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Sunday, 3pm: Help Fax with the Sunday NYT crossword and acrostic

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  • Essays and Stuff

    A fire in the sky, 20 years later

    February 1, 2023 /

    I knew it would be my last chance to see a space shuttle passing over Waco during re-entry; what I got wrong was why Columbia’s return would be the last time. An updated version of my Waco Trib column from 2013.

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    Buzz on the moon

    T+51 years: Space is a marathon

    July 20, 2020

    Hope Is The Thing…

    June 1, 2022
    A jury summons card from 2013

    The drive to West I didn’t have to make

    April 17, 2021
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    You Can Call Me HAL

    August 10, 2021 /

    Fairly obvious what inspired this one.

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    The Arms of Thal

    November 30, 2021
    Parody of 'No one wants to work' sign at a Wendy's

    Demon in the Freezer

    May 10, 2021
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    Dragon Fire

    April 16, 2021 /

    A space song from 2011 — back when SpaceX's plans for its Dragon capsule were still largely aspirational — that I missed putting up here previously.

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    May 10, 2021
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    The Arms of Thal

    November 30, 2021
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    Jeb

    November 17, 2020 /

    Inspired by watching my friend Kris Overstreet playing Kerbal Space Program on his own gamestream. (I have the game myself but haven't played it much mainly because I find the actually having to steer during launch incredibly daunting.)

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    The Arms of Thal

    November 30, 2021
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    May 10, 2021
  • Lyrics

    Beautiful Earth

    July 30, 2020 /

    An original from 2008. The title/line in the chorus was inspired by Bugs Bunny commenting on the lunar view in 1948's "Haredevil Hare."

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    November 30, 2021
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    Anousheh

    July 30, 2020 /

    An original from 2006, when Iranian-American engineer (and Plano resident) Anousheh Ansari flew as a paying passenger to the International Space Station. As her crew was donning their spacesuits at Baikonur Cosmodrome for their Soyuz flight, she gave a Vulcan salute for the cameras, and won my geekly heart....

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    FFXIV screenshot

    The Arms of Thal

    November 30, 2021
    Parody of 'No one wants to work' sign at a Wendy's

    Demon in the Freezer

    May 10, 2021
  • Buzz on the moon
    Essays and Stuff

    T+51 years: Space is a marathon

    July 20, 2020 /

    Apollo got us to the moon at the cost of leaving us all but earthbound for the next 50 years. Another moon or Mars sprint isn't the answer.

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    A jury summons card from 2013

    The drive to West I didn’t have to make

    April 17, 2021

    Hope Is The Thing…

    June 1, 2022

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