Posts tagged ‘x-prize’
This afternoon at ACM, I was invited to join some people to go see the launch! Whee! I’m going to be excited and giddy all night, until we leave at 3AM. It’ll be great. However, I fear I might not be so energetic at class tomorrow. That’s OK, though, because I get to see SpaceShipOne! Moreinfo when I get back.
As a follow-up about the X-Prize, I just stumbled across this wonderful comment on Slashdot. I’ve never used IRC before, but I decided to learn so I could do this. With Linux, it’s really easy! I discovered that KDE even comes with an IRC client (Ksirc)! Whee! Hope to see you online Tuesday morning!
So, tonight we went bowling again. It was just Rami, Amanda, Travis, and me, so it was nice and small. However, we had some really good games! The first game, we all broke 100, which was pretty cool. We then had some lackluster games (I had one where I didn’t break 70). However, Amanda managed to get 162! This involved 5 strikes (3 of which were in a row) and 2 spares, though it also involved a zero frame (two gutter balls in a row). Wow. Go Amanda! Travis was close behind, setting a personal best at 151 (I think… it was 150-something). Though I did break 100 a couple other times, I didn’t have any spectacular scores like that. Eh, well. There’s always next time.
Well, despite my efforts to find a ride to see it (it’s only 75 miles away from school), it looks like I am going to miss Burt Rutan’s try for the Ansari X-Prize. Which is too bad, all in all. This is history being made. Not as big as the moon landing, but I’d say that this is as important as, say, the Mercury Missions. I think it would be absolutely awesome if I could go into space when I retire. That would be pretty sweet.
Not much else is going on, so I’m just gonna end this here (finally! a semi-short post!).