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life, liberty, and the pursuit of purpose: June 2014
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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of purpose. Do your best at all you do, and thus have no regrets. Wednesday, June 04, 2014. Memory, Fatherhood, and roller coasters. So Magic Mountain is going to shut down the Colossus roller coaster this summer. Probably in preparation to demolish and replace it with a fancy new coaster. Colossus holds sentimental value for me. I rode it as my first "big" roller coaster when I was 10 years old, with my dad. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I am a space scientist and policy res...
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life, liberty, and the pursuit of purpose: November 2008
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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of purpose. Do your best at all you do, and thus have no regrets. Sunday, November 30, 2008. Shuttle Landed at Edwards! It was unmistakable, and much louder than I had been expecting! I walked down the hall to see if my friend had heard it from his office, but he wasn't there. I then thought to call my friend Phil, who lives in Downey to the southeast. He had the same idea, apparently, as my phone was ringing and I answered to hear his voice: "My house just shook! And with ...
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life, liberty, and the pursuit of purpose: June 2008
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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of purpose. Do your best at all you do, and thus have no regrets. Saturday, June 28, 2008. The "Midway Bear" depicted above in the statue that greets guests of the resort, was actually a guy who would dress up as a bear and play the accordian at town parades to entertain the children. That was a disappointingly reasonable story for a statue with such outlandish comic potential, I thought. Oh well. Saturday, June 07, 2008. Science and the Manned Space Program. When I came to...
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life, liberty, and the pursuit of purpose: January 2009
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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of purpose. Do your best at all you do, and thus have no regrets. Tuesday, January 06, 2009. IPhoto '09 will have built-in geotagging and Flickr integration. New geotagging and Flickr features in iPhoto '09! Just announced at the Macworld Keynote: the new version of iPhoto (2009) will ship with the following cool feature additions (among others):. Check out Macworld's coverage of the keynote. Apple iphoto 09 flickr geotag geotagging google maps photos. I am a space scientis...
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life, liberty, and the pursuit of purpose: The latest new Vision for Space Exploration
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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of purpose. Do your best at all you do, and thus have no regrets. Monday, February 01, 2010. The latest new Vision for Space Exploration. The Obama administration released its plan for NASA's budget. Also, since we are extending the life of the ISS (a good thing), shouldn't we consider extending the life of the Shuttle program as well? I predict this will only serve to lengthen the amount of time that the U.S. is without the ability to put people into space. The...Congress ...
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life, liberty, and the pursuit of purpose: July 2008
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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of purpose. Do your best at all you do, and thus have no regrets. Wednesday, July 30, 2008. The Subway, The Earthquake, and the iPhone. I was about 100 feet under downtown Los Angeles, when the earthquake hit. I am actually curious at why I didn't feel the quake on the red line. Was it simply because the regular vibrations felt when riding the train masked the vibrations from the quake? The blue line train showed up only a few minutes or so later than expected. I stroll...
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life, liberty, and the pursuit of purpose: March 2009
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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of purpose. Do your best at all you do, and thus have no regrets. Thursday, March 26, 2009. I was walking Lucy this morning and noticed that some neighbors just a few doors down from our condo are installing photovoltaics on their roof! A sign of the times? People investing in their home infrastructure with the future economy and the environment in mind? Either way, it was nice to see! Labels: solar power neighborhood house photovoltaics photovoltaic cell.
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life, liberty, and the pursuit of purpose: December 2009
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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of purpose. Do your best at all you do, and thus have no regrets. Sunday, December 20, 2009. Tikit Rear Rack Affects Folded Stability. I was a tad dissapointed at this, especially since everything I'd seen online had said that the rear rack made the tikit extremely stable when folded. I chalked it up to the fact that I also had a double-front-rack, which perhaps was making the front wheel side heavier, causing it to lean. See the comparison photos below:. Dave's photos at F...
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life, liberty, and the pursuit of purpose: Some thoughts on the LOST season premiere. . .
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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of purpose. Do your best at all you do, and thus have no regrets. Wednesday, February 03, 2010. Some thoughts on the LOST season premiere. . . 1) That Juliet is such a great practical joker! When I die, I am going to wait until the last minute, then pull my family members close to me and tell them "I have to tell you something! It's REALLY REALLY REALLY important. . ." and then die right then. Man I'll be chuckling all the way to oblivion! What is that thing made of, anyway?
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life, liberty, and the pursuit of purpose: October 2010
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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of purpose. Do your best at all you do, and thus have no regrets. Tuesday, October 12, 2010. Prop 23: "We're in a crisis at least 90% of the time! Prop 23 on the California ballot this year proposes to repeal the climate change restrictions in the law AB 32 until the state's unemployment rate drops below 5.5%, and stays there for 4 consecutive quarters. It embodies the spirit of the "We're in a crisis! Answer: 4.8% of the time. Gee, it's almost as if the backers of Prop 23 ...
