Archive for November, 2004
Starbucks in Baker, CA
According to this article in the San Bernardino County Sun Starbucks is headed for Baker, California. A useful stop halfway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, sort of in the middle of nowhere. I wonder if they will they have wi-fi?
Posted: November 30th, 2004 under Culture.
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Scenic Rail Travel
New Train Line Takes Scenic Route
This looks like it would be fun to try out.
Posted: November 19th, 2004 under Travel.
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B-52/X-43A Contrail Image
I shot this image a couple of minutes after the NASA B-52 dropped the X-43A on its successful Mach-10 flight this afternoon. The image was taken from the west side of the Palos Verdes Peninsula with an Olympus C-765.
This was also the last research flight for NASA’s B-52.
Posted: November 16th, 2004 under Spaceflight.
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Infighting at Orbital — Near Mishap.
NASA almost blew another one of its science projects in this Spaceref.com article, A DART Near Miss: Infighting at Orbital - and Deceiving NASA. It has the echoes of a bad disaster movie.
Posted: November 9th, 2004 under Spaceflight.
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“The Incredibles” Cameos
Pixar’s “The Incredibles” had a tribute and a rather nice cameo. The hero wardrobe designer Edna Moe bears a resemblance to Universal Studios costume designer Edith Head. A nice touch was the cameo of Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, two of Walt Disney’s Nine Old Men. Thomas
Posted: November 7th, 2004 under Culture.
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Podcast Enabled
The website is now podcast enabled. Podcast software should be able to detect and download media on this site. To use, subscribe to the xml feed.
Posted: November 1st, 2004 under Technology.
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SpaceShipOne Flight Audio
Here is a recording of the air-to-ground radio communications of the X2 flight of SpaceShipOne.
Posted: November 1st, 2004 under Podcasts, Spaceflight.
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