An sad day for arcade games...

Atari Arcade Division Closes

NASA Reported Fragile Shuttle Wing in '94

Oops.

So much to write about, so little time.

Obviously, the Columbia disaster came as a shock. Like a lot of little kids, I wanted to be an astronaut growing up, and I used to be a huge shuttle fan. I remember a neighbor giving me a shuttle "owner's manual" that I read over and over and from cover to cover. And I still remember seeing those heat tiles falling off of Columbia in the late 1970s in NASA's first real-world test flights, when it would piggyback jumbo jets on cross-country flights. But on Saturday, I didn't even realize a shuttle was even up in space, much less the Columbia.

Andrea came for the weekend, and as usual, we had a really good time. We mostly hung out in Santa Monica, saw a Brazilian movie called "City of God" that's been getting good reviews (extremely violent, but good) and even tried a new restaurant (it was OK). She flew back this afternoon.

That's it for now. I'll try to update in the next couple of days.