By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)
Weird iPod shuffle song trio: Paddy Lay Back by Clancy Brothers; Bridge of Khazad-Dum from LOTR soundtrack; Tell Her About It by Billy Joel.
Twitter: Weird iPod shuffle …
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 5:48 pm Mountain Time
Twitter: Weird iPod shuffle …
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 5:48 pm Mountain Time
By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)
Weird iPod shuffle song trio: Paddy Lay Back by Clancy Brothers; Bridge of Khazad-Dum from LOTR soundtrack; Tell Her About It by Billy Joel.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane…
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 2:56 pm Mountain Time
By Brendan Loy
There is a veritable marathon of flyovers by the International Space Station — brighter than ever, thanks to new solar panels added earlier this year — happening over the continental United States during the next several days. Definitely worth checking out.
For local flyby times and magnitudes (lower numbers are brighter), check out SpaceWeather.com’s Simple Satellite Tracker, or for more detailed info, Heavens Above.
And stay tuned: if all goes as planned, the Space Shuttle Endeavour will be joining the ISS next week. It’s set to launch on Saturday, dock on Monday, and undock on July 25. By then, we’ll be into a new ISS flyover marathon over the U.S. (And I’ll be a father of two. Hmm… Baby’s First Spacecraft Sighting?)
Quote of the day
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 2:31 pm Mountain Time
By Brendan Loy
Al Sharpton, to Michael Jackson’s kids: “There wasn’t nothing strange about your daddy.”
Joe Mama, in comments: “It’s these kinds of reckless statements that risk tearing the very fabric of the space-time continuum, trapping all light and heat, and sucking a good part of Los Angeles into another dimension.”
Heh.
(Actually, if we take Sharpton’s use of the double-negative literally, his statement is quite correct.)
Twitter: A strong earthquake …
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 1:41 pm Mountain Time
By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 has struck the North Pole. (RT @BreakingNews.) IS SANTA SAFE???
Twitter: The only thing …
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 1:40 pm Mountain Time
By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)
The only thing more repulsive than the media’s excessive MJ coverage? The navel-gazing tomorrow about whether it was excessive (RT @allahpundit)
CNN’s sixth — count ‘em, six! — Breaking News alert about MJ’s death: “Michael Jackson’s golden coffin is placed in front of the stage as his memorial service gets under way.” Thank God I was instantly notified via text and e-mail of this momentous, earth-shattering, world-changing turn of events. #cnnfail
By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)
Livetweeting MJ @allahpundit. “Nothing says taste and class like Mariah Carey caterwauling in a plunging neckline onstage with a corpse.”
Twitter: Prediction: Greg Packer …
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 10:22 am Mountain Time
By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)
Prediction: Greg Packer is in L.A. today for MJ’s memorial service, and will get quoted somewhere. http://tiny.cc/dLMl0
