Month: January 2004

  • free shrimp!

    From Space.Com's Astronotes from January 19th: An Ocean on Mars Puts Food in Your Gullet If we didn't have a reason to root for NASA's twin rover Mars missions before, we do now. The two robots could win free food for everyone in the United States if they can find evidence of ocean water on…

  • congratulations, NASA!

    Congatulations to the folks at NASA! Opportunity is on Mars! Space.com coverage here

  • some things just suck

    ok, so three posts in one day. Wow. But you've got to see this. I hope it's a joke, or a photoshop job. Ugh.

  • mini blinds

    And in other exciting news (other than the news that this is my second post in 10 minutes), mini-blinds get dirty. Diann & I bought some of those crazy mini-blind cleaning things, and they start yellow. When you're done with the 7 sets of mini-blinds in the house, the things are grey. Or gray. Whichever…

  • orkut

    orkut is cool. Affiliated with the great Google, it's a friendster like thing that actually works, and it is responsive. Even after being slashdotted. Crazy, eh?

  • state of the union..

    So, am I the only who thought the mention of Steroid Use in Professional Sports was a wee bit out of place in the State of the Union address a few nights ago? I mean, I'm all for proper drug laws, and I think that should be a big pushing point for the President that…