September 2008
6 posts
Chinese spacewalk mission enters orbit →
Our shuttle fleet is a handful of flights away from getting shut down for good. The Russians have money for a war in Georgia, and for deployments to Venezuela, but somehow not as much money for space.
And the Chinese? They got their act together and are sending manned missions to space.
I was, still am, obsessed about the space race since I was a child but this is the first time in my life where...
Fringe, and the start of the Fall TV season
If you know anyone that writes for TV, hug him or her. Buy them coffee and food. Then hug them again.
Be nice to them.
The Fall season started with a hell of a lot less fanfare than what I am used to. I almost missed a few episodes but the PVR saved my sorry ass. I did miss a few, my fault for not checking ahead to make sure that the PVR was programmed properly.
Oh, well.
I am also...
Thanks to Novembird for the theme.
The dead hours
Ask anyone that works in software programming, and they will immediately confirm the following:
No real coding work can be done before noon on a Monday, or after noon on a Friday (weekends don’t count).
Monday mornings are crisis and regrup days. This is when all of your customers stampede in, each with a crisis that came up over the weekend that must be addressed NOW. While this is...
We moved!
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