A Galaxy Not So Far Away

I love these paintings by Xander Laytin (more), found via Don Shump on Geek Dad, in their Star Wars category.  I'm also thinking you add a black circle to a big Chinese lantern and you're talking Death Star.

I Think This Makes Me "Goose"

Polishing up the dogtags in light of the latest from the stalwart aeronautics team:

Cockpit

The MacDonald's-Douglas team has been hard at work:

Who Remembers The Caribbean Zone, SF?

Where you could pull up a Martin 404 and stay awhile. Picked up a couple of these on eBay when a similar relic from my cupboard staged an unscheduled crash landing.

A Cure For Mysophobia: Procreation

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Originally uploaded by eyeliam

Mike Arrington and Jason Calacanis, I've always thought both of you would make terrific dads so here's another reason to keep forging ahead: your fear of germs will rapidly be reduced to mere background noise. Spend some time mopping half-chewed pizza off a filthy restaurant floor, jubilant the whole time your kid hocked it out instead of turning blue... Live the Carrie-like aftermath of your pediatrician's directive to "induce diarrhea..."

I'd go on but don't want to spoil too many dinners. Suffice to say powerful hand sanitizer comes in discreet enough sizes to be ever close by, and your immune system can hande way more than you thought possible. Plus, pandemics aside, social touching is good. It connects people and reminds them there's life beyond and behind our (albeit medieval) Qwerty keyboards.  XXXOOO  ;)