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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?

Scenic Rail Travel

New Train Line Takes Scenic Route
This looks like it would be fun to try out.

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.

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.

“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

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.

SpaceShipOne Flight Audio

Here is a recording of the air-to-ground radio communications of the X2 flight of SpaceShipOne.