Last Friday I departed for Orlando with my family. The idea was for me to watch Discovery get launch on November 1st. I was going to take part in a Tweetup sponsored by NASA and be allowed to watch the launch from the media site about 3 miles away. While I took part in the … Read more
OK, the NASA Tweetup for STS-133 is about to get started. The launch was supposed to be today but has been bumped until Wednesday. So we are doing the Tweetup today, will watch the retraction tomorrow night, and do the launch on Wednesday. I am going to change my flights in order to stick around. … Read more
Many of you may recall that I have a Golden Ticket. With the shuttle launch and Tweetup scheduled to take place during Halloween weekend we decided to make it a family mini-vacation. Last Friday we picked up the Junior Senators from school and told them that we were taking them with us to the airport … Read more
It’s time for another PASS Summit preview and that can mean only one thing: movie quotes! This time we are going with ‘Back to School’ starring Rodney Dangerfield and in a supporting role a mostly sober Robert Downey, Jr. Why that movie? Because whenever I head off to a conference such as the PASS Summit … Read more
This past weekend I was honored to be allowed to present at SQL Saturday in 49 held in Orlando. This is the fourth SQL Saturday that Orlando has held and you could tell right from the start that they had the experience in putting together a successful event. I arrived at about 5PM and made … Read more
I decided to drive over to Waltham tonight to listen to Brent Ozar talk out of his ass about virtualization. The place was packed and @BrentO put on a good show, as expected. He gave us the four hour slide deck but condensed it down to about 60 minutes. I chatted with Brent a bit … Read more
