UPDATE: The Launch was scrubbed for a fuel leak in the plumbing that was fueling the shuttle's external tank. Tentatively rescheduled for 2045 tomorrow evening. We're gonna try again tomorrow ( Read more... )

Do Crosses work like radio towers? Are they transmitting our hopes and sins into the wild blue as we pray that the receiving operator hasn't passed out, exhausted at the overwhelming flow of folded hands and bowed heads streaming in, a river of unpunctuated dots and dashes ready to burst over the sides with no STOP in sight? If they are ( Read more... )

So, I was just doing a routine Google sweep of my name to see how much slander is going on about me on the world wide web and I found out that I got married almost a year ago.

In other news, the Chinese have three taikonauts in space right now.  Mildly terrifying.  I'm mainly wondering why we didn't shoot their rocket down with our extensive grid ( Read more... )