No, today is an extra special event because it’s also the day I got to attend my very first NASA Tweetup, right here at none other than NASA‘s Headquarters in Washington DC!
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Contributors include Susan Kearney, Cindy Holby, Kimber An, Margaret Carter, RowenaBCherry, Linnea Sinclair, Susan Sizemore, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Susan Kearney, Susan Grant, Rowena Cherry, and jean
Yesterday I posted a picture over on YFrog of the PEPCO (@PepcoConnect) contractors at the end of our block, obstructing the road while they rig up new ultra-heavy power lines in the area where the proposed Purple line will run (which will, incidentally, cut our street in half when it’s finished).
At the time, it looked like things were going to turn into a huge mess as a result of the work. We’d been put on notice that power would be killed to several blocks during the evolution (which makes sense, they wouldn’t want to be playing with squiggly amps on that scale). Their original time frame was going to be 10am to 2pm, weather permitting.
Let me start off by explaining a few things.
I was a kid when Tron, the original movie, was released – and it blew my young mind. In some ways, the movie helped me to get into computing because it showed from a technical standpoint how computers could be used to create. Ever since then, the look and feel of the movie has been an influence on both my cyberpunk/future related artwork, as well as my visualization of the neural Interfaces of the Legion Universe novels and stories.
You might need it!
Pictures are taken at various times during the DC snowstorm in 2009. As more pics are taken, this page will be updated.
We could only take a few pictures from the house – as you can tell, we’re pretty much stuck right now since no-one makes snowchains for powerchairs (Mark E. Smith where art thou???)
Strangely, the town’s Department of Public Works hasn’t taken the plows out to the street (at time of writing, saturday evening). This is slightly perturbing.
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It’s not easy being a Supreme Court Justice, I imagine. As we’ve seen with the confirmation hearings in recent years, just getting the job demands you be laid bare before a public and will be judged not for your deeds, but for your ideology.
But once they’re confirmed and take up their place on that bench, they’re supposed to take on the tough questions they were grilled so hard to determine their views for.
That includes the ugly dark questions of racism and bias that have formed such a core part of the identity of the United States since before its inception.
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