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 […]
Month: April 2021
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 […]
NASA News and Updates
Not going to go into the fiasco that is becoming the first controlled flight of a vehicle on another planet. The demonstration test has had a few setbacks and pushbacks […]
Toynbee tile found in Portland, OR and other Pictures
When I go on my daily walks around Portland, I find independent pieces of art on the sides of buildings and other places and if it moves or speaks to […]
NASA Updates – Ingenuity Flight Test Cancelled
The biggest piece of news this update is the continual long-running update from the previous two articles, namely, Ingenuity has once again blown through a test date due to technical […]
Eve Online – MMORPG
I started playing Eve Online back in 2007. For the first few years, I just played against the NPC’s (non-player character) and learned the extremely complicated Eve Online interface. It is […]
Hiking Forest Park, Portland, Oregon
Today I decided to walk a couple of miles to a trailhead into Forest Park that can be reached by taking NW Thurman Street all the way to the end. […]
3 x Horror Review – The Block Island Sound – Haunting of the Mary Celeste – The Retreat
The Block Island Sound – Spooky and fluid this was an amazing find on Netflix. Set mostly in overcast Northeastern climates this terrifyingly little tale weaves another tapestry of what […]