Tag: heroes
The Story of the OLPC: Kids Are the Mission Not A Market
At CES 2012 this past January the One Laptop Per Child foundation unveiled their newest model...
Read MoreTWiT Reflection into the New Decade
I’ve been watching Leo since the early ZD-TV days. It feels like it was early Internet, but...
Read MoreThe King of Kong & the Ongoing Myth of Objective Documentary Films
This past summer I saw the critically acclaimed documentary, “King of Kong” at the inaugural meeting of a Full Sail documentary film club. Great film. When one of my fellow film viewers confessed that he wanted to...
Read MoreStar Trek (TNG) Saturday
I did something today that I haven’t done in a long time. I reconnected an external drive...
Read MoreIntellectualism and conservative religion
Is there a fundamental conflict for someone to be an intellectual and a believer in conservative...
Read MoreStreaming NASA.TV
I love this stuff. I wanted to put a streaming viewer of the ongoing Endeavor mission on my blog and remembered that a video podcaster was doing this via Ustream. I’d used this source last Spring when I watched the landing...
Read MoreLaunch of the Shuttle Endeavor Part 3 – 7:55 PM ET
Wow, that happened way 2 fast. Leaving the parking area is going 2 take much longer than Endeavor’s 1st orbit. Video 2 follow. 08:20 PM November 14, 2008 from Twinkle “Official” (?) NASA version of the...
Read MoreLaunch of the Shuttle Endeavor Part 2 – Waiting for the Launch
Some folks watch a NASA documentary and fall asleep with five-seconds of the first acronym. My buddy Dan is one of those guys. We’d just started the Astronaut Hall of Fame tour and as much as he wanted to be there for the...
Read MoreLaunch of the Shuttle Endeavor Part 1 – Astronaut Hall of Fame Tour
One of the first things that I knew that I wanted to do when I decided to move to Florida was to...
Read MoreMars Phoenix Lander Farewell
2023 Editor note: The original two youtube videos embedded in this post were...
Read MoreMars Phoenix Mission “Ends”
Watching the landing of the Mars Phoenix probe was one wonderful geek highlight last Spring. Alas, I’ve gotten a bit busy and haven’t been paying as much attention as I should. Then I heard the following sad message...
Read MoreThe Matrix Runs on Windows (XP, NOT VISTA!)
Sometimes after all of the political stuff and musings on religion it takes a giant step in the direction of silliness for it all to make sense. Thank god for YouTube and CollegeHumor… See more funny videos and funny...
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