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Wednesday, November 17, 2004
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} In memory of the Model T Ford -- Comment()
Farewell, My Lovely! "Springtime in the heyday of the Model T was a delirious season. Owning a car was still a major excitement, roads were still wonderful and bad. The Fords were obviously conceived in madness: any car which was capable of going from forward into reverse without an perceptible mechanical hiatus was bound to be a mighty challenging thing to the human imagination. Boys used to veer them off the highway into a level pasture and run wild with them, as though they were cutting up with a girl." This is a classic essay from 1936 about the demise of Model T, which is still one of the most successful car models of all time.
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Space in news -- Comment()
Space news: Europe's moon probe, NASA's scramjet: "There have been two important pieces of space-related news recently, the first of which was the European moon probe's success in entering the moon's orbit. The second bit of news concerns NASA's scramjet test flight." [Ars Technica] As a somewhat related note, I was yesterday elected to the board of Ursa Astronomical Association in Finland. Great! I'm hoping that some of my daughters get interested in astronomy as well.
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