Live on Mars

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If you watch CNN, you’ve already seen the first super badass awesome image of the Phoenix lander descending to the surface of Mars. Here’s a followup: That’s another shot, also taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, of the Phoenix lander,…

Caspian : Indiana :: Peter : ?

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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull have two things in common. First, their title characters’ names both have the letters I-A-N in them. (But they’re pronounced differently: “EE-un” vs. “ee-AN.”)…

TV or Not TV?

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That’s a rhetorical question. We’ve been on the road for a month now, with poor access to broadcast TV, and I started thinking about ditching cable/satellite altogether when we settle down in Portland and putting the money into faster broadband…

Our Next Civil War

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I’m not saying this just to be pessimistic, but today’s big news from California–“State Supreme Court says same-sex couples have right to marry” is the headline in the San Francisco Chronicle–made me think about America’s long-standing tension between federal jurisdiction…

Iron and Weed

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The last two movies D and I saw in theatres were Iron Man (two weeks ago) and Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (last night). We had low expectations for both films, for different reasons, but ended up enjoying…