Friday, January 1, 2021

December diversions

Misc links from rabbit holes run down in December 2020:
In the list of things everybody seemed to know about something I liked except me, George Harrison's (long running) affair with Ringo Starr's wife. Of course the full story once learned just seems sad, people lost in a maelstrom out of their control:
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/when-george-harrison-had-an-affair-with-ringos-wife-maureen.html/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Starkey_Tigrett
https://startsat60.com/media/lifestyle/entertainment/pattie-boyd-george-harrison-affair-ringo-starrs-wife-maureen
"Curves not Combat Boots" an interestingly different approach to women's workout fashion: https://curvesncombatboots.com/products/
Info about some of the Myazaki movies that Nina was bingeing on once we got HBOMax:
The Secret World of Arrietty, which is based on The Borrowers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrietty
Arrietty's IMDB page. Supposedly the english language version had stuff added to mask over the typically sad Japanese ending. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568921/
Electron first stage recovery was a really interesting thing that happened in November.
The usual fact-laden article from NSF. The tininess of the payload and rocket diameter can be seen in the integration photo: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/11/rocket-lab-attempt-first-stage-recovery/
Also Launcher One finally made orbit too:
https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/1350818131787309056