Here's a list of things I find so great that I have to tell the world! These are listed in chronological order, that is, as I think of them and have time to enter them. So don't think anything or anyone here is better than another based on their order of appearance. Without further ado...

Pluto: the 9th planet

Take a look at the following image, captured July 2015 by the New Horizons space probe.  It looks more like a planet than Mercury (which looks like Earth's moon, or the giant asteroid Ceres). If Pluto isn't a planet, then neither is Mercury!  Pluto actually has weather patterns and (at least) five moons... more than can be said about the 1^st planet (Mercury).

And when looking  closer, Pluto's ice sheets (the flat white regions seen above) show signs of growth and decay ("ebb and flow") very similar to Earth's plate tectonics.  Of course this is at low temperatures typical of Pluto (melting ice), as opposed to the much hotter mantle convection on Earth (molten rock).  Anyway, I hope you agree the surface of Pluto is "alive"... obviously not the same as Earth, but much more active than the "dead" worlds of Mercury and Mars.

NASA Space Shuttle

Designed in the mid 1970s and constructed in the early 1980s (and another in the late 1980s), the space shuttle fleet made outstanding technological and scientific accomplishments.  This is due to the dedication of countless astronauts, engineers, laborers, managers, and scientists.  In its 30 year history, 1 space station was constructed, 2 shuttles were destroyed (Challenger and Columbia), 6 shuttles were built (Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour), 14 astronauts died (7 each in 2 shuttle destructions),  and over 130 missions were successfully completed.  Below are a few images of the legacy...

Columbia and Atlantis space shuttles preparing for launch

Launch to Hubble space telescope

Lift-off of Atlantis

Docked to Mir space station

Servicing the Hubble space telescope

Endeavour docked to completed International Space Station (May 2011)

Tax Assistant

Below is a picture of really cool dude.  He helped me with my taxes this past winter. 

Dina Perez

The first person to sign my GeoCities' Guest Book! The site had been up for over 2 years had several visitors according to web stats and comments heard elsewhere, but she is the first one brave enough to leave a comment. Thanks! I've got plenty of pix in my Games section for Parasite Eve, but I'll see if can get some for Final Fantasy X and the Hall of Shame. I added some pictures and screen-shots to the Commodore section. I hope you like it.

Fluffy the Copy Cat

Fluffy is a Caleco cat who appears in a Staples TV commercial. Extremely memorable due to the absurd nature of her appearance: creating color 'copies' of a chart by pawing some paint and then pawing a sheet of paper. Copycat! This is a great play on words and the brilliance of the idea doesn't end there. At the end of the commercial, we see Fluffy's paw click on a Staples button. I'm no psychologist, but that seems to me like a subliminal message: copy (the) cat, go to (i.e., click on) Staples!

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