Returned to the southwest from the northwest last night, had a very good holiday with my family + dogs + helicopters, look:
Month: December 2011
Christmas parrots
I saw three of these on a telephone line over the road on my run to work today (Rose-Ringed Parrot).
Chistmas video of the day
Frankensteincense
Dummer Boy
One of my favorite xmas songs is LDB, especially Duvall’s version:
Christmas movie quiz
of what christmas movies are the following:
1) “Hey it’s Ol Neon Nose”
2) “It went pfffft when it moved and blllaffttt when it stopped and whiirrrr! when it stood still”
3) “You a sight for sore eyes”
4) “I don’t know about the cat Clark but I sure am enjoying it”
5) “Ahhhh I need to save my brother from drowning in the ice pond but I will risk losing hearing in my left ear!”
6) “And if he runs away he’ll be easy to catch”
7) Betty: What are those funny things sticking out of your head?
Rigna: Those are our antennae.
Betty: Are you a television set?
8 ) Kimar: Santa, you will never return to Earth, you belong to Mars now.
Santa Claus: Ho Ho, Hooo…
9) Rigna: Chochem is eight hundred years old, you can’t dismiss the wisdom of centuries.
Voldar: I can.
10) Han Solo: Would you look at Lumpy! He’s sure grown, huh? And I think his voice is changing
Lumpy: Arrgararrggaar!
Han Solo: Come on, I’m just teasing.
11) Hargo: What’s soft and round and you put it on a stick and you toast it in a fire, and it’s green?
Kimar: I don’t know what?
Hargo: A Martian mellow.
North Shore
We had a nice camping trip on the north shore: some good boogie-boarding, gnochhi, a run through Kahuku, and some great dark skies featuring a meteor with a visible smoke trail. Also, my paper is on the arχiv here finally.
Comet Harpoon
Comet harpoon from Goddard. Call me Ahab. It’d be nice to have some subsurface material.
GWS from Nat. Geo.
National Geographic has the best website because they have pictures like this.
Maybe it’s the perspective but that’s a lot of shark.
moon
I heard last week from a close relative that scientists had recently discovered two or three giant black holes on the moon. I looked this morning, thought I saw one but it could’ve just been mare. Keep your eyes peeled and if anyone sees anything please holla at me.
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