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Happy birthday, time_entangled! You've earned another rare post from me. Hope you have a good day and a better year ahead of you!

The Stardust Sample Return Capsule landed successfully this morning, necessitating another rare posting from me. I'm so excited about this. I first heard about this NASA mission to rendezvous with a comet and bring back samples from it ten years ago, in 1996, when I was a college senior doing a project at NASA. It launched seven years ago, when ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, time_entangled! I'm breaking my 15-month LJ posting silence to wish you a good day.

I just passed my Ph.D. thesis defense! Am somewhat tipsy on champagne, but felt this was worthy of a new journal entry. Going out for margaritas with friends now. Life is very good:-)

This map is just too much fun not to post. Looking at it makes me want to go travel more. It was weird filling it out, though, because there were lots of countries that I had to stop and think if I had been there or not -- they felt very familiar because of news stories or from living near them or other random reasons, and I nearly convinced ( Read more... )

Ugh, dial-up is slow ( Read more... )

Man, this has been one of the best nostalgic TV weekends ever. In an effort to procrastinate packing and getting ready for the holidays, I've managed to watch lots of fun stuff from my childhood. The Rankin-Bass animated Christmas specials are awesome, especially "The Year Without a Santa Claus." I've had the Cold Miser and Heat Miser songs ( Read more... )

After years of online lurking, I'm taking a step away from anonymity and starting my own LiveJournal. I have no idea how often I'll post because (a) I can't afford for this to be too much of a time-sink, and (b) I don't have that much interesting to say, but at least I'll have my own place on the web, and can stop leaving anonymous comments on ( Read more... )