For those of you just tuning in, it was about a year ago this weekend that our herd of 2011 rescue animals started showing up, beginning with Portia, an attitudinal little red-headed tabby kitten my wife spotted up in a tree… surrounded by hungry dogs. The dogs were chased off and Portia was promptly whisked away in the tail waggin’ mail wagon to join our family.
She’s celebrating today in fine style. … Read more
For many moons I have been searching for a decent arcade emulator for my Android tablet, and there just wasn’t one. There was a Neo-Geo-only emulator that I tried and couldn’t get to run on my little flat friend (not surprising, as it’s a budget model rather than a luxury model), and besides… Neo-Geo only? Really? Nah. But now the folks who made MAME available for the iPad right around Christmas last year – and managed to keep it in the Apple App Store for all of about 72 hours before it got yanked for being a dirty filthy emulator – have also given the world a magical thing: MAME4droid. Behold.
Over on the book o’ the face, a hint has been dropped that the date for OVGE 2012 will be announced soon. That’s the good news.
The bad news is… I have no idea what to do/bring this year. … Read more
Sometimes I’ve got to remind myself that we’re not really experiencing a post-Apollo-Soyuz gap. These are amazing. Watch them all.… Read more
(For real- from the NASA Orion Twitter account.)
I shouldn’t laugh – the space shuttle Enterprise (whose Earthbound adventures I just happened to be researching last night for a project I’m working on) went on these kind of goodwill tours all the time, including a much-ballyhooed 1979 stop at the airport in Tulsa (why wasn’t I there for that? I shoulda been all over that.) There’s just something sad and incongruous about “y’all c’mon down for low low prices and see the new Command Module!” 😆 I still have much NASA love going on even while we’re in another late-’70s-style doldrums*. And who’s to say this won’t recruit some future astronauts who might otherwise never set eyes on anything that’s headed for space?
* referring to the period between Apollo-Soyuz (1975) and the first shuttle flight (1981) during which there was no American manned presence in space. For a kid who’d just had a lifelong love of space switched on so forcefully (ha!) by Star Wars, this was a painful period.… Read more
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