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Tuesday, January 31, 2006
4:58 PMMixed Ramen Noodles
I did it. I upgraded to Mixed Grill.
I'll be eating Ramen until the next paycheck.
Saturday, January 28, 2006
2:16 PM
Space Saturday
Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him (NYTimes)
By NASA they really mean the White House.
Gimmick in the Heavens: An Orbiting Spacesuit With Transmitter (NYTimes)
If, like me, you do not have a HAM radio, use JTrack to find out where the suit is.
Mars rovers star in new IMAX film (CNET)
I wanted to see this this week but it hasn't opened in Boston yet.
Official "Roving Mars" website
Heir to Apollo: Shaping the CEV; Part 1: Managing an exploration roadmap PDF (Aerospace America)
Astronomers find smallest extrasolar planet yet (SpaceFlightNow)
"Located more than 20,000 light years away in the constellation Sagittarius, close to the center of our Milky Way galaxy, planet OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb is approximately five-and-a-half times the mass of Earth."
Celebrating Two Years Of Mars Express Discoveries (Space Daily)
Remembering Challenger: Shuttle Disaster and Others Refocus NASA (Space.com)
20 Years ago today. I was 12. I remember not believing it when I was told, Space Shuttles do not blow up. I had a recurring nightmare about it for years to come.
Russian Rocket Builder Aims for Moon Base by 2015, Reports Say (Space.com)
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
5:15 PM
Angel in the Snow
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
6:15 PM
Fucking Funny.
The 50 most loathsome people in America, 2005. (via Kottke)
Various Quotes:
44. George Lucas: "Sentence: Cast into the gaping maw of Tatooine's all-powerful Sarlacc and digested alive for a thousand years, along with a talkative Jar Jar Binks."
33. Johnny Damon: "Exhibit A: Going from the Red Sox to the Yankees is like fucking the guy that murdered your husband."
21. Bill Frist: "Exhibit A: Opposed Patients' Bill of Rights. Sentence: Brain damage due to botched botox treatment."
15. Carl Rove: "Exhibit A: 'As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.'"
8. Judith Miller: "Sentence: After a brief but horrible stint as a chemical weapons test subject for Monsanto, Miller is vivisected without anesthesia and her organs are harvested alive to be preserved as spares for Seymour Hersh."
5. Tom Delay: "Exhibit A: Explaining his failure to enlist during Vietnam: 'So many minority youths had volunteered...that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like myself.'"
2. Dick Cheney: "Sentence: Strapped to chair; eyes removed with melon baller. Nursed back to health. Lips sewn to a rubber hose connecting him to a 500 gallon nutrition shake. Nursed back to health. Fingers, hands, toes, feet, nose and genitals devoured by hungry pigs. Nursed back to health. Legs and arms ground to stubs with belt sander. Nursed back to health. Fitted with earphones that play only Christina Aguilera songs, and left alone to think about what he has done."
Thursday, January 19, 2006
3:55 PM
Oh my poor wallet
The Mixed Grill – A Special Offer. Only $199 for current lifetimers, which I am one of. $499 to newbies.
This one is going to hurt coming so soon after Christmas.
But what a wonderful 5 year web birthday present. No redesign but a back end upgrade.
Now do I really need it? I want it, but do I need it?
Ugh. It's worth it just for the Strongspace account.
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
8:20 PM
Splenda®
I believe that Splenda® does things to my head.
It makes it all pointy, my thoughts, that is. Pointy and spongy and in right angles.
Sugar substitutes should not do things like this.
Of course it could be a mix of the Splenda® and the DayQuil®. A mix of registered trademarks. A mix that should never have been. Coke and Vicks could market it as SplenQuil. The bringer of spongy, squishy, sharp, wondering thoughts.
SplenQuil, the drug of a restless fucked up crowd that really should be on Meth. Oh my head. If I concentrate I can move my brain south to warmer climes while my body continues the dredging of servers.
Sunday, January 08, 2006
1:48 AM
Ok, it might be too soon...
...but this is my favorite photo of the year so far.
Just great.
Thursday, January 05, 2006
4:11 PM
Mindstorms NXT
Good article at Wired about the all new Lego Mindstorms. Geeks in Toyland (Wired)
It will be an all new system using Technic blocks instead of normal Lego blocks. Which I think is a better idea as their are limitations with the old kit.
I bought a Mindstorms 2.0 kit back in 1999. I used it in a couple of 2 credit classes and still have the car I built sitting on my desk. I never really got more into it because I hated the programming language that shipped with the kit and never got around to downloading any of the other languages that popped up. Also my laptop at the time sucked.
I just might buy this new kit and give it a whirl.
Lego Mindstorms Site.
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
3:20 PM
Happy Marsday
January 3rd: Spirit, 2 years strong.
January 24th: Opportunity, the overachieving younger brother.
Rovers Still Circle Mars (Wired)
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
12:46 AM
Pictures are worth something to someone
When I moved this site off of my old provider to my new fabulous one I never uploaded the photos.
Well I have corrected that small mistake and have posted all of my old pics back onto this site.
So go and take a look and remember what they looked like.
Jadedturtle Photos.
Sunday, January 01, 2006
9:58 PM
Happy New Year
Welcome 2006. If you came here looking for a list of resolutions, sorry, I'm going to keep them to myself so that maybe they come true. Some of the resolutions I secretly made for myself in 'Naught Five' came true so mayhap it will happen again.
This site is officially 5 years old, but in truth it did not start until a little later, I just like thinking that I had a blog in 2000 even if for 1 day.
Maybe I will get my act together and restructure some things for the 18th and give this site a birthday celebration, but don't hold your breath.
