Oumuamua – Was it a Probe from an Alien Civilization?
Yes, yes it absolutely was. If you’re not familiar with Oumuamua, it is a space-bound object and first known interstellar object recently discovered and found to be careening towards our…
Merlin – Armor and Shield Fits – Intermediate Eve Online Combat
Losing a ship is terrible. But there are terrible ways to lose ships. Jumping into low sec just to find you’ve jumped into a 20 man gate camp full of…
Kung Fu Yoga – Chinese Cinema
No Spoilers I found this fun little film perusing Pluto TV. If you don’t know about Pluto TV and like to watch television and you like to have a nice…
Rifter – Punching into Plexes – Intermediate Eve Online Combat
These articles are meant for the intermediate Eve Online combat PVP’r. I am by no means the top echelon of solo PVP in Eve but I’m also not bottom of…
CryptoCurrency Update – May
It’s been a rollercoaster ride in the last month and half. I’ve seen my $20US crypto (well, technically $18.02US, minus .99US cents fees) grow to hundred dollars, simply by market…
Outside Restaurant Seating in Street Parking – Portland, Oregon
One of the solutions Portland businesses found in an attempt to drum up business and recoup lost earnings during this Covid challenge was to open up outside service locations. If…
Ingenuity Flight Updates – Second & Third Flights
Ingenuity has aced its second and third flight tests. Putting Ingenuity into the air(?) on Mars has been tricky but initial testing is coming back with glowing results as Ingenuity…
Downtown Portland Art and Rioters
I took a walk downtown last night for a nightly stroll without any sort of agenda. Well, yeah, there was an agenda. I’m getting fat and need some exercise. Downtown…
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…