Some days I feel so hopeless. Like the world is, as one acquaintance put it, “an evil garbage vampire.” Other days I have a glimmer of hope. Yesterday was a good day. My good friends Adam and Carolyn, who have been together forever and ever, eloped while on vacation in Chicago! Super cool. So I quickly whipped up a photo set of goofy pics I’ve taken of them over the years.
Five more good things:
- The Sahara Forest Project is amazing. “This pilot Project could show how we can grow vegetables with less water or brackish water. I think this will not be important only to Qatar, but to the whole region and elsewhere where they have the same climate as Qatar. So, I have a lot of hope.” Just look at the photos.
- Celebrating Sally Ride - 30 years ago yesterday (June 18, 1983) she became the first American woman in space as a crew member on Space Shuttle Challenger for STS-7
- Thanks to the design of its legs, which faithfully mimic feline morphology, EPFL’s four-legged “cheetah-cub robot†shares the advantages of its biological model: it is small, light and runs very fast. In the long term, this type of machine, which is still in an experimental stage, could be used in search and rescue missions or for exploration.
- This is a good/bad thing. “What a beautiful dump! Beach that used to be trash tip is now covered in glass after spectacular transformation by waves”
- Lion and puppy caught ‘kissing’ on camera – video. The lion’s tongue is bigger than that little dog’s head!
The boyfriend and I are still dealing with our lingering colds, though we’ve let them know they are free to go at any time. Please. I’ve been coping by working from home a lot and listening to too much shoe-gaze. I’m really enjoying Mexico’s Lorelle Meets the Obsolete. It just so happens they will be playing here in a few weeks, for Bathysphere: A Psychonautical Voyage two day fest at First Avenue. Like that weekend wasn’t busy enough, with CONvergence. But we’ll manage, somehow. And before then…tonight’s the night! Trash Film Debauchery’s Theresa Kay Defends the Indefensible at the Trylon Theater. I can’t wait to see what her movie pick will be!
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