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Aug. 24th, 2006 04:49 pmNew-laptop is winging its way to me ("tire-ing its way" doesn't exactly sing in the mind's eye, factual or not), and should be here tomorrow. O addiction! O rapture!
Right. Now I just need my files from old-laptop, which should be taken care of next weekend, and I'll be all set. I've even upgraded a little, to a slightly-faster processor and more RAM and a bigger HDD. Nothing too exciting, but when you have to go to all the hassle, it's nice to feel like you're getting something better. That's what I like to tell myself, anyway.
On to business (for MN people, anyway). World Space Week (October 4-10) is coming up, and I'll be home then for my birthday/Canadian Thanksgiving. Would anyone be willing to help out with an event of some sort? I was thinking a model rocket launch, but I'm definitely open to suggestions. Even if you don't have any time to spare for planning, would you come to such an event? Are there any parks you'd recommend, city ordinances that might throw a wrench in plans, or other tidbits you know of that might make planning easier?
Mya and Carolyn and I may be going to Montreal this weekend, which should be especially exciting as none of us know even the barest of French necessities (although Mya has recently learned that the French word for "duck" means "kettle" in Canada...). Maybe we should drive a little more and go to Quebec City, instead, where I hear they are less inclined to scalp foreigners.
I leave you with this point from the MNSFS list: if the IAU says that
The IAU has added a little clause that basically grandfathers them in, though, so you can rest assured that you do, indeed, live on a planet. Don't you all feel a little better, now, despite needing to learn a new mnemonic?
the hedge abides.
Right. Now I just need my files from old-laptop, which should be taken care of next weekend, and I'll be all set. I've even upgraded a little, to a slightly-faster processor and more RAM and a bigger HDD. Nothing too exciting, but when you have to go to all the hassle, it's nice to feel like you're getting something better. That's what I like to tell myself, anyway.
On to business (for MN people, anyway). World Space Week (October 4-10) is coming up, and I'll be home then for my birthday/Canadian Thanksgiving. Would anyone be willing to help out with an event of some sort? I was thinking a model rocket launch, but I'm definitely open to suggestions. Even if you don't have any time to spare for planning, would you come to such an event? Are there any parks you'd recommend, city ordinances that might throw a wrench in plans, or other tidbits you know of that might make planning easier?
Mya and Carolyn and I may be going to Montreal this weekend, which should be especially exciting as none of us know even the barest of French necessities (although Mya has recently learned that the French word for "duck" means "kettle" in Canada...). Maybe we should drive a little more and go to Quebec City, instead, where I hear they are less inclined to scalp foreigners.
I leave you with this point from the MNSFS list: if the IAU says that
To qualify as a planet, a celestial body must be in orbit around a star while not itself being a star. It also must be large enough in mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a... nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.and Jupiter and Earth both have reasonable asteroid populations within their orbits, then Jupiter and Earth aren't planets.
The IAU has added a little clause that basically grandfathers them in, though, so you can rest assured that you do, indeed, live on a planet. Don't you all feel a little better, now, despite needing to learn a new mnemonic?
the hedge abides.
