Positive Qi
Qigong for Vitality I’ve been practicing Qigong for over a year, and I feel it’s been beneficial for me. It helps me to relax, stretch muscles, alleviate pain and makes me focus on the here and now, something most of …
#Fedibookfair
How do I go about promoting a group of authors? Of course, by using the powers of my blog.
So, I’m here to introduce members of #fedibookfair, a weekend online book fair on Mastodon. Oh, not familiar with Mastodon? Well, let’s start there…
The Gasoline Gypsies
Several years ago, a local bar hired a band, and the owner said, “Don’t miss this one Marion. They are awesome.” I’ve seen tons of bands in my time, and was in three or four myself, so it takes a lot to impress me. Needless to say, they exceeded my expectations, or I wouldn’t be posting about them in my blog. I had to pleasure to see them play three times, and during one of those, captured some photographs too.
PNut confiscated and euthanized!
My friend just sent this to me, and I’m in tears. I would be just devastated had this happened to me. I guess the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation should be “proud of themselves” for the devastation they caused not only to PNUT but to their caretaker, Longo. Shame on you!
Richard Feynman and the Challenger disaster
The Challenger disaster was a devastating blow and prompted President Ronald Reagan to convene fourteen extraordinary specialists to investigate the cause of the accident. The result was the Rogers Commission, named for its chairman William P. Rogers, and included Neil Armstrong, Sally Ride, physics Nobel laurate Richard Feynman, and mechanical engineer, Roger M. Boisjoly of Moron Thiokol, who had warned NASA of the uncertainty of the O-ring and its possible failure, which unfortunately came to fruition.
Voyager 1 & 2 – The Real Energizer Bunnies
I remember when Voyagers 1 and 2 were launched by NASA in separate months in the summer of 1977 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. As originally designed, they were to conduct closeup studies of Jupiter and Saturn, Saturn’s rings, and the larger moons of the two planets. To accomplish their two-planet mission, the spacecraft were built to last five years. But as we see, they achieved all their objectives and then some!