Archive for May, 2016

personalspaceshow: Coming up next, a very special guest will be…

Wednesday, May 18th, 2016

personalspaceshow:

Coming up next, a very special guest will be joining Dr. Han to talk about cryonics! Back our Kickstarter now to watch the episode early.

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w/ @seanpersaud

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kant: I like the way people stare at babies on the train bc once they make eye contact they start…

Wednesday, May 18th, 2016

kant:

I like the way people stare at babies on the train bc once they make eye contact they start making funny faces and stuff and then the mother exchanges a glance and a smile with the stranger that’s my favorite thing

We went picking blueberries at the u-pick farm out past Gaviota last weekend. My partner in crime and I were out there with our little metal buckets filling them up, listening to the yellow warblers singing from the oaks, and other groups (mostly families) picking around us.

At one point I was crouched down looking for berries when I heard a voice next to me say, “Dada?” and looked over to see a toddler giving me a very serious look. There was a general chuckle, and his mom called to him from a few feet away, “Dada’s over here, Alexander.”

He hung out with me for a few minutes. It was nice.

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salboissettphoto: Shadow and lightplay amongst the golden…

Wednesday, May 18th, 2016

salboissettphoto:

Shadow and lightplay amongst the golden fields.

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Today is the 10th anniversary of Hans Horrevoets’ death. He was…

Wednesday, May 18th, 2016

Today is the 10th anniversary of Hans Horrevoets’ death. He was swept overboard from ABN Amro Two and drowned during the transatlantic leg of the 2005/2006 Volvo. The VOR media team put together this video, including interviews with three of his fellow crewmembers and footage of Sophie Ciszek accepting the Hans Horrevoets Rookie Award for the most-recent race.

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lies: Whoa. The new tumblr mobile app is super crashy. Holy negative progress, @staff. Weird….

Wednesday, May 18th, 2016

lies:

Whoa. The new tumblr mobile app is super crashy. Holy negative progress, @staff.

Weird. After deleting it and reinstalling it from the App Store, it apparently has reverted to the version I had previously, before this update, without all the super-jarring and unpleasant UI changes that I got when I updated earlier today.

This apparently-downgraded version hasn’t crashed yet, so that’s nice. But it makes me wonder what’s going on. Did I get a bad update to what actually was a much older version? Are they doing a soft rollout of a new, horrible update, and I happened to get it before and then undid that with the reinstall?

Who the fuck knows? It’s tumblr.

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Whoa. The new tumblr mobile app is super crashy. Holy negative progress, @staff.

Wednesday, May 18th, 2016

Whoa. The new tumblr mobile app is super crashy. Holy negative progress, @staff.

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personalspaceshow: Personal Space writer Taylor Cleland talks…

Wednesday, May 18th, 2016

personalspaceshow:

Personal Space writer Taylor Cleland talks about why she hopes our show is something she would have loved when she was 10 years old.

Support Personal Space on Kickstarter here!

They’re at $26,316 (of the $45k they need in order to be funded). Seven days left.

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capturingthecosmos: capturingthecosmos: Last night I shot The…

Wednesday, May 18th, 2016

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capturingthecosmos:

Last night I shot The Leo Triplet. A small group of galaxies about 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. This galaxy group consists of the spiral galaxies M65, M66, and NGC 3628.

Can this get 10k? That’d be pretty sweet.

My observing log from April 18, 1998, describes my first view of NGC 3628:

long, uniform faint patch, easy with averted vision, larger than M65 and M66 (which were visible in the same field), but much more subtle, making for a lovely contrast

I should get my telescope out again.

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dollsome-does-tumblr: Marianne could never love by halves; and…

Wednesday, May 18th, 2016

dollsome-does-tumblr:

Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her husband, as it had once been to Willoughby.

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Confession

Wednesday, May 18th, 2016

I have sometimes spent a moment smiling at a Funyuns sponsored post, mistaking it for frivolity from someone I actually follow.

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Wednesday, May 18th, 2016

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marykatewiles: Our first #PoeParty day was a dream. One down,…

Wednesday, May 18th, 2016

marykatewiles:

Our first #PoeParty day was a dream. One down, nine to go! (Photo by @higgaroni) @shipwreckedcomedy

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micdotcom: Watch: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s UPenn commencement…

Tuesday, May 17th, 2016

micdotcom:

Watch: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s UPenn commencement speech will move you to tears.

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personalspaceshow: Personal Space’s Vivi Thai wants you to love…

Tuesday, May 17th, 2016

personalspaceshow:

Personal Space’s Vivi Thai wants you to love plants as much as she does.

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Tuesday, May 17th, 2016

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Tuesday, May 17th, 2016

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strix-tristitia: One of the few bird species named after a…

Tuesday, May 17th, 2016

strix-tristitia:

One of the few bird species named after a woman, the Blackburnian warbler was named in honor of English botanist and naturalist Anna Blackburne. 🌺

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julkkuliart: “Do Not Draw The Corner Sun” For some reason i got…

Tuesday, May 17th, 2016

julkkuliart:

“Do Not Draw The Corner Sun”


For some reason i got inspired by something that somebody said me when I was child; Do not draw the sun in the corner.

I tried to capture that basic concept of how kids draw – grass near the bottom, birds in the sky and sun in the corner – and make it more stylish. : D

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personalspaceshow: “I’m ready for my close up, Mr….

Tuesday, May 17th, 2016

personalspaceshow:

“I’m ready for my close up, Mr. DeMille.”

STS127-S-055 (15 July 2009) — Space Shuttle Endeavour and its seven-member STS-127 crew head toward Earth orbit and rendezvous with the International Space Station. Liftoff was on time at 6:03 p.m. (EDT) on July 15, 2009 from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Onboard are astronauts Mark Polansky, commander; Doug Hurley, pilot; Christopher Cassidy, Tom Marshburn, Dave Wolf, Tim Kopra and Canadian Space Agency’s Julie Payette, all mission specialists. [Source]

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shipwreckedcomedy: “Better three hours too soon than a minute…

Tuesday, May 17th, 2016

shipwreckedcomedy:

“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.” – Shakespeare

Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party, coming soon to Kickstarter.

Join our dinner party, if you dare. 

Current mood:

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