April 12th, 2011 by Richard
by Richard Hard as it is to believe, today marks the 50th anniversary of manned spaceflight. It seems hardly any time at all and, simultaneously, like it happened so very long ago. Yeah, tonight is Yuri’s Night, celebrating the first time a human went into orbit (Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961) and the first [...]
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August 9th, 2009 by Richard
by Richard There’s bad luck. There’s really bad luck. And then there’s Zippy the Unlucky Monkey Boy luck. Zippy, gods help us all, is the second of my little dudes to be officially allowed on the road when he’s behind the wheel. He and I went to the DMV on Friday, me nervous (mostly because [...]
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