I have a new link in the sidebar. I’m co-hosting the Dark and Stormy Book Club, which is on the pad right now, and control has been transferred to the orbiter’s on-board systems. (For non-space travel geeks: we’ll be starting very soon.) So what’s the deal? Quoting the site: At the beginning of each month, … Read more
In Alabama, for an additional fee (in most cases), if you don’t want a standard license plate, you can choose from more than 100 specialty plates. You can choose a college or university, a professional society, a club, a veteran of a specific war, a charitable cause, and so on. (I believe the sudden proliferation … Read more
Aldo Nova was kind of a goofball. Even at the height of his coolness, which was brief indeed in the United States, he had a whiff of it about him. If you were born before 1975 or so, you’ll have no trouble remembering “Fantasy”: Excessive pouter and grimacer though he was, the guy was responsible … Read more