Turns out for $9.1 million USD you can launch 1.1 tons of whatever-the-hell-you-want into Low Earth Orbit.

Although that may piss off the people at NASA’s Orbital Debris Program. But what do they know, they just want to prevent useless junk from hitting the international space station at amazing speeds.

On an unrelated note, I have been getting email notifications when NASA publishes another ‘Orbital Debris Quarterly.’ I have no idea why I signed up for such an email alert, perhaps so I could pass along to you the wonder that is the Orbital Debris Quarterly Newsletter

I ordered this Samsung 50″ 1080p Plasma (model PN50A550) a few months ago after saving up for quite some time. Cost me like $2k and I thought “this is going to be awesome! I always wanted this!”

And it is.

Until part of the screen turned pink

3 service calls and a replaced panel later, no change. The same part of the screen is still pink.

I created a post about it on AVSForum and it turns out I am not the only one to have this problem.

The tint makes watching Citizen Kane unacceptable… Black & White needs to be Black and White… Not Black, White and Pink.

DAMN YOU!

I keep watching the Sarah Palin coverage and I have to admit the shitshow is becoming is more and more entertaining as the days go by.

And I have come to one conclusion: I really want to go to Alaska

I mean, Alaska. Where you can shoot guns (hell yeah!) and eat moose (less hell yeah, unless you can kill em with big guns, then hell yeah!)

The weather sucks, and it costs a bit to go there, but where else can you go where the governor of a state with one of the highest incidences of race and incest wanting to charge women who are raped for the rape kits. A governor who is running for vice president and will have Air Force Two on constant alert to go back to Alaska in the event of the rapture.

I don’t know, but I know Alaska is that state. And Palin is that governor.