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What is “Rocket Science”?
John Naughton has an example. The equations for “powered flight of rocket through terrestrial atmosphere with prescribed thrust direction as a function of time, considered as a system of reference rotating with the earth”.
I'm really quite glad I didn't finish my Aerospace Systems Engineering degree.
No one belongs here more than you
OK, here I go. I’m going to make this whole website right now on this dry-erase board.
- No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July
Most creative website I've seen in a long time. Well worth 5 minutes of anyone's time, and I want to read the book now.
Hat tip: Daring Fireball.
It's a small world
So, not only does something I can see from my front room window end up on Neatorama, but the site that they link to (Around The World) is running Drupal.
Of course, now I have to link to my ObSharkPic.
1000!
Yep, this is my one-thousandth flickr picture! Holy crap!
As I saw this milestone approaching I started to agonise about what to take to commemorate the event. After much head-scratching and conferring with friends, I decided a little family portrait was in order.
So here we all are, saying a big thanks to Flickr for igniting a photographic spark in me I didn't know I had.
Right, now that's out of the way I can get on with the normal photostream rubbish *:)
Invisikitty
Charles the Terrible likes to play chase the cursor on the screen. My next cat is going to be transparent.
(From the recent “Help me re-train my cat!” thread on ask.mefi.)

