According to this AP wire story, Virgin Group intends to offer space flights within the next three years.
SPACE FLIGHTS, people. For a fraction of the $20 million Dennis Tito paid (although it’s also a shorter trip):
The company said it planned to begin construction of the first vessel, VSS Enterprise, next year and to offer [...]
Say, all you Sacramentans… Alaska Air is having $79 round-trip specials between Sac and Portland this weekend, if any of you want to come visit us. Visit http://www.alaskaair.com/shopping/webspecials for details and booking, and be sure to call us so we know when to pick you up from the airport. (=
…just can’t wait to get on the job again…
Okay, enough reminding people of bad music. misterjustin just called to offer me a job. A programming job. With benefits after six months. And, possibly, per-project bonuses on project completion. It’s not a lot of money, but then, it’s not a lot [...]
One subject I’ve been paying more attention to recently (though I’ve been aware of it since I developed a preference for writing on the computer rather than on paper) is the effect of technology on language. It’s especially interesting to watch new conventions emerge as people figure out how to use new platforms.
As a [...]
It must be fall — we’ve finally noticed that we’re out of tea.
Hey, all. Vacation photos are now online here. Also, for those of you who aren’t my grandparents or people who might give me a job, there are a few additional shots we took for purely juvenile reasons, and those are visible here.
I suddenly have another six Gmail invites. I think everyone who wanted one has already been covered, but just in case, let me know: geeksam gmail {dot} com
Safely home again. Having been travelling (airport shuttle, int’l flight, 5-hour layover, domestic flight, light rail, car) for 27 hours, we are now going to sleep.
Much more to come over the next few days as I reacclimate myself to this weird keyboard thingy. It’s not just the ” and the @ being swapped: [...]
Now at the Dingle Internet Cafe, which bills itself as “Europe’s most westerly Internet cafe.” This continues a trend we’ve been noticing in places we go — everywhere has to invent some obscure category in which their particular place excels. So the castle in Trim, Ireland is the biggest Norman castle there is, [...]
Just a quick note to say that driving in the UK, while at first terrifying, wasn’t so bad after a few days — having two people really made a huge difference.
(Northern) Wales is also FUCKING GORGEOUS (and, if this can be believed, even greener than Oregon). I think there must be a law, or [...]
Now in Bath, which is (a) moderately less busy than London and (b) FUCKING GORGEOUS. Might be worth its own vacation, or at least its own week (we have three nights here, and we’re picking up a car tomorrow so we can drive back to see Stonehenge and Avebury, which we bypassed by taking [...]
I expected to be able to sleep on the plane, and technically, I suppose I did sleep. For about 15 minutes on the first flight and maybe up to an hour on the second one. Fortunately, someone fawnapril talked to had suggested getting a hotel room for our extended Houston layover, so we [...]