O'Rourke

ReserveAmerica.com for Texas state parks. Recreation.gov for National Parks and Army Core of Engineers Parks (who know they owned campgrounds?).

Went tent camping at Rocky Creek, in Summerville, TX. Stayed home Friday because a big thunderstorm was going through the area, with tornado watches in effect. Allison got to go to Natty Ware's birthday party at Summer's Swim academy, so all was not lost. Left early Sat morning and got there by about 10 or 10:30. Our original site (#125) was not only right on the water, but almost in the water. Wind was coming off the water at about 20kts. Changed to #134 back by the woods.

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Even though I still don't have a High Def TV. And there's none on the horizon for me :(

If I only had $800, I could get a high def Tivo, if I had a high def TV

 

Yesterday's SRB video reminded me of some cool video from the STS-114 Return to flight mission. This is probably what you'll see if private spaceflight tours "take off" Left SRB Right SRB

A composite shot of 4 cameras mounted on the Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB) can be found here Unfortunately, it requires Quicktime

Here's what I work on while uploading ~512MB of pictures from my flash card:

Aquaman (3MB - slower connections)

Aquaman (11MB - high speed connection)

UPDATE: fixed the links. Sorry. UPDATE: fixed the hires link.