Geek Habitat

I’ll have to add more to this post when my head’s not throbbing and threatening to explode (somehow it’s easier to tweet than blog… 140 characters is liberating, I guess… moreso than a blank text box in WordPress.) In the meantime, I’ve harvested from my Twitter stream the relevant links I wanted to share.

Anyhow, if you missed this afternoon’s launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis for its 11 day mission to significantly upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope, check out NASA’s HD replay of the launch on YouTube.

To learn more about the mission, here are a few good articles to read:

Happy Mother’s Day to my awesome Mom, terrific mother-in-law and sisters-in-law and all the other moms out there.

Psssst… Google has flowers for all the Moms out there. And they’ll never wilt or dry up!

Google's Mother's Day '09 logo

Here’s something fun — Why, Justin, you shouldn’t have!
(You can send your own customized video here.)

Justin, Sara (AKA Kidlet) and I camped overnight at Guadalupe River State Park on Wednesday. Had an awesome time and hope to have an opportunity to post a new trip report on WildTexas.com, but wanted to share some of the pics in the meantime. We’d reserved a site for two nights but Sara developed a bit of a fever and was getting eaten alive by bugs (despite citronella, etc.) so we decided to end on a positive note and break camp a day early.

Here are some of the pics from our camping trip -> Tent Camping Trip #2 - a set on Flickr

Him: cookie DOE?
is that right?

Me: what
dough

Him: heheh - figures - thanks

Me: doe is a female deer
Him:

Me: ray is a drop of golden sun

Him: crackin’ me up

Me: me, a name I call myself

Him: stop

Me: fa, a long long way to run
ti, a drink with jam and bread
…

Him:  scarin’ me

Me: Thanks. I needed a blog entry. Now I have one.

I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I’m a geek and I found this TEDTalk absolutely fascinating -> Ed Ulbrich shows how Benjamin Button got his face

If you’re not familiar with TED Talks, they are public talks focused on “ideas worth spreading” and cover the gamut of topics from Technology, Entertainment, Design (T.E.D.) and more. They are shared online and have featured some of the greatest minds and talents of our time from every discipline and culture who have just two things in common: they seek a deeper understanding of the world, and they hope to turn that understanding into a better future for us all.

Ronald Regan’s address to the Nation after the Challenger disaster

I’ve written about this day before, and when I have time I’ll link a few previous posts (one or two of which have been archived and are no longer online). In the interim, visit CNN’s space correspondent Miles O’Brien’s post in remembrance of the loss of Space Shuttle Challenger and her crew aboard STS-51L.