News of the Nifty: Song from space.

NASA has had a long tradition of sending music into space to wake up the astronauts on the space station or in orbiting issions, and usually they hold a contest to select what they transmit.

Well, the new Space Station commander, Chris Hadfield (he's Canadian *grin*) managed to wangle permission to take his guitar to the space station, and has written and performed and recorded an original (Christmassy) song aboard the space station.

It might be the first song recorded on the space station, or even the first song recorded in space, so yeah. And it's not bad, considering he's just an astronaut, not a professional musician. ;-D

( YouTube embed and Soundcloud widget under cut )

He tweets too, @Cmdr_Hadfield, for those who do the Twitter thing.

Well how about that.

The government's weather website says, right now:

Snowfall warning for [CaffieneKitty's Location] issued

10 to 15 cm of snow expected on Christmas day.

For the non-metric, that's 4-6 inches. I guess this is what I get for picking "White Christmas" to sing at you this year?

Of course it might not show up at all, but still. I'm not sure if this area has ever truly had a white Christmas with snow falling on the day, they certainly aren't frequent, but there's really no need to try and make up for it all at once. :-)

I hope you all are safe, happy, warm and loved this holiday season, and may the travelers among you get to where you need to go.

Well how about that.

The government's weather website says, right now:

Snowfall warning for [CaffieneKitty's Location] issued

10 to 15 cm of snow expected on Christmas day.

For the non-metric, that's 4-6 inches. I guess this is what I get for picking "White Christmas" to sing at you this year?

Of course it might not show up at all, but still. I'm not sure if this area has ever truly had a white Christmas with snow falling on the day, they certainly aren't frequent, but there's really no need to try and make up for it all at once. :-)

I hope you all are safe, happy, warm and loved this holiday season, and may the travelers among you get to where you need to go.