From Retro Space Images, artist Robert McCall and astronaut Judy Resnik talk at JSC in 1979. McCall had painted the mural in the background, which featured Resnik.
I can’t get over this picture.
Note: The distinguished white male is the artist and the lady wearing the flowy blouse is the astronaut.
My father sent me a text message in Latin.
“Carpe Baculum.”
So I sent back:
“The old cat wasn’t telling me to go fetch a stick. Carpe Baculum.
Seize the wand.”
This is why my dad is awesome. He sends me book references when I’m about to snap from stress.
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Any old VCR has a programmable timer that connects to motors for recording TV shows. This is analogous to feeding a cat, and following this principle, you can convert a VCR into a weekend pet feeder. You set the VCR’s timer, and when feeding time comes, the motor that would ordinarily spin the video head operates a food delivery mechanism instead.
Click on the link to see how to build this gadget.
Re-purposing old technology has got to be one of the coolest hobbies.
The people who hate other people's bad grammar
“The research arm of dating site OKCupid looked at 500,000 first contacts and concluded that “netspeak, bad grammar and bad spelling are huge turn-offs”. The biggest passion killers were “ur”, “r”, “u”, “ya” and “cant”. Also damaging to online suitors were “luv” and “wat”. On the other hand, correct use of apostrophes was appealing. Using “don’t” and “won’t” caused better than average response rates - 36% and 37% respectively, according to the research”
It’s true! For people I do not know, if you can’t be bothered to spell out a word or use correct punctuation, I can’t be bothered to respond to your message. For people I know, I am a little more forgiving, and I do understand that text messages will be more compact than grammatically correct. However, messages on dating sites are not supposed to be something you hurriedly sent off between getting out of the car and walking into your work. Reasonably correct grammar shows that you were actually paying attention when you wrote the message, and makes me more likely to pay attention to you.
In honor of Children’s Book Week, here’s a photo of an awesome kid.
(Source: unapproachableblackchicks)
If you haven’t had a “Round Rock Donut” from the “Lone Star Bakery” in Round Rock, you must immediately STOP whatever you are doing and go down there and order a dozen. Not one. A dozen. You will not be ABLE to stop eating them. They are different from ANY other donut you have ever eaten. You will want to buy the bakery. In fact, instead of having a birthday cake on your birthday, order the GIGANTIC DONUT and try to share it with your friends. I would NOT steer you wrong!
I need someone to mail a couple dozen of these to Mississippi for me.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Here’s a great photo of UCLA’s Anna Fisher: the first mother in space.
