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# Sunday, January 31, 2010

So I used to religiously backup my data...well, at least up until the last major hardware failure I had back in '06, at which point I discovered that it didn't really matter because the "important" data that I was backing up wasn't enough to fully recover. So I just switched to buying reliable equipment, which has worked out much better. Unfortunately it means that in 10 years I wont be able to come back and spend a week distracting myself by popping CD's in & out, reminiscing...

ANYWAY, while digging through those backups (& slating them for destruction), I came across a bunch of photos from high school Spring Break (2001), when my family went down to Clearwater, Florida for the week. So here's the album (sorry for the low resolutions!):

Heh…okay, so I was already a geek back then, and only took pictures of the day we spent at Kennedy Space Center, and didn't take any of the beach...or Busch Gardens...or...well, Florida itself...

Now playing: Julie Fader – Outside In – 08 Goodbye Before Hello

Sunday, January 31, 2010 21:26:07 UTC  #    Comments [2] -
Pictures
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 02:52:15 UTC
I was trying to figure out what this picture was of. I was thinking maybe it was a J-2 or even an F-1 from the apollo program, but looking up pictures of those clearly showed it wasn't. It is in fact a Space Shuttle Main Engine, as a search of wikipedia turned up what is apparently a picture of the very same engine in the same public display.

The wikipedia article also has this very interesting text:


NASA recently put the main engines from three shuttles, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, up for sale, when they put the shuttles themselves up for sale, for prices between $400,000 and $800,000, but there were no takers, so they decided to offer them for free to anybody with the ability transport them.


Jeffrey, I think it's time for us to rent a truck.
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 06:03:35 UTC
I'll call U-Haul in the morning... :)
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Jeffrey Stults is a software developer currently in Portland, Oregon. He is contactable at:
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