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ROSKOSMOS Head on Recent Failures -

President Vladimir Putin (right) with General Vladimir Popovkin at the Voronezh Radar Station in a 2007 file photo (ITAR-TASS)

When all else fails – and your butt is on the line with a major PR catastrophe looming, it is best to man-up, square your shoulders and do your duty as organizational lead by assuming responsibility before The Big Guy…unless you are the head of Russia’s ROSKOSMOS space agency.  Then you can hint darkly about [...] [...]

Reflections

Of Snow and Buffoonery Around the Beltway

(Actually was thinking of something that rhymes with mass-hattery, but we’re family friendly here – SJS) So – season’s first snow and coming midday like it did only portends ill…We were not disappointed. So much road, so much snow — so many idiots. But one in particular merited special attention as he went whizzing by, [...] [...]

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Proposal Hell

Welcome to another weekend/week of my life…and why things have been a little quiet around these parts the last few… Sphere: Related Content [...]

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Measurements and Metrics from Snowmageddon

…And, we’re back. Didn’t lose power or satellite TV, but the internet went lights out about 5 hours into this weekend’s storm. Some metrics from the storm: 32″ at the homestead vs.  18″ at Reagan National (it always skews low there – must be all the hot air from up river…) 14,180 ft3 of snow [...] [...]

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Chicago — Meet Mockba: Russia tops bribe payers list

Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous. – Mark Twain in “Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar”  Couldn’t swing a cat yesterday without encountering another story about the enlightened (now indicted) governor of Illinois, calling to mind [...] [...]

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I (Heart) Vista – Not…

So ol’ blue, the long suffering wireless router finally gave up the ghost and we replaced it with a Linksys WRT610n and while the installation and setup was not exactly painless, it was relatively straightforward, until it was time to start bringing the computers back into the net.  Now the legacy Win2K and XP machines [...] [...]

Admin

“Upgrades” and such

So – sitemeter does us all a favor and “upgrades” the website.  Of course, we’d *love* to be able to checkout the “improvements” – but it won’t allow us to access our account. All the more aggravating as we had gone the paid path some several months earlier.  Evidently others are equally “enamored” of the [...] [...]

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TS Hanna Updates

So Hanna arrived and dumped 12+ inches in a little over 8 hours: We’re under one of the red spots…(wx station at nearby school reporting 26.8″ – can’t be right…) Between rain bands… The Good: Didn’t have to mow the lawn Half the SJS fleet got a brushless car wash PMS for 7-year old sump [...] [...]

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OPTEMPO

So, um Scribe — been a little lax in posting this past few weeks, eh? What gives? Well, a little bit of: Mix in a lot of: And of course, all from the AO viewpoint:  So yea, been a bit busy with the necessary stuff, but that said have been scribbling offline in the wee [...] [...]