Last summer I finally got to see Marian Call live. Twice! And thus confirmed she is a super-awesome musician and person. I grabbed her two existing albums then, and the new double-disc set soon after it came out, and enjoyed them periodically, but I didn’t have a CD player in my car, and don’t really listen to music much anywhere […]
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Ok, it was a bit ago now. It’s weird, because family doesn’t buy new cars. We acquire a vehicle every few years, but they’re never new. Literally, the last (and I believe only) actually-new vehicle my parents bought was the minivan they got when I was 18 months old, and we kept it until I was 10 or so. Usually […]
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I love coffee. More accurately, I love vanilla soy lattes with an extra shot of espresso (and usually extra vanilla). I pass two different coffee shops on my way to/from work every day. One is a lovely independent joint called Burlap & Bean. The other is a Starbucks. (Used to pass three, but then the Saxby’s turned into a Verizon […]
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Made it back the next morning only a few minutes late (for which I am rather impressed with myself, running on 2.5 hours sleep and not being able to remember/find what time I was supposed to get there), and settled in for another awesome day of spacey goodness! We started off with Gilles Leclerc, Director General of Space Exploration, welcoming […]
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It is a very strange feeling to drive to a government building – in a foreign country – in the middle of the night. Felt slightly mischievous, but the security guard didn’t seem to mind! Magalie led me to the press auditorium, where I found a familiar face (@datachick) and an even more familar view – a NASAtv view of […]
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