So it's been quite a while since I've posted here. So, what's going on with me ( Read more... )

So, for about a month now, I've been running Ubuntu Linux 10.whatever on my laptop. Partly because Vista, after coming with it and being used for a couple years, was doing really random bizarre things like not recognizing USB things unless they were plugged in when the computer was turned on ( Read more... )

So, I just finished the last final, the last projects are behind me, and everything is all done. I'm finally finished with school. All done and graduated. Woo ( Read more... )

I have been doing SCIENCE! The sciencey kind of science! The kind that you see on PBS documentaries. I have been out to the Gulf Stream on a dedicated research ship, hauled up parts of the ocean floor, been seasick, thrown equipment that cost more than my car overboard, thrown fishies back to the sea, watched dolphins surfing in the bow waves ( Read more... )

So, I don't even have an RSS reader I use. I used to have one for a while, but I kept not reading things in it. Anybody have suggestions on methods of keeping up with news and site updates and the likes? Plugins, standalone programs, whatever. Maybe I should use Opera and that initial montage of site thing they have. Chrome has something like ( Read more... )

Somewhere along the line, I seem to have once again become what I was years ago. A space nerd who wants to save the world. Naive? Sure. Idealistic? Duh. But so what? It's better than the alternative. I may not be the astronaut, but I never really figured I would be. Right now, I just want to keep things working well enough that some day, ( Read more... )

When I was younger, I didn't care much for going to hardware stores. That wasn't the kind of tools and the kind of building that interested me that much. The most fun part for me, as a kid, was the funky panel carts with the bars on them they used to have to carry boards on them. That's started to change, which is to say I've started to change ( Read more... )

Fire in the Sky. Every. Single. Time.

But I don't feel at all bad about that. Buzz Aldrin did too when he heard it. On national TV.

A downloadable version, and some of the rest of the songs, which were commissioned by the National Space Society, can be found here.

Yay, research!

... Now I just need to figure out how to make the time work, and the money.

Also, I need to find time to build a trebuchet. A fairly little one, for practice.

While there's lots of times that looking at something that happened and saying "It won't mean a thing in a hundred years" is helpful, since it lends perspective, I'd really like to do something in my life that would mean something in a hundred years.