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.
It's not just similar to Scrabble. I wonder how they're getting away with that. It's Scrabble but not in real time (though a friend and I are thinking about giving that a shot--Yahoo has a game a little less similar to Scrabble that was real time. Haven't played it in yonks, though).
The work issue I ended up being adult on was one where a coworker added his boss and mine to the recipients and got snappy with me. I almost got involved (in a land war in Asia), but remembered that he's never anything but polite on the phone or in person, so I put the priority of getting information ahead of the priority of smacking him down in public.
You think if you'd given me what I wanted right away I'd had to have sent you 13 emails? Not doing this for my health or my looks.
Grr. Still had to send a butt covering email to my boss, though, and that stings.
Sorry. I'm seriously sleep deprived right now and I think that if I wait another hour or so, Kristin's Ambien-induced post will make total sense to me.
Apparently when Drew got home after midnight, I was slumped up against the headboard. The TV was on, the lights were on, and my glasses were on. He tried to talk to me, and that's when (he says) I drooled all over myself.
Ambien has now officially become an Emergencies Only drug.
I have pretty bad insomnia issues, but Ambien scares me. I think it clearly shouldn't be taken by anyone caring for small children. In fact, it pretty much scares me from taking any other Rx sleep aid either. For now I'm stuck with melatonin.
Nathan was on today's Ellen and continues to be adorable, but I can't start watching DH just for him.
I have pretty bad insomnia issues, but Ambien scares me. I think it clearly shouldn't be taken by anyone caring for small children. In fact, it pretty much scares me from taking any other Rx sleep aid either. For now I'm stuck with melatonin.
Unfortunately, I can't take melatonin. It screwes with my hormones something fierce, and I dream so intensely that I wake up tired.
I definitely wouldn't take Ambien if there were any chance I would need to wake up before eight hours have passed, but given that I don't have kids, that's not something I worry about. However, I have never found a sleep aid that allows me to sleep solidly and not have crazy dreams before this one, so as stupid and sloppy as I was last night? I am grateful that I have it available when I need it.
That is pretty cool, sarameg.
Sarameg and her family already hit maximum coolness for me by knowing Clyde Tombaugh. There is no room for more coolness.
As far as I know I haven't done anything scary while on Ambien, but one night I did take it but then got distracted by something and the next thing I knew it was 2 a.m. and I was lying on my bed with my clothes on and all the lights on.
