On Sunday we had the last Tripoli Minnesota launch of the year. It was a beautiful day and we successfully launched and retrieved our rocket. Nice to have no new failures to report.
To the right you see a frame grab of the launch and the altitude and velocity plots from the PerfectFlite MAWD altimeter. It [...]
Here is a guest post by LEVI, a regular commenter on this blog.
There’s a lot of rhetoric floating around regarding climate change and the solutions being proposed to address the problem. I wrote this piece to give readers a starting point from which to consider the problem and the mitigation programs under consideration.
This article is meant to [...]
1. Singing is hard. Some people get the false impression that singing is a wonderful, joyous and carefree form of expression. It can be, but it’s a lot of work getting there. There are a few freaks in the world for whom singing comes very easily. For most of us, it takes intense concentration and [...]
I read a news story that said cold medicine doesn’t help people feel better. Ibuprofen, though, does make cold sufferers feel better. Wonderful little pills like Vicoden and Percoset work even better! If you want a cure for the common cold, take a Percoset.
Except you can’t. Our government in their extreme wisdom spends a lot [...]
And you can quote me on that.
He apparently thinks if he claims victory somehow it is his to lose. No, Norm, an automatic recount has been triggered and YOU ARE NOT THE WINNER YET. I personally hope we send you back home to reinvent yourself into a kinder, gentler piece of shit. Maybe you could [...]
It is ironic as hell that a party that has a goal of shrinking the government and a party that extols the virtues of the private sector as being a more powerful force than government should denigrate the role of community organizers. If the Republicans weren’t hypocrites they would hold up Obama as the exact [...]
Let’s ask 2 questions:
1. In retrospect, was it a good idea to invade Iraq?
2. Given that we are in Iraq, what is the best course of action?
My answers: 1) Of course not. It represents a complete failure of foreign policy. This is universally agreed upon with the exception of the ultra-wacko-wing of the Right wing. [...]
