Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

This is the Orion we should have had. A spaceliner, taking us to that wheel in space Willy Ley and Chesley Bonestell imagined.


From this page

Of course, there's always the first Orion. It nearly made it.


From this page

Instead, we're going back to Apollo with this one.



You know, I really miss those futures we were promised...

I'm feeling quite pleased with myself.

I've been delving into the mysteries of S2 and have been working out how to add custom HTML to a layout sidebar. The first fruits of my endeavours are now online, and I've add one of Flagrant Disregard's Flickr badges.

There's a lot of help in the new s2expressive community, which showed me how to create a new S2 style from an existing one, and how to add new customtext areas to my layout.

( Here's how I put it all together... )

And here's one I made earlier.

For only the second time in its history the Monterey Bay Aquarium has a Great White Shark in the huge Outer Bay tank.

You can see a live web cam here (7am to 7pm PST)

The Monterey Bay aquarium is usually on our list of places to visit when were in the Bay Area. I think we'll be going back there when we're over in October...

Now, it's not Shark Week here!