Michael Doornbos

I’m working from home today.  Since on these days I set my own hours, I started really early.  By 10am, I needed a break, so I decided to run over to the grocery store to grab some milk. There was an unusually large number of people in line for 10am on a Tuesday and the [...]

I’ve been a Netflix customer for 12 years, and I STILL have the DVD service in addition to the streaming.  Streaming is a great idea, but the movies people want to watch still aren’t available. Netflix runs a top 100 list of their most popular titles.  On that list today, 5 of the movies are [...]

Just logged into Klout for the first time in a long time and got: “Klout believes you are influential about Bacon”. Heh. Also Astronomy, Podcasting, and Github. I think I like the bacon one the best.

We use a Keurig at the office. I’ve resisted getting one at home because I have a hard time with the massive amount of waste for a single cup of hot beverage. Cameron at our office volunteered to collect, take home, separate the tops from the cups, remove the coffee and put it in her [...]

I was just going through some of my recent pictures on my phone.  I had shared a number of them on Facebook via Instagram, but realized that I hadn’t shared them on Flickr.  When I went to Flickr to upload them, I was prompted to renew my pro account. I love the idea of “cloud [...]

Just took my new BeagleBone out of the box. It’s even smaller than I was thinking. Would fit nicely into a 1U cubesat…

I want to change my “what do you do” dinner party answer to “I build spaceships” and actually mean it. I hate that question, but I might not if I had that answer. Announcement coming soon

I’m going to figure out a way so that this becomes what wakes me up in the morning. This is what makes want to be more. This is what I dream of.

Today SXSW announced the panels chosen to be a part of the 2012 conference. Ours was officially chosen! Come and see us present “How to win friends and influence space exploration“. Woo hoo!