CryptoCurrency Update – May
It’s been a rollercoaster ride in the last month and half. I’ve seen my $20US crypto (well, technically $18.02US, minus .99US cents fees) grow to hundred dollars, simply by market…
Outside Restaurant Seating in Street Parking – Portland, Oregon
One of the solutions Portland businesses found in an attempt to drum up business and recoup lost earnings during this Covid challenge was to open up outside service locations. If…
Ingenuity Flight Updates – Second & Third Flights
Ingenuity has aced its second and third flight tests. Putting Ingenuity into the air(?) on Mars has been tricky but initial testing is coming back with glowing results as Ingenuity…
Downtown Portland Art and Rioters
I took a walk downtown last night for a nightly stroll without any sort of agenda. Well, yeah, there was an agenda. I’m getting fat and need some exercise. Downtown…
Finally, Ingenuity Flies! Success
I woke up this morning and as I tend to do and opened up the NASA missions page and selected the Perseverance link. I was immediately greeted with the helicopter…
Bart Simpson and others
I took the picture above about a year, maybe a year and a half ago. It was a piece of sidewalk outside Lincoln High School in northwest Portland, Oregon. This…
NASA News and Updates
Not going to go into the fiasco that is becoming the first controlled flight of a vehicle on another planet. The demonstration test has had a few setbacks and pushbacks…
Toynbee tile found in Portland, OR and other Pictures
When I go on my daily walks around Portland, I find independent pieces of art on the sides of buildings and other places and if it moves or speaks to…
NASA Updates – Ingenuity Flight Test Cancelled
The biggest piece of news this update is the continual long-running update from the previous two articles, namely, Ingenuity has once again blown through a test date due to technical…
Eve Online – MMORPG
I started playing Eve Online back in 2007. For the first few years, I just played against the NPC’s (non-player character) and learned the extremely complicated Eve Online interface. It…