The Indy Japan 300, which was supposed to be last night at 11, is instead tonight at 9 because the track was too wet. Better time to watch live—I probably wouldn’t have made it last night and would have had to record the end of it—but the scheduling snafu apparently means I don’t get it … Read more
It’s unlikely any community anywhere has a more positive impression of the space shuttle program than the Huntsville area. Marshall Space Flight Center is here, as is the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. Spaceflight is in the water. Indeed, I work in an old NASA building, and it’s certain some giants of the program have … Read more
I couldn’t care less about the Olympics. I can’t remember a time when that wasn’t so. Hell, they played soccer 90 miles south of my house in the ’96 Olympics, and I couldn’t be bothered even then. I’m pretty sure the vaunted Games are never coming to Huntsville, so that was almost certainly the best … Read more