{"id":808,"date":"2008-05-26T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=808"},"modified":"2008-05-26T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T21:21:00","slug":"some-fun-stuff-from-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=808","title":{"rendered":"Some fun stuff from Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several fun things from yesterday, some of which is actually on-topic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We spent the afternoon at a NASA viewing event for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/phoenix\/main\/index.html\">Phoenix Mars Lander<\/a>.&nbsp; Having worked on the ill-fated <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov\/msp98\/\">Mars Polar Lander Mission<\/a>, the older sibling of Phoenix, it was great to see this lander come alive upon landing.&nbsp; Congratulations to the Phoenix team, especially my friends from MPL who now have a success.&nbsp; The Phoenix did rise from the ashes of the MPL.<br \/><center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.quickblogcast.com\/16461-15728\/phoenix_image1.jpg?w=300\" border=\"0\" ><\/center><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Family fun:<\/span>&nbsp; Going through the usual ritual on the way home from church&#8230;<br \/>Dad to middle: What did you learn about in class today.<br \/>Middle: [The youth director] talked about Calvinism.&nbsp; TULIP and all that.<br \/>Youngest:&nbsp; Why would you talk about eating other people?<br \/>After the laughter calmed down we explained the differences between cannibalism and Calvinism.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">From the Media:<\/span>&nbsp; Fellow bloggers, if you don&#8217;t see the comic strip Bizarro in your news paper or news feed, check out Saturday&#8217;s cartoon <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/fun\/Bizarro.asp?date=20080524\">on-line from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer<\/a>.&nbsp; And if you like a nice turn of a religious phrase, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/fun\/Bizarro.asp?date=20080525\">Sunday&#8217;s<\/a> is pretty good to.<\/p>\n<p>And not only do I worry about the details in Presbyterian polity, but I try to cover the details elsewhere as well.&nbsp; For this one day of the year I own a flag for my house which is not fixed on a pole but attached to a line so that I can observe today&#8217;s flag etiquette of &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usmemorialday.org\/observe.htm\">half-staff until noon<\/a>.&#8221;&nbsp; So, on this Memorial Day, we are keeping Scott&#8217;s and Cory&#8217;s families in our prayers along with the families of all the other&#8217;s who have given the ultimate sacrifice for our country.&nbsp; God Bless!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several fun things from yesterday, some of which is actually on-topic&#8230; We spent the afternoon at a NASA viewing event for the Phoenix Mars Lander.&nbsp; Having worked on the ill-fated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-personal-note"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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