I’m checking email while watching HBO. A movie was starting, and I had no idea what it was, and then…holy crap! It’s So I Married An Axe Murderer. Which we love to quote. Which takes place in San Francisco. Which Rich said he would endlessly quote if we go to Alcatraz. The giant cappuccino cup is currently traveling through the screen, soon to be delivered to Mike Myers. “Excuse me miss? I believe I ordered the large cappuccino? HELLO!”
Life is full of strange coincidences.
The first day of the conference went well. I saw eight presentations, some more interesting than others, but unfortunately the two I wanted to see most were both no-shows. (One was a neural network ballistic propagator that Kara referenced in her thesis and used in doing the background of our paper; the other was a guy from Boeing in Colorado doing debris footprints.) Ron spoke this morning about lunar and martian powered descent. There were also morning and afternoon sessions about a lot of the Return-to-Flight GNC work, including the Rbar maneuver or, as the media referred to it, the shuttle’s “back flip” that allowed some of the spectacular photos taken during STS-114. Most of the other presentations I saw dealt with Mars entry and descent, but there was also one very cool one about Venus aerocapture.
Tonight: A’s game.
Is that a fleece jackewt you have on while riding BART??? Are you and your friends tired of the California weather yet???? Continue to have fun!
Yes! I was wearing a long sleeve t-shirt, fleece pullover, and fleece jacket. We sat way up in the upper deck at the baseball game and it was chilly! Wind, ya know.
And no, I’m not tired of the northern Cali weather yet. 🙂