How we found them ( and their Siamese looking sister now adopted by a colleague ) in our neighbors yard in June.

This is Dusty - and two of her kids Safiya and Bella. We brought them all in (plus one more kitten) as strays when the kittens were 4 weeks old about 6 months ago. We have successfully failed to divest ourselves of the kittens.

I met a surgeon in the 90s called ''John Alexander Williams'....but everyone called him JAWs.

I once had to address someone who was both a military general and a knight of the British empire….. “General Sir Michael”. I’m considering adopting it myself.

The last time I heard of an animal breaking into a zoo, it was a mountain line that broke into the LA zoo to snack on a koala bear

We have more to do. More things to discover. More art to inspire. So much more to do. I hope I get to continue doing it for many years to come, and I'm giving it everything I've got. Those who got us here but don't get to be a part of it any more deserve nothing less. For them, we persevere.

On Tuesday I had to wait half a day to get an email to tell me if I was lucky, or unlucky. I got lucky. Most of my MSL family got lucky. Some were not, and my heart breaks for them. But those of us still fortunate enough to call this project home will keep on keeping on.

Everything else was replaceable. Even if it got broken by some other person packing my stuff into boxes....it was all replaceable. But the bowl isn't. It's unique. It's one of one. It's a little piece of art inspired by the science we do and the new landscapes we seek with our rover.

We are all so incredibly tired. The cuts keep coming, the damage to our teams keeps compounding, yet we somehow keep the missions going. Ashley, Abby and I were all on shift together on MSL today. I hope it wasn’t for the last time.

It still exists. Its ‘modernization’ has made it unusable. It’s criminal what has been done to content like this. :(. I still can’t get over the older mission websites just wiped out of existence.

It was the last functional web presence of the agency - I’m gutted :(

I think we can all agree that the primary reason she made it is her time as an MER ECAM PUL ;). I'M SO HAPPY FOR HER :D
:D :D :D :D

That particular hike is SO GOOD. I’ve done it before sunrise a couple of times :)

We could give it to climatologists to model the environmental impact of that much compute

I wish I’d appreciated it more in the moment. I was a teenager growing up in the peak Blur v Oasis summer of ‘95. It was incredible.

I’m gonna say something that’ll make you very jealous. I was at Knebworth. YEAH. I KNOW.

It’s painfully obvious they’re using much of the space imagery I’ve worked on as a JPLer, and long before as an enthusiast, and the output is shamefully incoherent garbage.

If the cat was called Avi Loeb however. ..