MT Plugin Directory: own domain, better organization than the subdomain at blogstyle/kadyellebee.
and Chris, look:
Oh, MT gets me all wiggly!
And what’s this? MT 2.6 is out? Well, smack me upside the haid and label me a cheese-eating surrender monkey.
Lawsy.
I whipped up a new look for Ken over at the Illuminated Donkey a day or two ago… I think it’s an improvement, perhaps you will too.
Greg and Spencer and I had practice yesterday evening – seemed like we were both really rusty and coming along nicely. Three more evenings and we should have an idea of a setlist.
Here’s one of the songs we sang last night. I thought of duct tape, and wondered who sits on the board of Duct Tape USA, and are they on an advisory panel to the Department of Homeland Security? I suppose we’d need a FOIA request to make a definitive determination, but it’s my understanding that FOIAs are deprecated these days.
Influenza
(Sung by Ace Johnson, Clemens state farm, Brazoria, Texas, April 16, 1939.)
In nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, men an’ women sure was dyin’,
From the disease what the doctors called the flu.
People was dyin’ everywhere; death was creepin’ th’ough the air,
For the groans of the sick sure was sad.
It was God’s almighty hand; he was judgin’ this old land;
North an’ South; East an’ West could be seen,
Yes, he killed the rich an’ poor, an’ he’s goin’ to kill more
If you don’t turn away from your sins.
In Memphis, Tennessee, doctors said it soon would be,
In a few days influenza we’ll control.
But God showed that He was head, an’ He put the doctor to bed,
And the nurse they broke down with the same.
It was God’s almighty hand; he was judgin’ this old land;
North an’ South; East an’ West could be seen,
Yes, he killed the rich an’ poor, an’ he’s goin’ to kill more
If you don’t turn away from your sins.
Influenza is a disease, makes you weak all in your knees;
‘Tis a fever everybody sure does dread;
Puts a pain in every bone, a few days an’ you are gone
To a place in the groun’ called the grave.
It was God’s almighty hand; he was judgin’ this old land;
North an’ South; East an’ West could be seen,
Yes, he killed the rich an’ poor, an’ he’s goin’ to kill more
If you don’t turn away from your sins.
Space.com noted yesterday that the blurry photo presented at a news conference last week, previously reported as stemming from Air Force equipment, was actually produced at an Air Force base by hobbyist-quality equipment, including a 3 1/2 inch telescope and a Macintosh over a decade old.
Spaceflight Now covers the revelation yesterday of a NASA email outlining disaster scenarios with a peculiarly apologetic headline, “What-if email explained“; the story covers both the agency reaction to the email (‘nothing to see here, move along’) and also covers a telemetry reading which reported landing gear deployment at 8:59:06 am, 26 seconds prior to the loss of communications with the doomed craft. The sensor reading is described as the result of a sensor failure rather than a factual record of landing gear deployment at 12,500 mph.
Other developments have included positive identification of the crew’s remains, a revised timeline released by NASA today, and a public call from NASA for more amateur images in the wake of yesterday’s news concerning the blurry ‘Air Force’ photo.
A reasonably thorough search for blogs that are specifically oriented to space and NASA today did not turn up any. I believe I need to dig deeper – surely there’s a blogger out there writing about some of these issues from the inside.