Today: The Unfairness of the Universe and Cats.

Woke up around 7 this morning, ( and some things sucked, and others didn't )

Dates involving cool stuff going on involving the next planet over:

June 2: ESA launches Mars Express, including the Beagle 2 lander
June 8: NASA launches Mars Explorer Rover A
June 25: NASA launches Mars Explorer Rover B
August 27: Mars approaches 34.5 million miles from Earth, the closest it will be for 30,000 years (in the Pacific Northwest, it rises around 9:30 pm that night)
November 1: China launches Shenzhou IV, their first manned spacecraft, becoming only the third nation to launch a human into orbit on their own craft. They are expected to visit the moon within ten years, becoming only the second nation to do so, and the only nation with a continuing manned lunar program.
December 24: Beagle 2 lands on Mars, begins drilling down 6' through the Martian permafrost, looking for life.
Jan 4: MER-A lands, sending out the first of a pair of golf-cart-sized rovers over the Martian surface (the new rovers can travel in a day what Sojourner did in its entire mission)
Jan 25: MER-B lands the second of the twin Mars Exploration Rovers.

"Not Scary At All"

I love Mark Fiore's animations, I really do: http://sfgate.com/comics/fiore/

Well, with everyone posting song lyrics

Here's one from one of my favorites singers, Tom Smith:

( House on Cthulhu Corner )

And don't ask me why it somehow seem very appropriate lately...

New studies....

New studies show that coke doesn't add quite as much life as originally believed: http://www.distefano.com/GRAPHICS/athome1.jpg