Painted Ocean

Sometimes the results are hilarious. NASA/Wallops/Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Go, frog! Go! ( More on this at Uni...

While reacquainting myself with the classic At Folsom Prison album by Johnny Cash, something grabbed my interest. I doubt that I noticed ...

This: That's Johnny Cash's At Folsom Prison , one of the most influential albums of my young, tender formative years. It was one...

I've been gone too long, and I think I'm on my way back. Hope to see you soon, in the next few days or so.

"Why Is Our Solar System Such a Cosmic Weirdo?" ( from Space.com )

I'm going on another, short blogging hiatus. February was crazy busy, and I thought I would have a reprieve in March but it's actual...

Dragon's Egg Robert L. Forward 1980 I read this book on a recommendation from Alan at Blogonomicon . It's a wor...

Space just above earth is crowded with junk. How cool would it be to have a spacecraft that could fling that junk back down to Earth and do ...

I watched all those videos of that meteor exploding over the Russian landscape , and I was suitably giddy, awed, and a bit frightened, all a...

Yes, you've heard about the takeover. Now it's complete, and official. I have gathered the proof today. The Empire has fallen. ...

Well, hush my mouth and call me corn pone. Remember back in December when I argued that Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man, was needlessly li...

It happens, and it does some weird stuff that can only be seen on the Red Planet. ( from Space.com )

Well, here are my initial thoughts on Accept's Stalingrad : Very, very good. My thanks to the South Texas Pistolero...

I finally received that book that I ordered on recommendation from Alan at Blogonomicon . I've just started on it, so I don't have a...