Category: Technology (Page 1 of 15)

Enough with the algorithm.

April 19, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

This is what happens when you get out of your lane on Youtube. The couple of Youtube videos I mentioned in earlier posts, has skewed my algorithm.

I watched one video of a talented girl playing Orange Blossom Special, and now Youtube thinks I want to see a girl with a club foot or palsy, busking with her banjo cousin. I’m not clicking on that, but somehow, it’s been viewed 16 million times.

The other one is worse. Why is a naked guy talking to a dog in the middle of what looks like Amsterdam? What is he saying? Something like, “Love knows no bounds. Acting on that love is only natural. Look, it’s only weird if you make it weird.” The dog looks receptive.

NASA gives stupid people something to talk about.

April 11, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Newsweek: NASA Introduces Newest and Cutest Artemis 2 Crew Member

This dumb plushie mascot was mentioned in videos and articles about the Artemis 2 mission. It was embarrassing to watch them strain to make ‘Rise’ go viral.

Thank God, Artemis 2 made it back.

April 11, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 2 Comments

WSJ: There’s No Separation of Church and Space

CWR: Artemis II moon mission ‘a great development,’ Vatican Observatory director says

Artemis 2 pilot, Victor Glover, gave a little Easter sermon from space, so the militant atheists on Earth pissed their pants and strongly objected to government astronauts talking about religion.

Bugs Bunny covered this in Mad as a Mars Hare.

Artemis 2 isn’t very exciting.

April 7, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

NASA’s Artemis 2 moon mission breaks Apollo 13 distance record

NASA is doing their best, but the Artemis 2 mission isn’t exciting, heroic or impressive.

Don’t open Windows in space.

April 4, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

That’s the reason to change to Linux.

It takes some time and effort to abandon Microsoft Windows, but Linux doesn’t force software updates, require a Microsoft account, or remove programs.

Nobody is reporting the specific problem that Artemis mission commander, Reid Wiseman, had getting MS Outlook to run on his Microsoft Surface Pro, but Wiseman has a degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytech and a master’s degree in Systems Engineering from Johns Hopkins. He couldn’t get his email software to work, and needed to get a bunch of rocket scientists to fix it.

That is messed up.

Artemis 2 crew in the Orion spacecraft

April 4, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

The crew looks like stowaways traveling in a shipping container.

NASA chose a good looking crew. Then I did some research.

This kid gets it.

April 1, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Artemis 2 launched today to take humans around the Moon for the first time in five decades. CNN was interviewing people who went down to observe the launch. The reporter asked this kid.

CNN: “Why do you want to be here? Why do you love space? Why do you love being a part of history?”

Kid: “We’re going back to the fucking Moon, that’s why.”

CNN is burying the clip, so I can’t find a version to link. When Spring Break is over, and that kid goes back to middle school, he should get a standing ovation.

Microsoft now wants to be better.

March 21, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Microsoft says it is fixing Windows 11, but users have heard this before

Instead of bragging about shiny new features or pushing more AI into everything, the company [Microsoft] is basically saying, “we hear you,” and trying to clean up the mess that Windows 11 has become in some areas.

Too late.

This day in history.

March 16, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Space: Robert Goddard launched the 1st liquid-fueled rocket 100 years ago today

A hundred years ago, Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, making him the ‘Father of Modern Rocketry’.

His historic 1926 flight in Auburn, Mass. saw a liquid oxygen-gasoline rocket fly 41 feet in altitude and come back to Earth in about 2.5 seconds.

Rusty has a celebration or a wake up call.

March 15, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 1 Comment

There are no photos because the events didn’t seem significant.

My eldritch nephew came over yesterday to install Linux on two of my computers. Aunt Joanne came along. To feed the boy, I went to Aldi to pick up some steaks. Easter hams were on sale.

This was going to be a big day for the dogs.