The crazy lady strikes again for Friday, September 1, 2006

I understand that Kyra Phillips, the CNN anchor whose lavalier mike was left open so that her remarks (made while using the lavatory) were heard across the country on CNN, was on David Letterman's late-night show recently. She did a top-ten segment, which I believe listed the top ten reasons for leaving one's mike open while using the loo. At least she has a sense of humor about the incident which gained her instant notoriety. Other people in her situation might have had problems with all the... Sign in to see full entry.

This website offers Internet surfers the opportunity to vote for Pluto - as in, whether or not you feel that Pluto is a planet. (Yes, I did the "Pluto for President" thing in order to gain attention for this blog entry. It sounded like a humorous title at the time I thought of it.) Although the website asks for a name of some sort, you don't have to give your real name if you don't want to do so. People have signed on using various "handles" - Confused, "anonymous," even foo@bar.com. (For those... Sign in to see full entry.

It's official - the contract to build the spacecraft called Orion has been awarded to Lockheed Martin. This is, to quote the comic-strip namesake of my feline nurse Garfield, a "big, fat, hairy deal" to those of us who grew up with the space program. I imagine such space geeks as actor Tom Hanks are very excited right now; we are officially going back to the moon when it comes time to retire the space shuttle. I first caught my love of the life sciences from the space program. Chemistry and... Sign in to see full entry.