Oh commanders, I'm back from New Orleans and snowed in. Well, not really, but some snow is enough snow to make me want to stay inside.

In other news, it's almost the new year! There have been tons of 2009 space count downs, here are some worthwhile ones:
(anything about the large hadron collider makes my 2009 top ten list)

9 astronomy milestones

top 10 space stories of the decade

and because I love the marriage of physics and philosophy, especially when the philosophy part is a bit heavy handed, check out Lee Smolin's fecund universe theory. He proposes that everytime a black hole in our universe is created, a similar universe is created on the 'other side'

AND DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE NEW YEARS TWILIGHT ZONE MARATHON! (on the sci-fi channel.)

(hey, Bob Wilson looks familiar...also, smoking on planes???)

love from
Geordi