I just read an article somewhere on alzheimers maybe being a form of diabetes (numero 3.) As some close family friends have been fighting early onset, well, yeah. I asked my brother to give me the scoop.

Dad sent out an email commemorating Sputnik. He recieved the signal himself, and broadcast it to the 'hood. That's kinda cool, you know?

I had vertigo when I had Franny. It was so weird, took me 3 weeks to figure out I had it. I was so out of it, and I kept saying to DH "It sounds like everyone is talking underwater" and he agreed with me, so it took a while before I realized that it was actually a symptom.

That is pretty cool, sarameg.

Okay I just got DH to take the kids to a neighbor's house so I could finish the damn grading. I WILL finish damnit.

Well, Emily, I'm glad you went in. I'm glad it's just a cold, and sorry that you had to go through all the medical hassle just to find it out.

My dad is a bigger geek than I will ever be. Last I checked (15 years ago) the local natural sciences museum still had the 3d moon model he built in high school.

That's really cool, Sara. More the Sputnik than the moon model. Heh.

me too, sarameg, me too.

The first picture taken from space

In 1946, taken at an altitude of 65 miles from a camera in a V-2 rocket.

Fred Rulli was a 19-year-old enlisted man assigned to the recovery team that drove into the desert to retrieve film from those early V-2 shots. When the scientists found the cassette in good shape, he recalls, "They were ecstatic, they were jumping up and down like kids." Later, back at the launch site, "when they first projected [the photos] onto the screen, the scientists just went nuts."

ARGH! I just spoiled myself for Top Chef via Gawker. I was being so good at avoiding places I thought would spoil me! Bah. Maybe I can put it out of my mind before the weekend.

Scrabulous is a game on facebook. It's similar to Scrabble, and you can play with anyone else who has the application.

I adore it.