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I'm about 5 miles from the Shuttle Atlantis, watching the shuttle launch in a few hours from the Press area. I was lucky enough to get picked as part of the "NASA Tweetup". I'll be tweeting as @fotocuisine, and the whole group of 150 of us is flashing past at #nasatweetup

Beautiful day for a launch!

Interesting.

Top-5 opening weekends ever:
1) Dark Knight
2) Spider Man 3
3) Twilight New Moon
4) Pirates: Dead Man's Chest
5) Iron Man 2.

All sequels. Three comic books. Plus vampires and pirates.

One of these days, the best way to market a movie will be to make a movie. The first one will be a commercial for the rest of the franchise.

Made some citrus-sauced chicken breast, with some tortilla strips for some nice crunch. Really tried to play with the flavors (fresh herbs from my exploding herb garden) but also tried to tie in a bunch of different areas of the planet. I love food that takes an ingredient or technique from one region, and matches it with another.

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After a year off or so sorting out my career in this fun economy, I'm back to rebuilding my boat ( Read more... )

I wouldn't mind the fact that I have to watch a couple ads before logging in, except that LJ keeps logging me out every 12-18 hours or so. Sounds like a loophole around Fitz's pledge that the early LJ users will never see ads.

In other news...the poker gods...they are unkind this evening.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. -- Douglas Adams

I'm a big fan of Space.com. That said, there are parts of the site that bug the bejeebus out of me ( Read more... )

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If you have an opportunity to be outside the next couple nights after sunset, starting at 8pm or so, look low to the West ( Read more... )

Head cold from hell. Feel like 12 rounds with Ali, and a week of 12-hour work days, too. Light in the tunnel on the work thing, though.