Monday, August 31, 2020

DJI Drone Factory

 A rare peek inside a DJI factory

Like most manufacturing, there is a testing/quality control process at the end... for the drones, this means literally flying off the assembly line!

Via DC Rainmaker

Monday, August 24, 2020

Cobra Kai on Netflix #cobrakai #hashbrown

I watched the first two seasons on YouTube, but they will be on Netflix starting August 28. Excited to watch Season 3 in 2021.

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Thursday, August 13, 2020

Unsubscribe

When I unsubscribe from an e-mail list and I get a message like this:

"You have successfully unsubscribed from our mailing list. We are sorry to see you go. We will process your request in the next 10 days."

I always go back to Gmail and flag the message as spam. Ten days! Bogus.

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Space Force

Speaking of space, Space Force talked about their logo and lots of folks thought it looked like they ripped off the Star Trek imagery.

But...
(I know this old news, but I'm just catching up.) 

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Summit Fighting COVID

The fastest supercomputer in the US is being used to fight COVID. Summit is in my backyard at the Oak Ridge National Lab. I was surprised by all the haters in the comments. I would think folks would want every resource possible working on a way to get us out of the pandemic. 

Monday, August 3, 2020

Star Wars Titles

Sunday, August 2, 2020

Space

The last couple of weeks have been "Space" themed. We've watched The Martian, Apollo 13, and Armageddon. (Amazing how many flights require a space craft to do a slingshot maneuver.)

Also, we watch the International Space Station go overhead one night. It was amazing how bright it is. We streamed the Dragon departure from the ISS yesterday and hope to catch splashdown today.

And there was this:

Wednesday, July 29, 2020