Monthly Archives: October 2009

Look east around dawn tomorrow…

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…and you’ll see this: (Hat tip: SpaceWeather.com.) Bonus, here in Denver at least: an International Space Station flyover (albeit in a different part of the sky). To see if the ISS is visible from your location tomorrow morning, at the same time as Venus, the slender crescent Moon, Saturn and Mercury (and also Mars, overhead), check out the Simple Satellite… Read more »

Game over for Captain Lou

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If you were a kid in the late 80’s and early 90’s chances are you saw The Super Mario Bros. Super Show. The 52 episode series ran Monday through Friday and featured live actors playing the characters of Mario and Luigi. You may remember it for its memorable opening theme song. Mario was played by “Captain” Lou Albano, who passed… Read more »

A Trojan fan’s BCS viewing guide

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Looking at this week’s college football schedule, there are, needless to say, some fairly huge games. There’s the small matter of the Brendan Loy Game of the Year between #6 USC and #25 Notre Dame, of course. But there’s a heckuva lot beyond that, too. Things actually get started tonight with Boise State at Tulsa, and ramp up further tomorrow… Read more »