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Men: Beware!

March 19, 2008 in stuff by Steve | No comments

Men, a heads up…. Ladies, enjoy the laugh.

After the jump, 9 words or phrases with exclusive meaning to women:

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Oui, Oui!

February 7, 2008 in stuff by Steve | No comments


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Near Misses

January 29, 2008 in stuff by Steve | No comments

clipped from www.planetary.org
Itokawa rotates under Hayabusa

I’ve been investigating some of the recent excitement about dangers from the skies, and particularly asteroid 2007 TU24, which will pass harmlessly by Earth tonight, considerably farther from Earth than the Moon. Here’s some recent radar images of the near-Earth object, which is roughly 250 meters in diameter.

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Time for helmets…

January 29, 2008 in stuff by Steve | No comments

US Spy Satellite Could Crash To Earth In February

The Russian space station Mir reentering the the atmosphere in 2001. Substantial pieces crashed into the Pacific Ocean (credit: Reuters)

Hopefully a solution to this tricky problem can be found quickly, but it is hoped that most of the satellite will disintegrate during re-entry and any leftovers drop into the ocean… but it would be nice to know if there is a risk of impact anywhere other than the oceans. 

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Wanna Bet?

January 11, 2008 in stuff by Steve | No comments

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Earthset on the Moon

December 28, 2007 in pix, stuff by Steve | No comments

Japan’s Kaguya spacecraft has inaugurated a return to the Moon and the start of the International Lunar Decade. In addition to its many science instruments, Kaguya carries a high-definition television camera provided to the mission by the Japan Broadcasting Corporation strictly for public communication purposes. This five-image Earthset sequence is cropped from some of the first HD movies returned from the Moon.

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Images with ASCIII Text

December 28, 2007 in everything, pix, stuff by Steve | No comments

A very cool open-source program is available for creating images with just computer characters. It’s known as ASCII Generator dotNET

Check out an image of me…

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Dad

December 16, 2007 in stuff by Steve | No comments

MAN, WHAT A HANDSOME GUY!

Dad

Doggie in the window

November 6, 2007 in politics, stuff by Steve | No comments

Doggie in the window

Patti caught this in Flagstaff on a girl’s weekend. Love the expression, and great framing with the ridges in the bed of the truck and the windows.

Albuquerque’s first hot-air balloonists had no idea what they were doing

October 8, 2007 in stuff by Steve | No comments

By Sue Vorenberg
Friday, October 5, 2007

Forget the climate, the culture – it was Snoopy and the Red Baron that brought the biggest ballooning event in the world to Albuquerque.

The Albuquerque International Balloon Festival this year draws hundreds of balloons and more than 100,000 visitors to town.

But if you could flash back to the spring of 1971, you’d see a very different Duke City. There were no hot-air balloons in Albuquerque and perhaps only 40 in the world. Read the rest of this entry »

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