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NASAwatch reports more top level moves at NASA time to start managing the crisis that keep popping up...
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Dynamics of Cats
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July 30, 2007
got bottle?
Category: random
Domestik Goddess shows us a SIGGart Eco Style contest winner I like it. Elegant, subtle, concise. h/t powers of four...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:41 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
little pleasures
Category: random
Receiving "Back in the DHSS/Trumpton Riots" CD in the mail, finally replacing my very beat up cassette copy... Half Man, Half Biscuit are one of the most underappreciated UK bands around, and they've been around for a long time. 'course...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:45 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 28, 2007
losing the battle
Category: random
didn't check my e-mail for 24 hours, weekend, very light on "real e-mail" so I got good statistics on the spam we're losing...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:15 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 27, 2007
one down
Category: astro
Congratulations Dr Smith! The Transition from the First Stars to the Second Stars in the Early Universe...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 4:21 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
iPod iChing - doctor who?
Category: random
Frazzled friday, and we ask the iPod, quickly: so, iPod dood, what will come out of this afternoon's proceedings? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:51 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 26, 2007
The Telescope: Review
Category: astro
Geoff Andersen is a USAF Academy physicist and he has written a book on the Telescope...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:56 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
explosion at Scaled Composites
Category: astro
news reports of an explosion killing two people at the Scaled Composites (makers of "http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/index.htm">SpaceShipOne) facility at the spaceport in Mojave, near Edwards AFB Ca. Sounds like a fuel tank rupture, four people injured. SF Chronicle report - they say...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:44 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 25, 2007
what if there was a terrorist attack and nobody noticed?
Category: random
There was a fire in Spokane...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:32 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
how did that happen...
Category: random
Three PhD defences, and a comps exam in 12 days. Ouch. And I'm chair of all the vivas, and the comps is in meteo... Some sort of subliminal overcompensation, I guess....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:22 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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