I want to yell at you about social media. I want to say things like, “Have you played your ukulele with an astronaut? No? Well, shut up then.” That’s not very polite, is it, and there’s no reason for you to listen to me if I talk to you like that, none at all. But …
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They fix the camera angle so don’t fret — that clipped angle at the beginning is fine a few minutes in — be patient. And here is my interview, the whole thing, with what one audience member calls the “Best Astronaut Ever.” It’s long, but it’s Chris Hadfield, so it — forgive me — flies …
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You really should never leave home without your ukulele. There’s a video of the entire event coming, but in the meantime, just read the book: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything.
Here’s the scenario — I was planning a trip to San Francisco and I wanted to spend one evening in the city with friends that live there. We planned to get dinner and, I’ll just say it, do some drinking. I wanted to be able to stumble back to my bed when we were done. …
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There’s a park down on the water, about a mile from my house and it’s full of towering cedar and spruce trees. When I drove into our neighborhood, I could just see the tops of the trees poking through the fog and I could not see the water at all, so thick was the blanket …
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We forget how easy it is to buzz down I-5 to our sister city to the South. But I had been invited to check out the Governor Hotel’s “Sherlock” package — a night in the hotel, a credit at the restaurant/bar downstairs, a deerstalker cap, and passes to the Sherlock show at OMSI — the …
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