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Feb 16th, 2010 | By CJ | Category: CJ's Quick LinksA graphic sometimes gives you better info than hearing the numbers. Wait, how big is NASA’s budget again? | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine.
Posts Tagged ‘ budget ’
Space Vision: A Whole Lot of Nothing
Jan 28th, 2010 | By CJ | Category: SnippetsThere are a lot of rumors floating about what President Obama will opt to do with NASA and manned spaceflight. Much of this is based on the report Obama received from the Review of Human Spaceflight Plans Committee. While some of the rumors are doubtless based on administration “trial balloons”, I do think a paradigm shift is definitely in the offing.
2009 WNBA – Chicken Littles
Jun 16th, 2009 | By CJ | Category: Women's BasketballWith the announcement by Bill Laimbeer of his resignation as the head coach of the Detroit Shock, the WNBA naysayers have been having a field day about how this is the death of the league. Seriously? You’re going there?
Obama’s First Budget – The Emperor Overlord’s Initial Thoughts
Feb 26th, 2009 | By CJ | Category: Gov't and PoliticsAs Emperor Overlord of the United States, I have to give that new kid, Obama, credit. He doesn’t do things small. A $3.55 trillion budget. That takes some brass ones, it does. I should probably say a little something about this amusing little income/expense outline of his.
If TV Can, Why Can’t the Big Screen?
Oct 9th, 2008 | By CJ | Category: GripesIt makes no sense that a TV show and a movie of the same franchise should have budgets so grossly out of whack.
Third Millennium TVs
Aug 16th, 2008 | By CJ | Category: JournalThis past week has found the family entering the twenty-first century in terms of television: that’s right, we now are finally switching from CRT to LCD. Starting a few weeks ago, two of our TVs started their death throws. Our kitchen set would randomly turn itself off (often less than ten minutes after turning on) [...]
If We Can Send…
Sep 30th, 2007 | By CJ | Category: MusingsToday, I was standing in line at the store. There were a few people behind me, and one pair was talking. One of them started a sentence with, “If we can send a man to the Moon…” Argh. Oh, how I hate hearing that phrase. I didn’t used to, twenty-to-thirty years ago.
