I am still enjoying being on Twitter and it's a nice distraction from work, which this week is fairly intense.
My favourite tweet for a while came through today from Astro_Mike, who until a couple of days ago was up in space on the Space Shuttle. His tweets from space were fascinating enough, with regular updates about how the earth looked, and news of storms and shooting stars, as well as the slightly unsettling revelation that he was looking at the majesty of creation whilst listening to Sting. There really should be a NASA play list allowing only suitably brilliant and heavenly music to be played in orbit. Or maybe they should only be allowed to listen to the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey, for 24 hours a day.
Astro_Mike is now back to being plain Earth_Mike, but his most interesting tweet for me came today, with his feet firmly on the ground. Here it is:
"Getting re-adjusted to gravity, let go of a small bag of groceries and must have expected it to float, luckily no damage".
How brilliant is that? Even trained astronauts, capable of walking in space and operating complicated starships make the same kind of mistakes as we all do when readjusting from one environment to the next. I love it.
Admittedly most of Twitter isn't quite so interesting, with people letting you know what they're having for dinner or other such mundanity, but in a sense that just helps the exceptional stuff to stand out.
In other time out from rewriting the book (I've got about half way through so far, but the second half does need a lot more work), I enjoyed
this nicely judged skit from the Onion. It's good to see internet comedy making such great strides and having such high production values. TV is really going to have to buck its ideas up if it is going to keep pace with this new medium. As fans of our comparatively primitive podcast will know there are few limits here on the internet, and no executives telling us what can and can't be put up.
Right back to work.
