Finally, Ingenuity Flies! Success
I woke up this morning and as I tend to do and opened up the NASA missions page and selected the Perseverance link. I was immediately greeted with the helicopter…
Bart Simpson and others
I took the picture above about a year, maybe a year and a half ago. It was a piece of sidewalk outside Lincoln High School in northwest Portland, Oregon. This…
NASA News and Updates
Not going to go into the fiasco that is becoming the first controlled flight of a vehicle on another planet. The demonstration test has had a few setbacks and pushbacks…
Toynbee tile found in Portland, OR and other Pictures
When I go on my daily walks around Portland, I find independent pieces of art on the sides of buildings and other places and if it moves or speaks to…
NASA Updates – Ingenuity Flight Test Cancelled
The biggest piece of news this update is the continual long-running update from the previous two articles, namely, Ingenuity has once again blown through a test date due to technical…
Eve Online – MMORPG
I started playing Eve Online back in 2007. For the first few years, I just played against the NPC’s (non-player character) and learned the extremely complicated Eve Online interface. It…
Hiking Forest Park, Portland, Oregon
Today I decided to walk a couple of miles to a trailhead into Forest Park that can be reached by taking NW Thurman Street all the way to the end.…
3 x Horror Review – The Block Island Sound – Haunting of the Mary Celeste – The Retreat
The Block Island Sound – Spooky and fluid this was an amazing find on Netflix. Set mostly in overcast Northeastern climates this terrifyingly little tale weaves another tapestry of what…
NASA Targets Date for Helicopter Ingenuity First Flight
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter team has targeted Sunday, April 11, 2021 for Ingenuity’s’ expositional and maiden test flight. Then during a LIVEstream on Monday, April 12 at 0330hrs EDT they will…
April Short Crypto Update
Logged into my Coinbase account today for quick perusal and was pleasantly surprised. Last months report showed for March’s balance approximately $43.00US. I have done absolutely nothing on the Coinbase…