I don't appear to be picking the books for the challenge. They seem to be picking me.

My laptop is on a cocktail Donkey Kong in the corner of our living room across from our TV. It shares the table top with a basket of pencils, paper, calendars, coupons, bills, and whatever other random thing gets shoved in when I am << exaggerated air quote ( Read more... )

My 10th grade guitar teacher looked a lot like Christa McAuliffe.
I remember her sitting on a piano bench crying softly.
That image fills my head every anniversary.

Tomorrow is the 25th anniversary if I'm doing my math correctly. :) Hard to believe it's been that long.

If the Incredible Hulk and the Thing from the Fantastic Four got into a fight, who do you think would win? Mr. Duggins said his friend who worked for Marvel Comics would describe attending cocktail parties full of conversations that began along those lines. That was how Duggins transitioned to describing the conversations engineers were getting ( Read more... )

Apparently McCain dissed planetariums?!?! How long ago did that happen ( Read more... )

I made a new icon.

Over on my child_of_orion journal I have some space icons and one of them is of the shuttle. So I posted this over there. Then I decided to improve my shuttle icon and liked it so much I wanted it over here on MLR so that I could use it more often.

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