Apparently this week marks the 40th anniversary of the photo Earthrise taken by the Apollo 8 astronauts orbiting the Moon. 

Usually when I read something about space I get an incredible feeling of awe. When I try to understand just how big the known universe really is (~14 billion light years) my head gets fuzzy and I feel a bit sick. So everytime I go and look for things on the internet to make me understand our place in the universe a bit better. Today I watched Galaxy Song by Monty Python

Lyrics:

Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That’s orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it’s reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the ‘Milky Way’.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It’s a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it’s just three thousand light years wide.
We’re thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go ’round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that’s the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space,
‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth. 

Finally I would like to leave you with some sage-like advice from the late Kurt Vonnegut Jr: I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different

Goodnight

Today Valve has released another post on the official Team Fortress 2 blog.   This post doesn’t provide any new information on the new class update, but some good insight into the respawn waves.

Respawn waves occur on regular intervals, based on the map settings. Most of our maps use a 10 second respawn wave time. That 10 seconds is then modified by the map state, generally reduced for the team that controls the most capture points. Each team’s respawn wave time is then scaled down if the team has less than 8 players in it, to a minimum of 5 seconds if team has 3 or less players in it. When you die, you are assigned to the respawn wave after the next one. So if the respawn wave time is currently 10 seconds for your team, you’ll respawn somewhere between 10 and 20 seconds from your death. Your individual performance doesn’t affect your respawn time in any way.

As I mentioned no new news about what class is getting an upgrade next or any other new content.  They did give a mention to the official Left 4 Dead blog though.  We are just over a month from the release of that game (Nov 20th) and I can’t begin to describe how excited I am to finally play that game.  In fact the entire house is ready for that game, we are all chumping at the bit for information, a demo and finally the game.

Hey I have a website still, and even a blog!! Woooo

Not a lot of updates lately.  I haven’t found the urge to write.  A lot has happened since I last posted.

• Got a promotion
• Moved back to NH
• Drove to South Carolina in on day
• Red Sox made the playoffs
• I bought an iPhone 3G
• Held NorEaster lan
• Went to Showdown lan
• Almost bought a house

So maybe I will update a bit more.  Just need reminders, and the will to write.

Who would have thought that I would miss New England so much? I think this is the first time in my life that I am homesick. Not to the point that I am not having a good time here-the work is still good and the people here are still all cool- there are just things in New England that I miss. Being able to watch the Red Sox on tv everyday, going to Sea Dogs games and being able to see friends. Also, I didn’t pack very well when I came down here, I really only packed for a week.

I like it here, I like the lifestyle and I like the work. But I feel that something is missing. I am going to enjoy my last month here, but I am also looking ahead to spending a month or so in New England seeing people and doing some hiking.

I realized last night that working the peninsula is therapeutic. Riding a 6 mile stretch of beach, rocking out to music on my Zune, and no one around. Finding a turtle is an excellent break in the monotony of riding the quad.

I saw my first green turtle last night. Very different than the boring old loggerhead. First their carapace is considerably bigger than the loggerhead while their head is tiny. The first thing that came to mind when seeing the mini head was the goombas from the Super Mario Brothers movie.

So I am living here for the summer, working with the University of Florida. Interning really. So far my job consists of riding an ATV on the beach for 5 hours a night, under beautifully clear skies looking for turtle crawls. The season has been slow so far, I have spent most nights sitting in the back of the old blue S10, or laying across the quad staring at the stars and getting to know the milky-way. The bugs can get bad, they bother me most when I get one in the eye as I’m driving down the beach. Even still they do not disrupt the beauty of Cape San Blas.
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Hello again. I feel like I have been neglecting this blog-o-mine. I started another a while ago, just dealing with how I want to lose weight. I have been avoiding that one as well, so don’t feel bad.

Since the last time we talked I have finished my course-work at Colby-Sawyer College and I am currently at my internship in Port Saint Joe, Florida. It’s late/early so I wont go into it now. But soon, perhaps tomorrow.

After tomorrow I will maybe talk about some other stuff going on. Perhaps I’ll be reflective.

Rob, out

I went and saw Iron Man tonight.  It could be the best super hero movie ever, and it is in the top 3 in my personal list, maybe #1!   If you go see a movie in the next few weeks, go see this, or maybe Forgetting Sarah Marshall, that was good too.

Seriously go see this movie, it is a great movie.

5 out of 5

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