Why didn't I drive up for this launch? They are always awesome, but the full moon too. Shiny! [link]

Oooh... that's a gorgeous shot. Although I still think this is my favorite night launch photo ever, just because it's so quintessentially Florida. Equal parts awe-inspiring and tacky.

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Barb, that picture would make a great Christmas card.

Wouldn't it? It's tempting, if I wasn't so damned lazy about sending the things out.

Very late, Tom, but as a Rochestarian who has visited toronto in the dead of winter, they are awesome at snow removal and clean-up and keeping things not yucky. You can totally tell the difference between the US and Canada clean-up efforts as you cross the border. I once rode back from Toronto is a blizzard, and they were still keeping it clean!

I skipped a whole bunch but I have to say, except for the time they had to call out the army because of the snow.

(As a Canadian, it's my duty to mock Toronto for that incident.)

It could be way worse Tom, it could have been Ottawa or Winnepeg.

Models made out of pulp novels.

Aluminum Christmas Tree.

that's a lot of Mountain Dew.

We had our first slush storm yesterday. I had to dig out my winter boots and gloves this morning. Only I had forgotten that the pull tab on the zipper of one of my boots had broken last winter and I had been using a paper clip to pull the zipper up. It's not like I didn't have 7 months to get those fixed.

Ugh. I read the first Twilight out of curiosity, thought it was okay, read the second one and saw that it was going in the whole Anita Blake/Sookie Stackhouse trap, where in the later novels there is whole lot of feuding supernatural critters and sex/sexual tension. Couldn't deal with another series like that.

All those noble but tortured vampires, can't they just do for once a vampire that is still human? Human as in still has human emotional strengths and weaknesses? It's like in anime, where every hero has at least three girls chasing after him, a sexpot, a happy go lucky one and one who is shy/angry. The angry one is the most interesting one, the sexpot is the most forward one, but the hero always ends up happy go lucky one. Just for once it would be nice to see the teenage hero to fall into temptation and try to juggle all three of them w/out each of them finding out. It would fail, but it would be a teenage thing to do.

Vampires are complicated enough, why do they always need to add in werewolves, et. al.

The Mountain Dew tree works. The novel models are brilliant!

Why didn't I drive up for this launch? They are always awesome, but the full moon too. Shiny! [link]

Yeah, I'm thinking I gotta make it to at least one shuttle launch before thee shuttles are retired....

I think this is the king of all night launches, though: [link]