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Heavenly bodies! Erect your rocket and blast off.

http://www.tecca.com/news/2011/03/15/saturn-fly-by-video/

return of the MacIntosh.

-"Welcome back, me!"

~"Welcome back, you!"

Tilde.

It has been the most lovely summer. There has been little rain, but we are not farmers, so that has little affected us. Consider it a break from the floods of the spring-time. 

Do you remember the game "M.U.L.E."? Is there a board-game version? It was a video game from the Commodore 64 era. It was about colonizing a small patch of an alien planet. This was done with the aid of a Multi-Utility-Land-Exfoliator, or something. The acronym escapes me at the moment. A robot ass, yes. You could play the role of various alien people, or an Earthling. You bid upon land, then developed it with help from your M.U.L.E.. Your plots could then produce grain, minerals, what-nots and a large portion of the game was devoted to selling the resources you produced on the market with the other players. Economics made fun! "Edutainment" in its infancy.

We have an infant. He is a curly-haired ginger-boy. You can't catch him; run, run, fast as you can. 

One last note: I am searching for a few good people to be in a band: the Houyhnhnms. Punkolka. Space-pop. A surfacing flounder or a floundering surfacer and a pentagram (the five-faced fox from outer-space). Does any of this make any sense? Tell me what you think it means! Send me a message, at your leisure. We are off for now to the park with the wee one and breakfast biscuits. Sigh-ho! Sky-high!

cosmic rays

Hello Spacelings and Earth-monsters.
Have a look at this article. There is no time like the present, so I'm off to enjoy it. See you in the future!

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/did-amateur-astronomer-spot-secret-mars-190004323.html

(That blue text up there is the link, just so you know, those of you who aren't familiar with such technologies.)

letter to Earth

Dear planet Earth,
Your inhabitants are ferocious, especially the civilized ones who should know better than to do some of the bad things they do. Why are you like this? Do you have some undiscovered race living in the deepest darkest parts of the oceans who have need only of the heat of your mantle for survival and who abide there until things on the surface become a bit more hospitable? Are you training them down there in your womb, a secret sect, to cleanse us sun-worshippers of our disrespectful ways? Sometimes I hope so. But we're not all bad out here on the periphery. One of the civilized recently figured out where some of the missing matter of the universe can be found. She didn't even leave your surface to do it, either. We make up some wild stories. What are the stories like of the mantle-people? Do they have ex-ray vision? The reindeer people on the North Crust are able to see in U.V.. Your wonders are many Earth. Long may you spin.
5m5 (a fan)

hair-bird pigeon-camera

Some time has passed since the last posting but you probably wouldn't know it. The amount of time between inspirational flashes or even doggedly determined forays into the realm of creative writing has been reduced to a slight downward twitching of your finger. A funny quote made its way into the old factory recently, but I can't remember the quoted person. Here it is anyway, non verbatim -which is to say, in paraphrase.
The art of writing is like the ability to wear a toupee: some people can make it work, some cannot. Writing poetry is like wearing a toupee in a hurricane.
It may be time to revel in having a full head of hair. I believe it is time to grow it out a bit, before it starts to thin and fall out. The wee boy has such a tuft of curls, it is inspiring. And I have a strange urge to make members of the family (or fim-fam, if you like) into a team with certain shared, matching visual elements.
There you have it. News from space!

thinking

You can't take it back, and you can't take it with you. All things become incorporeal in the eyes of death. But the value of each living moment also reveals itself, and gives you what you need to continue on.

n.a.s.a. an unfit earth ambassador

Have a look at how the North American Space Agency deals with cultural diversity.


http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/49124/gaelic_banned_by_nasa__space_pupils_censored/