SpaceX is Awesome!

Congratulations to Space X!   Thanks to Wired for this writeup:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/spacexs-historic-rendezvous-with-the-space-station/

Seems to me there is a reasonable probability we won't see NASA leading manned missions to Mars, but I bet we get people there anyway, and sooner than I've feared.  Thanks to the private sector.   As it probably should be, for now at least.  In my opinion.   NASA has an extremely important and significant role to play, though, in infrastructure, funding, and related path clearing activities.  Propellant depots anyone?  Communication links..?

Not a bad view...

Not a bad view....

beautiful day in neighborhood

The new neighborhood.

Kerouac on writing, per BrainPicker

I was a Kerouac fan from early on, and growing up not that far from Lowell added to my enthusiasm.  But I never found this before, thanks much to Maria Popova @brainpicker.  Its about writing, but its about a lot more than that, seems to me.

See: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/03/22/jack-kerouac-belief-and-technique-for-modern-prose/