Christopher Reeve, AKA "Superman" passed away this Sunday ( Read more... )

SpaceShipOne easily made the second trip into space today, handily beating the altitude record for a plane at the same time. Congrats to the team, and where do I sign up for my flight ( Read more... )

Well, to day is the day! Scaled Composites is set to make it's second attempt at the Ansari X-Prize. If you don't know yet, the X-Prize is a $US10 million prize for the first team to put a ship up to 100KM (62M) twice in 14 days.

As it stands if they complete this attempt, it will be on the 57th anniversary of Sputnik I.

Yes, 56 years ago NASA began operations! In an interesting turn of events, it looks like just days after this aniversary we might be looking at the first winner of the Ansari X-PrizeWhen I was in Houston a year ago I toured the Johnson Space Center, and it was sad to see the remains of a complete Apollo Saturn 5 Moon shot just lying on the ground ( Read more... )

Ok, now don't get me wrong. I have really enjoyed my stay down here in the Fairfax/Washington, DC area. I miss home though, I miss Major, Deanna, and my friends, in no particular order ( Read more... )

Just a few days bewfor last weekned I managed to snag a 150mm Lens for my Bronica off of EBAY. Got the lens shipped via UPS so I could use it on the weekend @ the festival. VERY nice. The shutter is good and the glass is perfect. Love it to death already.

Now I just have to wait until I get home and get the film processed.

Ok, so i took most of Monday to recover, but did I ever have a blast this weekend! I spent the weekend down in Fairfax (my last weekend away from Home) and went to the Maryland Renaissance Festival ( Read more... )

OK, so here is the good news, I AM down in Virginia from the 19th to the 1st. I then fly to Montreal. THEN I fly back home to Toronto for "good". The second week in October is being covered by a co-worker, allowing me to come home ( Read more... )

Thanks to Laura Ann :) I am not evil at all >:)


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I won a Speed grip for my ETRS on Ebay. Price was just about right as well ( Read more... )