Doohan’s ashes to be sent into space – Access Hollywood – MSNBC.com Right. Now I’m all choked up again. This had been planned by the family; his ashes will most likely be launched from Vandenburg on a Falcon 1 rocket. Space Services, Inc., is handling the arrangements. It’s surprisingly affordable if you just want to launch a gram. It gets a lot more expensive if you want a fancy engraved capsule with 7 grams of remains, or if you want to go to the Moon, or if you want to go to deep space.
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CNN.com – London Tube stations evacuated – Jul 21, 2005 Ivan McCracken told Sky News: “I was in a middle carriage and the train was not far short of Warren Street station when suddenly the door between my carriage and the next one burst open and dozens of people started rushing through. Some were falling, there was mass panic. “It was difficult to get the story from any of them what had happened but when I got to ground level there was an Italian young man comforting an Italian girl who told me he had seen what had happened. “He…
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‘Star Trek’ Star James Doohan Dies – Yahoo! News Damn. He was so cute in the recent broadcasts of “Trekkies” on cable, talking about the people who’ve touched his life in the years since “Star Trek” went off the air. I knew about his retirement from public life due to Alzheimer’s, but still today the news made me sad. It’s simple to find images of James Doohan – just Google “Scotty Trek” and there you are. There are a lot of candids that people have taken at fan events, and there are a lot of screen grabs, TV Guide covers,…
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) What page are you on? David and I have been asking each other this question for a couple of days now. We picked up a copy of “Half Blood Prince” on a trip to Costco the other day, and have trading back and forth reading at leisure since then. Unfortunately, we’ve been losing each others’ places in the book. I was about halfway through it by yesterday, and when TiVo locked up on the latest TAR1 rerun (arrrrgh!) I gave up on televised fantasy and re-entered the familiar world of Hogwarts instead.…
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At last. We get to see new Stargate and Atlantis episodes, and my husband David gets to see new Battlestar Galactica episodes. It’s too bad the Shuttle Discovery didn’t launch the other day; according to the behind the scenes show SciFi.com ran the other day, there are a couple of Stargate fans up on the International Space Station. Hope the scrubbed launch doesn’t screw up their plans for throwing a geek party to watch the new eps. Ben Browder and a few other new people sign on tonight, which will make many Farscape fans very, very happy. Hee! David keeps…
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I was looking for some video to watch yesterday while waiting for incoming calls and checked out the CBS News site, since they’ve been touting an increased “24/7 online news” presence lately. Also, it had to be free newsvid, and I wanted to watch the 2-minutes’ silence observance on a delay, which their site made available in RAW video (not edited, full length). I picked some other videos using their handy “select for playlist” and listened idly. One choice was to watch Ground Force’s Charlie Dimmock explain how to select plants for and design a Mediterranean garden. Now, if you…
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On my way in to work this morning, I saw a car whip around a turn just in front of me, then come to a screeching halt. Why? Because a large gaggle of geese was waddling slowly across the street (several breeding pairs and their progeny). Traffic backed up. People got impatient. “Honk! Honk!” said the cars. “Honk! Honk!” said the geese. It was pretty pointless, like much of the debate to come in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Somebody’s going to get mowed down eventually, once the honking stops.
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My husband David's been getting a lot of spam emails, and so have I. The trickiness is that we can't just mark the emails "spam" and forget it, because they're spoofed to appear to come from our domain. They're getting stopped, but we need to figure out some filters to refuse them completely. It's still amusing to continue to get emails from our "staff" telling us our computers are "zombies." In light of the preceding link, does this mean that we're bound to get all medieval on the zombies' decaying asses? For the first time Blogula had a lot of…
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If you’re a fan of “The Amazing Race,” you’re in luck. The cable network GSN will begin broadcasting all eight seasons of the show, in order, on a nightly basis starting at 8 p.m. Monday. “There are tons of people who came to this show in later seasons, and they’ve never seen these [early] episodes, because unlike dramas, reality shows don’t usually repeat and don’t hit syndication as quickly,” said Linda Holmes, an attorney from Bloomington, Minn., who, under the moniker Miss Alli, has recapped every season of “TAR” for the Web site TelevisionWithoutPity.com. “For people who missed those seasons,…
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I've added this to Flickr's London Bomb Blast group, along with the previous "mug shot." So many people are checking or uploading to Flickr right now that it's slowed to a crawl. I was astounded just now when I saw that the previous shot has already been viewed more than 4,000 times… I sent it at 8:30am CDT and added it to the group a short time later; it's only 11:09am now. Judas Priest! this image has already been viewed more than 1400 times. Flickr must be getting hammered. I've added a prayer request to the Holy Moly blog with…