…that slot is taken:
Tip o’ the hat to Commander Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadlfield) aboard the International Space Station.
How ’bout this being a “why can’t we all get along” open thread, OK?
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…that slot is taken:
Tip o’ the hat to Commander Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadlfield) aboard the International Space Station.
How ’bout this being a “why can’t we all get along” open thread, OK?
Comments are closed.
Herbal Infusion Bagger
Ashes to ashes….
Just Some Fuckhead
There you are, Tom. Thank God. I was just about to send out an alert.
Yatsuno
RedKitteh just posted that. I still wanna know how he smuggled a guitar up there. The cargo weight restrictions are pretty stern.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Yatsuno: Maybe the Ruskies are a little more lax.
Yatsuno
@BillinGlendaleCA: Bribeable. Also. Too.
@Comrade Mary: Nifty! And replacement strings aren’t very heavy at all.
Comrade Mary
I love this video so, so much.
@Yatsuno: The guitar wasn’t smuggled. (Warning: video will auto-play when page is launched.)
Guitar: $1800 (this includes the official spare left on earth)
Shipping: $100,000
Video: priceless
Also note how relatively thin and lined Hadfield’s face looks like on earth versus space. A zero G environment tends to puff out the face.
ulee
Ground control to General Stuck, your circuits dead, there’s something fucked. Can you hear us General Stuck?
Mnemosyne
Screw you.
(I’m only surprised that I’m first.)
ETA: Softened my obscenity ’cause I’m a chicken.
NotMax
Ultimate challenge would be attempting playing the glass harmonica in space.
Tom Levenson
@Just Some Fuckhead: What’s to worry? I’ve been around and about more than usual lately.
But thanks for the thought.
MattR
@Yatsuno: Let Cmdr Hadfield answer that.
(EDIT: This video of his watch floating around his wrist is pretty cool)
Just Some Fuckhead
@Tom Levenson: Don’t be obtuse, Tom. People are vanishing. Steeplejack went looking for Atuck last night and he disappeared too.
Comrade Mary
I’m got some soothing bedtime reading for you right here, Fuckhead.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Just Some Fuckhead: You just keep looking for Corner Stone.
Corner Stone
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Good God. Did Annie get Steep too? You know that blitheringly idiotic GBCW posted by AWS was a cover by Annie. She got him to help her hide Stuck’s body and then stuck a fucking scalpel in his jugular while he was patting the earth down.
I don’t think she can be stopped.
ruemara
I had no idea caring about another person you’ve interacted with was so mockable. I had no idea that basic compassionate response is worthy of derision, for days. Way to go.
Corner Stone
@BillinGlendaleCA: Oh, hai!
Your concern for me is touching. And not in the good way. The catholic priest kind of way, actually.
Corner Stone
Man, this New Era of Civility is hard. It’s just fucking hard, man.
Suffern ACE
I guess we can all get along. But can we come to enough of an agreement long enough to order pizza without punting and ordering by the slice?
raven
Hey Tom, thank for the tip last night. I woke up at 4:30, it was raining like hell, I was right next to the airport so I burned my FF miles and came home.
Steeplejack
@Just Some Fuckhead:
How synchronistic.
* General Stuck Update *
Today I called the phone number in New Mexico that might be General Stuck’s that I got from eemom. I received a message saying that the number is “no longer in service.”
There were some other “possibly associated” numbers given at the Web site where eemom did her research. I called those three numbers, but all are “unallocated” or just “not a valid number.”
So that’s where things stand. I don’t know if there’s anything else that can be done. Anyway, it feels right to have made this small effort. The Balloon Juice community is unique, in my experience on the Internet, and it always felt wrong to me to just let Stuck’s disappearance go unremarked. It never felt like a simple “I’m tired of this blog” thing, and it still doesn’t. I hope he’s okay, wherever he is.
Let me wrap this up with one of his last quips: “Dining with clowns is easy, managing the circus is hard.”
Steeplejack
@Yatsuno:
Classical guitars are light.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack:
Steeplejack
Going through my Balloon Juice notes and links file, I found this other Stuckian gem.
General Stuck on getting older: “Cheer up, the good news is, while the body falls apart, the mind is set free, unless you get dementia, then it is really set free. So many things you thought were important or stuff you missed out on, all that shit fades away to, I exist, therefore I yam.”
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
This shtick is played out, even for you.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack: Which one? I have so many.
Oh, and hey? I’m not the pathetic fuck trying to call someone I’ve never even met on the internets by third party snoopvestigation results.
As far as I can tell, he didn’t ask you to contact him upon his absence, nor is there a god damned thing you could do to help him if he was unable to help himself.
It just sounds incredibly fucking misguided and overly weird to me.
Dude’s either done here, like matoko chan, or he’s figuratively/literally dead etc.
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
No, just one: middle-school rebelliousness.
SatanicPanic
Jeez what the hell is happening at this blog? I’ve got enough drama in real life. FWIW I hope Stuck is doing OK and I don’t see anything wrong with trying to track him down if all the info is gathered from Google anyway. Anyone more malevolent than BJers is going to have more sophisticated methods than just the Google anyway.
cathyx
@Steeplejack: You’re acting like he’s dead. Maybe he’s just moving, or taking a break. It’s not time to mourn yet.
Corner Stone
Bunch of creepy ass stalkers. There’s a reason Cole deleted Soonergrunts post that one time about IP addresses, and now there’s a reason Annie’s post about Stuck’s real name disappeared.
In case people have forgotten it, Cole vowed to go to jail before ever divulging someone’s private info.
Of course he blew through that with the artist who did his Greatful Dead work, but hey, it was the thought that counts, right?
Higgs Boson's Mate
Back to the video, my wife and I both found it very moving.
Thanks to whoever originally posted it.
beltane
Checking in after a day of receiving Mother’s Day tributes. I’ve got to say I really like the way the blog looks. Did something happen over the past 24 hours to make Cole and a lot of other people pissy?
RobertDSC-iMac G5
Dialing in a new/old iMac to replace the one that went kablooey when I fried the old machine with a FireWire drive.
cathyx
@beltane: Are you new here? What do you think?
Just Some Fuckhead
I’d like to request not to be found in the event I disappear.
Redshirt
It’s gotta be bittersweet, those last hours in space after so many months. Sure, you’re eager to get back, but, space! You may never get back.
trollhattan
Lurve the vid, well done sirs, well done.
Back on planet, WTF New Orleans, WTF?
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2013/05/mothers_day_second-line_shooti.html
beltane
@cathyx: The last post I read here yesterday had Cole feeling guilty about his impatience with some woman at the grocery store checkout. Now he is insulting everyone’s mother. Could he be going through menopause?
eemom
@Corner Stone:
Don’t worry, asshole. Ain’t none of us gonna be “stalking” you, should we ever have the good fortune to see you disappear.
Corner Stone
@Just Some Fuckhead: No such luck, amigo. I’ve already assigned teams consisting of variously talented/pathetically disheveled internet Palumbos and/or Poirots to come after your ass.
You should warn the missus now. There will be phone calls.
cathyx
@beltane: Yes, and couple that with a site change that many complained about, and you’ll get the picture.
Corner Stone
@eemom: Well, I understand you’ll be too busy munching on the bones of dead Palestinian children and all. So thanks for nothing, and all that. But others may decide to make sure I’m actually dead, and provide me with a Thatcher Shower one last time.
gogol's wife
@Steeplejack:
Thank you so much for trying. I really miss him.
Corner Stone
@Corner Stone: She ate the bones! I think she ate the bones!
I ate the bones? I ate the bones!!
Heliopause
I saw something about the mass shooting in New Orleans and changed the channel to CNN, MSNBC, and even FOX News and they didn’t seem the slightest bit interested. Anybody have any further info, other than, multiple gunmen shot dozens of people and it’s no bigee on the news channels?
danielx
Recovering from attending my niece’s commencement at Purdue – her triumph and great day, but I’ve had root canals that were less excruciating. #1 pain on the menu: listening to Purdue University president Mitch Daniels blathering on about the portion of the deficit being inherited by this afternoon’s graduates.
That would be GEORGE W. BUSH’S FORMER BUDGET DIRECTOR MITCH DANIELS. You know, the guy doing the figures when we started with a $200 billion surplus and then put the deficit on the E train headed for fucking Mars. My mouth literally dropped open – I was hard put not to stand up in the second balcony and scream “you malicious little fuck, why aren’t you a shitpicker in Gas City?” That locale being the butt of any number of Indiana jokes (an Indiana girl’s dream – a double wide in Gas City). My 21 year old nephew told me he couldn’t understand how this “smarmy little fuck” got elected governor…twice. I told him it was the smarm that did it, that and sounding like an ordinary corporate Republican – which around here practically qualifies him as being the reincarnation of Saul Alinsky these days. He sounded relatively reasonable by comparison with Deacon Pence and some of the 2010 crop in the legislature…
Just Some Fuckhead
@Corner Stone: Please don’t hurt my family.
cathyx
@Heliopause: Yawn. Report back when something out of the ordinary happens.
Baud
@beltane:
You know who’s to blame, of course.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Heliopause:
Gunshots and screaming is the sound of freedom.
gnomedad
@danielx:
I’d have popped a blood vessel or two attempting to endure that. My sympathies.
MomSense
@Steeplejack:
Thank you, Steeplejack. I hope we hear from Stuck soon. I do miss him and used to see him on other sites–which is how I first discovered Balloon-Juice.
Corner Stone
@MomSense:
You stalked him from other sites back to here?
Corner Stone
@Just Some Fuckhead: I’m afraid it’s no longer up to me.
lojasmo
@Corner Stone:
You’re one to talk about stalking, little bitch.
Heliopause
5:30 PM on the left coast and ABC Evening News spent fifteen seconds on it. Whoever those people are I guess their lives and security don’t mean much.
SiubhanDuinne
Big fan here of Commander Chris Hadfield. I’ve followed him on Facebook since the start of this mission. He has taken, and posted, scores if not hundreds of gorgeous, amazing, detailed photos of various places on Earth, taken from the ISS– cities at night, the entire British Isles in one shot, rivers in South America, glaciers melting away inside the Arctic Circle, the Greek islands, Asian and African deserts — it’s a stunning collection, and his commentary is often very moving, even poetic. For that reason alone, I’m truly sorry to see his command come to an end.
Calming Influence
@Just Some Fuckhead:
As for me, if I don’t comment here for three days (in a row, JSF), I’d really like it if you all sleuthed out my name and address and informed my local police that I was barricaded in my house with enough armament for WWIII.
Corner Stone
@lojasmo: Oh God, no. I’m sorry if I’ve angered you in any way. Please don’t hunt me down and kill me and my family like you’ve threatened your coworkers with before.
Don’t “go postal” on me, please!
*Sobs!!*
cathyx
@Heliopause: They’re probably blah people.
Maude
@SiubhanDuinne:
He’s looking forward to coming home. The next crew will take pics.
Dead Ernest
@Yatsuno: doesn’t really look like it weighed anything.
;-)
Tehanu
I signed up for the NASA “Spot the Station” e-mails so I can see the ISS when it passes overhead every so often (dawn & dusk are when it is visible). I swear, even though it’s just a moving spot of light, I feel like a character in a good Heinlein novel every time I see it, and grateful that in a world full of awful things that we humans can still also do great things.
lojasmo
@Corner Stone:
irony, thy nane is cornerstone3
Wag
I heard hints of the Fripp/Gabriel version of Here Comes the Flood in the piano intro to this cover. Excellent link
daveNYC
@NotMax: All you need to do is design containers that are shaped like the outer edge of a donut, build out the glass around the circumfrence of the circle, attach something to get the thing spinning around the axis and let the centrifugal force keep the water in place. Just need to put two spinner moters on there going in opposite directions so that you don’t end up with the whole damn mess starting to rotate.
Hobbes
I figured he just carved the guitar out of a Javanese camphor wood box. (Thanks for the link @Comrade Mary)
Ugh.
Did J.J. Abrams direct that video? “Nice flair!”