currently suffering from something pulled or slipped or dislocated in my spinal area, roughly in the lumbar, such that I can lay flat (or close to it) with little difficulty, other positions and motions become difficult *
[ * the dull ache with occasional twinge instantly converts into thought-shredding shocks ]
I can type, by bringing the laptop into bed with me, but the amount of typing needed for say, 3500 lines of data entry are a bit beyond my physical limits. Not only will last week’s chart be a smidge late (I’m thinking it will be a Thursday post, again) I will also have to stretch the definition as to when last week ended. Right now I think the chart may include data from wednesday, the day after tomorrow.
I guess I will just have to use this “down time” while I can’t really post to watch a few DVDs, and read manga. O, the hardships. ;)
….and that’s my limit: have to move now. hurts a tad too much
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Top banner photo credits, from right to left:
- Soviet concept art vintage 1967, ganked from Dark Roasted Blend
- Excerpt of a souvenir card from the 1929 round-the-world flight of the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin, ganked from Oldbeacon.com (via Metafilter)
- Goodyear Rocket Airship concept, posted in a 1958 Popular Mechanics article; ganked from online archives of the rec.aviation.military usenet group, found via GIS.
- Photo of the sculpture "Guard" by Hans van Bentem, located in Rotterdam, The Netherlands; ganked from Wikimedia Commons
- Soviet concept art from 1970, also ganked from Dark Roasted Blend
- Butt end of a R-7 Soyuz-class rocket booster of recent vintage, ganked from Michael Saxe at TravelBlog.
- Overlayed schematics, colour-inverted, of the Lippisch P-09 Rocket Plane, the Sänger-Bred Rocket Bomber, an unnamed heavy-tank-class mecha, and a second unnamed mecha in fighter-jet configuration (both anonymous to keep my ass from infringement -- and at that resolution & in combination I claim fair use as part of an artistic and satirical collage)
- Excerpt of "Dr. J.W. Mauchly makes an adjustment to ENIAC, the massive computer he designed to assist the U.S. military during World War II," ganked from Science Clarified
-- Logo art is original, credit M. Blind; logo created and photos composited in the Gimp 2.2
