The Geekess 04 Jun 2008 http://sarah.thesharps.us Linux, bicycling, open source, gardening, amateur rockets, and other seemingly unrelated hobbies. en Fortunes from the sky http://sarah.thesharps.us/2008-06-04-22-00.html Jamey and I will be biking the San Juan Islands to celebrate our first anniversary. Today I decided to go to the central library to check out some travel books on the subject.

It turned out that all the books on the San Juans were checked out. I was bummed because I had gone to the library for nothing, and I was going to be an hour late to the PSAS meeting. I got in the elevator to go down from the third floor. As the elevator started moving, this piece of paper fell from the ceiling:

]]> PSAS Meeting: Amateur rocket example http://sarah.thesharps.us/2008-06-04-20-00.html The Portland State Aerospace Society (PSAS) builds, designs, and launches open source amateur rockets. If you haven't heard about PSAS before, watch my five minute Ignite Portland 2 talk and follow along with the sides.

A PSAS member showed up to the meeting today with his own amateur rocket. DISCLAIMER: This is not the PSAS rocket (it's still being rebuilt).

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