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Dear NASA...
Yaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy!!!!
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html
This is what gets me out of bed in the morning (quite literally in this case!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqqBy7C8gyU
The craziest engineering dream I have seen and it actually effing worked!!!
Congratulations and here's hoping for a trouble free commissioning phase :D
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I miss you...
Which is a daft thing to say, since it's entirely my own doing!
Nevertheless, I should apologise to everyone for the extended absence.: I'm sorry I'm not better at staying in touch.
So, I'm now in that socially inept place where I feel I can't easily respond to your posts because I don't know when I'll be on-line again. Ummm... I'll be over here in ( Read more... ) -
We Stand Upon The Shoulders of Giants...
Talen and I needed a half-way house in which to meet-up with my parents. We decided a visit to the SS Great Britain would be worth a shot.
I wasn't sure what I would be going to see. (Yes, I could have looked it up before hand, but we agreed a surprise would be more fun. Boy, were we surprised!) We didn't take out cameras, and I deeply regret that ( Read more... ) -
E-book Reader Report
How do I like the Sony PRS-600?
A lot! Oh, yes indeed! I now have over 150 books on it. (Okay, maybe 120 of those I already had in one format or other because they were in the 'free' starter pack: Shakespeare for instance. I do now have Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall' and Charles Darwin and, of course, about ten more new novels I would have bought as ( Read more... ) -
Living in a box!
Well, it seems appropriate ;P On many levels. (Warnings for dodgy eighties music ;P)
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You too can be a banker...
Okay, you won't get rich but that's not the point ;)
I'm feeling a bit snarly about the 'Me Me Me Me' attitude in the run up our election. So here's a link to a (one of many) micro-credit bank that lends your small amount to people without access to normal bank loans.
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How I learned to... love the bomb!
Cryosat 2 launched successfully - as you might guess from my previous gibbering :)
I'm ecstatic for many reasons: The first Cryosat was lost at launch five years ago, and it was gutting. Everyone pulled together and rebuilt it. That was the last Space project I worked on before going off to work on MoD stuff. You can imagine how much everyone on ( Read more... ) -
Should it be of any interest...
I know, I find (and read) the oddest things. This is the journal of one Nathaniel Bryceson for the Year of our Lord, 1846.
It is being serialized as daily entries by Westminster Council and it's a fascinating glimpse into the daily life of an average Londoner. (White, male, upper-working/lower-middle class.)
He currently seems to have some 'creepy ( Read more... ) -
Moreth's Rules of Decorating
#1 Everything is improved by a coat of paint. This includes your hair ( Read more... ) -
Currently reading...
Gwyneth Jones 'Bold As Love' series.
Interestingly she made the first four books free to air*, so if you fancy trying a post-modern Arthurian sci-fi romance (complete with obligatory threesomes) or just chasing song lyrics through a novel, you can find her work here: http://www.boldaslove.co.uk/ and (#4: Band of Gypsys) here: http://www.boldaslove. ( Read more... )
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