Monthly Archives: January 2008

The local Barnes and Noble in Palmdale sold out of my book, The Bible’s Most Fascinating People, today. Of course, they’d only had a single copy of it. And my pastor, Don Patterson, was the one who snagged that lonely … Continue reading →

I recieved this press release from JPL today: On Jan. 31, 1958, the JPL-designed and -built Explorer 1 soared into space. The spacecraft, a quick response to the Soviet’s Sputnik, lofted the United States into the Space Age. Visit JPL’s … Continue reading →

If you can’t read and write you can’t think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don’t know how to read and write. You’ve got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you … Continue reading →

I have never found anywhere, in the domain of art, that you don’t have to walk to. (There is quite an array of jets, buses and hacks which you can ride to Success; but that is a different destination.) It … Continue reading →

Space Daily reports the first multi-engine test firing of the Falcon 9, scheduled for launch later this year: On Jan. 18, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) conducted the first multi-engine firing of its Falcon 9 medium to heavy lift rocket at … Continue reading →

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do. Robert A. Heinlein, Waldo & Magic, Inc. Send to Kindle

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future. Robert A. Heinlein Send to Kindle

Dandi, a friend of mine in Colorado, found my book in a Barnes and Noble there. So she took a picture of it with her cellphone and sent it to me. I was relieved to see that Reader’s Digest did, … Continue reading →

A new Star Trek movie is coming around Christmas this year: If you’d like to see the trailer in higher resolution than YouTube can offer, go to the official site: Star Trek On the offical site, you’ll notice a small … Continue reading →

Some video of the soon-to-fly SpaceShipTwo: Send to Kindle