Astronaut watches the Earth from an ISS porthole: perfect cover for a nonexistent sf novel
Madeleine Robins called this picture of ISS astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson watching the spin far below, "The perfect cover for the perfect unwritten/unread SF novel I wanted to read when I was thirteen." Exactly right.
A cool picture, and the "SF novel book cover" is exactly right.
Up until very recently, no spacecraft or space stations had big windows like that. So they couldn't have done a cool SF novel book cover picture before.
I'd like to report that my copy of The Adventures of Sam the Bat is from Amazon and it's not an ARC. I'm not sure how I got so lucky. (I received it a while ago but I've been in a frenzy of book ordering and uh, hadn't quite realized that I had it.)
Skype isn't any better than Vonage was before it improved
Vonage is great now, maybe Skype will get there too.
The spaceship is being torn down and rebuilt. I'll sort of miss it.
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Imagine Green Day's Time of Your Life playing in the background. I'd have the website play it automatically, but I'm not an asshole.
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Lost Contact Info Sign
Maybe he can ask this guy.
I feel like some days Wondermark is written just for us - Teppy, this one has your name all over it:
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Yeah for Beatles on itunes!
I picked up Rubber Soul - one of my favorite albums. Which went missing when I lived in a house with a bunch of other people waaay back in my immediate post-college days. Yes, Rubber Soul and Revolver both went missing - nothing else. Most annoying.