Distance: 48,000,000 mi (about 738,461.5 hours)
From the makers of Google Earth comes… Google Mars! Click on Spacecraft at the top to have it overlay all the touchdowns (successful and not). Sweeeeeet.
Ariella Sophia Punaro was born today, October 8, 2008 at 4:43pm. She weighed in at 8lbs 3oz and measured 20.5″. Amanda started having contractions after her doctor’s appointment yesterday, and we arrived at the hospital around midnight today. Her labor progressed steady through noon when she was fully dilated and they had her start pushing….
Dear Governor Spitzer, I’m not going to spend much time on this letter, because I’m fairly certain you’re not going to understand it anyways. It’s hard to teach an old Democrat new concepts, like economics. I read through your State of Upstate address and boy was I impressed. It’s astounding how someone who spent so…
Apparently I have a thing for old rail stations. Who knew? One of my favorite shots from my first trip to Europe was from Antwerp Central train station – it’s the background image I’ve been using on the site: I was really excited to have the opportunity to go back again and see what I…
Commenter “Wayne” reports, and corroborated by boatnerd.com, that the Aquarama has been sold and is headed to Greece to fulfill it’s prior destiny to be converted into a floating casino. That would be a bit ironic, seeing as that’s what it’s owners wanted for it all along, but governmental red tape prevented it from ever…
By the way… the Barenaked Ladies/Guster concert was excellent, as expected. It’s not replacing any of my top five, but it was good nonetheless. Big props to Tyler’s Rick Jeanneret-influenced version of Feliz Navidad. Yes, you did have to be there. You didn’t need to have been there to get Steven Page’s recap on the…
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