Weird blue mannequin inside the spacesuit of James A. McDivitt aboard the Gemini 4 capsule, Air and Space Museum.
Photo taken with a Palm Zire 71.
Enterprise
Model of the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701, used in the original Star Trek series. It is now on permanent display in the basement of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Store.
Photo taken with a Palm Zire 71.
GMail Contest One: The Dane
UPDATE: This contest is cancelled. You all lose.
I have spare GMail invites and no need for another couch, so I’m thinking of offering them as prizes in three separate contests.
Contest Number One: First person who can get The Dane to start posting to his blog again, gets a GMail invite from me. Offer void if The Dane himself suddenly starts posting without impetus from any of you. You must show proof that it was you who got him to post. Photos are preferred.
Oh, and I finally mustered up the bandwidth to view one of his “vidblogs,” number thirty. It took me two hours to get the joke.
LHC Decade
As Anj and Row point out, last Thursday, June 10, marked a full decade since our first day of college. We’ve been friends for ten years. So thanks, Toni, Anj, Row, Ganns, Krn, Bok, Erik, Chiqui, and well, Tiff. Couldn’t have made it through college without you, and I’m glad we’re still in touch after all the changes and transitions. (And if I’ve forgotten someone’s name/link, yell at me in the comments.)
ESV Overboard
The website of Good News and Crossway, publishers of the ESV, is now done in CSS and Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict, with a clean, clear layout. Very nice work by an excellent Christian book publisher.
I lost my ESV bible last Christmas; it was in a bag pocket which I hadn’t zipped up properly, so when I picked up the bag from the baggage claim, everything that had been in that pocket — just a couple of hangers in addition to the ESV — had fallen out, somewhere between Manila, Hong Kong, Chicago, and Dulles. I only hope someone at some airport picked the bible up and made good use of it. I’ve ordered a new compact thinline to replace it.
Segway, now in Blue
Meanwhile, at Segway HQ:
“People aren’t buying our Segway! Why?”
“Maybe because it costs $5000 and no one can afford that?”
“No, that can’t be it.”
“Maybe because it’s not blue?”
“Yes, yes, of course! Make a new blue Segway at the same maddeninlgy exorbitant price! That’ll bring in the buyers and change the world!”
“A Time To Remember”
I was quoted on the significance of the World War II Memorial to Filipino veterans of the war, print version of Manila Bulletin USA for the week of June 10, page 9. Article by Raffy Espiritu.
A Night with Bill and Nat
Tonight only, at H20 in DC Southwest: a Clinton-sponsored fundraiser for John Kerry. Read the small footnote on VIP desserts. Would you donate $150 for that? Does dessert include hot grits? </injoke>
National Parks
Nationalparks.com, a site I designed and styled, gets mentioned in passing in a New York Times story on surfing for campsites.
Oooohhh…
I am far too easily distracted by shiny things on the web.
And by news.