cute blue dot
2003-05-22 Thursday at work.
When I was about two years old, my dad (see below) used to feed me spoonfuls
of Schlitz malt liquor to watch me turn red. I developed an early
fascination with the little blue globe in the Schlitz logo. This
image of the earth, taken by the MOC on the Mars Global Surveyor
in orbit around the red planet, somehow brings me back to those
happy times. These MOC (not makeout club you dorks) images are (I
think) scientifically meaningless, and they have been colorized
from their original greyscale state for this press release. But I
don't really care, they're pretty. Click the cute blue dot to see
more images.
This weekend I'm going to Chicago to see my boy, and then we're
driving to DEtroit for the festival formerly known as
DEMF. Rus is going with us.
In addition to my NASA job, I have been spending many hours
working on music for
Rus. He's doing a
12-minute indy film,
and
he has shown amazingly good judgement in selecting space_mike and
asl
to compose the music. It will be done sometime this summer.
east potomac park
2003-04-25 Friday night.
A couple weeks ago my parents came to visit. That's them right there.
My mom wanted to see cherry blossoms so we went down to the Tidal Basin
and drove around. They managed to somehow look happy for the [digital]
camera [that my dad is letting me continue to borrow]
even though it was so cold. A week later Thanh and I tried to ride our
bikes there but Thanh got a flat and my stupid little pump broke. Now
it only works on Presta valves, and Thanh has cheap Schrader valves. (Click
here
if you somehow missed the splash page).
But so anyways this park is very nice. We saw many fishers fishing and
many airplanes landing. And many blossoms blossoming. Yes, blossoms are
quite active. *achoo*
Patches (the cat) died. There are now no cats at all at home in San Jose.
I told them to get new ones.
If you know Simone, give her some love. She's getting an operation
next week to get a dialysis port installed.
Daniel has been baking so much
bread.
Probably an average of a loaf a day.
I feel like this is the part in church where the pastor tells you who
all in the congregation to pray for. =)
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