I Think This Video Is On Point. All The Political Drama Dealing With Kids Is Parents Relinquishing Their

I finished Iron Flame yesterday. I'm happy Tumblr is here to support me.

Love to the mars rovers family!

Haven't seen anything about Ingenuity on tumblr yet, so I guess I'll make a post about it

Ingenuity (sometimes called Ginny) was an companion craft to Perseverance, one of the rovers currently on Mars. As opposed to any of the past rovers, however, Ingenuity was a rotorcraft intended to fly above Mars' surface.

After landing on Mars in February of 2021 and completing its first flight on April 19th, 2021, Ingenuity became the first aircraft to fly on another planet. Its original goal was only 5 flights, but it well surpassed that number, logging 72 flights with over two hours of in-air time.

On January 18th, 2024, Ingenuity lost contact with Perseverance midway through a flight, and a few days later, NASA had confirmation that the rotors were damaged, leaving Ingenuity incapable of flight.

So long, Ingenuity. You did so much <3

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MAGFest 2023. I've been going since 2013. It continuously ranks as one of my top conventions I've ever attended. As a parent, can't make the full weekend for now but even just one day is worth the experience. They take masking seriously. (I had no problem playing DDR with my kn95 on).

My favorite section is always the Indie games. Love seeing the ingenuity and hard work people put in to making an experience. Hair Nah made my list for making a real lesson fun. Learn boundaries! Until next year...

Went on vacation and hit up some book stores. Everyone in the family got something.

Physical books are the best. But I admit, I'm trying to move towards ebooks more. I just don't have enough shelf space for all the books we get.

I actually tried to sell some books to a used book store. Got some store credit, which was nice. But they didn't take all the books, lol. I had a copy of Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul. I guess it's old, outdated, or they had too many copies, so they wouldn't take it. I admit I never read it.

Using Libby for borrowing books from the library is awesome. I have a Nook Glowlight 4+, and I fell in love with it some more over vacation. The backlight feature is key for nighttime reading. That's when I can get most of my reading in.

Unfortunately I have to side load from my computer and use Adobe tools. But for regular non-DRM epubs, I can download on my phone, use a USB cable between phone and Nook and sideload easy peasy. My now favorite feature of Android.

"He made my speakers vibrate" -mm

Watch "Sailor Moon as an 80's Dark Fantasy Film" on YouTube

The aesthetic came out pretty good for AI generated. Every time I play with midjourney, I'm not getting stuff this realistic looking 😅

PizzaNet (Santa Cruz, 1994).

The first thing you could order online was pizza from a Pizza Hut branch in Santa Cruz.

The whole #barbenheimer thing is peak crap of the internet. It's just another oddball cringe trend that people got swept up in because it was weird but when you look back at it, probably be more embarrassing than a fond memory.

I watched the Oppenheimer film. I think it was well casted and the story peaked further interest in the real history of events. I heard people cried at the end of Barbie, but I felt like going through Oppenheimer felt way more emotional. Living through atrocities that people put each other through is maddening and frustrating. Especially if you are helpless against it. And I know people will argue history on how at the time of WW2, they were faced with few choices. But that is one message of the film, it's all about the choices people make and how they impact others.

I lived through 9/11 and I knew my choice was not to do any invasion in the Middle East. Knowing the history of those wars seemed pretty clear to me that the war on terror was not going to make any benefit for the community at home. We now have 20 years of history put into that fiasco. Will this be a lesson learned. No because people just want to pretend it didn't happen. We may not have had a bombing event of that scale again but lives still have been lost to war since.

I'll just give it some more time when media looks to monetize that history some more and see those memes make the rounds. Yikes.