Another set of cufflinks – this time in the fictional language of circular Gallifreyan
My flurry of 3d printed cufflink creation continues – and again I’m posting the Doctor Who inspired ones (not the ones inspired by my work, because some include art that’s not public yet). These cufflinks have ‘circular Gallifreyan‘ on them – a non-official, fictional writing method inspired by Doctor Who.
Translation below.
The most envy-inducing holiday photo ever – Curiosity on Mars.
Oh happy day! On the 6th of August, 2012, the Curiosity rover made successful touchdown on the surface of Mars. I stayed up last night to watch the control room feed, streamed live into my living room via the power of the internet, and I was SO HAPPY for those excited men and women the moment they called out ‘touchdown’. I was almost in tears, just as they were.
More thoughts on this, and what it would have looked like if Curiosity had thrown a few Instagram-like effects on her snap, after the jump.
That, is the ISS robotic arm grappling the SpaceX Dragon module.
Just the best headline ever, and entirely accurate.
The SpaceX corporation’s Dragon module successfully berthed with the ISS today, first being grabbed by the robot arm and then drawn into position to dock. I was watching on NASA.gov’s NASA TV – and I’m convinced that SpaceX and NASA were conspiring to ensure that they had the most ridiculous, awesome, soundbites and quotes – things straight from the cover of an 80’s metal/rock band record sleeve.
Seitan (gluten) fried with onions
Again, I’m looking into sci-fi food – space food, cyberpunk food, weird food and unusual food. Last night’s obsession was seitan – wheat gluten from flour. Recipe and waffle below.
The microgravity-suited Phytocycle SD salad growing machine.
I’ll cut straight to the chase – the Hawaii Space Exploration Analogue & Simulation (or HI-SEAS) experiment intends to put 10 scientists and engineers in a space-style pod for 4 months, and see what recipes they create with limited (non-perishable) ingredients, to inform future Mars missions. That’s just cool.
Policebox Flying by the Window - Just Another Day in the Life of a Timelord
Pyramids!
Dinosaurs!!
Aliens!!!
Oh, and River Song (boooo!) – it can only be a new trailer for the upcoming second half of the Doctor Who season.
Slingers is a heist movie in space – the swinging 60’s on a space ship – with suits so sharp they’re holographic. If Firefly was the sci-fi version of the 1880’s American old West, then this is 80 years later when the martinis are dirty and the the chips are down. Maybe it’ll get made, maybe it won’t – but I could definitely do with some sexy-smooth sci-fi on my TV again.
(And I love the yellow space suit at 54 seconds in.)
How excited am I allowed to be about this, without getting sectioned? Ah, who cares. The video above shows the operation of a computer controlled bioreactor and integrated vending machine for spirulina – a form of blue-green algae and all round science celebrity!
On Tuesday the 12th of April, it will be Yuri’s Night all across the world – celebrating Yuri Gagarin going into space, 50 years ago.
Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!
Then, I hear that the Russians intend to build a moon base in the next 20 years, and from there a manned mission to Mars! More power to them, I say!
But better than all that, is a video of a cat with a dream. A cat with big ideas, and that won’t permit those daft dogs to get all the glory, the spectacle, or the adventure. No – this is a cat after my own heart!!
Suspended by string and bound with moss; kokedamas from Ponpom
Like an old storyteller spider, I’ll weave an idea in your mind, a dream round your heart, that you may be happily trapped thereafter. Imagine, first, a solar system writ in miniature life; a botanical orrery suspended from your ceiling with spheres of moss and other plants, bound tight in brilliant white cordage. This string garden of kokedamas (moss ball bonsai) rejects your puny attempts at gardening in two dimensions, and insists you think in three.
