Over the last few weeks the Hubble Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting Pluto!

Take that, Pluto haters!

This image isn’t going to be very good on this page, so click it to enlarge it, mmm-kay?

Here is the space.com story I just read that told me about this awesomeness.

Hubble was working in support of the New Horizons mission to the Kuiper Belt. There is some hope that when the probe flies past Pluto it will find rings, and that’s what Hubble was looking for. Instead? It found a new moon.

The moon will be known as P4 until it gets an official name. The other three moons are called Charon, Nix, and Hydra. I vote we officially dub P4 as, “Screw You, Pluto Haters!”

Think that will fly?

Finally, a picture taken with my Nikon reaches the 100 views mark on Flickr.

I’m proud of this ugly little pic.

I want to go back to San Diego and I want to go back RIGHT NOW!!!

NOW NOW NOW!!!

(this worked once before, maybe coincidence will happen once again)

When I came back from the cafe with my grilled chicken sandwich today I saw a post from Mashable saying that the Google+ iPhone app had been released.

What are my two favorite tech world things? Apple and Google. How can I further merge my fanboyisms? By accessing Google+ via an iPhone app. Elementary my dear nerds.

Off goes me to the App Store app on my iPhone to download the Google+ app!

Only to find that the search function isn’t finding it.

}Sigh{ I guess Google doesn’t love me anymore, even though I have been using Google+ every day even when pretty much none of the people in my circles have been posting anything. Now I guess Apple doesn’t love me either, even though I’ve gleefully thrown all of my hardware, and most of my software, support their way. Hell, I even used that Ping thing.

I guess I’ll just sit here… opening and reopening my App Store app and searching and re-searching for the Google+ app. Always in fear that my favorite tech companies are not returning my fanboy love anymore.

I feel so sad and alone. I need a hug…
And a Google+ app for my iPhone.
}Sigh{

Word around the office is that the planned Ron Howard adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower is not going to happen.

Oh well. It’s probably a good thing. They could never get the right guy to play Roland anyway…

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has entered orbit around the asteroid Vesta. This little spud was once considered a planet, but eventually it was moved to a new category called asteroid. It was the fourth object to be placed in that category, hence the complete name is 4 Vesta.

Dawn sent this image back to us. It is the first time a spacecraft has orbited an object in the main asteroid belt.

I think this is cool and all, but I am more looking forward to the second phase of Dawn’s mission. The visit to the dwarf planet Ceres. Ceres is the biggest object in the asteroid belt (still smaller than the moon though) and is literally the original asteroid (named 1 Ceres, get it?). Oh yeah, and its mantle might be made out of water, and if so there might be more water on Ceres than on Earth.

For now though keep those pictures coming, NASA!

Jen and I spent a quiet evening at home last night. It was nice. She stayed home from work because she was feeling under the weather but she made a really nice dinner when I got home. Then we just plopped onto the couch and watch a silly movie.

It was really nice to just be together. Nothing going on, nothing demanding attention, just two somewhat sleepy people spending quiet time together.

You should try it some time.

Another goofy example of that super 8 simulator app.

Sorry.