Penny Hero (dot) Net » friends http://www.pennyhero.net Thrilling heroics at an affordable price. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:08:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 new apartment! new bsg! renewed domain name! http://www.pennyhero.net/2008/03/23/new-apartment-new-bsg-renewed-domain-name/ http://www.pennyhero.net/2008/03/23/new-apartment-new-bsg-renewed-domain-name/#comments Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:54:31 +0000 emily http://www.pennyhero.net/2008/03/23/new-apartment-new-bsg-renewed-domain-name/ Edit: comments are fixed now! stupid wp-comments-post.php had the wrong permissions again!

About a month ago, my domain expired. I did not know this… because I am a web slacker extraordinare and never bothered to check if my blog was still accessible or not… in fact, I only noticed it when I tried to ssh into my server and download the flac copy of Tundra 4 by Squarepusher I stashed there months ago so I could listen to it at work… and discovered that my domain was dead.

:( I’m sorry dear blog readers (yes I’m talking to both of you.)

Anyway… some IM Fu later with my domain name registrar super hero (also my previous roomie) had my domain name up and running again. I now appreciate you, dear blog and dear blog readers (yes, both of you again) even more now, so I decided to write a blog post.

*clears throat loudly*

In the news:

I’ve moved into a new apartment as of today. I’m very happy about this. :) Extremely!!! happy about this. :) It’s a 1 bedroom place, with a full kitchen and a freaking washer and drier!! Friends came over to help me move, which was awesome and amazing. new and old friends (Thank you Polvi!!) Then the whole mess of us went and hijacked another friend’s TV to watch season 3 of BSG, which I bought the day it came out, and have been dying to share it with people before season 4 starts.

So that’s the news.

In Other News: PranQster is the best beer on the planet. srsly.

]]> http://www.pennyhero.net/2008/03/23/new-apartment-new-bsg-renewed-domain-name/feed/ 7 Space walking for change http://www.pennyhero.net/2006/12/01/space-walking-for-change/ http://www.pennyhero.net/2006/12/01/space-walking-for-change/#comments Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:57:53 +0000 emily http://www.pennyhero.net/2006/12/01/space-walking-for-change/ So… I used to live with Cody Sheehy, who runs Autonomy Productions and makes amazing documentaries and other creative video things (on top of being in grad school studying rangeland sciences! heh.)

He made a documentary about my/our other roomie Marci a while back and her nuclear reactor design that could take people to Mars. (linky to the teaser page)

Anyway, he recently got contracted to do some video clips to be shown at the 2006 2nd Space Exploration Conference and he just finished them.

Watch them here.

They’re only a few minutes long each and they’re really powerful and insightful. It’s a dude (named Chad) in a space suit interviewing real people on campus and in Portland (I assume) about their knowledge, interests, and perspective on NASA, space exploration, and where we’re at.

So, I’m a little sensitive of course, so duh I started crying a bit at the end, but really the tone and style of the project is very light-hearted and fun, but the impact of the whole film is amazingly powerful, especially if you were ever inspired by the idea of exploring space as a kid (or now).

WATCH THEM. I have to admit that I only knew a few of the questions they asked people, so it made me realize a lot about my own knowledge of where we are and what my priorities are too.

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