I've had this as my desktop image for a while now. I like it for several personal reasons, but I just finally noticed the dates.

1722 DOB, that means he was in his 50s during the famous Revolution work.  40s and 50s back then was like 60s and 70s today.

Huh.

Time Travel is Impossible.  That's what they say now ... and that's what they might say in 100 years... but in that same future universe a century later still another group may be surprised to find that their ship and crew are back in 1969 just before the Apollo 11 launch.

It time travel impossible?  Or do we just have to wait for more time? 

This site is my place to test out tech, often blowing up the whole show, and for my notes of how I did stuff so that I can refer to them later when someone actually is paying.. and sometimes just for stuff.

If you don't want to know about my son seeing Saturn for the very first time or about Ed Buckbee's wonderful book about Wernher von Braun and the early history of the Marshall Space Flight Center in the words of the people who made it and Apollo come to be, then don't click up this page.

This one is just for me, because today was a good day.

We headed down to San Diego last weekend for our first trip to the Wild Animal Safari Park and also spent some time at the Air & Space Museum in Balboa Park. It was our second visit to the museum and, again, it was great.

They currently have the NASA Journey to Our Future exhibit and if you haven't seen it in your town yet, you should go for it. It's a lot of fun and unlike a lot of travelling shows the parts and pieces are still in great shape.

I wish it weren't such a haul from LA, because this year they have a kids summer program that looks awesome.

For the fam, here're a few phonepics...

Sammie had Peter Jackson on the brain all last week and so when Universal sent me a freebie we grabbed the two annuals and took the Zaner to check out the new King Kong 3d part of the Studio Tour.

Worth it?  Yeah, definitely.  I would have paid the no-lines rate for it.

Oh.. as we were leaving I looked up and saw the Airship Ventures Zeppelin!

Da boy in his new pool.  (not bad for just putting the camera in a ziplock bag :)

Today, September 11th 2009, at almost 6 in the afternoon, the Space Shuttle Discovery had to land up at Edwards Air Force Base. Earlier in the day I'd heard a casual mention on the radio that we'd be hearing the dual sonic booms in the LA area at around 5:45... but I had no idea just how loud they would be!

Before heading out to pick up my son at kindergarten I put my two mini recorders on the ledge of my office balcony, just hoping that they might pick up something.

Two days before riding the 757 bus to Boulder for the 11th Mars Society convention, my boy and I took a real plane ride.

Zane loves the Boeing Museum of Flight ... or maybe he just knows that if he asks for a toy related to daddy's interests he'll be more likely to get it, and the Museum of Flight has a great big well stocked gift store :)

But for whatever reason we seem to end up on Boeing Field about every other week this summer. And after all of the times of seeing the classic plane rides being offered, I decided that we were just going to do it.