Clark Lindsey deconstructs the latest argument that human spaceflight vehicles must be “certified.”
And yes, I have arrived safely in LA. Without my luggage (meant to last a month). Again.
At least this time it wasn’t a non-stop, so they have the excuse of missing the connection in Dallas.
I have a 6:15 AM flight to LA in the morning, and am packing. I’ll have to deal with my computer problem when I get back. For now, I grabbed some data off the drives and put it on my file server so I could transfer it to my laptop, which will get me through the trip, which will be for the whole month of February (though I may come back for a weekend). Anyway, blogging may be light until tomorrow night.
Robert Oler has attempted to comment a few times over the past few weeks, but Word Press seems to be smart enough to not allow them through. I thought that I’d note this latest attempt, on this post, though:
well Rand ….you are the guy who believes in the Falwell theory of HRC murdering people…
Note first that it is a complete non sequitur in the context of the post.
Note second that this is nutty. I don’t even know what the “Fallwell theory of HRC murdering people” is, let alone believe in it. Robert apparently bought a copy of The Clinton Chronicles and then somehow has projected his fascination with it on to me (someone who has never even seen it).
I’m not sure why he engages in this kind of lunacy, but it is nice to have blog software that is smarter than him, so in general we don’t have to view it.
I just did a Microsoft security update on my Windows 2000 machine, and now it bluescreens (something I hadn’t seen on this machine in years) when it reboots. I booted into safe mode, and removed the update (I think I removed the right one — I’m assuming that the latest one would be highest number, but that might not be right). It still won’t boot. I’m posting this from my Fedora box.
Any ideas?
[Late afternoon update]
Great. Now it blue screens going into Safe Mode.
I’ll have to find my setup disk, but I doubt if I’ll have time before I go to CA on Monday.
Driving down from Orlando this morning. Perhaps more posts this afternoon, but it’s going to be a busy one.
Drove from Savannah down to Orlando this morning. I’ll spend the night here, and be back in Boca tomorrow morning. Unfortunately, I have to get ready to spend much of the month of February in LA, so it’s going to be a busy few days.
I’m still in Savannah. The wireless doesn’t seem to be working in my room. It connects, but doesn’t provide an actual Internet connection. It was working yesterday, as long as there weren’t too many others sharing, but I haven’t been able to get it all day, even though the signal is strong. I’m posting this from the lobby, where it seems to be better. I’ll be driving back down to Boca tomorrow via Orlando, so probably not much until the evening. It’s still overcast, and there was a thick fog this morning. I took a nice buccaneery picture of the bark in the fog, but I probably won’t upload it until I get home.
Here’s a picture from the balcony of my room overlooking the Savannah River, of a South Korean container ship heading downriver toward the ocean (to the right in this image — the view is toward the northeast), with an old barquentine in the foreground. Well, actually, not so old. It was actually built a couple decades ago, based on concepts from the eighteenth century.
Note that it’s still overcast. Since leaving the Sunshine State a couple days ago, I haven’t seen the sun. I’m not complaining, though. Florida sun has the same depressing effect on me that rain in Seattle has on others. It would be nice to get some nice light for a few shots of the town before we leave, though.
Yes, we drove up to Savannah on Saturday, and spent yesterday poking around. The weather’s been ugly (literally — overcast) so I haven’t bothered to take pics, though I may have some later if it clears up. It’s actually a more interesting place than I expected (not that I had low expectations). A lot of interesting history here. I had been unaware that it was where the Georgia colony was established. I was also unaware that it was the major port of departure, and home of the global exchange, for cotton for decades. There are ships moving up and down the river outside my hotel room window as I type, but I’m seeing a lot more containers than cotton bails.
Other than lots of layovers at Hartsfield, I’ve never spent any time in the state of Georgia. Patricia has some business in Savannah next week, though, so we’re driving up there this weekend to check the place out. It should be interesting to see the antebellum architecture there. Savannah is sort of like Prague — it managed to avoid the ravages of a war that destroyed much else in the region (they surrendered to Sherman as he ended his march to the sea).
I’ll have Internet, in theory, but I also have work (and I’ll be heading off to LA the week after) so blogging may be light.