While talking to people about space, I’ve noticed that many people don’t have a good idea on how low earth orbit satellites orbit the earth. This video about the impending Phobos Grunt reentry does a great job showing what a low earth orbit looks like. Also, my condolences go out the Russian Space Agency on [...]
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Orbits
January 6, 2012
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Strange iOS Music Bug
October 16, 2011
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I sometimes end up on the “bleeding edge” of technology when I do some early upgrades and updates. When I updated my iPhone 4 to iOS 5 when the iOS 5 update came out, the update went well. However, when I went to play music using the Music app, there was some strange behavior. When [...]
More on Steve Jobs
October 6, 2011
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I can’t think of any other famous person’s death affecting me like the death of Steve Jobs. My first reaction was “I knew he was very sick and it wasn’t a surprise. In fact, I just lost a coworker to the same cancer, pancreatic, last week so on one level I was prepared. However, remembering [...]
Steve Jobs 1955-2011
October 5, 2011
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This man was a true visionary and really changed how people interact with technology. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what [...]
Feeling good about American creativity
August 7, 2011
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I just spent the weekend at Defcon 19, a hacking convention here in Las Vegas. Defcon, coupled with my experience at the STS-133 NASA Tweetup, gives me hope for the future. People are creative. People are amazing. We build. We make. We create. We break things and build them up again. Although we are living [...]
Space Shuttle Retrospective
July 22, 2011
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Amazing video with clips from all of the Space Shuttle missions. Well worth a watch.
History of the Shuttle Program in Pictures
July 1, 2011
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The Atlantic has a great photo gallery of Space Shuttle pictures including several unusual pictures such the Star Trek cast in front of Enterprise and Enterprise on the never used launch pad in California. Link.
Discovery’s ready — I’m Ready
January 31, 2011
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As Discovery is rolling out to the pad for the final time, I finalized my travel plans for watching the launch from NASA press site. SpaceflightNow has some great pictures.
Remembering Challenger and advice from Dad
January 28, 2011
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Today is the 25th anniversary of the loss of Space Shuttle Challenger. Most people who were alive then remember that day vividly. I was in 8th grade (incidentally, at the same school my daughter now is in 1st grade). In the middle of the day, there was a strange announcement over the PA system. It [...]
iPhone alarms not working in 2011?
December 31, 2010
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Since I am planning on waking up in, ahem, 5 hours to lead a Christmas Bird Count, I think I will be setting the old alarm clock as well as the iPhone. And the emergency alarm clock that lives in the bathroom. Yep, 1-1-11 would be a bad day to sleep in. I don’t want [...]
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