Castro's Favorite Color

Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.

Wednesday, August 01, 2012

When is Mars Closer Than London?

I don't have that many complaints about NBC's olympic coverage, but I loved this tweet: "This weekend @NASA will land a rover on Mars & it will be televised with less delay than the Olympics."

The Mars Curiosity Rover landing system is crazy. More details here.