BON This and That

Two little features were added to BagOfNothing.com over the weekend.  The first is a Contact page which you can access through the tab above.  This is something I’ve always wanted to add but just never got around to it.

The other feature can be found on the sidebar, it’s my Twitter display.  For those of you unaware of Twitter, it’s a way to tell others what you are doing in 140 characters or less.  For the longest time I didn’t really like the idea of Twitter and thought it would be a pest to update, but for a while I’m going to give it a try.

On an unrelated note, WifeGeeding and I saw former Cowboy great Chad Hennings at the Scholtzsky’s in Flower Mound.  I wanted to tell him that my parents bought me his book in high school and I really enjoyed reading it, and often think of it’s lessons today (seriously); but he was getting lunch for a boy in a wheelchair who was wearing a Cowboys hat with lots of signatures on it.

Also, if anyone can convert a JPG to a JPE, please contact me via the Contact page.  Most converters I’ve found don’t work as advertised.

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Spork Talk

I just ate lunch with this spork, which I think is the fanciest spork I’ve ever seen.

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Man on the Moon, Future and Past

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As a side note, I’ve been watch a lot of stuff about NASA as of late.  The Discovery Channel had two great specials (all in beautiful HD!) and WifeGeeding and I just watched all 12 episodes of “From Earth to the Moon.”  Here are two items of interest:

The salary for an astronaut in the “moon program” was $20,000.  When I entered that figure in the Inflation Calculator using a date of 1972 that equates to $111,665 in 2008.  Today they earn between $65,140 and $100,701 per year.  Source

Eugene Cernan of Apollo 17 told his nine-year-old daughter that he was going to engrave her initials on the moon.  At the time, she didn’t think it was a big deal.

Before Cernan left the moon on the Apollo 17 mission he remembered his daughter in a special way. “I drove the Rover about a mile away from the LM and parked it carefully so the television camera could photograph our takeoff the next day. As I dismounted, I took a moment to kneel and with a single finger, scratched [my daughter] Tracy’s initials, ‘TDC,’ in the lunar dust, knowing those three letters would remain there undisturbed for more years than anyone could imagine.”  Link

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