Via WSJ Picture of the Day, Via dbybrn.com
BLAST-OFF: The shuttle Discovery lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, as seen from across the Pineda Causeway in Melbourne. Seven astronauts were headed for a rendezvous with the International Space Station on one of the last missions for NASA’s shuttle program. (Jon Bahr/European Pressphoto Agency)
Holy cucumber Batman! McK and I are starting a food garden for the first time and some of our plants are already coming up well. The kale rocketed up after three days of planting, the tomatoes were next, and this little guy is a cucumber plant.
A fellow Helenan and friend Kevin Connolly recently popped up on the world famous, A-list blog Boingboing.net. Not only was he linked, or mentioned, but he wrote the post! Way to go Kevin.
He writes about open source prosthetics in reaction to this Gizmodo post by Amiee Mullins who he describes as, “a double below knee amputee, actress, track athlete, and total babe.” (Also she played a leopard-satyr in a Cremaster film.) Check out his post on boingboing.
Kevin also maintains a blog where amongst other things he’s documenting the development of a radically new kind of prosthetic based on Powerisers stilts.
