February 26, 2008 – 8:48 pm
Thanks is due to Mr. W for the speedy news.
We have sadly been informed that our very good friends the Es’ house burned down this past Sunday (Feb 24). They are safe; from some research via local papers, I have gathered that they sold their home (a bed and breakfast) and moved into the new residence 3 days before the fire, so this is really sudden. Cause of the fire is currently being attributed to a malfunctioning water heater. The articles state that the residence was owned by Mrs. E’s sister (a family-owned rental property which they were staying in after their move). Their dog, Molly, perished in the fire. She is pictured above. As far as I know, the only things they have are the clothes on their backs and one charred photo saved from the inferno. Please help us lift them up in prayer. Molly is the dog shown in the photo.
February 25, 2008 – 11:00 pm
Interesting scoop here. Apparently, Actor Warwick Davis, who plays Nikabrik in the upcoming Prince Caspian film was the same chap who portrayed characters Reepicheep and Glimfeather in the BBC TV productions of Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989) (TV) and The Silver Chair (1990) (TV). Let us hope for the upcoming films’ sake that none of the cheap production value and poor acting exhibited there rub off on what fox family hopes will be another family-friendly box office success, but the writing is on the wall when you hire the same actors from a horrible production, yet somehow expect a totally different outcome. I’ll give him a chance though, maybe he has improved since those films. I’ll let you decide for yourself. Watch the first ten minutes of The Silver Chair from BBC here, straight from 1990. Who knows, you might like it better than the upcoming feature film depending on what your tastes are. In the meantime, I am laughing at the stuffed Aslan character.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q36-Tii-hXk
~Brian~
February 25, 2008 – 6:21 pm
“NASA has selected a proposal by an MIT-led team to develop plans for an array of radio telescopes on the far side of the moon that would probe the earliest formation of the basic structures of the universe. The agency announced the selection and 18 others related to future observatories on Friday, Feb.15.”
Nasa is researching the basic structures of the universe? I thought we were going to Mars by 2011? No need for moon telescopes for that. Oh, right… maybe this is why the Mars Scout mission was just put aside for 2013, after President Bush told the nation several times that 2011 would see the return of Americans to otherworldy soil.
And here is another bit of information that hasn’t been getting it’s due exposure… The new Mars lander will arrive to the red planet on May 25. We have two rovers there already, both of which will be celebrating four years of discovery soon… Not bad at all, considering they were supposed to last 90 days. I guess all our tax dollars went into massively over-engineering them against every danger, but seriously, i’m not sure I would trust whomever made those estimates with any important calculations in the future. All that aside, this lander is a bit different. Nasa isn’t controlling this one, because this is a project of the University of Arizona… interesting. I’d like to see less government funding and more private research go into the space program. Maybe our deficits would be less severe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_%28spacecraft%29
http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/
~Brian~
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