efaardvark Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 Went a bit crazy at the company store today. Honestly I just went there to get a new cap to replace my "InSight" cap. I've had that one since EDL (landing day) and it has served me well for the last few covid years but it is looking a bit shabby and worn these days. However, when I got there I found out they'd just got a bunch of new stock in. Stuff tends to go quick and sometimes items don't come back so I took advantage of the opportunity. Final damage: 4 new T-shirts, 3 pins, a sticker, and 2 caps. (And yes that's a Kerbal coffee mug behind the Europa Clipper cap. Mug sold separately.) 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animedragon Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 8 hours ago, efaardvark said: Went a bit crazy at the company store today. Honestly I just went there to get a new cap to replace my "InSight" cap. I've had that one since EDL (landing day) and it has served me well for the last few covid years but it is looking a bit shabby and worn these days. However, when I got there I found out they'd just got a bunch of new stock in. Stuff tends to go quick and sometimes items don't come back so I took advantage of the opportunity. Final damage: 4 new T-shirts, 3 pins, a sticker, and 2 caps. (And yes that's a Kerbal coffee mug behind the Europa Clipper cap. Mug sold separately.) That's an impressive haul of loot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 Got some more space-related merch… Lunar Flashlight launching tonight! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animedragon Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 Nice merch. The article on the Lunar Flashlight mission was very interesting, thanks for the link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted January 7, 2023 Share Posted January 7, 2023 Went and got a jacket from the store at work. (After a few windy, rainy days of sub 40-degree weather I figured I needed something besides my tattered old sweatshirt hoodie. It's comfy but a sponge in wet weather and doesn't do much against the wind either.) Also a new hoodie and a couple t-shirts. They're finally getting Psyche merch in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animedragon Posted January 7, 2023 Share Posted January 7, 2023 8 hours ago, efaardvark said: Went and got a jacket from the store at work. (After a few windy, rainy days of sub 40-degree weather I figured I needed something besides my tattered old sweatshirt hoodie. It's comfy but a sponge in wet weather and doesn't do much against the wind either.) I've had that experience. Years ago I bought myself what looked like a nice winter jacket, just the thing I thought for waiting on wet windy railway stations. How wrong could I be!! The wind went straight through it, so unfortunately did the rain! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 (edited) Another pin, this one for the James Webb Space Telescope ("MIRI" is the Mid-InfraRed Instrument thereon)... Edited January 19, 2023 by efaardvark 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 Got an email from the store I buy my pipe tobacco from saying they had Cornell & Diehl's 2023 Small Batch pipe blend, Folklore, in stock. I'm a big fan of C&D's blends, so I thought I'd jump on this before they sold them out. The aroma coming from this tobacco is very pleasant. It has notes of dried dark fruits, black tea, various warm spices and faint woodsy and citrus undertones. Can't wait to fire it up! I'm probably going to take a portion of it and put it in an airtight container to let it age for a while, maybe a year or so, and see how it compares to smoking it new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 (edited) Got a few more stickers from work.. Edited February 7, 2023 by efaardvark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Yet another pin, this one for SWOT. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animechat Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 bought Perfect t shirt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 Got a refrigerator magnet and a sicker for Korea's KPLO mission, otherwise known as "Korean Lunar Pathfinder Orbiter"... (The spacecraft is Korean but NASA has a super-sensitive "ShadowCam" instrument aboard and JPL's Deep Space Network is providing communications and data processing for the mission.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 Woke up Monday to a dead car battery. Happy Monday! Not only that but my backup/jumper battery/telescope power station that I keep in the garage was dead as well. (The grey monster in the back there in the pic.) Tried various things to resuscitate it but it won’t hold a charge no matter what I do. On the recommendation of a coworker I went and bought one of the newer ones with a lithium battery. He had one and says it works great. We’ll see. It certainly is smaller and lighter than the old lead-acid boat anchor it is replacing. My car is a hybrid so it doesn’t need the cranking amps for a starter motor like a traditional gas car. Mine is more like an EV. The “auxiliary” battery (as Toyota calls it) just needs to be able to supply enough juice to boot the car’s computer and run it for long enough to get it through its boot checklist and trip the relays that connect to the car’s main “traction” battery. Pretty much anything should work. I still have to find a replacement to power the telescope though. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted April 26, 2023 Share Posted April 26, 2023 Got a paper model of the SLS’s Orion space capsule.. also a candy bar.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animedragon Posted April 26, 2023 Share Posted April 26, 2023 34 minutes ago, efaardvark said: Got a paper model of the SLS’s Orion space capsule.. also a candy bar.. Back in the 70s I used to create cardboard cut-out models like that. They were quite popular at children's holiday clubs. One of the ones I made was for the Apollo CSM, but my Lunar Lander was far too complicated for the children. The chocolate bar looks good, did they do them for any of the other characters? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted April 26, 2023 Share Posted April 26, 2023 4 minutes ago, Animedragon said: The chocolate bar looks good, did they do them for any of the other characters? I’m not sure. I got this one from a coworker who just got back from Houston and I just got the one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted May 12, 2023 Share Posted May 12, 2023 (edited) They were giving these out at the open house this year. Each point of interest had its own card like this describing the site. This one is for the Space Flight Operations Facility, also known as the center of the universe since it is where all the data from all of NASA’s far-flung deep space probes gets sent to be processed and then sent out to the scientists and engineers controlling them. They had a few left over so I grabbed a couple. (Front and back.) Edited May 12, 2023 by efaardvark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohayotaku Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animedragon Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 6 hours ago, Ohayotaku said: Nice T-shirt, but I'm not quite sure that the words "Mordor" and "Fun run" belong in the same sentence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animedragon Posted May 22, 2023 Share Posted May 22, 2023 My latest acquisition, all 70 episodes of everyone's favourite magical girl* on 10 Blu-ray disks. * other magical girls are available, but none are as cute. 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 Got some CAPSTONE swag.. keychain, mission patch, and sticker. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 And yet another pin. This one for Curiosity’s 10-year anniversary. Over 3800 sols and counting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 Rediscovered/recovered from the depths of my closet while doing some spring(ish)-cleaning. Spoon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animedragon Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 32 minutes ago, efaardvark said: Rediscovered/recovered from the depths of my closet while doing some spring(ish)-cleaning. Spoon! But do you really want to admit to owning that T-shirt? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 22 hours ago, Animedragon said: But do you really want to admit to owning that T-shirt? These days? After the reboot(s) & live action destroyed the franchise? No. But back then I was watching stuff like Danger Mouse and Animaniacs. I think that was also the era of Ren and Stimpy. The Tick fit right in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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