Random Musings from the Warped Minds of Jonathan Goff, Ken Murphy, John Hare, and Kirk Sorensen
Posted in Family on Dec 31st, 2006
So, I’m sitting on the couch with Baby James. Little Jonny walks in, turns on the computer and pulls out a chair. Intrigued, I decide to watch. He then proceeds to slide the keyboard out, and pushes the Esc button at just the right moment to cut out of the memory test (which for some [...]
Posted in Business, Religion, Space Development on Dec 28th, 2006
Something Mark said in reply to my last blog post reminded me that I’ve been wanting to write an article about the importance of faith in enterpreneurial endeavors. Mark states that (emphasis mine): But there is no proof that any plan…will advance the day people return to the Moon by even a year, not to [...]
Posted in NASA on Dec 28th, 2006
CNN posted an AP story on their science and technology page about NASA’s PR woes that has been making the rounds in the blogosphere today. The issue the article brings up is that the “Web generation” appears to be apathetic about “manned spaceflight”. These teenagers and twenty-somethings are going to be the ones footing much [...]
Posted in Family on Dec 27th, 2006
Just in case you guys have been wondering why blogging has been so “light” over the past several weeks… Last night, my wife Tiffany gave birth to our third little boy, James Henry Goff, at 8:42pm. With our past experience with premature delivery, we were surprised to find ourselves still waiting almost a week after [...]
Posted in Family on Dec 25th, 2006
…blogroll that is. Sorry guys, James is still taking his time showing up. But in the meantime, my little sister, Julia has started a blog: Where Oh Where Has My Mind Gone…Today? She’s not quite so funny as my sister-in-law Ki, but I wanted to welcome her to the wonderful world of blogging. Julia is [...]
Posted in Family, Jonny Bloggin on Dec 25th, 2006
For being our first Christmas as a family all by ourselves, today has been a lot of fun. I figured I’d put up a couple of pictures. Ian talked me into doing some woodworking projects for Tiff and Jonny for Christmas this year. He’s really into woodworking, and had recently brought a lot of his [...]
Posted in Administrivia on Dec 25th, 2006
I just wanted to wish a Merry Christmas to everyone who reads this blog! We’re almost at the end of a wonderful year, and I hope all of you can spend some time with your families doing something other than thinking about space exploration and lunar colonization for a few days. And just in case [...]
Posted in Business, COTS, NASA, Space Development on Dec 23rd, 2006
One of the cutsie phrases that the current NASA Administration likes bandying about regarding their approach to exploration is “Pay As You Go“. Kind of like O’Keefe’s “spiral development”, this pithy phrase is the latest fad at NASA. The basic philosophy behind “Pay as You Go” being that instead of coming up with an actual [...]
Posted in Administrivia on Dec 23rd, 2006
Well, I finally knuckled under and decided to give Google Ads a try. I’m definitely the capitalistic sort, but have always felt that cluttering ones blog with too many ads was tacky. I think I’ve found a setting that isn’t too egregious, and we’ll give it a spin to see how things turn out. Consider [...]
Posted in Administrivia on Dec 23rd, 2006
I just wanted to let everyone know that I’ve upgraded the blog to a new version of blogger. The big benefit I can see from this new version is that it has labels for postings, which will allow people to sort through my random postings a bit easier. It might also encourage me to post [...]