April 2021 – lite.zettabytes.org

Ingenuity Flight Updates – Second & Third Flights

27 April, 2021 rjohnson 0 Comments 1 category

Ingenuity has aced its second and third flight tests. Putting Ingenuity into the air(?) on Mars has been tricky but initial testing is coming back with glowing results as Ingenuity ramps up to faster, longer,

Downtown Portland Art and Rioters

21 April, 2021 rjohnson 0 Comments 1 category

I took a walk downtown last night for a nightly stroll without any sort of agenda. Well, yeah, there was an agenda. I’m getting fat and need some exercise. Downtown Portland right now is a

Finally, Ingenuity Flies! Success

20 April, 2021 rjohnson 0 Comments 1 category

I woke up this morning and as I tend to do and opened up the NASA missions page and selected the Perseverance link. I was immediately greeted with the helicopter Ingenuity’s positive test results. The

Bart Simpson and others

19 April, 2021 rjohnson 0 Comments 1 category

I took the picture above about a year, maybe a year and a half ago. It was a piece of sidewalk outside Lincoln High School in northwest Portland, Oregon. This was the high school, Matt

NASA News and Updates

18 April, 2021 rjohnson 0 Comments 1 category

Not going to go into the fiasco that is becoming the first controlled flight of a vehicle on another planet. The demonstration test has had a few setbacks and pushbacks as far as scheduling is

Toynbee tile found in Portland, OR and other Pictures

17 April, 2021 rjohnson 0 Comments 1 category

When I go on my daily walks around Portland, I find independent pieces of art on the sides of buildings and other places and if it moves or speaks to me or just looks cool,

NASA Updates – Ingenuity Flight Test Cancelled

16 April, 2021 rjohnson 0 Comments 1 category

The biggest piece of news this update is the continual long-running update from the previous two articles, namely, Ingenuity has once again blown through a test date due to technical difficulties. This time anomalous readings

Eve Online – MMORPG

15 April, 2021 rjohnson 0 Comments 1 category

I started playing Eve Online back in 2007. For the first few years, I just played against the NPC’s (non-player character) and learned the extremely complicated Eve Online interface. It is said that Eve Online just

Hiking Forest Park, Portland, Oregon

13 April, 2021 rjohnson 0 Comments 1 category

Today I decided to walk a couple of miles to a trailhead into Forest Park that can be reached by taking NW Thurman Street all the way to the end. I had been to the

3 x Horror Review – The Block Island Sound – Haunting of the Mary Celeste – The Retreat

10 April, 2021 rjohnson 0 Comments 1 category

The Block Island Sound – Spooky and fluid this was an amazing find on Netflix. Set mostly in overcast Northeastern climates this terrifyingly little tale weaves another tapestry of what contact might be like and

Month: April 2021