people-places-and-things 7/27/03—10/11/24
11JUL20 - Saw this little place in an auction ad. Nice digs, huh?
18FEB21 - PRECISELY like MSL and Curiosity back in 2012! FRICKING AMAZING, JPL! Brought all the wonderful memories of the CalTech theater with tickets Todd got…
07MAR21 - Just finished listening to a History Guy "podcast" on the SR71 and XB70 aircraft. Most folks know about the Blackbird but few know about the Valkyrie.…
19SEP21 - Another powerful photo..circa 1998..the USS John F. Kennedy, CV-67, in New York Harbor at the southern tip of Manhattan Island with the Twin Towers in…
This is a similar shot of the One World Tower. Not sure of the date but relatively current.
A great shot spotted on the Web so I grabbed it. The USS Antietam alongside the USS Ronald Reagan.
The six month old Dane puppy's name is Harley and belonged to one of the drivers.
Harley and her Dad.
Apparently she's been riding in vehicles since she was tiny.
The first effort to contain the site and it was called the "sarcophagus." It was designed to last thirty years.
Finally, an awesome photo of Spacex's Super Heavy's THIRTY-THREE Raptor engines at full throttle that I ran across this morning. Those hot gasses give the 8.8…
Saw an aricle that you may have read as well about Hugh Hefner and one of his former "girlfriends". She is quoted throughout the article and had nothing but…

These were the seven "girlfriends" at the time and the woman in the article is above Hef's left shoulder.

Some life, right?

Seguin, Texas...the pecan capital of the world and this is THE largest pecan. :=)
Only in Texas! :-)
13FEB24 - While making a grocery run the other day, I saw these gulls huddled down in the parking lot. The reason for that was it was ultra windy that day. :=)
A troop ship on VJ Day in NY Harbor.
Same car, same guys, fifty years later. (smile)
Jen came into the office this morning to show me a FakeBook image she had seen previously but couldn't find. This is Joe Walsh and the early James Gang at JB's…
I decided to scroll through this page of photos and comments only to find a whole bunch of good ones. This is an immigrant family at Ellis Island in 1904. Can…