One of our resident programmer types sent this email to us at the office the other day. While the wellness team wouldn’t be too happy, I enjoyed it! Of course, it was properly formatted.
foreach(ITEmployee itemployee in IT)
{if(Hungry)
{
GotoBreakRoomForDonuts(”
“);
}}
Sitting tonight reading my twitter feed when my buddy Jason Powell from Indiana tweeted this at 7:19pm.
If there’s no clouds where you are head outside and look NW…ISS flyover will be VERY bright!
My immediate thoughts came out of my mouth “Oh CRUD… I forgot the ISS and the Discovery are both supposed to fly over OUR HOUSE SOON… Hurry kids… get your shoes on. ”
I turned to technology to make these next 5 minutes work!
iPad and Google: Where do I look in the sky and at what time? So, I grabbed my iPad, and googled “ISS Flyover”.
NASA SkyTracker App: The first link lead me directly to NASA where I quickly drilled down to my hometown of Florence, SC. It stated this:
So..I now know that I have less than 2 minutes to see the orbiter Discovery flyover followed very quickly by the ISS.
But who knows where NNW is when you’re standing in your yard? I know vaguely but this is 10 degrees above NNW. I need to be pretty exact.
iPhone Compass - I grabbed the trusty compass, stood in my front yard and found NNW and ENE. I now know which direction to look.
StarWalk App: But’s it’s pretty hazy outside. so I want some more help. I turn to my trusty Star Walk App. I search for ISS. It locks in on it and allows me to hold my phone up to the sky to get an up to date idea where these space crafts are now located…
BINGO… there goes the Discovery…. and within a minute or two…. the ISS…..
All four of my family members stood in awe of what we had just seen a couple of hundred miles above earth. We watched Discovery take off, dock, orbit above our house and we’re looking forward to the landing tomorrow. Awesome night!
Sweet! I love my friends that help me remember stuff even when they didn’t know it. Of course, I also love the technology that made it work also!
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