Ken Hollis - GandalfDDI

NASA has been quietly taking Shuttle documentation offline. The Columbia STS-107 FMEA/CIL files aren't even on the Wayback Machine. Same pattern as Apollo: the F-1 blueprints survive, the people who knew how to build it don't. 11 years at KSC on the Main Propulsion System, and I kept copies. 2,004 documents, images and launch voice tapes on the Internet Archive, and at Zenodo with a DOI and per-file checksums: gandalfddi.github.io/shuttle.html #SpaceShuttle #NASA #SpaceHistory #DigitalPreservation #Space

Updated my trip planning & trip equipment pages for #Motocycle #Motosky trips (nothing fancy, I write my HTML in Notepad): https://gandalfddi.github.io/motorcycle_trip_planning.html https://gandalfddi.github.io/motorcycle_trip_equipment.html

Throwback: July 2014, my first bike – the 2000 Triumph Sprint – with buddy Bill and his Ducati Diavel at the Y where SR 123 meets Chinook Pass. Decision point: over the pass or down toward Rainier. Either answer is correct. #Motorcycle #Motosky #PNW #ChinookPass

Bay of Martyrs, Great Ocean Road, Victoria. January 2026. The name isn't poetic license - local history holds that settlers drove Girai wurrung people from these cliffs in the 1840s. Beautiful and brutal in the same frame. #Nature #Photography #Australia

Langlois Lake by kayak this afternoon – low-to-mid-90s (33C) on shore but the good kind of hot once you're on the water. A little hazy, courtesy of #Canada forests arriving by air (best of luck for our neighbors up north, hopefully rain soon). Glass-flat and quiet. #Nature #Photography #PNW

New Meme's (with a side of snark) posted, bottom of the page: https://gandalfddi.github.io/motorcycle_memes_48.html My favorite #Motorcycle #Motosky meme of the batch:

True happiness: a bike, a full tank, and the open road. Oregon 205 south of Frenchglen, 1 June 2019. Past the Steens Loop turnoff, weather stacking up over the mountain, and about forty miles of nothing between me and it. The open road of the western United States #Motorcycle #Motosky #Oregon

Little Si, 26 January 2019. Valley fog still holding below the ridgeline, contrail overhead, boot in frame for scale. The Cascades give you maybe a dozen mornings like this between November and March, and this was one of them. #PNW winter hiking is 90% mud and 10% this. #Nature #Photography

@sigue@universeodon.com : "Nothing improves communication like 200 feet of following distance." Yes, this is a marriage joke – some couples discover the intercom is mostly a way to argue at 60 mph. But it's also literally true. Following distance IS communication on a motorcycle. At 200 feet you can read the rider ahead – see them set up for a corner, catch their head check, watch their line around the pothole you can't see yet. Crowd up close and you're not reading the road anymore, you're reading a taillight, and by the time it tells you anything it's too late. Bonus trivia: 200 feet at 60 mph is about 2.3 seconds – the joke is accidentally correct spacing. (And in staggered formation, that gap is to the bike directly ahead in YOUR track, not the offset bike which is around 1 seconds ahead of you) Space improves the conversation with your spouse and with the rider in front of you. Only one of those failures ends at an awkward dinner.