Author: Ed Itor
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Bart Simpson and others
I took the picture above about a year, maybe a year and a half ago. It was a piece of sidewalk outside Lincoln High School in northwest Portland, Oregon. This was the high school, Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons and most noticeable here, Bart Simpson, attended and graduated from in 1978. Since then,…
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NASA News and Updates
Not going to go into the fiasco that is becoming the first controlled flight of a vehicle on another planet. The demonstration test has had a few setbacks and pushbacks as far as scheduling is concerned but we’ll patiently await further news from NASA and the Ingenuity flight team on this front. NASA has given…
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Toynbee tile found in Portland, OR and other Pictures
When I go on my daily walks around Portland, I find independent pieces of art on the sides of buildings and other places and if it moves or speaks to me or just looks cool, I’ll snap off a picture. Now I have more of a reason to do it and it makes for more…
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NASA Updates – Ingenuity Flight Test Cancelled
The biggest piece of news this update is the continual long-running update from the previous two articles, namely, Ingenuity has once again blown through a test date due to technical difficulties. This time anomalous readings were discovered before Ingenuity’s April 11 flight test which forced the flight crew to ground the test and go over…
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Eve Online – MMORPG
I started playing Eve Online back in 2007. For the first few years, I just played against the NPC’s (non-player character) and learned the extremely complicated Eve Online interface. It is said that Eve Online just might be the hardest game to learn to play in the world. The learning curve is definitely one of the…
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Hiking Forest Park, Portland, Oregon
Today I decided to walk a couple of miles to a trailhead into Forest Park that can be reached by taking NW Thurman Street all the way to the end. I had been to the trailhead before intending to come back to hike the trails. That was a year ago. Well, I’m glad I finally…
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3 x Horror Review – The Block Island Sound – Haunting of the Mary Celeste – The Retreat
The Block Island Sound – Spooky and fluid this was an amazing find on Netflix. Set mostly in overcast Northeastern climates this terrifyingly little tale weaves another tapestry of what contact might be like and just exactly just what the ultimate intention just might be. Very entertaining and I need to look up the studio…
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NASA Targets Date for Helicopter Ingenuity First Flight
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter team has targeted Sunday, April 11, 2021 for Ingenuity’s’ expositional and maiden test flight. Then during a LIVEstream on Monday, April 12 at 0330hrs EDT they will announce the results of the test flight on NASA Television. To catch the events LIVE as they happen and make sure your browser is tuned…
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April Short Crypto Update
Logged into my Coinbase account today for quick perusal and was pleasantly surprised. Last months report showed for March’s balance approximately $43.00US. I have done absolutely nothing on the Coinbase platform in the last month and when I logged in I saw that my balance was at a reassuring $61.40US. Started with $20US (-0.99US x2…
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NASA Updates – Ingenuity Readies for Flight – NASA Updates
Rover Perseverance has jettisoned Ingenuity’s lower cover in preparation for the first ever test flight on another planet. Ingenuity is of course the helicopter the NASA engineers came up with to perform this feat. Though Mars has less gravity than Earth it also has 99% less atmosphere and the air we take for granted on…