Nationals Win the Penant!

The Nats won their opening preseason game today. If we extrapolate these results, that means they will go undefeated in the regular season and sweep the playoffs.


It's nice to see a Washington D.C. team not embarrassing its fans for once.

Toy Story 3 Wins Award!

I forget which one. Ozzar or something.


For animated feature. Yet it's also nominated for best picture. Why? I don't know, but it would be funny if it took both. Did you see the other movies nominated? They stink! Did any of them even bother to have an incinerator scene? Nope!

Clever, Sony

I'm saving my money for a Nintendo 3DS which comes out mid March. However, it was recently announced that the PSP was getting a 40 dollar price cut. The UMD model is now about 120 bucks. I've always thought about picking one up so I could put movies on it, plus I want to get Mega Man Powered Up because it has two robot masters I've never beaten.

The 3DS should still have great numbers but Sony may distract consumers a bit with this.

Larry the Cable Guy

is not someone I expected to see while watching NASA TV.

Oh, I just found this

This website has a stream of the Discovery in space.


http://www.spacevidcast.com/

Discovery's Last Mission

When I was a kid at elementary school, whenever there was a countdown me and some other boys would always scream "BLAST OFF!" and make flying noises after zero. So while I was never a big space nut I did have some interest in rockets and such.

After the Challenger disaster, the Discovery going into space seemed like a huge deal. In fact, I would have guessed it was a new spaceship if I didn't just look up its history. At my school we actually had TVs set up to watch the launch. Anytime you go to school and you don't do school stuff is already special, but it was really something watching that thing take off.

Sadly, any interest I had in space disappeared after that. I think the episode Deep Space Homer captured that perfectly. I couldn't tell you anything has happened in space except for the destruction of the Columbia and rumors that celebrities were going to orbit the planet.

So the news has recently reported that the Discovery is on its last mission. Since the country is broke and I don't see even the richest companies making a profit on commercial space flights, I don't see much space travel in the Earth's near future. Heck, from what I've gathered NASA isn't about space or science anymore.

But maybe I'm wrong. I just saw this, so maybe there's still something. I don't know. As I get older I'm not sure whether to hope for the future or lament over lost opportunity. It'd help if I knew more but I've never followed any of this. Let's just say that I'll envy the people who view space as mundane.

Good bye, Discovery, and thanks for capturing my imagination if only for a few hours at school.

Dear Google,

Do you even pretend to respect privacy? Ugh. I didn't even want to link my youtube account to my google account.

Why is my real name popping up when I go to your front page? Are you trying to make me a Bing fan?