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Okay. Being me, I somehow cobbled together - - man, you should see it - - a set-up with an ancient megaladon monitor that takes up half my desk, the keyboard that the lovely and vivacious distantnoises oh, so generously sent me, eons ago....and the Mein Dieter of laptops that sort of mysteriously came (sort of) back to life, this morning. No mouse or anything, but the touchpad on the lappie is hit-or-miss-working, so far - I just have to stretch to reach it, and be very, very careful..All Hail, 'The Graveyard of Elderly Technology', yo.

Ghetto-fabulous, but that's me, ya'll.

Have a rebuilt desktop on order - with XP on it, hallelujiah - - so I hope this keeps on, keepin' on, 'til then. We'll see. At least, I can do my freakin' banking, for now.


*GOOSEBUMPS* So much love for this. So very true - and, along with Carl, thoroughly shattered and rebuilt my POV on the world and faith. Bill, we lost ya too soon:

Oh. Em. Gee.

Houston? We've got another one.

Lovely, lovely gentleman, Mr. H. - - who helped design the pilot seating for the Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle...and further, on the Gemini missions, as well..Worked at Cape Canaveral..and, OH, how one after the other failed and crashed..

He lit up when I laughed and said, "Oh, you never should have told me that.", and was delighted when I found his missing pajama pants :)

I really hate to be a pain, but, y'know..If he has any stories he wants to tell, y'know..I'd be happy to listen..

Fine. Okay. I am owning it. All of it.
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I'm staying in, today, with the impending HELLMESS weather, and anxiously awaiting results on this -
http://www.ebay.com/itm/201272973258?_trksid=p2060778.m1431.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
- that I've bid on.

a) It's black.
b) It's Trek - OMFG, total LOLz; I love it.

ETA: GOT IT. :D

Why not?

If I don't win it, I'm going for THIS:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261622701361?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

It freakin' GLOWS IN THE DARK. Perfect for night-shift. :D
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I stumbled across a BBC documentary on Kraftwerk, early this morning, and it whet my appetite like MAD, so I had to watch this, right after. Over two hours of bliss; MUCH, MUCH with the love. Never gets old.
In the doc, they said that nine out of ten people that tried to get tickets to their tour were disappointed - myself, included, when I saw the prices...One woman hung on the line for NINE HOURS, and still didn't get tickets.
No one else like them. Period:


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Anyone else watching, King of the Nerds?

This takes my breath away, each time I see it:



Those tiny figures, walking across the ice (of Enceladus, maybe? I'm such an Enceladus fangrrl and gasped earlier in the film when they showed what could only be its' geisers) literally gave me a lump in my throat, LOL - That sky, filled with Jupiter's swirling storms, like a living painting...Floating..Through the myriad snowballs of Saturn's rings - and that slow, hypnotic leap from that cliff...down..down...And, of course, Carl.

*sigh*

Scant few things on earth, these days, as delicious as this..

Oh, I just absolutely loved this:



I lo-o-ove 'vintage' sci-fi, and this is a great example. Silent, Danish, from 1918 - I found it while looking for, Aelita, Queen of Mars - a silent russian film from 1923 - and wound up enjoying it far more. The 'Excelsior' is adorable (ha. Sulu.), the clothes are amazing, and the, 'Martians' have the right ideas.

Also, this:

Happy Lunar Landing Day, everyone :)

Forty-five years, ago, on this date, Mankind set down on another world. It STILL gives me goosebumps. Thank you, Neil and Buzz and Michael. Thank you - to the thousands that made it happen - achieving the ONE event, that made us, as a species, unite - if only for a brief moment in time.

We need to go back. The moon misses us.




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11






Some right proper fol-de-rol: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoa9_j6VZaVQDVbA66FL3jw

Wow. Tonight's, Cosmos - I'm still, just - WTF - Way to piss on the hundreds of thousands of men and women who worked on/flew/DIED FOR the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo programs, there, Neil. After clobbering us with Carl, yet..who worked on said programs, even briefing my boys, pre-flight..

This was on my Tumblr, with the caption: "How dare you.", so it's not just me.



Now, I'm not arguing that any of what he said was wrong - I couldn't, of course, it's fact - but THE WAY he said it..His voice dripped with disgust, dismissing the missions as a mere 'extension'..The smart-assed, condescending way he said, "No.." - IDK, it sure FELT like a slap in the face..He even used (bits of) Carl's, 'The Gift of Apollo', but somehow, still smarting, it almost made me vomit -

Anyway, Carl said it all infinitely better; nicer, somehow, with a bruised naivete', a disappointment (kind of how I feel about it), not with disgust and derision -



I should probably watch it again, no?
ETA: I did, and it wasn't all that.. :)


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Meanwhile, I *finally* got my ten-year pin at work, and continue to kick ass. I got up eleven extra people for day-shift, Sunday morning by myself - NEW PERSONAL BEST - and STILL managed to come straight home and mow the muthafuckin' lawn.

Huzzah.

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This. Still.

Just absolutely humbling, and a great way to wrap up this weekend.

Now available in 30 languages on BluRay and DVD from www.firstorbit.org - this real time recreation of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering first orbit, was shot entirely in space from on board the International Space Station. The film combines this new footage with Gagarin's original mission audio and a new musical score by composer Philip Sheppard. For more information visit http://www.firstorbit.org/

For Yuri.

As hilarious as this telescope is...and as wozzy as conditions are...THE MOON. Is effin' BEAUTIFUL. It's a bit too overcast, and the moon, itself, too large and bright for viewing..but still. Effin' beautiful. Little else can excite me in this way - ever, always - and, for a first brief try? Wow.


And, derp. Thanks to hierokeryx - fuck social anxiety. I'm looking into THIS:

http://www.astrohbg.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naylor_Observatory - !!!


Also, this is good fun. Watch. Read each letter aloud. Make no mistakes.