Thursday, April 03, 2003

*sigh* no bike today....

Cold and drizzly; not worth the trouble... Tried to fix up the JoyRide program, we'll see if it is better.
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Wednesday, April 02, 2003

Windy day!

Biked in - but I think riding the bus home is a good choice, if it is as windy as it was this morning.
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Tuesday, April 01, 2003

JoyRide

zzzzzzzzzzzing another ride into work! Great!

JoyRide - bells and whistles done mostly. Need to step back and avoid feature-creep (though I like the X-Prize idea...)

  • Document!
  • METRIC or English feature
  • lite version?
  • Ballistic X-Prize version?
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Monday, March 31, 2003

Joyride!

Lots of weekend work on Joyride - added synodic periods, escape velocities for all the planets, shift GLOW to payload, "classic" ship weights. Tightened the linkage between
Crew<->Mass<->Ships<->Orbits.

I need to write a manual now, discalaimers and update the web page.

AND.... I biked to work this morning.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2003

Go Solar!

Woke up ... seemed light out, and the alarm clock was *BLANK*!

Power was out - probably for about 5 hours. Quickly scrambled to wake Liv and Norris. Liv got to the bus on time, even! Power came back on around 7:30, and I got to work around one hour late ... BIKING, of course!
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Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Getting too easy

Another day, another bike ride. Yesterday I went BOTH ways, not cheating my way home on the bus. No Joyride progress last night
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Monday, March 24, 2003

Whoosh

Sailing again today - to work on my bike! Yes!

Some weekend work on the Joyride project. I'm adding a menu with the mass of various well known spacecraft, crewed and not.

A good weekend to work on moving to another planet... or at least leaving this one for a while
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Friday, March 21, 2003

No bike today, or yesterday - hopefully more next week!

Looking at and for Solar Sail web sites, it seems that the Sailaway project has vanished. It would be great if we could see more solar sail work...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2003

Sailed on to work again on my bike does that count as solar sailing? I'm the energy source, and I'm powered by food, and food is... grown by the sun, yes?
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Tuesday, March 18, 2003

A great tool to look around the Solar System, and plan your trip!
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Moving around the Solar System



It is easy to move around the Solar System and see things:
http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/

Anyone who wants to plan a trip can go to http://joyride.mrklingon.org and get a spaceship design tool - I'll write more about that later.

The most important travel note : Today I rode my bike to work for the first time in 2003!


Where IS MrKlingon?
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