I spend a lot of time in the car. For people like me there are a couple of things that keep us sane. Good books are one of them. This week, let’s talk about You’re Never Weird on the Internet by Felicia Day.
Writing
The Economics of Space
Is there an economic incentive for us to colonize Mars? This came across my social feeds by way of The Mars Society, so you can guess that, in general, the answer is going to “Yes.” Let’s dig in.
playing with markdown
I’ve been getting myself into “real developer” kind of stuff lately; somewhat inspired by a welder turned developer friend and partly by the number of awesome “open development projects that are going on right now.
How I make pour over
A little demo for how I make pour over coffee.
NASA Budget Musings
There’s been some interesting policy commentary on the NASA budget going around today since the budget came out of committee. There’s a bit more going on here than just “Woo! NASA got funded for next year!”.
Reducing Infinites, a status update
It’s been about 11 months since I started my cleaning experiment to try to reduce the “get to the end of the feed” mentality when consuming content. I figured it was time for an update.
So, you want to be an astronaut?
NASA is currently recruiting a new astronaut corps. I decided to dig into this a little bit (shocking, I know).
Planets, planets, everywhere…
Okay, now this is pretty awesome…notice all of the big planets in this poster? There’s a good reason for that.
blackholesandjets
It’s been a fun year seeing what the scientific community has been doing with NuSTAR. This is from a science group that triggered a Target of Opportunity (ToO), which is basically what happens when something cool goes bump in the night that we either didn’t expect or couldn’t predict and someone comes to us and… Continue reading blackholesandjets
Flying over a Dwarf Planet
Ever want to fly over a Dwarf planet? Of course you did…movie links and more dwarf planet goodness below the fold.