Snail Mail

Today I received mail from 2 of the 15 US cabinent departments. From the Department of Transportation an FAA newsletter. I've been getting airman spam ever since getting the FAA class III medical that NASA required. From the Department of Health and Human Services a CDC notice of being selected for a random survey. It came in four languages: English, Spanish, romanized Vietnamese and what looks like Sanskrit.

Random Houston Pics

I finally got the Houston images into Erato, and Erato modified to export them as I wanted. If you want to poke through all of them, look at http://www.cyphertext.net/images/Erato/Groups/trips/houston-2003/. Most of them aren't very interesting, of course, so here are some highlights.

Our poor hotel room:
Big foam mess
The center of the universe
Why yes, that is a vise. Why do you ask?
Dremel tool, aluminum chips and dust on the floor of the designated loud noise area: Dymaxion's and my bedroom

Networking:
Testing wireless reception in the bathroom
Our LAN
The antenna we hid in the business center to get broadband in our room

Super Guppy:
The entire crazy plane
I am the evil Dr. Brain! And a plane! I am an evil genius plane!
Dymaxion lost in the cargo section

One of two remaining B-57s, the other was out flying that day

Mission control:
Dude! We're wandering around mission control!
An obnoxiously meta pictures of one of the NASA TV cameras in the STS MCC

Saturn Park:
Rocket farm, poor fallen giant rusting away
Irony I just couldn't resist
Combustion chamber on one of five giant F-1 engines, with injection port and combustion instability fighting baffles visible
A cute little Mercury-Redstone

Random:
The fine art of natural cosmetic surgery
Best Western NASA
Vacuum fries!