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Hi Again

Thu Apr 23, 2009, 5:16 PM

I've been a bit ambivalent about dA, I don't miss it enough to get a subscription again, but I don't seem to be able to stop visiting either. I don't know how active I'll be, but I do miss all my dA friends

One of the cool things (besides all the space stuff!) about working at KSC is that I'm able to bring a camera to work. I was never able to do that when I worked in New Orleans. As you can see from the 3 photos I just posted, there are a lot of cool things to point a camera at here

I'll post more images, but I think 3 was probably too many at one time so I'll space them out a little bit (eek, unintentional pun there - sorry).

Enjoy!

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Mood: Joy

6 Years

Tue Jul 1, 2008, 4:48 PM

And 5-1/2 of those with a subscription... which I'm letting go in a couple of days.

Is dA still worth $2.50 a month for a subscription to you?

This IS NOT an "I'm leaving dA journal" - it just won't be as pretty to look at for awhile

ps: Anticipating the change by dumping the CSS journal (not that I ever used that to it's fullest...)

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Mood: Joy

OMG... He did something

Journal Entry: Sun May 4, 2008, 2:32 PM

So... it's been awhile.

And I know what you're thinking but that deviation just had to be done at the time I made it!

No, really. It was a moral imperative

I just got this perverse pleasure having a SG contest at dA which let me legally do that to their logo while using their colors in that way. Sweet.

Photography will be returning, I've just got to remember which end points forward on the camera again

Just kidding, I'm now finding myself with some time and I should be able to post process some of the (way too freaking many) images I've captured in the last 2-1/2 years since Katrina.

I'm also feeling the muse since I've moved to Florida. What better place for a rocket scientist than working at Kennedy Space Center?

I hope everybody is doing well

I'm listening to...

Cool B/W Tutorial Journal

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Mood: Joy
Reading: my list and checking it twice
Drinking: it all in...

2008...

Journal Entry: Tue Jan 1, 2008, 2:44 PM

New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions.
Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
~Mark Twain

I'm listening to...

Cool B/W Tutorial Journal

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Mood: Joy
Reading: my list and checking it twice
Drinking: it all in...

"Yes, Virginia,..." - A Yearly Tradition

Journal Entry: Thu Dec 20, 2007, 11:45 AM

A letter written to the New York Sun in December 1897...

Dear Editor

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says if you see it in the Sun, it's so. Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

Virginia O'Hanlon

Virginia,

Your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except that which they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the countless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias.

There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to have men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders that are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which the strongest men, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love and romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernatural beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus!?

Thank God! He lives and lives forever.