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.
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.
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?
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
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]