A runaway supply ship that failed to dock at the International Space Station on Friday made good on a second attempt Sunday afternoon.

The robotic Russian-built cargo tug approached and made communication links with the space station around noon and docked at the orbiting outpost around 12:17 p.m.

I suppose it really wasn’t human error, the incident was caused when they lost communication with the station, which caused the ship to simply glide by instead of docking.

NASA said the spacecraft was about three kilometers away from the station when it passed by. Engineers in Russia and the United States analyzed the situation Friday afternoon and decided Saturday to try again Sunday.

Would have been quite embarrassing I’m sure if they would have collided with the Space Station, ripping it in two…

[Via. USA Today ]

And now completely unconnected in any way to the rant I have just posted above I have this cool thing to share about Montana’s new ant-methamphetamine billboard ads. They are pretty striking, and I suppose get to the point and root of the problem, but is it wrong I thought a few were funny? (;

Click here to see them all.

Have a good night all…or day..

Anyway, I decided it would make sense to do a short list of cool things that have happened on this day through the years (besides my birth).

1. 1953 – Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test.
2. 1977 – Star Wars (later known as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope) premiers in American movie theaters.
3. 1961 – Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a “man on the Moon” before the end of the decade.
4. 1984 - The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.

Okay, well in closing I would like to send a blogosphere happy birthday from myself to anyone else out there that shares my birthday.

I think it is time that the US government step in and do as much as they can as quickly as possible because the longer it takes to fix the leak the worse off we are. Already they are now predicting that the oil is going to be sucked into a current and be drawn up along the entire each coast within six weeks, which would be unimaginable.

The latest satellite and overflight data shows a “small portion” of the BP oil slick has reached the Loop Current “in the form of light to very light sheens,” the federal government said Wednesday.

I am very disappointed in the President also for (even after this leak) supporting coastal and deep water drilling. It is time that our government start taking heavy steps into the direction of a oil free economy where we get are energy solely from natural means: solar, wind, waves, natural gas et cetera.

Please recycle, turn off and unplug unused lights and electronics, car pool, buy a hybrid automobile even organize a community even like a day of recycling and energy awareness, because only together can we break free from are countries oil addiction. Then we would set and example for other countries as well.

[via MSNBC.com]

You can most likely tell that I am drawn to a lot of others authors like Welsh; Palahnuik, Neilan, Coupland too name a few. They each have their own unique writing style but what draws me to their work is the dark rawness of their novels. I have seen the movie Trainspotting which is based on the novel that shares the same name which was written by Welsh; however this is the first of his novels that I have read, and I can’t wait to pick up another one to read.

The novel centers around a Scottish police detective, Ray Lennox, and his troubles with catching a pedophile murder. Lennox is sent away by his captain on a vacation leave to Miami Florida where he and his soon to be wife Trudi mean to relax and plan their wedding, but soon their getaway takes a wicked twist which will take Ray Lennox into the seedy side of Miami and into his own haunting memories.

I found Crime to be a very enjoyable read (if you like Walsh’s in your face gritty style, which I do) that was full of powerful prose and a thick plot that is filled with interesting characters and situations. I highly recommend giving Crime a read, it is most definitely a page turner.

The airport terminal was crammed with people. People on vacation with their two to seven crying and annoying kids, business men in suits that could buy me a car and of course some angry fat guy yelling at the attendant at the check in counter about some mix up that he blamed the airline for. I had just gotten off of Flight 816 from Los Angelis, with a stopover in Indianapolis , and was now back on solid ground in New York. I was traveling light, in my right I carried a briefcase and with my left hand I pulled along one of those wheeled suitcase numbers, one of the wheels stuck and slid instead of rolling on the tiled terminal floor. While in the air I had downed more than a few airline size bottles of vodka and my buzz was wearing off, I scanned the terminal and saw the sign pointing in the direction of the lounge, pushing through the hoard of people I made my way there.

Yeah I know, it’s a short excerpt but one nonetheless. I plan on finishing this one up within the next year, and then work on my next one. I will periodically post more parts of the novel, or should I say work in progress, every so often. So check back soon! (:

“Short term controlled trials indicate that smoked cannabis reduces neuropathic pain, improves appetite and caloric intake especially in patients with reduced muscle mass, and may relieve spasticity and pain in patients with multiple sclerosis.”

Well at least they are taking a step in the right direction; I mean half of the prescription drugs Doctors prescribe patients nowadays are full of harmful side effects and can even lead to death. While with a natural medicine like Marijuana there are hardly any harmful side effects and the patient still benefits.

[via Opposing Views]

However they also can serve another purpose, the main way I make use of my flash drive: a computer repair and diagnostic toolbox. For instance on my flash drive I have a variety of small freeware programs that I can use to clean registry’s, run virus scans, defrag hard drives, recover lost files and more. In my field (computer repair) my flash drive is one of my most used tools when I am working to fix someones computer. So, how can do you put together a USB drive like mine? It’s actually quite easy thanks to a little website called App-Stick, which has over a hundred useful programs that are mostly freeware and that are small enough to be portable (aka fit on a flash drive).

In my case (as I said above) I use one of my flash drives just for computer repair thus I have essential programs on it to accomplish that task, but what do you want your “flash drive toolbox” to contain? For instance you can trick out your USB drive with an assortment of useful multimedia programs such as the Audio Tagging App, and more. The possibilities are endless for what kind of custom application filled drive you want to create.

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I am currently in the process of redesigning my portfolio site and when it is complete it will display a lot more of my artwork that I haven’t put on the internet as of yet, including the above wallpaper and the rest in it’s series.