This is the noise that keeps me awake…
I’d forgotten how great it is to have sound on a computer. For the
first few days that sound didn’t work, I didn’t really mind not having it, and then I didn’t really think
anything of it. However, sound is great. I’m rocking out to Garbage
right now (hence the title of this update), and it’s wonderful.
In the news department, it has been revealed that NASA didn’t do any risk analysis
before saying that repairing the Hubble Telescope is too risky. This is
really stupid. NASA seems to be slipping. They used to be absolutely
fantastic, but it looks like they keep getting worse and worse (the
Mars rovers being the exception – I still don’t know what was so great
about Cassini, even). Mind you, they’re still pretty great, just
significantly less great than they used to be. At first I was dismayed
that they decided to kill Hubble. However, as someone pointed out,
Hubble used
to be
great. Now, we have better telescopes, and much better ones are only a
few years away (the James Webb telescope will be ridiculously
fantastic). What could we attain with Hubble that makes it worth saving
any more? It would be neat to put in a museum, though that’s a bit
impractical. Consequently, I’m not that sad about this any more.
Finally, I read on jcmdev0‘s blog this wonderful article.
It really makes you think. I’m not usually the kind of person who
compares everything I don’t like to Hitler, but this is eerily
similar to the current situation. Let’s hope history isn’t repeating
itself here…