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You might want to take this intriguing quiz set forth by the Christian Science Monitor at http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2013/1017/What-is-your-social-class-Take-our-quiz-to-find-out/dream-vehicle .

As I do just about every day at work, I drink a cup of tea, typically Stash’s Lemon Ginger.  Today, I noticed the following upon completing the cup.   Our resident biologist was unable to identify the specimen, and I am not yet assured that my life is not in dire peril.

 

Elon Musk and his SpaceX Grasshopper just keeps on doing more and more.  Watch this:

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Marina, one of Ivi’s best friends, visited us during her spring break from her OSU sophomore year, and demonstrated some dance moves with the help of her boyfriend David.

The LA Times’ multimedia Framework section documents the 12-mile trip this past weekend of the space shuttle Endeavor across city streets from LAX to the California Science Center.   The Endeavor crossed the 405 Freeway and traversed familiar streets like Crenshaw, Manchester, Sepulveda and La Tijera, through communities including Westchester and Inglewood before arriving at the downtown Exposition Park destination.  This downtown location, near Figueroa across from USC and the Coliseum, was a frequent venue visited by Nik and Ivi when they were very, very young.

Here you can also see an earlier panorama of Endeavor in September when it arrived at LAX.

Finally, find this backstory on LA Times’ photographer Gary Friedman’s now-famous shot of the Endeavor juxtaposed over the Hollywood sign.

 

For most of us, about a million.  But if you are an IBM Research scientist — according to this ComputerWorld report — it may only take 12 atoms (in a few years).