July 2009
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colbycosh: Is there an I Read And Sincerely Enjoyed Infinite Jest Many Years Ago Without Being A Pretentious Dink About It club I can join?
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The story of why the NASA bureaucracy failed the space shuttle Columbia is an interesting one (full CAIB report here), but I’d never heard this before:
[T]he Shuttle was specced out as NASA’s next big thing after Apollo. But Congress was cutting NASA’s budget, massively. So to keep the Shuttle, NASA had to get the USAF to buy into it. USAF needed a mission — so they...
robertghrist: There’s a restaurant here called “vino volo”. Huh? All I can think is toddler-talk: I wine! I want!
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“I need a girl, you might say. But it’s hard not to be intimidated by the ones...”
– My brother
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cederber: Happy 07/08/09, everyone.
