I've never really been convinced that the Constitution was a fantastic document in its own right ( Read more... )

There is truly something poisonous in the one-upmanship of our society.

Some examples:

lishd had an amazing portrait of a hawk carved into her side over the course of five hours ( Read more... )

My first set of screencaps -- Tarkovsky's Solaris (1972). I guess the best way to describe it would be a love story in space, but that doesn't do the source material justice. The source material was an extended example of how difficult it would be for mankind to communicate with another form of sentient life. There's a great speech in the movie ( Read more... )

It's very rare in life that we can do something once without having to repeat the effort later on ( Read more... )

Man, I am so ready to be in space.

I just watched Space Cowboys -- it's a goofy action flick with Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, James Garner, ...well, you get the picture ( Read more... )

I gotta get to sleep -- and I've been a lousy LJ friend, people. I've been super slow about those updates ( Read more... )

A quick up-and-at-'em that morning. I had pizza from the night before in the fridge. Heated a bit and devoured. Everything a growing boy needs for breakfast. Checked out of the hotel and got on my way to Walt Disney World. And thar she blows!


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I went to Florida for the space shuttle launch just about two weeks ago on 7/8.

So, those of you who know me have probably heard me say that Floridians are crazy. This was not disproven when I arrived in Florida two weeks ago at around 4pm, hit the roads in my rental car and saw this:


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So let's get the short bit out of the way ( Read more... )

So this last week was crazy. As some of you may know, the last space shuttle launch was on the 8th and I decided it was time for me to haul my sorry backside yonder and get about the business of seeing one ( Read more... )