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A space shuttle landing would be great to see.  From what I understand it comes down like a controlled brick with a massive rate of descent:

During the final approach, the commander steepens the angle of descent to minus 20 degrees (almost seven times steeper than the descent of a commercial airliner).  For more go here…

I have seen two launches as close as you are allowed to be, and they were something I would not have missed for the world.  It’s something everybody needs to do, at least once. [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]

I thought that their gun control laws would end all gun crime?

Mothers protest over gun crime. Mothers of shooting victims are to march through Nottingham as part of a community-led campaign to end gun crime. [BBC News | UK | UK Edition]

So Apple drops the price on their 23″ cinema display by $1600.  What do I do?

I buy one.

It’s beautiful.  It’s on the Mac G4 now, very sweet.  Simply incredible monitor.

Then I decide to take the Studio Display and put it on the Windows / Linux Desktop – grab an ADC-DVI adaptor at CompUSA, fiddle with the settings for an hour (HINT:  Upgrade the Nvidia driver) and Voila — two flat panels on my desk.

It’s gorgeous.  Pics coming soon.

Fascinating…

War(ship) Driving For 802.11b Controlled Destroyers [Slashdot]

Sign me up…

I’ve booked my next trip east. I’ll be in NY betw Feb 5-7, then Boston betw Feb 8-11, and back in NY betw Feb 12-16. The beginning and ending dates are fixed, but the time betw Boston and NY is flexible. I’m looking into getting a classroom for an evening session open to all Boston-area bloggers to talk about whatever we want to talk about. Here’s an idea of how these meetings work. BTW, the round trip air fare betw SFO and JFK was $340; that’s non-stop on a major airline. [Scripting News]

“Ashcroft, Mineta Miss State of the Union”. “Ashcroft, Mineta Miss State of the Union”: The Associated Press reports here that “President Bush designated Attorney General John Ashcroft to stay away from his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, making Ashcroft the successor to head the government should catastrophe strike at the Capitol. [How Appealing]

Old people are cursed by memories. So much bullshit begins with “I remember when.”

We can’t help it, so forgive us. We do think there are common themes of life that we all go through.

Think about it this way. We don’t all have the same experience in puberty, but then again, we do. At the end, you’re ready to have sex and make babies. There’s lots of stuff ahead of you like that. Really.  [Scripting News]