Nasa rover failure attributed to software problem.

It would have been so easy to prevent.

I got a 26, I think. 20-something. 24 or 26.
Something like that. Their evaluation was all like, sure, maybe you could join Mensa if you dress nice and don’t let food go bad in the fridge and buy Mensa flowers once a week.

To make it worse, while wandering around in the miserable damp cold yesterday you had to put up with the latest v2.01 beggars, the guys kneeling down on the cold ground looking down (hands usually held out in prayer or supplication) and v2.02 the man or woman in that position with a small freezing child beside them and v2.03 the little boy in a wheelchair with one bare foot and pantleg rolled up to knee, as if he were crippled.

When a bundled-up regular beggar finally accosted me (“Any spare change?”) I was so happy to see him I gave him whatever coins were in my pocket and wished him all the best.

create your own visited country map.

[Via Nod and Smile]

Alpha and I went to see Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation yesterday evening.
It was very good.
You should go see it if you haven’t already.
If you have, then you know what I’m talking about.
It was very cold in Vienna yesterday.
Alpha had some power lunch beforehand and I wandered around the city since I had the day off. I met Beta at lunch and made the inane post below from the coffeeshop on Kr

Got the day off for Chinese newyear. hAPPY YEar o fthe monkey. (dang keyboard.) Met Beta on her lunch break, getting something to eat at the coffee shop on Kr

Nothing like driving on icy streets at night, is there.