Well, I gotta say, we have never, ever seen a crowd like this. Well, we all have at Yodogawa, but for a much smaller, highly concentrated area, it was a throng. And totally worth it, as it is every year we are able to make it. Uji is normally on a weeknight, always set for the […]
The Kobe Minato Hanabi Taikai on Aug 4
Here we are with the first report of our Kansai fireworks festivals. It was by no means the first festival my wife and I have gone to – in fact it was already our fourth. And we arranged a get together of four others who had until this night been extremely apprehensive about battling the throng. […]
NASA Update on the Mars Science Laboratory – “Pasadena, Curiosity Has Landed !”
Well, there it is. It’s well worth a follow-up to my NASA update posting yesterday: Curiosity has landed successfully, just over an hour ago. This is a big deal, a monumental achievement, not only for NASA, but for scientific understanding to benefit all of mankind. This is the ultimate follow-up to NASA’s huge MRO, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter […]
