Some more links to vaguely interesting things;

MESSENGER, the mission to Mercury which launched yesterday on a Delta II Heavy. (Cool rocket - it has central liquid fuelled engines and additional solid fuel boosters. The number of boosters can be varied for different cargoes and launch requirements, and they can start some of them on the ground and ( Read more... )

Nabbed from tuluum;

On your current playlist, hit shuffle and pick the first twenty songs on the list, and write down your favourite line of the song. Try to avoid putting the song title in the line. Then, have your friends comment and see if they know the songs: (don't go googlin' neither :D )Oh, and fair warning - I have some odd stuff on iTunes ( Read more... )

... here's (as I remember it) a good recipe for vanilla ice cream for pouring the ol' Amaretto over. Bog standard recipe really but it does use real vanilla ( Read more... )

I don't really do heat well. Scratch that - I really don't do heat in clothing that well. Unfortunately they don't really let you run around naked here, which in some cases is a good thing (and in others is definitely bad, in my opinion ( Read more... )

Well, according to reports, it's all back to being one big happy family at CSI... and two people have learned either that a) you make sure you post and fax important letters and/or set two alarm clocks for the first day back at work or b) you don't try and play hardball with the network when you're part of an ensemble cast. Depending on who you ( Read more... )

...make sure that your "unknown or null data" flag is something that cannot possibly be valid data.

Oh, the story? Well, it's this guy and his numberplate

You know that it's the height of summer when the telly is so crap that even having the expensive cable package and a TiVo doesn't prevent you having nothing to watch except episodes of the Simpsons that you've seen so often that you can recite the punchlines along with Homer ( Read more... )

Okay, I now loathe this cold or whatever the heck it is. Lingering way too long. I may even have to go to the local snake oil merchant or something.

But at least my ass is not as fired as Nick and Sara's... good job Greg is moving into the field this season, they'll be incredibly short handed otherwise.
( http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/16/ ( Read more... )

Down with the lurgi for the past few days. Summer colds - you can't beat them!

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