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13:32 Oh God. Oh no. Facebook. What have you done. SRSLY, people, until you start paying for fb, you have no ability to complain about cosmetics. #

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00:37 All right, greater Atlanta: I need a trusty tire place, preferably one like Bob's tire in Sheffield, Alabama. Better if in Tucker / Duluth a #

00:54 @kg4uzj bob is good people. Salt o earth. They ask 89 dollars. Free flat repair/spare change. Alignment? 89$. Need new transmission? 89$ #

01:04 That truly was a superb owl. #

13:50 @NinjaChico I use chrome. Far fastrr #

18:05 All of this has happened before. All of this will most likely happen again. But does it have to? #

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12:54 I still don't know who to root for in the Super Bowl today. Guess I'll just have to wait until it's over to decide. #

16:35 Clearly, I think we can all agree that whoever puts more points up on that scoreboard is going to win this football game. Back to you, Tom. #

16:37 Offensively, it's critical that the smaller man give his leather ball to fat men on his team without fat men from the other team getting it. #

16:40 On the other hand, the fat men on the other team will really want to get the smaller man's leather ball. So, he should keep that in mind. #

16:48 Bottom line? This game will be won or lost based on which fat men make the leather ball go into the thingee more times. Also, special teams. #

17:45 We know The Who is playing the Super Bowl. What no one has explained is The Why. It could be worse, though. Super Bowling Sunday? #

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09:18 seems to have an ear infection that grew out of an annoying sore throat. Mood: Grumpy. #

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11:21 A bird soars too high /
Something about your mom's rack /
I suck at haiku #

19:26 Attention all hands: First mate and chaplain @AgentBraddick and I are drunk from a brewery gathering with live music. That is all. #

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13:29 Curiosity killed the cat.

I was curious if that cat could fly. #

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23:44 "Don't tell me what i can't do" is actually an ancient buddhist mantra practiced by the followers of the locke-buddhist path of life. #

23:48 And on the seventh day, God rested...and John Locke took over.
John Locke doesn't believe in God,but God believes in John Locke. #

14:35 @AgentBraddick wanna hit a brewery and maybe all can eat sushi tonight? #

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The big news this week, aside from the medical journal [url="http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/02/lancet.retraction.autism/index.html?hpt=T2"]retracting its previous statements[/url] linking vaccines to autism, is Obama's proposed budget for the United States.

Among the many cuts and proposals that caught my attention, it's the president's mandate for NASA that I wanted to discuss today.

The space shuttle fleet is being grounded this year, as always was the plan. Considering that the shuttle was conceived of in the 50's, with construction beginning in the 70's, I remain confident that the decision to mothball what's left of the shuttle fleet was the right decision.

The fact that these machines have been flying for the past 30 years is an amazing feat in itself. The question however, is what have they accomplished?

We built and maintained a few telescopes, we continue to build and maintain a space station with no clear scientific or exploration goal in mind and we sent a really old man back into space.

Since the Apollo program, we haven't returned to the moon.

Once the shuttle is in a museum, we won't even be able to get into space without hitching a ride with the Russians.

The question I asked us a while ago, was a simple "What's next"?

After going through the budget and the NASA Administrators remarks, I can't tell you. I can however, tell you what's not next.

[i]The initiative, for now at least, is more about what NASA plans to cancel than what it plans to pursue. The six-year-old Constellation program, which had been focused on developing new boosters, Apollo-like orbiters and a 21st century lunar lander, all with the goal of making long-term stays on the moon possible, will be scrapped, after $9 billion and a single flight of the Ares 1 booster last October. The longer-term goal of venturing out to Mars is being tabled along with it.

In place of that program, NASA will tackle a grab bag of other projects: extending the life of the so-far unfinished International Space Station (ISS) until 2020, and spending $4.9 billion to develop better robotics, $7.8 billion to develop new flight techniques such as in-orbit fuel depots and closed-loop life-support systems, and $3 billion to develop new unmanned ships. There are no entirely unworthy objectives in that list (with the possible exception of the ISS), but there's also no clear way of getting humans back into space after 2010, once the shuttles are mothballed.

-[url="http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1958230,00.html?cnn=yes&hpt=T2"]From TIME Magazine[/url][/i]

With everything going on in the world today, some might applaud this approach. Why invest in space when the education system is so underfunded?

To that I would answer: "To get children excited about learning again".

I believe with every fiber in my being that exploring this universe is paramount to our continued evolution as a species and is an important step forward.

I now also believe that it won't be NASA that leads the way.

I am discouraged, yet confident that private business and developing space programs like those in China and India will eventually inspire us again.

Until that time, Personally. I will actively seek a person/group/company/program to involve myself with in the hopes that I can at least get a few people enthralled in the space again. (Any recommendations?)

I want my child looking upwards, never knowing what's there, but knowing that he can find out.

- Because I can.

[b]Quote of the Day[/b]

"Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals. "
[i]-From Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid (1969)[/i]

10:32 I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life. #

16:01 @m1ndbender2 I haitchu. #

20:11 twitpic.com/113nk0 - JAPANABREW! #

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18:39 I think it's cute that they're still doing the Grammy Awards. #

18:46 twitpic.com/10xqrc - #

21:10 Psht. I'm too awesome to be conceited. #

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00:39 twitpic.com/10n4ps - Kristoff Peltonovich wants YOU! for the Soviet Navy #

16:47 @OhLaDaniV Take everything, storm out, blame the children for ruining your marriage, find new sugar daddy with boat(s). Get titjob. #

20:43 ...and so a man loses his daughter for the 2nd time because he failed to backup his data in a secure location. Pleasen do so, for children #

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09:19 I listen to techno during my drive to work because it keeps me awake.

It could also be the E.

This steering wheel feels nice. #

11:58 I can't get the Cylon song out of my head. Is this bad? I accidently the whole human race! #

14:12 @kg4uzj No thanks, man. Watching Kung Fu. #

15:24 Whaddya hear, Starbuck? #

15:35 @kg4uzj Then grab your gun and bring in the cat. {I was wondering who'd respond first, either you, @agentbraddick, or @noir_musings} #

17:45 @kg4uzj Ah yes, "The Tragedy of Khamlet, Son of the Emperor of Qo'noS" as written by Wil'yum Shek'sper in the original Klingon. Good read! #

17:46 @mojojessjo I too, require more ladies with big, awesome, giant... er... voices. Yes. We are agreed on this point. #

21:41 Attn all hands: Bosun Robert O'Brien may now, once per day, order any crewman to watch any video no longer than 10 minutes #

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19:32 @kg4uzj Nudes Who Swing? Norwegians With Swiss? Neil Warren Smith? Neverland Water Sanitation? New Wales Secretary? November Whiskey Sierra? #

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This is the title of a typical incendiary blog post

Posted by Chris Clarke on January 24, 2010

This sentence contains a provocative statement that attracts the readers’ attention, but really only has very little to do with the topic of the blog post. This sentence claims to follow logically from the first sentence, though the connection is actually rather tenuous. This sentence claims that very few people are willing to admit the obvious inference of the last two sentences, with an implication that the reader is not one of those very few people. This sentence expresses the unwillingness of the writer to be silenced despite going against the popular wisdom. This sentence is a sort of drum roll, preparing the reader for the shocking truth to be contained in the next sentence.

This sentence contains the thesis of the blog post, a trite and obvious statement cast as a dazzling and controversial insight.

This sentence claims that there are many people who do not agree with the thesis of the blog post as expressed in the previous sentence. This sentence speculates as to the mental and ethical character of the people mentioned in the previous sentence. This sentence contains a link to the most egregiously ill-argued, intemperate, hateful and ridiculous example of such people the author could find. This sentence is a three-word refutation of the post linked in the previous sentence, the first of which three words is “Um.” This sentence implies that the linked post is in fact typical of those who disagree with the thesis of the blog post. This sentence contains expressions of outrage and disbelief largely expressed in Internet acronyms. This sentence contains a link to an Internet video featuring a cat playing a piano.

This sentence implies that everyone reading has certainly seen the folly of those who disagree with the thesis of the blog post. This sentence reminds the reader that there are a few others who agree. This sentence contains one-word links to other blogs with whom the author seeks to curry favor, offered as examples of those others.

This sentence returns to the people who disagree with the thesis of the blog post. This sentence makes an improbably tenuous connection between those people and a current or former major political figure. This sentence links those people and that political figure to a broad, ill-defined sociodemographic class sharing allegedly similar belief systems. This sentence contains a reference to the teachings of Jesus; its intent may be either ironic or sincere.

This sentence refers to a different historic period, and implies that conditions relevant to the thesis of the blog post were either different or the same. This sentence states that the implications of the previous sentence are a damned shame. This sentence says that the next sentence will explain the previous sentence. This sentence contains a slight rewording of the thesis of the blog post, a trite and obvious statement cast as a dazzling and controversial insight.

This sentence contains an apparent non-sequitur phrased as if it follows logically from the reworded thesis of the blog post. This sentence is a wildly overgeneralized condemnation of one or more entire classes of people phrased in as incendiary a fashion as possible which claims to be an obvious corollary to the thesis and non-sequitur.

This sentence proposes that anyone who might disagree with the wildly overgeneralized condemnation is, by so disagreeing, actually proving the author’s point. This sentence explains that such people disagree primarily because of the author’s courageous and iconoclastic approach. This sentence mentions the additional possibilities that readers who express disagreement with the wildly overgeneralized condemnation are merely following political fashion or trying to ingratiate themselves with interest groups. This sentence is a somewhat-related assertion based in thoughtless privilege and stated as dispassionate objective truth. This sentence explains that if the scales would merely fall from those dissenting readers’ eyes, they would see the wisdom and necessity of the author’s statements.

This sentence invites readers to respond freely and without constraint as long as those responses fall within certain parameters. This sentence consists of an Internet in-joke that doesn’t quite fit the topic.

 2010 Chris Clarke. All rights reserved. Banner painting byCarl Buell.

23:54 @Noir_Musings I agree, but it needed more boxing and fighty backstory, less lovey romance. #

11:00 KIRA NERYS is talking to Roslyn. My feeble human brain cannot comprehend. #

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09:56 Doctor Senator Kelley is a bad mutant hating man. #

10:17 My Uncle Ron: www.macombdaily.com/articles/2010/01/27/news/srv0000007440231.txt #

12:37 Two hours later, why am i still here? #

12:41 @Noir_Musings I'm thinking of shaving my goatee into an Adamustache #

19:14 "There's no greater ally, no force more powerful, no enemy more resolved than a son who chooses to step from his father's shadow." ~ Romo #

21:08 Currently listening to "All along the Watchtower" by one Jimi Hendrix. The Bob Dylon version is good too, but this is the one I heard first. #

22:01 @Lissa_Jo definitely. When and where? #

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11:25 Haiku:
Songs you can dance to,
Songs you can go to France to,
Songs to wear pants to. #

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16:51 @tehender this body has too much already. Thanx #

17:07 @mojojessjo my store just hired yolur clone. Beware, she may be jusing me to get to you and take your place #

18:21 - .... .. ... -- .- -.- . ... -- . -... . - - . .-. - .... .- -- -.-- --- ..- #

19:42 Is learning to be more humble, one tweet at a time. #

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22:33 RT @skylenewman RT @ChrisPirillo: "Bacon tastes so much better when it's marinated in vegan tears." [@RexHuppke] #

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22:56 .@kg4uzj just remember, Cap: All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again. #

23:21 @kg4uzj Wow! 28.8 baud modems and briefcase telephones? It's like the 90's up in that beech! Do they also have digital wrist watches? #

01:10 Called it when he showed up. Al and Ziggy are frakkin toasters! #

09:01 I don't watch too much television, but I’m really starting to get into Conan O’Brien’s Tonight Show. Might have to fit it in the routine. #

18:03 @kg4uzj Quite so! Who released the canines, indeed? Let the Captain dance commence, my negro. There's a good lad. Carry on! #

19:10 I don't know how many DIY projects Bono has been working on but one would think he'd get tired of wearing those safety goggles all the time. #

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