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- loves Buzz Aldrin! bit.ly/JCpwH
- needs to make a green Twitter icon... because, y'know, I really do support Iran.
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Using only song titles from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Try not to repeat a song title. It’s harder than you think. Pick Your Artist: Reba McEntire (the only artist for whom I know multiple song titles (and even with her, I’m totally going to cheat)). Are you male or female: I’m A Survivor Originally published at MadHacktress' Blog. Please leave any comments there. It’s Good Friday, although I’m not entirely sure why it’s called that. After all it’s supposed to be the day on which Jesus was crucified. Not really a good Friday for him. Although I remember, as a child, hearing the day called Holy Friday, which I think is perhaps a better term for the day. I’ll contact the calendar people for next year. More confusing than the name of Good Friday is calculating the day: which is held on the Friday before Easter, which is the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon. Except that it’s not. The Paschal full moon is first full moon after the Vernal Equinox (sort of, keep reading), therefore the first full moon of spring. However the church has fixed the first day of spring to March 21st, irrespective of the actually natural occurrence of the equinox. Also, the Paschal full moon is an ecclesiastical event, not a natural event, so the Paschal full moon is actually the 14th day of the lunar calendar corresponding to the first full moon of spring, which means that it could actually occur a day or two off the actually full moon. Thankfully we don’t have to calculate this all ourselves. Otherwise there would be Easter happening all over the place. I can only eat so many bunny ears. Originally published at MadHacktress' Blog. Please leave any comments there.
this update is coming from my phone. i don’t even know if this will work or not. i thought that VEDA would be a good time to test it to see if I can actually make this work. nothing much exciting going on today, except that on the vloggersoftheweek channel on youtube mimi, our thursday, uploaded a video, which is awesome because it’s been a while since we heard from her. EDIT: Sadly this only saved as a draft and not a published entry. :( Originally published at MadHacktress' Blog. Please leave any comments there. I’ve spent the evening - at least the post-Lost portion of the evening - enrapt by a Deadliest Catch marathon. I love this show and this marathon is starting from Season One and going onward. I may never sleep. That is all. Until we meet again. Originally published at MadHacktress' Blog. Please leave any comments there.
We’re just under a month away from the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis for the final servicing mission of the Hubble Space Telescope. I find myself very impatiently awaiting this launch which is set to take place on May 12th. I have long held that one of NASA’s greatest successes was putting Hubble in orbit. I don’t mean that it is the greatest instrument NASA has built, because it’s not. However, the pictures - the real visible light images - from the HST have given the public a really clear picture of just what NASA is looking at. Not since the words “one small step” has NASA had something so popularly branded in the public eye. Who can’t imagine in their mind’s eye the pictures of the gas pillars of the Eagle Nebula? I was pleased when NASA announced the final servicing mission to extend the usable light of the Hubble Space Telescope, but I was disappointed when the mission was reassigned away from Discovery. I know it sounds strange, but Discovery is my favourite shuttle. Discovery launched the HST and conducted the second and third servicing missions. It was also the return to flight orbiter after both shuttle tragedies. But I digress. I don’t know whether NASA has finalized the instruments that will be included in the Hubble’s replacement telescope the James Webb Space Telescope, but at last reckoning there was no visible light sensor on the new ’scope. I think this is a mistake. NASA is going to lose the shuttle in a few years and then the Hubble telescope is next. The sight of the space plane being launched - not to mention returning to Earth - is memorable even on television. I regularly find myself becoming emotional as I watch. A capsule landing in the ocean and being intercepted by military - or Coast Guard - vessels doesn’t have the same impact for me. Especially given that they won’t be heading to the Moon again for more than a decade (y’know, almost a half-century after the last guys were there). With the Orion spacecraft and the JWST being the lacklustre replacements for two shining stars of NASA public relations I worry that “space stories”, which ought to get as much press as possible, will be slipping below the fold and farther and farther back. Let’s hope I’m wrong. On another subject, tomorrow I’m starting a multi-day project on YouTube as part of VEDA. I will be “writing” a short story improv-style. With a new chapter each day for five or six days. Feel free to add your comments to the YouTube videos with suggested inclusions. Until then! Originally published at MadHacktress' Blog. Please leave any comments there.
When it comes to playing computer games I go in cycles. For a few days or weeks I’ll be really gung-ho about a computer game or games in general, and then my interest will wane, often for months. I’ve never really been a big gamer, although I’ve tried almost every game, and I’ve seen the rest (I’m a uber game observer). Yesterday I was talking to a friend on the phone and he was picking up Civilization IV again after a long hiatus and was asking me questions regarding the user interface - where to find this and that, strategy, etc. As I started to think about the game and playing it - and no doubt at least partly because I loaded it in order to answer one particularly tough question - I ended up playing a few epic games of it last night. This evening I have been flipping through my old game library and installing a few games to play again because I think I’m back in an on-cycle for PC gaming. No telling how long it will last - best guess is until the weather clears - but I’ll be enjoying some games in the meanwhile. Any suggestions or just your favourite games would be appreciated. See you on the morrow, good reader. Originally published at MadHacktress' Blog. Please leave any comments there.
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