Friday, November 21, 2014

Finally Friday

TOWERING: The dinos were in construction mode last night, building a colorful Jenga tower. The little guys hid in voids, while the big boys helped steady the structure.

PROGRAMMING:  CJ managed to talk me into helping fund a new download for his Nintendo 3DS today, a program called Petit Computer. It allows DS users to make computer games for their DS using the BASIC programming language. It also allows him to play programs others have made using Petit Computer. 

My hope is that it's more than a passing fancy for him, and the CJ actually uses the program to do some of his own programming. There are a number of tutorials on YouTube to help him get started. 

FRENZIED:  We made the mistake of going to Winco today, thinking it would be a good day to do our pre-Thanksgiving shopping. Turns out, seemingly everyone thought today would be a good day to go to Winco. It was a madhouse. It felt like we were in there three days, and when we were finally ready to check out, of COURSE I chose the lane where the poor cashier had apparently never operated a register before. Good times. 

ON DECK:  Today, the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft was rolled out to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan via train. 
Image Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani

Launch is scheduled for 1:01 p.m. Pac Coast time on Sunday, Nov. 23.  NASA TV will begin live coverage of launch activities begins at noon that day. 

On board the Soyuz will be Expedition 42 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA, and Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency 


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