A shot through a collapsed part of the roof in a Craters of the Moon lava tube.
Sep 042010
Sep 032010
Came a few days back, August 30. Didn’t stick very long, of course.
Sep 032010
Oh, wait! I do!
I stopped at a print shop today and had several 2D CAD drawings printed off on C- and D-size sheets. This was a test to see how they’d look… printed on 8.5X11 sheets, the best my home printer can do, they look “meh.” But “poster sized,” they look not too shabby in the slightest. And they are also inexpensive compared to the color prints… so before too long you may see my desperately hawking finalized versions of these and other drawings for maybe $4-$7 each. If any of these are of interest – or any CAD drawings of mine you’ve seen in past issues of APR – just let me know. A-12 Avenger II, F-23 derivatives, USS Discovery, Space Station V, Dyna Soar/Titan III are all planned.
First up: the collection of Blended Wing bodies from an old issue of APR, printed on a D-size sheet (34 inches long), at 1/1000 scale.
Next: Convair Super Hustler and derivative designs 91/144 scale), including two versions of “Fish,” one of “Kingfish” (drawing incomplete) and the Dyna Soar I submission.
And three C-sized sheets with the Enzmann starship (diagram incomplete, 1/2400 scale) and two of the Orion Battleship (in need of some revisions, 1/250 scale).
Sep 032010
A panorama of the “Indian Tunnel” lava tube at Craters of the Moon.
Sep 022010
Just had an interesting conversation with a neighbor. Seems there are critters falling ill… some that were outside when the dirt fell developed instant skin conditions. Metal and painted things covered by the dirt seeming to develop instant corrosion.
Yes, indeed, the topic of lawyers was raised.
I’m staying out of the middle of this for obvious reasons, but there could be interestin’ doin’s afoot.
Sep 022010
Surprisingly, this has nothign to do with idiots, video cameras and momentum:
Short form: a lizard is transitioning from an egg-layer to a live-birther.
Bonus: a photo of a lizard that is actually “cute.”
Sep 022010
Local news coverage:
http://www.abc4.com/news/local/story/ATK-fallout/Jv5DnBUzBEu8uBF3adO9fw.cspx
Interestingly, the reporters interviewed my neighbor to the immediate west, and the one to the south-east. Had I not been in Idaho yesterday, they mighta interviewed *me.* Consider yourselves fortunate that y’all aren’t being directed to watch my ugly mug rant and rave.
Of course, with sufficient foresight, it might’ve been amusing to do myself up in radioactive mutant zombie makeup, wait for the reporters to show up, then run around the yard screaming about the burning ash that fell from the sky…
Sep 022010
Oil Rig Explodes Off Louisiana Coast
An offshore petroleum rig exploded and was burning Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay.
Wonderful.
Things just keep going wrong. This was probably not the “hope and change” people were looking for…
Sep 022010
I remember this painting from before the Shuttle first flew. Specifically, I remember it being printed across a full newspaper spread on the day the Columbia was to first launch. Yes, I kept that “poster,” and yes, I studied it intently, and yes, I believed that someday soon I’d fly it into space. Ah, to be that young and stupid again…
Sep 022010
http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/9883914856.html
There’s very little that I can say that will make the subjects of that article – and its author – look any dumber or more pathetically low-rent evil than the article itself does.