ADMIT IT: YOU’VE ALWAYS WANTED to compare the Millenium Falcon to a Danube-class runabout. Well, they’re about the same length according to Jeff Russell’s STARSHIP DIMENSIONS. SD scales nearly every species, starship and space station in the visual science-fiction universe…
Author: Neal Ross Attinson
Neal Ross Attinson is one of those text-compulsives who feels naked without a keyboard, or at least a a pad and pen. He is unafraid of adverbs, loves astronomy and gastronomy with equally unabashed passion, and lives with/in an eclectic library in Sonoma, California.
5 thoughts: James Joyce
IN HONOR OF BLOOMSDAY 2010, five thoughts on the man who made it possible: 1. James Joyce is yet another proof that one man’s mind can be bigger than his skull. (If not, generational banks of Joyce scholars would have…
The Face That Launched A Thousand Orbits
PUT YOUR FACE AND/OR NAME on the Space Shuttle while you still can[1] at NASA Face in Space, then download and print the evidence. (This is a metaphor for something or other; p’raps best not think too hard on’t.) [1]…
Life? On Titan? Maybe.
FROM THE “THANK G?D I Lived Long Enough To See T*H*I*S” file: While life isn’t the only explanation for the unexpected acetylene/hydrogen findings, it is by far the coolest. (ObJewGeek: Bless the One who makes the makings of creation.) .…
Pithyism #25,000-Gallons-a-Day
BP = ‘BYE, PLANET. (PS: Check http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/ for a localizable perspective.)
How To Say Thank You
THE ROOT OF RELIGION, SOME say, is our need to express gratitude for being alive. Sometimes we need to express it to others, but don’t know quite how. Here’s one way: http://www.gratitudecampaign.org/. (Note to hipster friends who don’t dig the…
Bad, Bad News
YES, THAT WAS MY EMAIL which KQED’s Michael Krasny read during his second hour this morning, which program concerned the effect of bad news on man-in-the-street audients. The show is worth a listen — archive available at http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R201006091000. (I riffed…
Pithyism #1440
RESEARCH THROUGH BOOKS WALKS A vast flagstone patio; online research is a path laid stone by stone.
What The %$#@! Hit Jupiter?
THAT’S WHAT ASTRONOMERS AMATEUR AND professional alike are asking after one of the former imaged the impact earlier today. As of 0940 pm PDT Thursday, few other sites have picked it up, so remember — you might have heard it…
Pithyism #PKD
WHEN THE POCKET CAMERA ASKS if your subject blinked, it’s time to turn off ALL the machines. *
Not Good For The Jews, Or Anyone Really
THE WORLD IS SO SMALL these days that you never know who might be reading you — including the families of those aboard the Gaza flotilla. If that’s the case, then please let me apologize in advance. I am very…
It’s Not About The Barbecue
UNTIL THEIR SACRIFICE IS OBVIATED by a calmer world, we remember them. In Flanders Fields By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) Canadian Army In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place;…