04-02 11:10AM

Remember the whole Michael Phelps thing, where Kellogg dropped his mug from Wheaties because he got photographed smoking pot? You know how everybody went all gonzo on boycotting Kellogg for dropping a man for a "victimless crime"? Well, I kinda wanted to counter-boycott them by eating more Kellogg products, just because I know that if Michael Phelps had been caught doing a variety of alternative things that might annoy other people, even if they were not presently illegal, that he'd still get dropped.

15 years or so 2009-03-27 12:47AM

It's been maybe 15 years or so since I've had a glass of Coke or Pepsi or Dr. Pepper or 7-Up or Sprite or most other sodas. The only one I can really summon a taste-memory of anymore is Dr. Pepper and 7-Up/Sprite. I can't even remember what Coke or Pepsi tasted like.

Some silly workplace stories 2009-03-23 01:20AM

"hold on. I just got into the geekroom. Let me take a hit off the soldering flux and then I'll save the world in record time."

I hate Complex magazine 2009-02-13 12:34AM

You know, I think the most offensive thing possible is when a magazine has such a hard on about keeping their readership numbers up in a valuable demographic that, while they charge for their magazine, it's actually quite hard to get them to stop sending the stupid piece of crap...

My opinion on the stuck-in-development-hell Neuromancer movie 2009-02-12 11:32AM

A Neuromancer movie has been in development hell since the eighties. My opinion on how you'd do it has stayed fixed for quite a few years now, so I figured I'd write it out so that every time people make noises about it, I can dig up this post and be saved making the argument over and over again...

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