Posts tagged “spaceships”

#FridayFive: She’s Got It Where It Counts

Traveling through hyperspace ain’t like dusting crops, boy.

Life in Space

An exploration of life aboard the International Space Station, and the surprising reasons the mission is still worthwhile

Official White House Response

That’s no moon …

The iPhone just keeps getting better. (I’ve had each one.)
What Broke My Father’s Heart
I have been in hysterics reading quotes from the fascinating lives of the people who live in my furniture catalogs… “Oh, dear. Our Q-Tip decanter is almost 1/5th depleted!”
Lake Street Creamery. We guarantee IT WILL TURN YOU INTO A GOD.*
The Swedish Chef cooks popcorn shrimp.
The oil spill? “It’s heartbreakin’, baby.”
The Who Tall Are You? mirror looks like it would be fun for a teenager’s room.
It will probably be ~~light years~~ centuries before the Sci-Fi Airshow makes its way to Los Angeles, and I sadly won’t get to see it.
Real Life vs. CSI:Miami
Proper punctuation is important. Seriously.

2024-06-10: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

#FridayFive: Awesome Spaceships

View the Friday Five from February 19th, 2010

It Keeps Going, and Going …

On one of the most amazing accomplishments of mankind

Okay. This is just ridiculous. The Starship Captain Smackdown is an awesome display of a spreadsheet on an HTML page, and ranking starship commanders is a noble goal. But you’ve got Solo ranked below the new Adama? Please. Even the old Adama was cooler than the new Adama. And sure, Galactica is the Samuel L.

SpaceKits

SpacecraftKits.com has an interesting way of keeping their costs low. They do it “through mass production, and by putting the extensive assembly instructions and fact sheets … online, rather than mailing them to you.” I think that’s a great idea. That way if they want to revise some part of the instructions, or add schematics

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.