Archive for 8th February 2008

Houston, We’re Not Getting Email

While cooking my breakfast this morning I turned on the NASA channel on TV to see what was going on with the Atlantis mission. There was a beautiful video shot of the open cargo bay with the Earth below; quite stunning. Then the chatter between Atlantis and Mission Control. I didn’t write it down, but one of Atlantis’ crew was saying something about mail not moving from the outgoing mail folder to the sent mail folder and just needing to wait for the next mail sync. Mission Control then said something about Atlantis having Outlook problems. Gack! They’re using Windows on the Shuttle?!? They’re doomed!!!

Seriously, based on all of my many years experience with Windows, I would really be uncomfortable knowing that Windows was on the shuttle doing anything other than letting the astronauts play games.

Chilean Sea… What?!?

Chilean Sea... What?!? Last night we went to my favorite Chinese restaurant and on the way out I noticed that some punk had ‘altered’ the specials board. It shouldn’t have made me laugh, but it did. Thomas told me that I should be ashamed of myself for laughing at that. I choked out an agreement between peals of laughter.